For a while there I thought Jonathan Majors might ride this thing out, but now I don’t know. I don’t think anyone knows.
I do know that Majors had been connecting and gaining ground for the last four years, starting with The Last Black Man in San Francisco (’19), followed by The Harder They Fall (’21) and a boxer in Creed III (’23) and playing Kang the Conqueror, most recently in that godawful Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania. But now it all seems to be crumbling into pieces.
On 3.25 Majors was arrested in Manhattan on charges of strangulation, assault and harassment, but two statements seemed to mitigate — one by attorney Priya Chaudhry that said Majors is “innocent and has not abused anyone,” and that “irrefutable evidence [shows] that the charges are false”, and another by his 30 year-old victim-girlfriend that basically said that the incident had been overblown and that she didn’t mean to create all this trouble.
But then Majors was dropped as a client by both his management company, Entertainment 360, and the public relations firm, the Lede Company.
And then yesterday (4.19) Variety‘s Tatiana Siegel reported that “sources” are saying Majors “is now a suspect in multiple cases of assault and abuse” and that “several alleged victims have reportedly come forward and are cooperating with the D.A.’s office.”
Just before that it was reported that while Marvel has decided nothing since the arrest, an “insider” is claiming that Marvel is fiddling around with the idea of replacing Majors, just in case.
How does he turn this around? Is the situation even repairable?