After the news this weekend that actor Jonathan Majors was arrested in New York on charges of assault, Marvel Studios finds itself in an extremely precarious position moving forward. But it's a position that gives the studio the opportunity to stand forward for victims of domestic assault by doing the right thing: recasting Majors’ role.
Majors, who first broke out into mainstream appeal with the back-to-back releases of The Last Black Man in San Francisco and HBO’s Lovecraft Country, debuted as the supervillain Kang the Conqueror earlier this year in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (after appearing as a different Kang variant in Loki). Currently, he’s intended to return as the character later this year in Loki Season 2 and again in Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.
On Saturday, March 25, police were called to a residence in Manhattan by a woman later confirmed to be Majors’ girlfriend. After verifying injuries to her head and neck, the 33-year-old actor was arrested but released from police custody later that same night. The next day, a spokesperson for Majors released a statement denying the claims and citing unreleased evidence that would allegedly exonerate him of any wrongdoing.
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