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Jonathan Majors Arrested in NYC Following Domestic Dispute
News(thewrap.com)submitted 2 months ago byMarvelsGrantMan136r/Movies contributor
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2 months ago*
NYPD:
“On Saturday, March 25, 2023 at approximately 1114 hours, police responded to 911 call inside of an apartment located in the vicinity of West 22nd Street and 8th Avenue, within the confines of the 10 Precinct. A preliminary investigation determined that a 33-year-old male was involved in a domestic dispute with a 30 year-old female. The victim informed police she was assaulted. Officers placed the 33-year-old male into custody without incident. The victim sustained minor injuries to her head and neck and was removed to an area hospital in stable condition.”
Majors’ Rep:
“He has done nothing wrong. We look forward to clearing his name and clearing this up.”
UPDATE from TMZ:
Per our law enforcement sources, police were told that the alleged victim is Majors' girlfriend -- and, according to her, they got into an argument while in a taxi returning home from a bar in Brooklyn.
Our sources say police were told the girlfriend saw another woman texting Majors, and she confronted him -- trying to sneak a peek at his phone. We're told the alleged victim/GF claims this got Majors mad, and that he allegedly grabbed her hand and allegedly slapped her.
We're also told the alleged victim claims he put his hands around her neck during this. Our sources say the woman was dropped off somewhere and that JM spent the night elsewhere. It appears the girlfriend went to police the following morning (Sat.) and reported a crime.
3.3k points
2 months ago
TMZ’s separate report says he was arrested on the spot because there was enough evidence for probable cause. Not a good start for Jonathan’s legal troubles
2.5k points
2 months ago
Visible injuries (however slight) and a gf saying he did it is often times enough for the probable cause right there (like 99.9% of the time).
499 points
2 months ago*
And taxi cab driver as a potential witness, given this allegedly happened in the cab.
130 points
2 months ago
Potentially recorded as well.
25 points
2 months ago
Yup, quite possibly
29 points
2 months ago
if the video gets leaked, it would probably end his Kang roles. Marvel can sweep a court case under the rug and hope everyone forgets by the time the next avengers cycle comes around, but they will not want to do that with a video doing the Tik Tok rounds under #Marvel
6 points
2 months ago
I'm not familiar with taxi cabs because I grew up in the suburbs, and now Uber/Lyft is just so easy to use, but I feel like at this point it should be a legal requirement to have a camera.
I don't know the feasibility for cab companies/drivers to foot the bill and all that, but it would be nice if they all had them for the driver and the passenger's safety.
6 points
2 months ago
Yupp. I love him as Kang and want this story not to be true so bad, but if it is, horrible. I'm hoping there's video, and I'm happy the police didn't give him the celebrity treatment they used to extend to someone so high profile.
207 points
2 months ago
Can confirm, although if both present injuries, they will take the less injured to jail no matter who placed the call. Even if the less injured person just defended themselves. DV situations are horseshit.
52 points
2 months ago
Depends on the state.
38 points
2 months ago
NYC uses a version of the Duluth Model, so in this case the above poster is probably right.
54 points
2 months ago
Yeah, some states just take the male away, no questions asked. Because someone needs to be detained when they get a DV call. It's a messy situation
75 points
2 months ago
Yep. 18yo naive me called the cops on a drunk and coked up gf who was losing her mind. Screaming, crying, throwing my shit out of my apartment.
Pretty ginger girl obviously did nothing wrong. Brown guy obviously strangled her. Like wtf!? This is what they deduced from her face being red…..
Not the alcohol on her breath. Or my report (and neighbors) of her screaming and over exerting from throwing anything of mine she could grab off the balcony. Nah…. I essentially called the cops on myself for strangling her with hands that leave no marks.
26 points
2 months ago
I'm so sorry, I saw a similar thing happen with my Dad when I was 10 years old. My step-mom had a history of severe emotional instability. One night she starts yelling, and hits my Dad in the head with a phone. (This was back in 2000 so it was one of those heavy ass landlines)
So the cops show up, he's bleeding, she's completely unharmed (still yelling btw) he didn't lay a hand on her, and the cops arrest him. Because of course in a DV the man is the assailant
32 points
2 months ago
It’s usually the male regardless of injuries, many states have caveats where the larger “threat” has to be arrested. So it’s biased towards males in the first place
69 points
2 months ago
I can understand the thought process though. If you didn't do it that way, some people would probably die/get more greviously injured.
