Ant-Man’s Kang star Jonathan Majors says Heath Ledger’s Joker inspired him

The Dark Knight
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Jonathan Majors is about to step out as the MCU’s new big bad in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which he describes as a full circle moment for him in a new interview. The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Kang the Conqueror actor opened up to about feeling deeply inspired by Heath Ledger’s comic book villain Joker in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Dark Knight.

Calling watching him in the movie a pivotal moment, Majors explained: "F👍irst of all, he’s gorgeous. He’s got that fucking jawline, and he didn’t give a fuck. He threw his body around. He was so full. And I went, 'I’m coming for that. I’m inspired.' It takes a lot, you feel me? To be inspired."

The actor continued to explain that he recognized the gray area that the Joker fell into, which is why it resonated with him. "The way I grew up, the people I grew up around, drug dealers, killers, m𝔍urderers, everybody was just coming out of jail," he added. "Everybody had an ankle monitor on. S🦩o I knew the complexity of the guys I grew up with. Yeah, you did do that, but you also did this. And what I saw in Heath, and in everything he did, was: It's this and that."

The Dark Knight was released in July 2008, a fe🐻w months after Ledger's death in January 2008. The actor won an Oscar for the role posthumously at the 81st Academy Awards. 

Majors is a big fan of Christopher Nolan’s film, even penning an essay for about the experience of watching it when he was younger. "My 18-year-old self sat in the cinema long after the credits rolled," the Marvel actor recalled, "gobsmacked by a beauty and complexity of humanity hitherto unwitnessed in cinema and dare I say in m𒐪y own existence."

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania kicks off 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Phase 5 on February 17, 2023. For all of the other 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new superhero movies on the way, check out our guide to all of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Marvel movies and shows.

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