Jonathan Majors talent management DROPS HIM

I’m reading it’s not only that woman’s allegations, but apparently he’s very very difficult to work with. This is why so many are cutting ties with him.

Just know that these big firms don't just drop somebody over "he said / she said" crap, even of the violent type. They deal with that every day no problemo.

There was probably much more going on in Majors life/behaviors that brought this about. This was probably just the last straw causing people to realize the need to get out while the gettin's good.

Met Gala pretty much dropped him as a guest also

It surprises me in this day and age that somebody with these issues could rise the way Majors had so fast - his entire career boom has been post-Me-Too I mean, and it makes it clear there really hasn't been much of a reckoning, if people are getting away with being pricks to everybody like this. I'm not even talking about the domestic abuse allegations - you'd think that there would have been some inkling about this before that happened, is all I mean. I was a fan and had heard NOTHING about him being difficult

Yes r5. Supposedly he’s a nightmare to deal with and has been nothing but a problem for almost everyone. He should have humbled himself. He should look at what happened to Alex Pettyfer

Alex Pettyfer should be a cautionary tale for actors who have a rising star. You don’t wanna piss off the people in Hollywood.

What does MeToo have to do with being an asshole?

Yeah he’s absolutely fucked. It will take years for him to recover, if possible. Nate Parker never recovered.

Ironically, it was the same studio, Searchlight, which bought “Magazine Dreams” at Sundance, that bought “Birth of a Nation”, also at Sundance, and also planned an awards season release and then had a toxic property after the scandal went public.

R7 there’s a lot that goes on we don’t hear about. At least not until you piss off the wrong people.

Let’s see if Disney/Marvel is next to drop him.

That is bad news for Majors.

[quote] Alex Pettyfer should be a cautionary tale for actors who have a rising star. You don’t wanna piss off the people in Hollywood.

Alex Pettyfer’s career is one of the oddest in Hollywood because he should have never “risen” in the first place. He has absolutely no talent.

He does, however, have the tenacity of a cockroach and enough off-scream charm to have managed to finagle a pretty steady career acting and directing low budget films.

He needs to announce he is Trans right NOW.

He was doing recruiting commercials for the Army and the Army was the first to drop him from that. Call me naive but the p.r. people behind the Army of all things can easily find out if his domestic abuse allegations are true or not. For example, his lawyer released texts which made him look ghastly and promised that there would be video footage released which would exonerate him but that video footage has never appeared.

He allegedly choked his girlfriend while obviously being juiced to the gills on steroids.

Men who abuse women are cowards! Screw me too by now, it's more like just don't be a fucking coward to begin with damnit.

It’s been said him being dropped actually has nothing to do with the abuse allegations.

R20 maybe stop and read the article. Learn how to read between the lines. And as stated above, he seems to be difficult with a bad attitude

Multiple blind items MONTHS before the abuse scandal all but mentioned him by name as being an abusive tyrant. His is a weird story no matter how you look at it.

Yes r22. That’s why I’m saying he is known for being difficult and awful to work with and deal with. He hit A-List this year and it’s already crumbling because he has no self control and can’t humble himself b

Good, I hate him. He's a terrible actor.

I still fap to his Mens Health photos

Marvel must be shitting themselves.

Because of the multiverse (and Kang is all about the multiverse) Marvel can easily replace him with another actor and it would make sense why he looks different.

I just realized that the management company explicitly stated that this was “issues related to his personal behavior” which confirms he was probably impossible to work with.

Oh, he [italic]done[/italic] done.

Not surprised, those texts that his idiot lawyer released were a textbook example of an exchange between an abuser and his victim. A bit surprised that WME hasn’t dropped him yet, though. Guessing they’re waiting to see how the trial pans out.

Interesting. I knew something was up when Glen Powell said this at 22:00.

presumed guilt before innocence.

good values, there.

or I'd imagine most of their clients are scumbags they're willing to drop at a seconds notice, so it doesn't draw heat to what scumbags al their other clients are.

He's pretty ugly and he was terrible in his performance in Loki. He won't be missed.

His fast rise was so out of nowhere.

But he isn’t a bad actor.

Don’t think it was as fast as it seems, I remember him from that Dustin Lance Black miniseries, When We Rise.

He probably went out and bought a house and ridiculous car - say goodbye to those!

Yet, that criminal nut case ugly ass Erza Miller keeps his job. Ah, the double standards of white America.

He must have been absolutely horrible because even if there was damning evidence, there is always the biggest Get Out of Jail card for troublemaking stars - rehab.

My guess is that his management were begging him to do this and he flat out refused which would explain the monthly delay in dropping him.

