Jonathan Majors‘ once-promising Hollywood career took a major hit following his highly publicized legal battle. However, one of his biggest ers is standing by him through thick and thin. Despite the fallout from Majors’ conviction for misdemeanor assault and harassment, Creed III director and Majors’ co-star, Michael B. Jordan, is making it clear that he still believes in his former co-star’s talent. 701l2g

And that’s not all. Jordan is also open to working with him again.

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Before his March 2023 arrest, Majors was at the top of his game. He had just starred in Creed III, played Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and was gearing up for an Oscar campaign for Magazine Dreams. The industry was ready to make him the next big thing, with his role as the MCU’s next major villain putting him on track for life-changing success. However, all of that changed when Majors was convicted of third-degree assault and second-degree harassment involving his ex-girlfriend, British dancer Grace Jabbari. 

As a result, he lost major projects, including his role as Kang in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Hollywood distanced itself from him, and his future in the industry became uncertain. Majors was sentenced to a year of rehabilitative counseling, and a 52-week domestic violence intervention program. Whether or not audiences and studios will take him back remains an open question. 

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Jordan, who not only starred alongside Majors in Creed III but also directed the film, has been vocal about his . Per The Hollywood Reporter, Jordan mentioned in an email that he would love to make Creed IV, among other projects with Majors. In a recent interview with GQ, Jordan confirmed that he would be open to collaborating with Majors again. He even openly showed for his co-actor.

“Tough situation… but he’s doing great, just got engaged. I’m proud of his resilience and his strength through it all, and [his] handling [of] it. I’m glad he’s good. That’s my boy.”

That kind of endorsement from Jordan, one of Hollywood’s most respected actors and directors, could be crucial for Majors, especially as he tries to rebuild his career. Jordan’s words may help shift industry perception, signaling that the former MCU star still has allies in high places. With Creed IV officially confirmed, Jordan has a real opportunity to bring Majors back into the fold. In Creed III, Majors played Damian Anderson, Adonis Creed’s childhood friend-turned-rival, and his performance was widely praised. Bringing him back for a sequel would not only provide Majors with the much-needed comeback but also make sense for the Creed franchise. 

Of course, the decision isn’t entirely up to Jordan. Studio executives will have the final say, and they may or may not hesitate to take a chance on Majors, given his recent legal troubles. Hollywood tends to be cautious when it comes to controversial figures, especially in today’s climate. However, the industry has also shown that redemption arcs are possible. One of the biggest factors in Majors’ potential comeback is audience reception.

While Hollywood may eventually offer him roles, it ultimately depends on whether moviegoers are willing to his projects. His film, Magazine Dreams, which received critical acclaim at Sundance, will be a litmus test. If audiences respond well to his performance, studios may be more inclined to take a chance on him.

Actors playing characters whose lives are completely dissimilar from their own is the very definition of the creative profession. Sometimes, however, Hollywood takes it too far, which is why representation is so vital. Actress Tessa Thompson perfectly represents walking that fine line with reverence and grace.

When we meet Thompson in Ryan Coogler’s first Creed movie, she plays a young woman named Biana Taylor, an aspiring musician experiencing progressive hearing loss. Upon meeting Adonis (Michael B. Jordan), we discover that Bianca wears a hearing aid and is learning sign language in preparation for going completely deaf. Her storyline regarding hearing loss is explored further in the sequels Creed II and Creed III.

By the second movie, Bianca’s hearing loss has deepened. When Adonis gets down on one knee to propose, she misses his speech because her back is turned and she isn’t wearing her hearing aid. Later in the movie, she and Adonis give birth to a baby girl named Amara. Due to Bianca’s history of hearing loss, they have Amara tested and find out she is deaf.

Amara is a young girl by Creed III, and Bianca and Adonis have adjusted to incorporate American Sign Language (ASL) into their daily lives. The actress who played Amara, Mila Davis-Kent, is Deaf herself, and the movie leans into the Deaf experience far more than the previous two. As a result, many viewers wondered whether Thompson is also Deaf, especially since she delivers ASL with far more fluidity and fluency than most actors in Hollywood.

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No, Tessa Thompson is neither Deaf nor hard of hearing. In fact, Thompson made it a point to ensure her Creed character did not lose her hearing completely because, as she says, “I did not feel comfortable in telling that story. I’m not a member of the Deaf community,” according to Pearl & Dean.

Thompson herself has stated that she is a “proponent of people in their communities being able to tell their own stories.” That’s part of the reason why she advocated for Bianca not to go fully Deaf.

