Jonathan Majors

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Jonathan Majors has been acting professionally for just under five years now. He's done theater, TV, and starred in movies. In that short amount of time, he's become one of the most captivating performers in Hollywood. He was in two of our recent favorites: Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods and Joe Talbot's The Last Black Man In San Francisco. On screen, he's charismatic and charming when the role calls for it, and he can turn to vulnerable and broken almost instantly. He's the kind of actor that just helps take the story to the next level – he has a sort of magnetic quality. Watching him, you can easily lose yourself and forget about other performers. Recently, Majors earned an Emmy nomination for his work on HBO's Lovecraft Country. Jonathan Majors joins us to talk about Lovecraft Country, and reflects on being the child in a family of veterans. Plus, he'll dive into acting theory and craft – and he gets into it, really into it.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:20.7	It's Bullseye.
0:21.8	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:23.3	Jonathan Majors has been acting professional for just under five years.
0:27.6	He's done theater, TV, movies, and in that short amount of time, he's become one of the
0:32.5	most captivating performers in Hollywood.
0:36.1	I mean, look, I'm not really a betting guy, but I would put good money on Majors winning
0:41.5	an Academy Award sometime in the next five years.
0:45.0	On screen, he is charismatic and charming when the role calls for it, and on a dime, he
0:50.6	can turn to vulnerable and broken.
0:53.6	Watching him, you can easily lose yourself and forget about the other performers.
0:57.8	He was in two of my favorite recent movies.
1:00.5	In Spike Lee's DeFive Bloods, he played David, the son of Paul, played by Delroy Lindo.
1:05.8	In the last black man in San Francisco, an absolute masterpiece, he played Mont, best friend
1:10.9	to Jimmy.
1:11.9	You see him today?
1:13.9	How'd it go?
1:17.2	He said this was a bad idea.
1:22.2	I thought you said he was an idiot.
1:27.0	He just mad because he lost the house.
1:32.8	But what if we shouldn't be here?
1:35.6	Who should be here more?
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