We continue to learn details of Jonathan Majors and his relationship with Marvel. While we continue to wait to find out how things will go for the controversial actor in relation to his accusation and what measures the study will take in this regard, interviews and leaks that are less revealing come to light. The last? The one granted by a person close to the firm, who ensures that the character of Kang He was never first in the center of the multiverse saga…until Majors played him.
A Kang at the height
It is very difficult to play the villain. You have to have charisma, know how to carry the character and not fall into the caricature, especially when we talk about characters from comics, in which you can tend a little more to it. Jonathan Majors He knew how to adapt to Kang by putting all this into practice from the beginning.
We first meet him in the first season of Loki, where despite making a not very extensive intervention, it had enough weight for all of us to keep the name of Kang. Later he occupied the role he deserved in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumaniawhere he stood as the Super villaintherefore letting us meet the new headache of the Avengers and above all looking forward to seeing him again.
Especially knowing that Marvel has put him at the center of the hurricane: practically everything that happens in Phase 5 and Phase 6 of the UCM revolves around this character who will even have a movie with his name in 2025, The Kang Dynasty.
But originally the plan was not that…
Majors’ performance changed everything
The writer Joanna Robinson, close to the environment that surrounds Marvel Studios, told a recent podcast that the information she has suggests that it was never the company’s intention to put Kang as the epicenter of the phases of the Saga of the Multiverse. However, after the good work of Majors in the series Loki and in Quantumania, They completely changed their mind:
Someone who works for Marvel told me that the plan was not to make Kang the center of everything, until they saw the performances of Quantumania and his performance in Loki. […] [y entonces] They said: This is our way forward. We’ve lost our team of heroes, but let’s get around Kang with this artist that so many people are reacting to.
Robinson acknowledges that this is a huge problem now for Marvel who had never put so much effort or hope in a single actor as he has done with the one in charge of giving life to Kang the Conqueror.
That Majors is now involved in the kind of issues that Marvel and Disney always avoid is a dilemma for these firms, but this focus on their person would explain why at this point they still have not ruled on all this problem and have not already taken action on the matter.
What a role Marvel has on top. And time keeps ticking…
[Vía TheDirect]
