The actor plays a pioneering Black airman in the Korean War-set movie.
“I myself haven’t.
I never really had the impulse to, but was always very close to it.
Jonathan Majors in ‘Devotion’.Eli Ade/Columbia
That’s just not how the world works.
That’s the insecurity that drives us.
The film considers what it meant, and means, to be an ally.
Jonathan Majors in ‘Devotion’.Eli Adé/Columbia Pictures
“What is it to actually partner with somebody?
What is actual ally-ship?”
says Majors, talking about the still-relevant questions raised by the film.
It is an experience.
[It is] I’m with you, bro, come hell or high water.
I don’t want someone who’s just with me when things are easy or fun.
Majors actually took to the skies for sequences which found his character flying a plane.
“That was great,” he says.
“Some of the most intense sequences were in a plane.
It was a mixture of a dream come true and a complete mindf—.
The most exciting, or the most applicable, part was what happens when you getoutof the plane.
One of our instructors called pilots ‘gods with zippers.’
I didn’t understand what that meant until I got comfortable in those planes.
I came out the plane, it was like:Oh, yeah.”
“I look at my entire career as the long throw,” he says.
“The long-throw theory is that it just continues, you’re not looking at job-to-job.
The MCU, that’s another arc of the long throw.
Peyton Reed really allowed to show up [on screen].
I had a great time doing it and I look forward to sharing it with everybody.”
Devotionis now in theaters.
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