Jonathan Majors On Getting Jacked To Play Kang The Conqueror: ‘He’s In The Avenger (Weight) Class’

Interview with Jonathan Majors

Transcript

00:00 Do you just try and stay in peak shape the whole time or do they all have a different approach?

00:04 Well, they're all different weight classes, you know. I like to think they're all champs,

00:08 but they're all different weight classes, you know. Kang is in the Avenger class, you know.

00:14 He's in the Marvel class. That's a certain stature, you know. I know he's going to move

00:18 a certain way. I mean, fitness and health have always been a big thing for me, you know, but

00:24 the opportunity to apply those things directly to cinema is new because these characters are a bit,

00:30 for lack of a better term, extreme, you know. Like, these guys do that, you know. Like, this guy is a

00:37 boxer, you know, world heavyweight boxer, you know. Picture I shot after this, he was a bodybuilder,

00:43 you know, a real bodybuilder. So, those things have to be done. So,

00:47 certain amount of maintenance, you know what I mean. Appetite is the appetite now, you know.

00:53 Got to eat, got to sleep. Yeah. Have you seen the humorous thirst track tweets or do you avoid it?

01:01 I've been shared. Your colleagues tend to want to share them.

01:04 To colleagues, yeah. Everyone wants to make you feel awkward, put you on the spot.

01:08 Yeah. I really only pretend to be uncomfortable sometimes. It doesn't really bother me.

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