Jonathan Majors has scheduled his first interview since being found guilty last month of assault and harassment of ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari.
The Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Loki star was found guilty of two misdemeanour counts of harassment and assault, as well as not guilty on two additional charges of intentional assault in the third degree and aggravated harassment in the second degree.
Marvel Studios severed ties with the actor almost immediately after the verdict was announced. We had assumed Majors would lie low - at least until his sentencing in February - but the actor recently sat down to speak with Linsey Davis of ABC News Live, and the interview is set to air on Good Morning America this coming Monday, January 8.
The segment will later air on GMA3: What You Need To Know, with an extended version streaming on ABC News Live’s Prime with Linsey Davis that evening. IMPACT x Nightline will stream a half-hour special on Hulu on January 11th, which will include more unaired footage from the interview.
It'll be very interesting to hear what Majors has to say. Will he continue to profess his innocence, or admit what he did and hope an apology will be enough to salvage his career? Either way, he will be very lucky to shift the public's perception in his favor.
Majors is done as Kang (obviously), but there have been conflicting reports about Marvel's plans for the character, with the latest rumor claiming that the studio does intend to recast the villain (Colman Domingo was mentioned as a possible replacement).
As for the next Avengers movie, it's believed that The Kang Dynasty subtitle has been dropped (no surprise there), and the project is being referred to internally as "Avengers 5" for the time being. To what extent the current story will be altered remains to be seen, but Marvel revamping it as "Secret Wars Part 1" is sounding more and more likely.
Jeff Sneider has heard that "Secret Wars is basically shaping up to be a giant five-hour movie with a year-long intermission.”
As we know, Loki writer Michael Waldron was hired to pen a new draft, but reports indicate that the events of Loki season 2 are still going to inform the main plotline, which means Kang would remain on as a central character.
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