Jonathan Majors was inspired by Heath Ledger's Joker: 'First of all, he's gorgeous'

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'It takes a lot, you feel me? To be inspired,' Jonathan Majors said while discussing one of his early idols, the late Heath Ledger.

Film critic Justin Chang examines two Sundance films that draw blood: Chloe Domont’s ‘Fair Play’ and Jonathan Majors vehicle ‘Magazine Dreams.’

“Did you notice how the eyes of both Christian Bale’s Batman and Ledger’s Joker are painted similarly, blackened by what looks like the love child of oil and charcoal, as if these two men, as dissimilar as they may appear, have seen the same things and perhaps see them the same way?” he wrote for Variety.

“This moral theme and argument prevail throughout the picture. What is right and what is wrong? My 18-year-old self sat in the cinema long after the credits rolled, gobsmacked by a beauty and complexity of humanity hitherto unwitnessed in cinema and dare I say in my own existence.”With that family adage propelling him along a rough road, ‘Lovecraft Country’ star Jonathan Majors has arrived.

When the popular Marvel series “Loki” premiered in June 2021, Majors followed in Ledger’s footsteps by debuting his very own supervillain, Kang the Conqueror. Majors is set to reprise the nefarious role in “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” which hits theaters Feb. 17. “There’s pressure and there’s all the support,” he told EW of his introduction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

 

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