The Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania star, Jonathan Majors has been making a lot of headlines recently ever since he was arrested back in March after he allegedly assaulted his alleged girlfriend in a cab. There has been a lot of confusion around the star’s future at Marvel Cinematic Universe and the studios as well as the actors have been keeping quiet about the situation.
However, Anthony Mackie finally showed his stance on the allegations and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier star became the first actor from MCU to comment on the situation.
Anthony Mackie reveals his stance on Jonathan Majors’ situation
Anthony Mackie recently appeared for an interview with Inverse for promoting his upcoming series, Twisted Metal. In the interview, the American actor was asked about his take on the whole Jonathan Majors controversy and Mackie became the first MCU star to openly comment about the situation. He said,
“That’s one of the staples of this country. Nothing has been proven about this dude. Nothing. So everyone is innocent until proven guilty. That’s all I can say. It’s crazy where we are as a society. But as a country, everyone is innocent until proven guilty.“
Jonathan Majors is all set to defend himself in a trial on August 3 and it seems like Marvel is just waiting for the result of the trial before they make an official decision about the future of the actor at the studio.
Fans show their support for the Loki actor
Despite being an integral part of MCU at this point, the studio will be letting go of Jonathan Majors if he is proven guilty at the trial. However, MCU has been really silent so far about the star’s future at the studio as they do not want to create another Johnny Depp and the Pirates of the Caribbean situation and make any premature decisions. Marvel has allegedly also dropped Majors’ name from all their promotional content just as a safeguard for the time being.
The whole Jonathan Majors controversy has left the whole internet divided and fans have been arguing if he should be dropped from future Marvel projects or if they should wait for the decision of the trial. However, after Anthony Mackie spoke about the situation, fans took to Twitter and showed their support for the Loki actor.
Many fans also said that although Anthony Mackie is going to get a lot of hate for saying this, he is definitely right.
One user even said that Marvel did the right thing by casting Anthony Mackie as Captain America after Chris Evans as this was a very “Captain America” thing to say.
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Although Marvel has been silent about the controversial situation, the rest of the world did not take long to cut off ties with Jonathan Majors after his arrest. The actor was dropped from Nadia Latif’s Willem Dafoe starrer The Man in My Basement and singer/songwriter, Otis Redding’s biopic.
Jonathan Majors will be reprising his role as Kang in season 2 of the Loki series but the filming of the series has already been completed before the assault allegations came to light. Therefore, the release of the new season of Loki won’t be delayed as such and will be released in October later this year on Disney+.