“Hollywood has an inclination sometimes to take stories and be exploitative, but that certainly wasn’t our intention,” she said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times upon releasing the first Creed. “There is a rich history of disabilities being something that we know stirs emotion and feels Oscar-baity. That is not the spirit with which we told this story.”

Thompson has spoken at length about the lack of Deaf representation in Hollywood and the importance of fixing that in interviews such as LIVE with Kelly and Ryan and Good Morning America.

“Our world is so biased toward the hearing world,” she said on LIVE with Kelly and Ryan. “I’m constantly having to unpack that bias. If someone is in front of me on the street and I want to get around them, I say, ‘Excuse me.’ The assumption is always that the person is hearing.”

“It’s a beautiful language,” she said on GMA in discussion of Creed III. “I’m so happy to have gotten the opportunity to learn. I think we really live in a world that is very biased toward the hearing community, and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that there isn’t just enough representation, and so I think to get to see a Deaf character in their humanity, just who they are, I think is hugely, hugely impactful. So I hope this film continues to make people curious about the community and want to learn ASL themselves.”

As a matter of fact, the Creed movies were born of a desire to incorporate the Deaf experience authentically. Ryan Coogler, who directed the first movie, is married to an ASL interpreter, Zinzi Evans. Although Michael B. Jordan went on to direct the third movie, the push for representation didn’t stop there. Creed III is by far the film’s most impactful movie when it comes to exploring the ordinary life of someone who is Deaf.

So, while Tessa Thompson might not be Deaf herself, her reverence for the Deaf community shines through, which is why so many people wondered if she was Deaf. No, she’s just an ally, and hopefully, she’s allowed more allies to the cause because, according to the National Library of Medicine, over 10 million people in America are hard of hearing or close to, and over one million people are functionally deaf. So, the time to reflect those numbers with proper accommodations and media representation was yesterday.

Actor and comedian TK Kirkland has shared his thoughts on Jonathan Majors‘ legal drama.

For context, Majors is currently facing assault and harassment charges following his arrest this year after an alleged domestic dispute ensued between the actor and a female partner. Since then, the 33-year-old, who continues to maintain his innocence, has recently attended a court hearing, and been dropped from various projects and brand deals. In addition to his current legal woes, other parties have accused Majors of abuse.

During a recent interview with VladTV, Kirkland opened up about the abuse claims surrounding Majors and how disappointed he was. The 62-year-old revealed that prior to Majors’ controversy, he was in awe of the star’s performance in Creed III alongside Michael B. Jordan, so much so that he saw the film about ten times. Kirkland stated,

“That hurt me man…I went to see Creed III myself and I know I made them rich. I went to see it nine, ten times… At the theater.”

Further in the conversation, Kirkland described his favorite scene in the film, when Majors’ character Damian Anderson and Jordan’s Adonis Creed got into an argument, and Creed challenged to fight Anderson for the world title. After the incident, Anderson would appear on First Take with Stephen A. Smith, and Creed would call into the show, leading to another heated exchange. Kirkland said,

“It’s a part when Creed get upset with Jonathan and he says he wants to fight him for the [world title]. They have this argument because he feels like he got played. He goes on First Take in the movie with Stephen A. Smith. While they’re there Stephen A. Smith said ‘hold on, we have a phone call coming in.’ Creed is on there trying to give his opinion on the fight cause the guy just lost. So Jonathan Majors comes and says ‘what you need a hug">

“They were both going back saying that word and the way they did the angle of the cut God damn it I was in… So I go back to that movie to see that part every time because what Rocky movies do to me ladies and gentlemen is that I really cry… Let me tell you why, because of determination. Determination is in me and when I see a movie from Rocky to Creed not giving up, to do what’s necessary to win in life. To sacrifice whatever it is, to sacrifice in life, that’s TK Kirkland.”

At this time, it is reported that Majors’ next court appearance is scheduled for June 13.

Critics are blasting The Walt Disney Company with accusations of discrimination over alleged double standards concerning the Jonathan Majors and Gina Carano scandals. 

The media juggernaut is under fire in light of its inaction following Majors’ shocking arrest over allegations of intimate partner violence. Many people point to Disney’s seemingly swift dismissal of Carano from The Mandalorian after she repeatedly shared incendiary views on her social media s. 

In truth, Disney did not immediately fire Carano when she began to court controversy with a series of cynical social media posts. Before Disney let her go in February 2021, she had posted a string of conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 presidential election, and the death of Jeffrey Epstein, as well as a series of glaringly transphobic tweets. However, the straw that broke the camel’s back was an Instagram post falsely equating being a conservative in modern America to the persecution of Jewish people during the Holocaust. The public drew Disney’s attention to her problematic social media posts by sharing screen captures of her inflammatory posts under the hashtag #FireGinaCarano. In the case of Carano, the evidence was irrefutable.

