Jonathan Majors breaks down his Creed 3 character Damien – and how it feels to lead two big blockbusters

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When Jonathan Majors was 14 years old in Texas, he was pushing lawnmowers, selling candy at school, working two more jobs, and striving to be class president. The drive, he says, was just a part of him, and he now thanks his career for it – a career that’s accelerated at breakneck speed since turning heads in 2019’s award-winning indie drama The Last Black Man In San Francisco. Since then, Spike Lee’s drama Da 5 Bloods, HBO’s mystery horror Lovecraft Country, hip western The Harder They Fall and Marvel’s Loki have established his major credentials, and now he’s making the leap to bona fide movie star by playing the antagonists in both Creed 3 and Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania. So is he satiated? Hell, no – the drive is stronger than ever. 

"At 33 years old, I’m still full of piss and vinegar," he says on Zoom from New York. "Maybe you should speak to my therapist about it. Listen, I live in a cool spot. And when I walk through the door, the guys are looking at me every time because I’m a young Black man living in a certain building. You know what I mean? I live here. I live here! It’s a very intimate group, but they can’t get it past their minds. I come in with my hood up, with my dogs. They’re like, 'Excuse me?' I’m like, 'Guys, there’s only one Black man who lives here, and it’s me. I’m sorry, I’m an actor, and I change clothes. But it’s me, guys. It’s always going to be me.'" He shakes his head, upon which perches a flat cap. "Do I always have a chip on my shoulder? I’ve got the whole chip bag on my shoulder. It only grows the more I pay attention to what’s going on in the world."

This drive, this anger, came in useful when Majors set about finding his character of Damian Anderson in the third Creed movie. Damian