“It takes a lot, you feel me?
To be inspired.”
From the boxing ring to the multiverse,Jonathan Majorsis here to conquer Hollywood.
Jonathan Majors in ‘Creed III,’ ‘Magazine Dreams,’ and ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’.courtesy everett; Glen Wilson; Jay Maidment/marvel
“I’m humbled, I’m excited.
I’m full of energy for it.
I have an undying passion for it, and I know I’m not doing it alone.”
Heath Ledger as the Joker in ‘The Dark Knight’.Everett Collection
“There’s pressure and there’s all the support,” he says.
That’s been awesome."
(Majors first appeared in the MCU asa variant of Kangin the Hiddleston-ledDisney+ seriesLoki.)
“Trust the franchise,” Majors says.
I played sports point guard, quarterback.
I know what I do on the day, but then it’s out of my hands."
“He’s got that f—ing jawline, and he didn’t give a f—.
He threw his body around.
He was so full.
And I went, ‘I’m coming for that.
I’m inspired.’
It takes a lot, you feel me?
To be inspired.”
But it wasn’t just Ledger’s jawline that grabbed his attention.
“Each step of our lives is moving us towards being the hero or villain of our tale.”
Navigating that gray area between right and wrong is something with which Majors is intimately familiar.
Everybody had an ankle monitor on.
So I knew the complexity of the guys I grew up with," he explains.
“Yeah, you did dothat, but you also didthis.
And what I saw in Heath, and in everything he did, was: It’s thisandthat.”
Not only did he see that duality in his neighbors, but he also lived through it himself.
As a teenager, Majors was arrested for shoplifting and suspended from high school for fighting.
Not long after being inspired by Ledger’s Joker, Majors found solace in theater and performing on stage.
“Life is just… it’s not enough,” he says.
If you might find a haven of comfort in being seen, that’s helpful.
If you’re free to watch a film and be inspired to work out, great.
Inspired to love somebody better, great.
Inspired to be a better best friend, great.
That’s the business I’m in."
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