Those who don't.ĬORNISH: And I understand that your grandparents had a farm there that you spent some time on. In Dallas, that's kind of where we kind of set up camp. And my great-great-great and all the folks are there. I was born in California and then moved to Texas very early on, where my maternal and paternal grandparents are.
As it were, my father was in the Air Force.
MAJORS: I'm a - I don't know if it's PC to say anymore, but I'm a military brat, Air Force brat. Tell me a little bit about your upbringing. KING: (As Trudy) Well, clearly, you don't know me.ĬORNISH: Jonathan Majors, welcome to FRESH AIR.ĬORNISH: You're kind of a Southern boy. MAJORS: (As Nat) You don't look hard of hearing, so I'm going to ask you again. KING: (As Trudy) If I'd known you was switching sides, I'd have ask you to come join us. MAJORS: (As Nat) Marshal, I'm speaking English, yeah?ĭELROY LINDO: (As Bass) Sound like English to me. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE HARDER THEY FALL") Here's Majors with Regina King and Delroy Lindo. In this film, the character is an outlaw on a quest to avenge his father's murder. And Love was a real-life figure, a former slave who became a rodeo star also known as Deadwood Dick. "The Harder They Fall" is a revenge drama that imagines actual Western figures - the legendary Bass Reeves and outlaw Cherokee Bill - in a story with all the classics of the mid-century Hollywood Western - train robberies, saloon face-offs, dusty gunfights and sunset rides. Jonathan Majors is in the JAY-Z-produced Western "The Harder They Fall." It's British director Jeymes Samuel's first feature film. Or you two run the thing.ĬORNISH: Well, today we're going to talk to him about his gunslinger role. And you don't just have one devil, you have an infinite amount.
But I also know I got to take every chance I can to live for my son.ĬORNISH: He did a turn with legendary director Spike Lee in the haunted Vietnam vet drama "Da 5 Bloods." And Majors shocked Marvel fans with his appearance as Kang the Conqueror in the finale of the TV series "Loki," setting up the next run of films in the Marvel Universe.
JONATHAN MAJORS: (As Atticus) I know casting this spell is going to kill me. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "LOVECRAFT COUNTRY") He later starred in HBO's Emmy-nominated horror series "Lovecraft Country." Jonathan Majors had his breakout moment in 2019 in the indie film "The Last Black Man From San Francisco" (ph). Well, our next guest has checked off all these boxes barely five years out of Yale Drama School. She recorded this interview with Jonathan Majors before last week's accidental shooting with a prop gun on the set of another Western, "Rust." Here's Audie.ĪUDIE CORNISH, BYLINE: Just what does it take to build a modern-day Hollywood career? Well, when I think of some of the roles that might check the box, there's the emotional turn in a quirky festival indie, a chiseled romantic hero in a prestige cable series, a gunslinger of one kind or another and of course, there's got to be a turn in a superhero film. We invited Audie Cornish, one of the hosts of All Things Considered, to do an interview for our show. Earlier this year, he was nominated for an Emmy for his performance in the HBO series "Lovecraft Country." Now he stars in a new Western film, "The Harder They Fall," with an all-star Black cast, which includes Idris Elba, Regina King and LaKeith Stanfield.