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Jonathan Majors explains how he was cast as Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania without auditioning for the role.
Jonathan Majors recently explained how he landed the role of Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania without even auditioning.
“The Marvel team has their ways. It’s very much like getting a role in drama school,” Majors told Collider. “They’re just watching. You don’t audition for roles. You get into drama school, then the dean will watch what you’re doing. If they wanted you, you get tapped. That’s kind of what happened.”
While Majors booked the role of Kang the Conqueror for the upcoming third Ant-Man film, he actually made his debut as He Who Remains — a variant of Kang — in the Season 1 finale of Marvel Studios’ Loki on Disney+. Following the episode’s premiere, the series’ head writer Michael Waldron confirmed that having a Kang variant be the villain was always the plan.
Specifically, Waldron explained, “As our story came together, and as we realized this isn’t just a time travel story, this is a multiverse story, and as we really built out what was going to be the mythology of the man behind the curtain, so to speak, it just made sense. Who is more dangerous, who would you want to contain the variants of, more than Kang the Conqueror?”
Loki director Kate Herron also revealed after Majors’ debut as He Who Remains that the Lovecraft Country actor was the perfect person to play the role, explaining, “He’s just an actor that we all loved…We sent him the art of all the characters and it was really fun [because] he was sending us all of these different voices he could do for each character, which was great.”
In regard to his future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Majors also recently teased that there are several other Kang variants waiting in the wings. “I think with He Who Remains, the objective for me was to give me the largest canvas possible,” Majors said on a recent episode of Marvel Studios: Assembled. “And then from that, as Kang begins to rear his head and do his deeds, in so many ways, he has no choice but to be in opposition or to be different from He Who Remains. That was the thing that grabbed me and pulled me into the role. The fact that Kang lives in so many iterations. As He Who Remains says, ‘Reincarnation, baby.'”
Majors will return as Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which is being directed by Peyton Reed and arrives in theaters Feb. 17, 2023.
Source: Collider
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