Some seemed oblivious to the ive-aggressive nature of Carano’s tweets even though they ticked several of the boxes on the Anti-Defamation League’s model of the dangerous biases preceding violence.

The opposite is true in the case of the Creed III star, as no evidence of his culpability has emerged. As things stand, only a few details have come to light about the incident. Majors’ attorney, Priya Chaudhry, claims that his acc has withdrawn her accusations. Despite his arrest on suspicion of intimate partner violence, Majors retains the presumption of innocence until he is proven guilty of his alleged crimes in a court of law. 

While it may seem that Disney was quick to act when it let Gina Carano go, the company gave her the latitude to express her opinions with impunity, and did not take action until the public demanded that they drop her. Disney will likely take the same cautious approach concerning Jonathan Majors since the future of one of its biggest franchises rests on his shoulders.

The troubles for actor Jonathan Majors can’t seem to stop at all. Not even a day ago, Majors was arrested in New York for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend, leading to widespread media coverage. Though his lawyers and representatives have released a statement claiming his innocence, he inevitably is struggling to shake off the consequences of the reports.

In the most recent development over the allegations against him, Majors has lost a multi-million dollar ad campaign he was brought in for by the United States Army. Majors was supposed to be a narrator for the army’s new version of “Be All You Can Be” recruitment ads that have been around for a while now. Per Army Times, the military has expressed concerns over the magnitude of assault allegations against Majors and has decided to put a hold on the said ments until the authorities complete their investigation on the case.

Speaking on behalf of the army, Laura DeFrancisco, the spokesperson for the Army Enterprise Marketing Office overseeing the campaign and other marketing efforts for the military, released a statement saying,

“The U.S. Army is aware of the arrest of Jonathan Majors, and we are deeply concerned by the allegations surrounding his arrest. The U.S. Army is aware of the arrest of Jonathan Majors, and we are deeply concerned by the allegations surrounding his arrest.”

Per Deadline, the Final Four and championship of the 2023 NCAA Men’s College Basketball tournament were reportedly set to feature the ment, followed by an in-person event. Army Times claims that the purchase must have been of a commercial cost of $2.2 million; however, the actual financial impact of halting the campaign is unclear.

The campaign is an effort on behalf of the army to encourage more enlistments and achieve the yearly recruitment goals. With a celebrity like Majors, who has recently become a megastar with two very successful and famous outings, Creed III and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, these ads could have generated added enthusiasm among their target demographic.

The legal team representing Majors has maintained his complete innocence. However, the news has left the actors’ fans in shambles, drawing severe responses, including calls to recast his career-defining role of Kang the Conqueror in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Michael B. Jordan has given Twitter s the green light to make as many jokes as they please after sharing a picture of himself and Jonathan Majors, asking responders to offer up their own creative name for the latest dynamic duo to conquer Hollywood.

It seems like most of Twitter hasn’t been shy in jumping into the replies and fans definitely understood the assignment, providing some hilariously wrong answers, some of which are golden. 

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Of course, the internet is a monkey’s paw and you always have to be careful what you ask for. There were those who maybe took their thirst for the pair a little too far and we wouldn’t be surprised if they find themselves blocked from Jordan’s , and maybe on an FBI watch list.

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— Eric England (@eric_england) March 15, 2023

Lesson of the day: there are some very thirsty people out there, and the internet is a scary place.

Jordan and Majors recently starred opposite each other in Creed 3. While they were friends turned enemies in the film, they appear to be buddies in the real world, and the duo has quickly won over fans. The pair have also both appeared in the MCU as villains at different times, Jordan as the ruthless Killmonger, and Majors currently portraying the terrifying Kang the Conqueror.

Fans have expressed the desire to see the two duke it out in the MCU, although that may be unlikely due to Killmonger dying at the end of Black Panther. However, with the multiverse, anything is possible, some fans have even gone as far as theorizing that Creed 3 is actually a Marvel multiverse movie where Killmonger and Kang variants went into boxing rather than the supervillain business.

Hopefully, we’ll be seeing both actors starring alongside each other again, as they definitely make a great pair. You can catch both in Creed 3 which is currently in theaters.

Creed III has continued to deliver knockout blow after knockout blow to audiences and the box office alike, capturing many a heart while currently sitting as the fifth-highest grossing film of the year so far. Indeed, with a sharply-written script, a cast to die for, and, perhaps most of all, the double threat of Michael B. Jordan in both the leading role and the director’s chair, it truly is something special.