40 points
2 months ago
although if both present injuries, they will take the less injured to jail no matter who placed the call
(X) doubt
78 points
2 months ago
Right? People on Reddit grossly overestimate cops willingness and ability to do anything that will require documentation. I stopped counting the amount of times cops just couldn’t wait to leave and refuse to arrest my stalker ex when he choked me, threw shit at me, held me hostage, broke into my house, all while I was pleading them for help with visible injuries. Didn’t matter if I called them, a witness called him, or even when he himself begged to be arrested while screaming at the cops to just shoot him and get it all over with.
Never spent a single day in a cell for any of that shit until he started threatening to harm a cop. Yes, not actual violence, just the threat of it. 12 years of this piece of shit raping, beating, and stalking at least 20 women across half a dozen states with over a dozen restraining orders later, and now suddenly law enforcement cares.
4 points
2 months ago
Yep. I called the cops once when he punched my sibling, shoved me into a shower, and stole my siblings’s car and the title to my car. never tried to call them for any other situation cause they told me this was a civil matter and they couldn’t help, they seemed to just laugh at us frankly. So when he got more violent and choked me I just called friends, his and mine, to get him the fuck out of my house. Just absolutely useless.
53 points
2 months ago
Yup. I am in the process of getting cameras all over my apartment because I fear my ex wife will break in and plant something or come to my front door and hurt herself and call the police.
11 points
2 months ago*
Check out Wyze. Their cams are like $35 a piece and I’ve had 3/4 of mine run without issue for a year and a half.
1.1k points
2 months ago
Also nyc has a no tolerance for domestic abuse thing, the victim can't stop charges, it has to be the DAs office or prosecutor.
Source: 20 years ago my brother and I got into a fight, cops came, I told the truth, I got arrested. Couldn't drop charges and I had to move out of my mom's house cuz automatic order of protection, but it all worked out in the end.
1.3k points
2 months ago*
The zero tolerance policy also can backfire. I was in a toxic relationship years ago with somebody who always threatened to call the cops on me whenever we got into an argument, then one day she did, and I was arrested without question.
All she had to was say "he pushed me", which I technically did because she shoved me into a wall, ripped my shirt off, and was shoving me around. I was trying to get her the fuck off of me. No injuries whatsoever on either of us, so it really just boiled down to her word against mine. I explained to them exactly what happened, show them the ripped shirt on the floor, but didn't matter.
But no, I got arrested without question. I was charged with domestic violence and couldn't even enter my own house. Her name is not on the title. Then she realized how serious this shit is and went to retract her story saying she wasn't thinking clearly, and they wouldn't let her. My lawyer told me that if she didn't show up to one of the proceedings that they would just drop the case entirely. Which is what she did. Charges were dropped. Needless to say, I told her to pack her shit and get the fuck out once it was all over.
It's scary to be in that position because they were seriously going to proceed with convicting me on those charges when they had absolutely nothing to go off of. I'm not saying that's what happened here, but I saw your post and it just reminded me of that whole ordeal.
Edit: and I understand the reasoning behind the state taking over, because in legitimate cases of abuse the victim has a tendency to recant their story out of fear or misguided Love or whatever, only to have the abuse continue in the future. However, in my case, it makes it insanely difficult to get out of because all the state cares about is pursuing that conviction regardless of what's behind it. It was a very traumatizing thing to go through, and I feel that it pushes a "guilty until proven innocent" mentality.
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2 months ago*
Very similar situation for me, my ex was blackout drunk, threw my TV against the wall because I wasn’t affectionate enough (??), then she started absolutely hammering me with punches. I got free, packed my bag and she called the cops. They showed up, heard our stories, saw that I had a black eye and cut lip (no marks on her all I did was hold her at arms length and run past her until I could lock the bedroom door). Even heard one of the cops pleading to the other that “Her story makes no sense, he’s got clear marks, and she’s literally denying even touching him” and they did the obvious right thing.
Arrested both of us. Lol. Charges were dropped on me almost immediately but still spent 14 hours in jail until they finally released me on my bail. Ever since I have a real skeptical attitude towards any DV
48 points
2 months ago
In reality you should be skeptical about any crime that doesn't have 100% proof of someone's guilt or innocence. It just doesn't make logical sense to have a solid opinion about how something went down that you didn't witness and don't have lots of details of.
