Jonathan Majors Walked Out of His First Meeting With Marvel
Jonathan Majors is already receiving rave reviews for his performance as Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
With Majors set to reprise his role in the next arc of Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, the actor will be front and center for everything Marvel in the upcoming years.
An Auspicious Start
In a new interview with Vanity Fair however, the would be conqueror revealed that his career with Marvel almost ended before it started. In fact, Majors decided to walk out of the first meeting he ever had with the studio.
“I hope this doesn’t bite me in the ass, but I walked out of my Marvel general [meeting],” Majors said. “This was a long time ago. I had just gotten out of drama school and I’m running around town and I’m sitting in the office. I grew up in a very particular way and I don’t want to waste nobody’s time. So I got in there and they’re just busy. And I was like, ‘I’m supposed to be here, right?’ It got long and I went, ‘I’m just going to go. It’s cool. I’ll just go.’”
Luckily however, Majors didn’t make it very far. Just as he was about to exit the building, the actor was told that casting director Sarah Finn was ready to talk.
“I got to the door, but then they said [casting director] Sarah Finn was going to come,” Majors said. “We got in the room and we chatted. We were having this great conversation. I think it was three years later that we had the Kang chat. And there’s no trepidation now, especially because of who Kang is. When I said yes, we got the whole picture, and what is being laid out is cohesive.”
Marvel’s Next Great Villain
In a recent interview, Marvel head Kevin Feige revealed that Majors’ role in “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” brought the actor to their attention.
Feige also divulged that Majors’ portrayal of Kang was the highest rated villain in test screenings that Marvel had ever had.
“In the early days of ‘Quantumania’ [test screenings], Jonathan started to pop in a big way,” the Marvel Studios boss continued. “He’s the highest-testing villain we’ve ever had in any of our friends and families [screenings]. That’s really saying something with a movie like this. Even early on without the effects, Jonathan is his own effect. He was working from the start.”
Although a variant of the character debuted in Season 1 of Loki, fans will be able to finally meet Kang the Conqueror when Ant-Man and the Wasp hits theaters tomorrow!
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