This was, of course, also Jordan’s first time helming a feature, and while his artistic touches were baked into just about every aspect of Creed III, they didn’t show up quite as loudly as they did during that final fight scene.

When Adonis (Jordan) and Damian (Jonathan Majors) finally faced each other in the ring during the film’s climax, audiences may have been ready for one of the most pulse-pounding fights they’ve ever seen, but we doubt they were prepared for how unconventionally, roaringly cinematic it was, and that delectable final product can be traced back to Jordan’s love of anime.

It’s no secret that Jordan drew upon this particular love when creating Creed III, especially for the fight scenes, whose influences range from One Piece to Dragon Ball Z to Naruto Shippuden. To channel such influences successfully, according to film cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau in an interview with Variety, a bit of “abstract theater” work was required.

Morgenthau, who previously worked on Creed II and has other credits that include Thor: The Dark World and the Captain America: New World Order, recalled working closely with teams of stuntmen, VFX artists, and fight choreographers, who all worked together to create fight rehearsals that could be worked on with a motion-controlled camera. This in turn allowed him to fine-tune Jordan’s vision by finding and then replicating that perfect shot with respect to the director’s influences.

“A lot of the fights were shot with a Steadicam, which allows the camera and the operator to dance with the boxers and find the sweet spot of the choreography. We took that anime language and integrated it in a way that was 100 percent MBJ’s vision.”

It certainly didn’t sound like an easy task, but there’s no denying that mouth-watering end result. If this is what we can expect from a Jordan-directed film going forward, we’ll keep our fingers crossed that he gets behind that camera as much as possible, especially if we keep seeing Morgenthau in his corner as well.

Jonathan Majors‘ single-handed domination of cinema in the early part of 2023, thanks to the fact he plays the villain in both Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Creed III, has led to a curious crossover between the MCU and the Rocky franchise. We’d expect Marvel diehards to dream up ways of tying the two together, but Majors himself was surprisingly outed as a hardcore fan theorist when he pitched the idea that Creed III‘s Damian is actually a variant of Kang the Conqueror.

Majors should now be feeling some vindication for his out-there notion as fans have uncovered proof that the Rocky universe exists within the Marvel multiverse after all, which seemingly makes Majors’ Kang/Damian connection canon. As the Rocky roadies over on Reddit have discovered, Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa once had a very brief stint as part of G.I. Joe, during Marvel’s run of comics based on the iconic Hasbro property.

These G.I. Joe comics mostly occupied their own space, but there were crossovers with the mainstream Marvel world, with Joe member Quick Kick being trained by Shang-Chi. While Marvel, Hasbro, and Stallone ultimately weren’t able to make a deal that would keep Rocky in the G.I. Joe franchise, and therefore the Marvel multiverse, this tenuous link does plant the seed for Creed III to genuinely take place in the wider reality of the MCU.

After all, James Gunn recently made Go-Bots canon in The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, which therefore brought the Transformers into the mix too, so there’s no reason we can’t look to other obscure Marvel Comics crossovers from the ’80s to fold the Rocky films into this multiverse as well. “It’s all connected” was the old tagline of the MCU, but it turns out that apparently meant all of pop culture.

Even though he created the franchise, secured three Academy Award nominations for his efforts, headlined six of the nine installments to date, directed two of them, and acted as the number one driving force behind cumulative box office takings well north of a billion dollars, Sylvester Stallone has never owned the rights to Rocky.

Instead, producer Irwin Winkler oversees the long-running property, which has seen Stallone cast out into the cold. Despite returning for Creed and its sequel, the Italian Stallion was nowhere to be found in the most recent chapter, leading many to voice their disappointment at star and director Michael B. Jordan opting to move forward without the beating heart of the entire universe.

The veteran action icon has voiced his disappointment on several occasions already, so you can only imagine how he’s feeling after the news broke that Amazon and MGM has opted to hand the keys to the Rocky kingdom over to Jordan, with the actor and producer developing an expanded universe that’s set to include additional feature films, spinoffs, a potential live-action TV series, and even an anime.

It was confirmed a while back that talks were being held over Florian Munteanu’s Viktor Drago getting his own standalone film, but it’s a crying shame that Stallone has been cut out entirely. After all, he was the one who put pen to paper back in the mid-1970s and launched the boxing phenomenon to award-winning heights, but it looks as though his association with the brand is over as Jordan takes over as the new figurehead.

Maybe he can return in a cameo capacity, but Rocky carrying on without Sly involved in any capacity is going to sting for a lot of folks, not least of all Sly himself.