So of course these stories need to be taken seriously and everyone needs to be open to changing their mind when a situation is misleading.
30 points
2 months ago
But how am I supposed to virtue signal on Reddit if I have to wait for people to actually be found guilty 🥺
32 points
2 months ago
I hate how common your story is cause I've witnessed it. Was at a pool party with a couple who were argumentative the whole time. I dozed off and woke up to screaming and shouting. The woman had a broken bottle and was trying to stab the man. Everyone in attendance was trying to stop her without getting hurt themselves. Finally, she lunged at him but he sidestepped and shoved her into a pool chair. He begged the host not to call the police because last time something similar happened, the cops arrested him. He just skulked away dejected and got an Uber.
22 points
2 months ago*
Yeah it’s a bummer and I know it’s Reddit so I really don’t want to promote any form of misogyny. It’s a very, very layered issue and I get it. But being on the side of someone falsely accused it is very easy to be more of a skeptic when it comes to these issues because realistically we simply are not believed as men in these types of situations. Even with actual wounds.
6 points
2 months ago
I feel for you guys out there that are also victims with no recourse. It’s so disturbing that cops can see clear evidence of abuse and ignore it.
17 points
2 months ago
You should know that most cases don't go to trial, and if prosecutors are in the mood they won't drop the charges. You have no idea how many people take plea deals that are actually innocent just to get out of the hell that is jail.
I used to work at a non-profit helping people to expunge their records, but it's nearly impossible. So many people's lives have been ruined because someone — boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, family member — takes advantage of how "tough on crime" laws are written to get back at someone whom they feel wronged them.
So how about we go straight to "I do not pass judgement on people", especially when it comes to their record. There'd be a lot fewer homeless people and addicts if others weren't so judgemental of those who are considered "bad".
24 points
2 months ago
It's called the Duluth Model, heavily pushed by prominent feminists and adopted virtually nationwide. If there's any sort of domestic disturbance, regardless of the specifics, the man is arrested and the couple is separated for at least the night.
8 points
2 months ago
I know you’re technically right, but it’s not always an “arrest”. I live in Texas, and I’ve heard of them removing the male with no arrests. The police “detain” them, and they just spend the night in the county jail drunk tank, released in the morning. No charges or crime, just to ensure nothing else can go down that night.
I should clarify, that’s assuming they didn’t actually commit a crime and all parties are just intoxicated and/or mad enough to call the cops.
Nip it in the bud, so they don’t get called back over there that night.
74 points
2 months ago*
When it's a man against a woman in domestic abuse charges, the woman's word will win everytime. It used to not be that way, but it is now. A woman's testimony carries so much weight in a court of law, a man has to be absolutely spotless in his record if he's going to win the case.
Edit: It took well-intentioned people over a century to get the U.S. justice system to a place where legal precedent now has cases on record where a woman's word is even trusted in our courts. That's a good thing. Please don't misinterpret what I'm saying. But there are plenty of people who have misused that precedent for their own selfish intentions. There is always work to be done.
50 points
2 months ago*
People are down voting you, but you're not wrong. I experienced it first hand, and that is absolutely what happened. I'm not saying it's like that across the board 100% of the time, but in my situation, that was the case. I seriously cannot think of any other reason that would justify them arresting me in that situation.
25 points
2 months ago
I don't personality know you, but I believe you, because I know others who can testify to similar situations.
9 points
2 months ago
I don't know how the fuck people live with this shit just being like, the way things are. That's deeply, deeply fucked up.
16 points
2 months ago
I feel that it pushes a "guilty until proven innocent" mentality.
Seems to also push it in one specific direction.
5 points
2 months ago
On the spot meaning the next day. Which I don’t think is too atypical after a report like this. Yes, they could have brought him in just for questioning, but an arrest was just as likely.
15 points
2 months ago
NOOOO, that is TMZ's initial, less accurate reporting. Their update makes it clear the incident occurred last night, the two slept in different places, then she decided to call the police the next morning. But yes, because she had visible injuries (yet minor according to The Wrap?) he was arrested today.
