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'Ant-Man 3' star Jonathan Majors says he almost walked out of his first meeting with Marvel because it took too long to actually start

Feb 15, 2023, 22:04 IST
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US actor Jonathan Majors arrives for the World Premiere of Marvels "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles, February 6, 2023.Valerine Macon/AFP via Getty Images
  • Jonathan Majors said he nearly walked out of his first general meeting with Marvel.
  • He said he was raised to not waste anyone's time, and since they were busy, he tried to leave.
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Jonathan Majors, who is starring as the villain in "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" in a years-long deal with Marvel Studios, said he almost walked out of his first meeting with the movie-making giant because it was taking too long.

It was shortly after Majors had graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 2016 when he had his first general meeting with Marvel, he told Vanity Fair when asked if he had any trepidation about accepting the role of Kang the Conqueror, a new Marvel villain who will appear in several movies over the next few years.

"I hope this doesn't bite me in the ass, but I walked out of my Marvel general [meeting]," Majors told Vanity Fair.

"I grew up in a very particular way and I don't want to waste nobody's time," he added. "So I got in there and they're just busy. And I was like, 'I'm supposed to be here, right?' It got long and I went, 'I'm just going to go. It's cool. I'll just go.'"

But as he tried to walk out, they told him that casting director Sarah Finn was on her way to chat.

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"We got in the room and we chatted," he told Vanity Fair. "We were having this great conversation. I think it was three years later that we had the Kang chat."

He continued: "And there's no trepidation now, especially because of who Kang is. When I said yes, we got the whole picture, and what is being laid out is cohesive."

Majors first played an older variant of Kang in the "Loki" finale as the person controlling the Marvel Cinematic Universe's timeline.

His introduction confirmed that alternate iterations of the villain exist across the multiverse ahead of "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania," "Avengers: The Kang Dynasty," and "Avengers: Secret Wars."

The actor has previously discussed his inspirations for the villain, telling Deadline that he looked to historical figures as a way of getting Kang's temperament right, while also trying to be the antithesis of Marvel heroes like Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man.

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"Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar. Start there. Counterpoints, which is also important in creating character, is to figure out how does he encounter people. You're smart, watch out how smart I am," he said.

Majors then added: "You can look at Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man, that's the superhero of superheroes, etc. In order to be the supervillain of supervillains, how do I counter-act that in the zeitgeist?"

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