Marvel Studios drops Jonathan Majors, known for playing Kang, after guilty assault verdict
Marvel Studios has removed actor Jonathan Majors from its movie after he was convicted of assaulting and harassing his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari, media reports said.
On Dec. 18, a Manhattan jury found Majors guilty of reckless assault in the third degree and guilty of harassment following a two-week trial that stemmed from a March incident between the actor and his ex-partner, Grace Jabbari, The Hollywood Reporter reported.
Before his arrest in March, Major was playing a crucial role in Marvel Cinematic Universe.
According to reports, the Disney-owned studio was even planning to create a stroy around Majors’ Kang the Conqueror.
Who is Jonathan Majors?
Majors rose to prominence for starring in the independent feature film The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019).
In 2020 he gained wider notice for starring in the HBO television series Lovecraft Country, for which he received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award.
Majors has since portrayed Nat Love in the western The Harder They Fall (2021), Jesse L. Brown in the war film Devotion (2022), and antagonist Dame Anderson in the sports film Creed III (2023). From 2021 to 2023, he portrayed Kang the Conqueror in two projects from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Disney+ series Loki (2021–2023) and the film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023).
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