It has been a tough few months for Jonathan Majors. In April, the actor was arrested on charges of assault and violence against a rumored girlfriend. While Majors refuted all claims and was subsequently released, he opened Pandora’s box where more disturbing details from his past emerged through people who were associated with him. On the professional front, the Marvel star’s career too looks to be at stake with his MCU contract as Kang the Conqueror along with other projects in the pipeline being allegedly relooked at.
As Majors attempts to overcome these challenges, a look back at the actor’s career showed some interesting projects that did not develop after the initial promise. The Creed 3 star was signed up to play the lead role in the HBO series Lovecraft Country adapted from a novel by Matt Ruff. The show which had a Season 1 release in August 2020, was subsequently cancelled for further seasons. Majors though was completely invested in the part and spoke about the revelations and learnings from the novel and his role.
Jonathan Majors Understood Woke Culture From Lovecraft Country
In 2020, Jonathan Majors was roped in to play the lead role in Lovecraft Country, a genre-bending series based on the novel by Matt Ruff and working off the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, a 1920s pulp author who was also an unapologetic racist. The story follows Majors’ character Atticus “Tic” Freeman, a Korean War veteran whose estranged father goes missing.
The celebrity who was presented with the opportunity to portray a role with intense physicality and vulnerability confessed that he was made aware of the atrocities that black people faced through his reading of the story. Despite being a black man himself, Majors spoke of the pressures his community underwent that deterred them from standing up to injustice.
“We were all highly intelligent, but we were common, simple people. We weren’t activists, none of that. So, the pressure and the burden and the weight of being Black is all I’ve known. That’s why the idea of being ‘woke,’ which is overused in many ways, is quite applicable here. Being woke is a real thing, and it’s for all races”
It was only through deeper analysis of the novel and the script that Jonathan Majors realized how black people had always got the short end of the stick. He understood that he needed to use the concept of “wokeness” in the right way to stand up against racial discrimination more vehemently.
Jonathan Majors’ Upbringing Reflected On His Professional Life
Hollywood star Jonathan Majors grew up living a very regimented life that later reflected in his discipline as an actor. The star spoke about his non-compromising routine as a young boy that involved exercise and sport for 3 hours in the morning even during sickness. Speaking of his upbringing that contributed in a significant way to his career, Majors told Rolling Stone,
“I’m a military brat; my mother’s a pastor.There’s been a lot of order in my life that I don’t have control over, that I just dedicate myself to. So, it’s important to have my three hours in the morning.”
With his father abandoning him when he was around 9 years old, this discipline became a crutch and an outlet for Jonathan Majors as he went on to live with his grandparents on a farm that included a lot of manual labor.
Source: Rolling Stone
