JONATHAN MAJORS Feature - MAJORS MOMENT

He Majors.

By TIM DAVID HARVEY 

"You don't remember me. Do you?" The childhood friend of Adonis Creed tells the son of Apollo and the protégé of Rocky. Leaning on the champ's Rolls-Royce in a raggedy hoodie. Audaciously asking for an autograph with his gym bag on another man's bonnet. Don't remember yourself? Those who saw a major breakthrough with 'The Last Black Man In San Francisco' may not be inclined to agree with your memory banks. The same goes for those Primetime Emmy voters in favour of Atticus Freeman's big-turn on the small screen for HBO's 'Lovecraft Country'. Netflix neither with three big films. Now any critic who called the canvas for this burgeoning star better watch their glass jaws. "You mad", bro like the meme, or the jacked one of this actor with the caption, "The Avengers are in trouble". He's coming for "evvverything!"

"I can get you home", this same man promises 'Ant-Man' Scott Lang in the 'Quantumania' that is his realm. "If you help me." There's the catch. And here's the hook. You remember this guy, don't you? He Who Remains and turned the season finale of Season One of 'Loki' on its horned head when the God of Mischief already had so many tricks up his sleeve. "This place. It isn't what you think!" It's his world now, even if it begins in a universe so grand, but in sense of scale, one that could be brushed like dirt off your shoulder in the real world. But He Who pays no attention to that like the critics. Sure Scott's an Avenger, but Kang is a Conqueror. Needling the ant like insects at a picnic, teasing him, asking if he's killed him before. Taunting him like, "you thought you could win" as he Bane brutes Lang's iconic helmet with his foot. This is a big bad that could even make you forget about Thanos in a click. It's his dynasty now. 

Playing the villain with franchise game changing stakes in not one, but two big blockbusters coming out in the next few weeks, this isn't just merely Jonathan Majors' month. It's his scene stealing year. First he will conquer as Kang, all whilst keeping the comic-book look and calling out the absurdity of it all in 'Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania.' Kick-starting his run as the new big baddie of Marvel who won't sit on his ass for his first few appearances ('Loki' behind the desk boss moves aside). And if that wasn't enough, following a terrific first trailer and sensational Superbowl spot, Majors is about to make you forget about 'Rocky' being put in the corner as he gives 'Creed' his biggest challenge yet. Pointing to his poster. Knowing he's got him, saying a recomposed "thank you" after a scornful smirk when the champ plays right into his gloves. Ready or not like a Fugee? Here 'III' comes on the 3rd of the 3rd '23.

You can't hide from one of Hollywood's hottest new talents. Jonathan majors in acting. Whether it's what he crafted in 'Lovecraft' or how he showed 'The Last Black Man In San Francisco' more depth than what lies beneath the Golden Gate. Oceans of talent tide the man from Lompoc, California and the Yale graduate over. Raised in Texas, growing up around people who wore ankle monitors like bracelets, he found a "safe space" in cinema and solace with late, great Heath Ledger's iconic Joker from Christopher Nolan's 'Dark Knight' pack. And now he gets to channel that inspiration into his M.C.U. foe and find the moral core and code to those bad guys who truly believe what they are doing is right. Or at least matters.

Wanting his legacy to inspire others like the legend of Ledger did him, Majors moved into acting and the complexity of good vs. evil on this world stage. Like another late great in 'Black Panther' Chadwick Boseman, Jonathan has made his mark by playing real-life heroes like T'Challa did Jackie Robinson ('42'), James Brown ('Get On Up') and Thurgood Marshall ('Marshall'). He started out in the ABC miniseries 'When We Rise' as real-life gay activist Ken Jones. And after a truly moving scene in one of 2017's best and underrated movies (Scott Cooper's 'Hostiles' starring Christian Bale), he made good on another Western. As real cowboy Nat Love in the all-black Jay-Z produced 'The Harder They Fall', co-starring Idris Elba, Oscar winner Regina King and half the cast of 'Atlanta'. Not to mention Academy nomination robbed Delroy Lindo who played his father in another Netflix movie, Spike Lee's 'Da 5 Bloods', co-starring Boseman. Majors more than held his own alongside this wealth of talent. Truly stirring the strings in an epic moment of embrace, between father and son after a major incident and Hail Mary life save. Checking to see he's still with us. 

"That fear in me. Is in a distant view", Majors' Love told us in 'The Harder' with the real and raw rendition of the soulful spiritual 'Upon My Return'. Breaking the fourth wall and through the barriers into our hearts as he held on to the last note and his unwavering belief for as long as the pain lasted. Transferring it to us. Jonathan Majors' Netflix deal has recently yielded 'Devotion' to another real-life hero in United States Navy Officer Jesse Brown. The first African-American aviator to complete the United States Navy's basic flight training program. To the letter, Jonathan's devotion is signed, sealed and delivered. The actor who grew up on a military base, playing alongside another young maverick in 'Top Gun' sequel star Glen Powell, soared. Fear, back on land. The clouds now his near view. Upon his return, this man in the mirror has yet again given us the deepest acting and aches of inner pain since 'The Fall' and we all rise because of it.

President Barack Obama called 'San Francisco' one of the best films of 2019. The A24 prestige picture garnered Majors an Independent Spirit Award. Jonathan made his bones stealing scenes in movies with Matthew McConaughey ('White Boy Rick') and a boxing brotherhood of Charlie Hunnam and Jack O'Connell (in the Springsteen titled 'Jungleland'). But now the actor of the moment is in his own time. It's no secret like The Avengers 'Wars' to come. And the 'Magazine Dreams' of this pin-up with the Men's Health frame, could give him more than cover or Hollywood headline fame for this big-three. Those are for the big blockbusters. The 'Dreams' of a man from the magazine. More than just the muscle, searching for what lies between the print, could have him enter the Academy of awards for his show stopping stardom. He told you he was coming for everything.