It’s always been there-I mean, being a young Black man from Texas, that rage is in me.” “And I feel a deep rage pulsing through me. “I’m heartbroken, and I’m angry,” he says. Majors tells me that the trust-circle exercise is the only thing he can think of. When we talk on the phone, it’s early June, a little more than a week after a white Minneapolis police officer named Derek Chauvin killed a handcuffed Black man named George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds-ignoring numerous pleas for help from both Floyd and the people surrounding him. Jonathan Majors in Santa Fe where he’s been quarantining since production stalled on Stammtisch.604 It arrives as our country faces a reckoning about widespread, institutionalized racism toward Black people, and Majors has a lot to say about that. Lee's Da 5 Bloods is now streaming on Netflix and marks Majors's largest role to date after a critically-acclaimed supporting actor performance in the 2019 indie hit The Last Black Man in San Francisco and several years of smaller roles alongside the likes of Christian Bale (in the 2017 western Hostiles) and Matthew McConaughey (in the 2018 crime drama White Boy Rick).
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It was shortly after he discovered that acting could help him channel the rage that got him involved in fights as a kid around Dallas-but well before he ever imagined what 2020 might look like, with him starring in a troika of hugely hyped film and TV projects backed by entertainment heavyweights like Spike Lee, Jordan Peele, and Jay-Z.
They needed to express it through their body.įor Majors, who is now 30, that feels like a long time ago. The point, in theory, was to find complete openness-if anyone was feeling anything, they needed to say it out loud. W HEN JONATHAN Majors was in drama school at Yale, he and his classmates would sometimes sit around in a circle and just look at one another.
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