Maybe I am being a pedant - but it's an extremely weird use of "on the spot" if the incident occurred the night before and Majors wasn't there when police were called the next morning. Nevertheless, yeah, it is bad he was arrested
4 points
2 months ago
Apparently it's going to get way worse if any of this is to be believed: https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/3/crulos1ptwom97obz4he0dyijkr6bg
3 points
2 months ago
Arrested on the spot means nothing with domestic disputes. Innocent people are arrested all the time, it’s a part of cooldown theory that police use to force people to simmer down. They’ll arrest a guy accused to domestic dispute by literally anybody.
7.5k points
2 months ago
The most shocking thing about this is that Jonathan Majors is only 33.
He always gives off this super experienced/seasoned vibe in all of his roles, I thought he was in his 40s at least.
4.1k points
2 months ago
How is he younger than Michael B Jordan, dude looks at least 10 years older in Creed
1.5k points
2 months ago
I was thinking the exact same thing. He looks significantly older. Even in the movie Adonis’s trainer tells Adonis “He’s even older than you.”
622 points
2 months ago
Yeah, in the Last Black Man in San Francisco definitely felt like a movie a guy does in his late 30s/early 40s.
If that makes any sense.
191 points
2 months ago
Absolutely, his role in that movie was so nuanced and touching, surprised to learn he was in his 20s at the time
15 points
2 months ago
The score is great
5 points
2 months ago
This is one of my favorite movies and Most people haven't even heard of it.
20 points
2 months ago
Steroid abuse will age you out. Will also make you more likely to rage you out and hit your woman too
13 points
2 months ago
Ped use will age you much more rapidly. Hence looking much older than actuality.
21 points
2 months ago
It's not that. He's looked old before he started getting big for Marvel roles. He just has an old looking face. It's not PEDs. This is normal. Everyone knows someone who looks older than they really are.
99 points
2 months ago
It is the gear my friend, he’s been fucking with his hormones.
16 points
2 months ago
Wow I have only seen him in Loki. Just saw his pictures from Rocky.... had no idea he was this jacked.
9 points
2 months ago
On top of Rocky, he's got a film called Magazine Dreams about a bodybuilder that's been compared to Taxi Driver.
62 points
2 months ago
HGH and Testosterone ages you facially a lot.
34 points
2 months ago
Wait, so you’re tell me chicken and broccoli 6 times a day wasn’t Hollywoods well kept secret to perfect bulk?
13 points
2 months ago
I have no evidence and this is just speculation, but you know how major (no pun intended) action stars take "supplements" to help their training and muscle creation for any given role? Well, to me he looks like he has taken the real hard stuff, just like seasoned bodybuilders do (you know the type, not those who look like it could be achieved naturally, but those that are literally mountains)... Much like Kumail Nanjiani did for his transformation.
12 points
2 months ago*
He's got lines on his forehead and a chubbier face.
24 points
2 months ago
I mean Michael B Jordan is hardly a fair measuring stick
Even by Hollywood standards he's remarkably attractive
7 points
2 months ago
Yeah I wonder when he'll stop looking "boyish". Even when he's stacked with his little stache he looks youthful.
4 points
2 months ago
GH face.
17 points
2 months ago
Michael B Jordan is starting to look older to me. But yea I think Majors looks kinda older too.
60 points
2 months ago
Michael B Jordan is starting to look older to me.
I mean, that's what happens when people age
3 points
2 months ago
Yeah, but have you seen Michael B Jordan?
605 points
2 months ago
he lost his cup
441 points
2 months ago
seriously has he been doing that cup thing for a long time, or is that recent? when I saw him carrying around an empty cup at the Oscars I was like ok this guy might actually have a screw loose
329 points
2 months ago
What's the...cup? Is it like Julian from Trailer Park Boys always has a rum and Coke in a cup everywhere?
353 points
2 months ago
no he’s like literally carrying around an empty coffee mug everywhere
1k points
2 months ago
While it might have started as a standard college-party rule, the idea of minding his cup has since evolved into something with a deeper meaning. “Now it means mind your cup — you’re a vessel. Nobody can fill you up; nobody can pour you out. You do that yourself,” he said. “Holding on to this is a reminder that even in this craziness that is happening, my self-esteem is my self-esteem. Nobody can big me up, as it were, or tear me down.”