The debate about method acting has been one that’s always bubbling just under the surface of the conversation when it comes to determining whether or not performers can often take things to unnecessary extremes when getting into character, but paying customers have unearthed a new twist on the formula after Creed III screenings led to method viewing.

Watching Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors battling for in-ring supremacy has certainly appeared to have an adverse affect on audiences, with reports emerging that around a dozen brawls have been reported in French theaters over the weekend, while further tales of fisticuffs have also been unearthed in .

One particularly alarming case saw a 500-person theater evacuated in the small town of Thionville after a mass fight broke out during the film, while a handful of independent cinemas have decided to stop showing Creed III altogether after it suddenly became a hotbed for violence.

The Gentleminions trend was one thing, but handing over your hard-earned cash to go and watch a film at your local multiplex only to either be involved or caught up in a spot of pugilism that would make Rocky Balboa himself proud is an entirely different – and much more questionable – kettle of fish.

There’s no harm in becoming invested in the action unfolding onscreen, but when it suddenly evolves into everyone thinking they’ve got what it takes to go 12 rounds with the person sitting next to them, it goes without saying that the dedication to Creed III has gone several steps too far.

Amid Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania butchering Phase Five’s beginning and rumors of considerable delays blighting excitement for what’s to come, the MCU could not have been more in need of some good news. Thankfully, the very thing to turn all the negative press has now arrived in the form of a Marvel Studios production we’ve been waiting forever for at last becoming real. Meanwhile, the MCU/DCU comparisons go too far this time by bringing in Batman’s mother.

Hell yeah, Daredevil: Born Again has officially started shooting! f674u

Just when the MCU had hit rock bottom, a hero has risen up to single-handedly reignite the Marvel fandom’s faith in the franchise’s future. Yes, Daredevil: Born Again officially started shooting the week beginning March 6, bringing an end to the drought caused when Netflix cancelled the original DD run over four and a half years ago. There’s a lot riding on this one, then, which is probably why fans are already getting overwhelmed with worry that it won’t live up to the hype. But, hey, let’s for once stay positive and believe that Matt Murdock is going to be the guardian devil that Phase Five so desperately needs.

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Jonathan Majors really started something when he floated the idea that his Creed III character, Damian, the latest opponent of fellow MCU vet Michael B. Jordan’s Donnie, could be a secret Kang variant. People have got so taken with the idea that the theory was put to the vote, with fans overwhelmingly declaring that, yes, this is definitely canon. So, by a combination of popular decree and the say-so of the Conqueror himself, the Rocky/Creed franchise is officially part of the MCU multiverse. It’s now up to you to follow up on this promise in Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, Kevin Feige.

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Marvel fans have laid into Phase Four in some pretty harsh ways before now, but one particularly ruthless Reddit thread has gone way too far in comparing the (subjectively) worse moments of the MCU’s most divisive phase to Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, specifically the infamous “Martha” moment. Considering that scene is one of the most notorious in all of comic book movie history, that’s a really low-blow, regardless of how sore folks still are from the likes of Eternals and Thor: Love and Thunder. In the words of Batfleck, why did you say that name?

While the jury’s still out on if Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine really will debut before Deadpool 3, rest assured, bubs, that more of the latest Marvel news is coming your way real soon.

Creed III might be managing to make mincemeat out of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania at the box office, but in of pop culture impact it’s fair to say the Rocky spinoff franchise is still trailing the all-consuming juggernaut that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Case in point, Jonathan Majors’ presence in both of those movies mentioned above has led to a widespread theory that they’re secretly connected.

Yes, the advent of the MCU’s Multiverse Saga has seen fans become convinced that Majors’ Creed III character Damian is actually a variant of Kang the Conqueror. It’s not just theorists with too much time on their hands who are thinking this either, as the man himself also subscribes to the concept. So with even Majors believing that Damian is a long-lost version of the temporal tyrant, Marvel lovers have found an ultra-scientific way of determining if it’s true: a Reddit poll.

Sure enough, the folks of the r/MarvelTheories subreddit have declared that Damian is indeed a Kang variant, thanks to a majority win for the “Yes” column.

While we’ll have to wait for Kevin Feige to weigh in to make it one hundred percent official, the fact that so many have now made this part of their head-canon, plus the fact it comes with the backing of Kang himself, surely means we can basically confirm that the entire Creed universe must be part of the MCU multiverse. Especially as the sports franchise is dripping with Marvel actors.

Should we be gearing up for a Kang wearing boxing gloves to attend the next meeting of the Council of Kangs? Let’s hope so, but for the moment you can see Jonathan Majors own cinema by catching both Creed III and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in theaters now.