Jonathan Majors

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Jonathan Majors has been acting professionally for about seven 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. On screen, Jonathan is 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 takes the story to the next level. When I talked with Jonathan Majors in 2021, he was up for an Emmy for his work on HBO's Lovecraft Country. He's gone on to some massive films like Ant-man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and most recently, Creed III. Jonathan joined us on Bullseye to talk about Lovecraft Country, and reflected on being the child in a family of veterans. Plus, he dived into acting theory and craft – and he gets into it, really into it.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation,
0:07.4	working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theshmit.org.
0:15.8	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of maximum fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:30.8	It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. Jonathan Majors is my first guest this week. He's an actor.
0:37.2	He's done theater, TV, movies.
0:39.7	He hasn't even been in the business all that long, but basically he's a star.
0:45.0	Like, I'm not really into betting, but I think I might put good money on Jonathan Majors
0:50.9	winning an Academy Award in, I don't know, the next five years? He's basically
0:55.9	everywhere, devotion, Creed 3, most recently Kang the Conqueror in Ant Man and the Wasp, Quantum
1:03.1	Mania. On screen, Majors is charismatic and charming when the rule calls for it, and he can also
1:09.8	turn on a dime to vulnerable and broken.
1:13.4	He was in two of my favorite recent movies.
1:16.0	He played David in Spike Lee's DeFive Bloods,
1:19.2	the son of Paul, played by Delroy Lindo.
1:21.7	And in the last black man in San Francisco,
1:23.8	he played Mont, the best friend to Jimmy.
1:26.6	You see him today?
1:30.9	How'd go?
1:33.7	He said this was a bad idea.
1:39.1	Thought you said he was an idiot?
1:41.2	Nah.
1:42.0	He's just mad because he lost the house.
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