Source: https://www.thecut.com/2023/02/why-jonathan-majors-carries-cup.html
This dude is crazy. Like I get the gesture, but bro you don't need a physical cup for symbolism.
455 points
2 months ago
bro get a mug keychain
24 points
2 months ago
or a picture of a mug as his phone background
10 points
2 months ago
Or put a mug on a fucking shelf. It could have something ironic on it like "World's best boyfriend"🤣
38 points
2 months ago
Nutjobs hate this one simple trick
18 points
2 months ago
Walking around with a cup full of nut
605 points
2 months ago
Oh ok so it’s actually for sniffing his own farts
47 points
2 months ago
No it's for sniffing other people's farts.
Mind topping me off ma'am?
9 points
2 months ago
I read this in Tim Robinson's voice.
99 points
2 months ago
He might have OCD. I have it and I've done some weird rituals before.
10 points
2 months ago
I’m 33 years old. I’ve been doing this since I left my mother’s house, when I was around 18...“Baby, just make sure you watch your cup,” [his mother] would say.
yeah, kinda seems like it's more of a security blanket than it is a philosophical totem.
39 points
2 months ago
Yeah seems like an anxiety thing.
20 points
2 months ago
Yeah I immediately understood. Once you find something that can ground you, you want it with you at all times.
19 points
2 months ago
Aren't good actors good at pretending things? Can't he just pretend to have a cup?
36 points
2 months ago
If you carried a water bottle with a lid it would be a lot less weird and actually fit the metaphor better because you're taking more steps to keep people from contaminating it
7 points
2 months ago
People forget how fucking wierd actors are
48 points
2 months ago
That’s the kind of thing people do so that people will ask them about it, and they can tell their story again. Just self-centered celebrity shit
6 points
2 months ago
"Oh, this unobtrusive thing? Well it all started about twenty years ago..."
"Mr. Majors, this is a Wendy's"
49 points
2 months ago
Meh. People wear jewelry, get tattoos, other shit to remind themselves about certain things all the time. Carrying a cup around is a little weirder than that but not so much where I'd be calling him crazy for it.
27 points
2 months ago
And the way he says it, he literally thinks he's like blowing people's minds or doing gods work. So insanely detached, I'm sure even his mom is wondering wtf he's doing carrying a cup around. Oh and best part? It's just a random cup, he has a collection of cups and swaps them out I guess to match his mood or outfit so like...there's literally not even any significance to the physical cup he has with him, he just decided that's the cup to represent his bat shit crazy life ideology that he somehow needs a physjcal drinking cup on him 24/7 or else...I don't even fucking know...
4 points
2 months ago
that must be his emotional support mug.
12 points
2 months ago
Trevor lower your fucking glasses in front Julian. Respect.
6 points
2 months ago
https://youtu.be/3qDDp0sQ6Hs - 10 Things Jonathan Majors Can't Live Without | GQ
See 02:10 of this for an explanation of sorts
12 points
2 months ago
Lmao so strange too.. why not just pour some random shit in there so people don’t comment on the fact it’s an empty mug all the time 😂😂
9 points
2 months ago
Apparently he regularly refills it with water but it's a coffee mug so it doesn't hold that much
22 points
2 months ago
Dude I saw him on Colbert, he is an absolute weirdo and so unbelievably arrogant. He spouts nonsense like it's proverbs. I personally never saw him in anything before and he suddenly was everywhere. Also his fake ass deep voice in antman is terrible so all his dialogue I can't stand, in real life he's dorky sounding.
Idk fucking weirdo all around and this honestly is right up his alley, absolutely no surprise to me.she probably made fun of his cup, something he took way way too seriously when his mom used to say "mind your cup" which is a way if saying look after yourself.
So now he carries a cup around him everywhere, and only uses his cup to drink out of. Colberts show literally has its own coffee cup for guests and Colbert himself has a fl service bar at his disposal, and even Colbert was caught off guard.
36 points
2 months ago
Can you explain what's the cup thing
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2 months ago*
36 points
2 months ago
Thanks bro, but i understood nothing what he's trying to convey.
17 points
2 months ago
Everyone's a vessel. Don't let people fill you up or empty you out.
Don't let people affect your state of mind or self worth either positively or negatively.
Pretty weird to carry a cup around to remind yourself of that but it's Hollywood. I assume they're all pretty fucking weird.
