Exclusive: Jonathan Majors talks Magazine Dreams and the physical work he did for the role
Hitting theaters on March 21 from Briarcliff Entertainment is Magazine Dreams, the Elijah Bynum scripted and directed drama that stars Jonathan Majors as a troubled amateur bodybuilder willing to go to any lengths to be noticed.
The film was produced by Jennifer Fox, Dan Gilroy, Simon Horsman and Jeffrey Soros, with Majors as an exec producer. He stars with Haley Bennett, Harrison Page, Taylour Paige, Michael O’Hearn, and Harriet Sansom Harris.
Killian Maddox lives with his ailing veteran grandfather, obsessively working out between court-mandated therapy appointments and part-time shifts at a grocery store where he harbors a crush on a friendly cashier. Though Killian’s struggles to read social cues and maintain control of his volatile temper amplify his sense of disconnection amid a hostile world, nothing deters him from his fiercely protected dream of bodybuilding superstardom, not even the doctors who warn that he’s causing permanent damage to his body with his quest.
Majors is best known for his roles in the films The Last Black Man in San Francisco and Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, and the HBO series Lovecraft Country, which earned him an Emmy nomination. He played Nat Love in the western The Harder They Fall, Jesse L. Brown in the war film Devotion, and antagonist Dame Anderson in the sports film Creed III. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), he portrayed Kang the Conqueror in the film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, while also appearing as other variants of the character in the Disney+ series Loki (2021–2023).
Blackfilmandtv.com’s Wilson Morales spoke with Jonathan Majors on Magazine Dreams and the physical work he did for the role
