Patience a virtue for Jonathan Majors, after walking out of previous MCU casting call before becoming Kang

It’s a banner year for actor Jonathan Majors in 2023; already viewed as one of the brighter spots in the currently maligned Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, cinema-goers will also get to watch Majors later in the year in the Michael B. Jordan-directed Creed III. But things could have been a lot different had Majors taken up a role in the MCU three years before his debut in the Loki TV series.

The actor, who is set to be the major antagonist in Phase Five of the MCU as Kang The Conqueror, admitted that his first meeting with Marvel bosses led to him walking out of the meeting - but not for any controversial matters.

Rather, it was a case of impatience, being overly polite and making assumptions. Speaking to Vanity Fair this week, Majors recalled meeting with Marvel executives shortly after graduating from acting school. “I walked out of my Marvel general [meeting]. 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.” And I got to the door, but then they said [casting director] Sarah Finn was going to come. 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” he concluded. “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.”

In the same interview, Majors also praise his Creed co-star Michael B. Jordan and his approach the fame at a young age - Jordan first gained public attention playing 15-year-old drug dealer Wallace in the cult HBO series The Wire. “I don’t bother nobody. I’m not interested in the f***ery of the industry. Michael is such a good example of a movie star because movie stars have to appeal to the bourgeois and the proletariat.”

“Movie stars can show a film in Montana. Movie stars are dangerous to politicians. It’s a different type of burden.”

Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania is currently out in cinemas nationwide, while Creed III is set for release in cinemas on March 3 2023.