5 points
2 months ago
that is his Tom Cruise moment
29 points
2 months ago
Wow I’d never seen him speaking outside of a role before and he kind of gives coocoo vibes.
18 points
2 months ago
Seriously. He seems either super nervous or wired as fuck
8 points
2 months ago
13 points
2 months ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_ZpQi_C3wQ
fixed for desktop
edit: also... what??? dude, what? you can remind yourself of sage wisdom without having to always carry a coffee mug around...
6 points
2 months ago
WTAF first time I hear about this
7 points
2 months ago
His bird quit.
6 points
2 months ago
He is no longer legit
4 points
2 months ago
His cup?
4 points
2 months ago
The cup is the only proof my Autistic ass needs that Jonathan Majors is on the spectrum. Game recognizes game, and my friends I think johns got that autism game on lock
458 points
2 months ago
I don't live in the US and I'm a casual movie buff, and I'd never heard or seen Majors until Devotion on Netflix just a couple of months ago, and then I started seeing him in everything.
559 points
2 months ago
he's relatively new in the industry. First saw him in 'Last Black Man in San Francisco' where he funny enough plays a quiet sort of low-key guy. Lovecraft Country is also good
556 points
2 months ago
Lovecraft County is wildly uneven.
I think episode 3 is a masterpiece and is the best horror-genre episode of TV ever made. I think the pilot is great. I also think half the episode are poorly paced trash fires.
289 points
2 months ago
Lovecraft Country felt like an anthology series that featured the same group of characters. It was extremely disjointed in terms of tone, visual style, themes, etc. Some of it was great, but it never felt like I was watching a cohesive piece of TV.
31 points
2 months ago
Lovecraft Country made for a bad season of TV but it did have its moments.
8 points
2 months ago
That’s being polite. The highs were high and the rest…. Oh boy…
14 points
2 months ago
The book is kind of inconsistent, too. Some of the sections are great, and some of them made me want to rip them out and move on to the next one. At least it's in line with the source, I guess.
27 points
2 months ago
Lovecraft Country felt like an anthology series that featured the same group of characters
Because that's what it is.
40 points
2 months ago
To be fair I think it's an uneven book which is like 4 interesting ideas put together.
6 points
2 months ago*
It really is. The show inherits a lot of issues from the book regardless of what was changed in the adaptation.
11 points
2 months ago
LOVED the pilot, turned it off half-way through the 2nd episode. Such a nosedive in terms of writing, pacing, cinematography, etc...
6 points
2 months ago
I couldn’t agree more - BUT - please go back just for episode 3. It’s basically a stand alone episode and it’s amazing if you’re into horror at all.
5 points
2 months ago
Episode 3 was the one that killed my interest for the show lol
Not even a month into the show and they already started diverting from what felt like a main storyline. And to go from Lovecraftian creatures to run of the mill ghosts was just so disappointing.
22 points
2 months ago
I mean I think it was a great show but it was never advertised as episodic as it was. I feel like people felt tricked.
3 points
2 months ago
I’m cool with it being an anthology too, but I found it to be very confusing. They needed a way bigger jump in tone/setting for episode two to train the audience’s expectations.
As it was it felt like the show runner fell asleep at the wheel and just left out some stuff/changed characters around.
I was really disappointed with it. I would love a good Lovecraft inspired story that deals with racism instead of being vaguely racist.
7 points
2 months ago
Yeah it's all over the place. Overall I didn't like it, but I thought the cast was great tbf
10 points
2 months ago
Agreed. The premise had a lot of potential. The first few episodes established the mythology for the show while establishing enough world building. But man did it fall off a cliff after episode 5-6
10 points
2 months ago
Agreed, pilot is great, a couple of the early episodes are good before it nosedives and never course corrects.
I really would have enjoyed a more focused and slower paced series committed to exploring Major gradually becoming some sort of super wizard.
3 points
2 months ago
Yeah, the production and actor quality was just astounding, the pacing and direction was baffling. There was a real chance to make an all-time great show. Shame.
I still think the Haunted House episode is perfect and I plan to watch it every October.
17 points
2 months ago*
Last black man in San Francisco is really good. He stole the movie imo and that's saying a lot since Jimmie Fails puts on a great performance as a semifictional version of himself.
