Jonathan Majors: 5 Things To Know About The Actor Playing Kang In ‘Ant-Man 3’

• Jonathan Majors is an actor, well-known for roles successful ‘Lovecraft Country’ and ‘The Harder They Fall.’
• Jonathan Majors volition prima arsenic Kang successful ‘Ant-Man 3.’
• Jonathan Majors has a daughter.

Jonathan Majors is 1 of the newest stars of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He plays Kang The Conqueror successful the upcoming Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania, which hits theaters connected Friday, February 17. The actor, 32, revealed that he’d been approached astir being successful a Marvel movie agelong earlier being formed arsenic Kang successful a February 2023 Vanity Fair interview. “We got successful the country and we chatted. We were having this large conversation. I deliberation it was 3 years aboriginal that we had the Kang chat. And there’s nary trepidation now, particularly due to the fact that of who Kang is. When I said yes, we got the full picture, and what is being laid retired is cohesive,” helium said.

While the caller Marvel movie volition beryllium archetypal vulnerability that galore fans volition person to Jonathan, he’s already made an interaction starring successful immoderate different projects. HollywoodLife has 5 things that you request to cognize astir Jonathan here!

Jonathan is the latest villain to articulation the MCU arsenic Kang. (©Walt Disney Co./Courtesy Everett Collection)

1. Jonathan had a troubled childhood.

Jonathan was calved connected September 7, 1989 successful Lompoc, California, and moved with his household to Dallas, Texas. Jonathan’s father, who was successful the Air Force, abandoned the household erstwhile Jonathan was young, though the 2 yet reconnected. Jonathan had a precise unsmooth spell portion increasing up successful Dallas. “I recovered myself getting into fights, being bullied, and past retaliating,” helium told The Hollywood Reporter in 2019. Per that interview, Jonathan was besides caught shoplifting and had to bash assemblage service. The fights successful schoolhouse resulted successful suspension, and eventually, helium was kicked retired of the location and had to unrecorded successful his car. However, Jonathan recovered solace during these troubling times successful his passionateness for theater. “The 1 happening that was accordant from the property of 14 to that clip was that I was successful the theater,” helium told THR. “I conscionable wanted to beryllium successful the satellite and beryllium a portion of it.”

2. He started his acting vocation successful 2017.

Jonathan got his acting commencement successful the 2017 ABC miniseries When We Rise while helium was inactive enrolled successful Yale University to get his Masters of Fine Arts degree. Prior to being formed successful When We Rise, he had precise tiny roles successful the anthology movie Do Not Disturb and the TV movie Much Ado About Nothing. Jonathan’s adjacent relation was the Western movie Hostiles, followed by the 2018 films White Boy Rick and Out of the Blue. His large interruption came with the 2019 autarkic film The Last Black Man successful San Francisco, which received captious acclaim and earned Jonathan an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Another large relation for Jonathan was 2020’s Da Bloods, a warfare movie directed by Spike Lee that besides starred Chadwick Boseman.  Prior to Ant-Man 3, Jonathan’s astir caller relation was successful the 2023 bodybuilder film Magazine Dreams. 

Jonathan Majors has starred successful a assortment of fashionable films and TV shows successful caller years. (JOR/Capital Pictures / MEGA)

3. He starred successful HBO’s ‘Lovecraft Country’

Jonathan was among the formed of HBO’s 2020 fearfulness series Lovecraft Country. Jonathan played Atticus Freeman successful the show, which besides starred Jurnee Smollett, Courtney B. Vance, Jamie Chung, and more. Jonathan’s show earned praise from fans and critics alike. He adjacent snagged a Primetime Emmy Award information for Outstanding Lead Actor successful a Drama Series successful 2021, but helium mislaid to Josh O’Connor of The Crown. Sadly, Lovecraft Country was canceled by HBO aft lone 1 season.

Jonathan Majors successful ‘Lovecraft Country’ (Photo: Shutterstock)

4. He made his MCU debut successful ‘Loki.’

While the quality successful Ant-Man 3 may beryllium the archetypal clip immoderate Marvel fans spot Jonathan arsenic Kang, but helium really made his debut arsenic “He Who Remains” successful the Disney+ bid Loki. The quality in Ant-Man is lone the archetypal of galore movies that Kang volition play a portion in. Marvel has already announced that he’ll besides marque appearances successful Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars.

5. He has a daughter.

Jonathan Majors astatine a screening for ‘Hostiles’ successful December 2017 (Photo: Shutterstock)

Jonathan is simply a arrogant begetter to an 9-year-old daughter. The individuality of the girl’s parent is unknown, though Jonathan has said that his kid is mixed-race. In June 2020, helium spoke to People about the value of his girl knowing astir history. “She has to recognize that it’s really not ‘black history’—  it’s American history. The mode it’s taught now, its honestly the Jim Crow strategy of abstracted but equal,” helium said. “We’ll springiness it 1 month, 12 pages successful the past book…we’ll speech astir Harriet Tubman, Rosa Park, MLK, past we’ll springiness you a small quiz astir it. And that’s it.”

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