Kang Actor Jonathan Majors Opens Up About What it's Like to Play the MCU Villain in LOKI
The MCU did a pretty good job of not spilling the beans about Kang The Conqueror being the big bad at the end of the first season of Loki. Fans had their suspicions, and we all knew that Jonathan Majors (Lovecraft Country) had been cast in the role for the 2023 sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, but even suspecting the character didn’t prepare us for how awesome it was to see him at the end of the series. Majors plays the role in such a cool way, and I can’t wait to see more of him!
After having kept the big secret for at least the past year, Majors finally got to talk about what it was like to play the role, how his eclectic style was stitched together, and what we can expect to see from him in the future. In the most recent episode of Marvel Studios' Assembled: The Making of Loki, Majors said:
“The archetype of the wizard and what happens to him when he gets bored and becomes a trickster. I think when we meet He Who Remains he's on the borderline of those two things. You don't really know where he's at and I think the ambiguity of that is one of the wicked things about it."
"He Who Remains has lived forever," he added. "One of the great things I got to experience with our costume designer is that every piece we decided on was from a different place. The cape I had on was from the Victorian era. The shoes were from Genghis Khan. The pants from Mongolia, etc. You just mix and match it together and it informs the character."
"I think with He Who Remains, the objective for me was to give me the largest canvas possible. From that, as Kang begins to rear his head and do his deeds, in many ways, he has no choice but to be in opposition or be different from He Who Remains," Majors elaborated. "That was the thing that grabbed me and pulled me into the role. Kang lives in so many iterations as He Who Remains says: 'Reincarnation, baby.'"
This is such a great character. It will be so cool to see how his story unfolds in the MCU. Check out Marvel’s Tweet about the latest episode of Assembled: The Making of Loki below, and watch the episode now on Disney+.
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