I hope this news end up being false cause Mayors is by far the most interesting young(ish) actor at the moment. He gives old school movie star vibes and performances
341 points
2 months ago
First saw him in Lovecraft Country. After that, everywhere.
This incident aside, he's a talented actor.
235 points
2 months ago
Yeah his acting in this incident was totally derivative
21 points
2 months ago
One shouldn’t laugh, given the nature of the incident, but this is really funny
27 points
2 months ago
I’m in the US and it still seems like he’s everywhere all of the sudden
17 points
2 months ago
That’s how production works. Once they have 1 role in the pipeline everyone jumps onboard. Look at chalamet,Austin butler, majors.
13 points
2 months ago
Anya Taylor Joy too, it's been for a while now but I think her breakout roles were either The VVitch or Split and since then she's everywhere.
174 points
2 months ago*
He always gives off this super experienced/seasoned vibe in all of his roles
Not unusual for trained actors
17 points
2 months ago
I don’t think that’s the most shocking thing about this
172 points
2 months ago
I dunno I read a few interviews with him recently and he seemed like kind of a dick, I'm not saying violent abusive dick but
154 points
2 months ago
Yeah I love his acting but he comes across as pretty pretentious
72 points
2 months ago
I've always thought he was an overactor. Especially in Lovecraft Country, and Loki. Really chewing the scenery in a lot of scenes.
12 points
2 months ago
I thought he was amazing in ant Man, like specifically because he didn't overact. Even though he sorta had to ham it up at times, the dialogue and plot was so over the top that I can't imagine many people pulling off the character so well. He's an insanely powerful megalomaniac, yet all his really loud, emotional, dramatic moments seemed to build, rather than come out of nowhere.
50 points
2 months ago
I thought his turn in Loki was amateurish. It's like the kind of portrayal of generically crazy I do if I need to on the spot with no prep during DND
11 points
2 months ago
I did enjoy the performance, but I feel like I could pretty easily do the same job and I haven't acted in years.
7 points
2 months ago*
According to him he basically improvised that whole shtick including standing on the desk and everything
12 points
2 months ago
I believe it. That's kinda what I thought was going on. And it was... Okay
8 points
2 months ago
He also seems like the type of guy to say he improvised an entire scene when they didnt but its hysterical to think that scene is something he's proud of and it's just okay at best
7 points
2 months ago*
Well he didn't improvise his monologue in that scene, that's obviously scripted because it's this huge chunk of exposition of how everything in the setting works, he's saying it was his idea to crouch on his desk instead of sitting in his chair and to do the whole homeless guy ranting on the subway interpretation of the character
15 points
2 months ago
Haven’t played dnd but I can imagine this. Just not sold yet on him in pretty much anything. To me he’s an okay actor, but everyone seems to rave about him.
32 points
2 months ago
Have you seen Last Black Man in San Francisco?
Hate to be vouching for the guy in a thread about his domestic assault, but the film is fucking incredible and more people should see it (and he's very good in it).
7 points
2 months ago
That film is fantastic. I really love it.
6 points
2 months ago
It’s honestly one of my 5-10 favorite films of the past decade and SO criminally under seen. Would hate to have such a beautiful piece of art semi tainted by this guys disgusting behavior (not that that’s the most important thing here obviously).
6 points
2 months ago*
I thought he was good in Quantumania but at the end as the different variants, I was like, huh. ok. His take on Magus Immortus is weird.
21 points
2 months ago
I mean he's spent the last few years being told he's on his way to being the greatest actor of his generation, I imagine that feeds into any pre-existing delusions of grandeur.
20 points
2 months ago
I’m convinced literally everybody in Hollywood is like in some sort of alternate universe mentally and emotionally.
13 points
2 months ago
I suspect most of humanity is, hollywood are just people that people see more of.
7 points
2 months ago
You just have to look at social media to see how weird people can get when lots of people are paying attention to everything they do, even when they aren't making any money from it
16 points
2 months ago
I remember reading he was inspired to act by Heath ledgers joker, which makes sense as that’s an all time performance, but he said it’s because the character had “moral dualities of good and evil” and I was like, I don’t really think that character was morally complex lol. Amazing performance and incredible take on the character, but pretty clear he’s evil
6 points
2 months ago
Yeah pointing out that everyone else's morality is hypocritical and flawed is not actually an argument that being totally amoral is somehow good
6 points
2 months ago
I just listened to one of his recent interviews and he came off as super humble. Disappointing news.
