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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Jonathan Majors

Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR

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4.511.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Actor Jonathan Majors is having a moment right now: he recently starred in Creed III and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Friend of the show and host of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday Ayesha Rascoe recently sat down with Majors for a fun and wide-ranging conversation about his path to acting, how he picks his roles, and how he defines masculinity.

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0:00.0

A warning, this episode contains explicit language.

0:08.2

Hey everyone, I'm Aisha Harris and on this episode of NPR's Popculture Happy Hour,

0:12.8

we're bringing you an interview with an actor I'm sure many of you have had many thoughts about

0:17.7

lately, the one and only Jonathan Majors. Now he's having a moment right now, he recently

0:23.5

starred in Creed III and Ant-Man and the Wasp, Wantamania, and our friend of the show and host

0:28.8

of NPR's Week in the Dition Sunday, Aisha Roscoe, recently sat down with Majors for a fun

0:33.9

and wide-raging conversation. Hey Aisha, hey, it's so great to have you here. I loved this

0:40.5

interview because Jonathan Majors has kind of become this it guy, the internet's boyfriend,

0:47.0

but you were able to go deep with him on a variety of topics in ways that I haven't really seen him

0:52.2

do in other interviews. So I'm curious really quick, if you could tell us sort of what was your main

0:57.8

goal going into that discussion. You know, I really wanted to be able to have a real conversation

1:06.4

and to really get at this idea of like being in this space because you very rarely meet someone

1:14.4

who is like really like blowing up, right? Like they're there, but they're also like just getting

1:21.2

there. And so I wanted to get a sense of like what does that actually feel like? And then I also

1:26.8

knew that he's like a very big you know actor with a capital A like fear about the craft. I just

1:33.2

wanted to get behind some of that because you know is he seems very deep and he was very deep,

1:38.8

but I want to get behind the deepness and like what's there. So that's what I wanted to do.

1:43.7

Well, I really think he did it. I mean he he seemed so relaxed and so open and vulnerable. And I

1:52.0

did learn so many things about him and just how he moves and how he thinks about things. And it's

1:57.5

it's great that you had a chance to talk with him. This is so fun. Oh, thank you. It was a great time.

2:03.2

He's you know, he was really nice, really sweet. I don't have anything negative to say about

2:08.5

I'm not that I would, but everybody wants to know like was and they want to know how he smelled. He

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