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Jonathan Majors’s Controversial Career and Comeback
The actor stars in Magazine Dreams two years after his arrest and subsequent sentencing for domestic violence.
He filmed his onscreen debut in ABC’s miniseries When We Rise while he was still a student and starred in a steady stream of projects — including The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Da 5 Bloods, and HBO’s Lovecraft Country(which earned him an Emmy nomination) — after graduating with his M.F.A. In a recording played for the jury, Majors is reportedly heard yelling at Jabbari and calling himself “a great man.” (In part of the audio later released by TMZ, he appears to criticize her for coming home drunk and says he needs her to act like Michelle Obama or Coretta Scott King.) After noting that there “has to be accountability for writing your own story,” he says it is not a “beneficial” narrative to “blame the world,” “hate yourself,” or “deny everything” after having a “struggle.” Instead, his goal is to “learn, metabolize, [and] grow.” Whoopi Goldberg, Matthew McConaughey, and Michael B. Jordan — who have all worked with Majors — praise him in the piece and express support for his future in the industry.
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