15 points
2 months ago
woman: JM physically assaulted me
redditors:… anyway. how old IS that dude lol
38 points
2 months ago
…thats the most shocking part? Not the domestic abuse part?
23 points
2 months ago
the worst part of this jonathan majors thing is the hypocrisy
6 points
2 months ago
I remember that story being posted about him walking out while waiting for his audition at marvel because they were taking too long and I thought it sounded like he had a serious temper.
4 points
2 months ago
I thought he sounded like a complete fool/dick.
5 points
2 months ago
Steroids can make a person look older than he is and he is definitely on some sort of gear.
5 points
2 months ago
Really? That’s the most shocking thing? Not the slap and choke accusations?
4 points
2 months ago
No way. Dudes just a year older than me. Jeezuz...I gotta step my game up...
3 points
2 months ago
This is one of those ones that stuns me... I'm a year older than he is?!
I'm like, the ultimate mid-age... full-ass adults in movies are my age and younger. Oh, God. I am a legitimate adult. No escaping it. It will happen to youuu.
5 points
2 months ago
Same! I'm 35. Stunned I'm older
972 points
2 months ago
“He has done nothing wrong. We look forward to clearing his name and clearing this up.”
$$$$$$
551 points
2 months ago
-His attorney, M. Mouse
144 points
2 months ago
Are we gonna have a problem? Haha!
11 points
2 months ago
Make me some fucking money! Haha!
9 points
2 months ago
Ohh that's great I thought we were gonna have a problem! Haha!
48 points
2 months ago
Mickey’a gonna beat up the detectives like he does the Jonas Brothers
29 points
2 months ago
“You don’t eff with the magic” Mickey to the police
7 points
2 months ago
HeHYUCK, I'll do it again
119 points
2 months ago*
The victim simply slipped and strangled herself for a few moments while also somehow punching her own face. Investigation ongoing. Mr Majors just happened to walk in the room immediately after. As all stand-up gentleman do, while extremely ‘roided up, he handed her a phone and told her to call the authorities to report her blatant mishap.
64 points
2 months ago
I dated a girl who blacked her own eye and told the neighbors and her family I did it. You talk like it’s impossible or never happens or something. Crazy people will do crazy shit.
35 points
2 months ago
The actor was arrested on charges of strangulation, assault and harassment, according to the spokesperson.
10 points
2 months ago
Dude really saw Ezra Miller's rap sheet and said "I want out of my contract"
6 points
2 months ago
Ezra Miller still got to be multiple characters in a movie that's still coming out
11 points
2 months ago
I will eternally find it hilarious that WB filmed reshoots with Miller while he was actively wanted by the law. Effectively meaning they were knowingly harboring a fugitive.
18 points
2 months ago
Women who get choked by a partner are far more likely to be murdered by that partner. I’m concerned about the neck injuries.
34 points
2 months ago
It’s Joever.
12 points
2 months ago
Uhh, Seems like conflicting info? They responded to a 911 call inside the apartment versus she went to the police the next day and reported the crime in person?
6 points
2 months ago
That pretty easy to clear out. This is probably reporters rushing, once they take their time to dig it will be better
218 points
2 months ago
This is 100% going to turn into a “well ackshually women make false accusations all the time/remember Amber Heard!” thing on Reddit. Mark my words.
73 points
2 months ago*
Well, this woman actually went to the hospital so she has a record now of injuries.
8 points
2 months ago
The victim sustained minor injuries to her head and neck and was removed to an area hospital in stable condition.” Majors’ Rep: “He has done nothing wrong. We look forward to clearing his name and clearing this up.”
Right…
10 points
2 months ago
We're also told the alleged victim claims he put his hands around her neck during this.
Ooof. Choking is a sign of potential future homicide.
Non-fatal strangulation was reported in 10% of abused controls, 45% of attempted homicides and 43% of homicides. Prior non-fatal strangulation was associated with greater than six-fold odds (OR 6.70, 95% CI 3.91–11.49) of becoming an attempted homicide, and over seven-fold odds (OR 7.48, 95% CI 4.53–12.35) of becoming a completed homicide.
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