My assumption is that something else is going to drop soon that is even worse -- or at least, more specific -- than what we've seen so far. Majors was a Hollywood It Boy just a few months ago, being courted by all the major players. To be dumped by his own management team means they've calculated that his future is dim.

Look at the image in OP’s link. The thug looks like he was beat a thousand times with a ugly stick. Take all the roles Majors was going to play and replace him with Lucien Laviscount, or similar to him.

He must be a total monster if Hollywood agents were like "Nah, we're not going to deal with this guy for years, not for all the millions that come with his Marvel role!". Those are guys who cover up their client killing someone (accidental or not)!

[quote] Alex Pettyfer’s career is one of the oddest in Hollywood because he should have never “risen” in the first place. He has absolutely no talent.

If an actor is being hyped in any way, he either convinced someone that he can make that someone a shit ton of money, or made that someone fall in love with him (or both at the same time). Actual acting talent gets you nowhere in Hollywood if you don't know how to sell yourself and hustle like the whoriest whore in the world, convincing people to take a chance and hire you.

R16 Some commenter on Dlisted got banned outright for saying the same thing, was it you? 🤣

R44 oh believe me I’m sure he used his asset

[Quote]It’s been said him being dropped actually has nothing to do with the abuse allegations.

Just an amazing coincidence that.

Alex Pettyfer was handpicked to bring to the states and start a Hollywood career because Hollywood needed a new young pretty IT boy, and British or Australian pretty boys always do better than American ones

R48 Hollywood celebrities survive abuse allegations all the time

By going to REHAB

He Amy Winehouse’d them. Not only would that show he was a volatile asset, but it may have rendered him UNINSURABLE.

You cannot work in Hollywood if you are uninsurable, unless a good Samaritan posts your bond a la Mel Gibson paying for Robert Downey Jr’s insurance out of his own salary for Air America.

Did his lips get stuck in that position from sucking cock for roles?

The man who throttled Thatcher to succeed her as PM was from the Bahamas?

Simply shocking!

I know this is "duh," but there's got to be a lot more coming out behind the scenes - either related to this case or other cases. All the stuff made public makes him look really bad, but I didn't think it was quite fatal - yet. That GF tweet (or text or other message, I don't remember) that was released thinking it would absolve him made him look worse. His "team" is pretty poor.

Are we going to get to see Magazine Dreams? Will they even release it on streaming?

He's not that important to the Marvel. I don't think they had millions riding on him personally, just the character, which can be played by many people since the character encompasses alternate versions. He was great in the Last Black Man in San Francisco. He did have a a lot going on and did become an "it" guy in the past year. But, I still think he hadn't reached universal "oh, that guy" yet - though Creed III and a Marvel movie make someone fairly visible.

If you were a PR person and/or career coach, what would you tell him to do at this point? Slink away and wait? Make some dramatic confession and pray for forgiveness? I know many people rightly don't think he should survive this if everything is true, but it's still interesting what advice people would give him to rehabilitate himself.

He was important. They cast him in a major role. Kang is a huge villain.

He can be recast successfully. I don't think people are invested in JM as Kang after one movie. It's not like he's Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark.

I personally doubt that whatever happened was HORRIBLE. I think it was bad, but I think his management and PR provided him the necessary face-saving strategies and he refused to do it. If you have someone who is unadvisable, they are a liability and beyond rehabilitation.

He’s not losing his career because of what he did, he’s losing his career because of what he didn’t do - follow his people’s advice.

[Quote]He was important. They cast him in a major role. Kang is a huge villain.

Don't worry. No one is irreplaceable.

Yeah judging by the rumors that came out about his behavior going all the way back to Yale it sounds like dude has some serious anger issues and he needs to get help but is probably refusing to see there's any issue, on his part.

I also wonder about the steroids thing - every man in a superhero role is very clearly on steroids these days, and he definitely was. How involved with that sort of thing do we think Marvel is? Do they outsource those decisions, or actively encourage it behind the scenes?

It's a shame because he has been very good in previous roles. Are we now going to lose all of the interesting artists who are kind of crazy? So many of our greatest actors and artists have been tapping into troubled histories and selves with their work. There's something in that spark that we want to look into. Need to. I don't know where you draw those lines though.

R509 Sigh. he has also already played Kang on the Loki show. Do you not know what you are talking about? Appears so.

He's still replaceable. Oh no, I can't recall all the the Marvel Universe movies and actor appearances off the top of my head. Whatever will I do? Sigh, R65.

R66 Ha. Well, seemingly they have not started filming all the many films he was meant to star in already, so seemingly recasting is the only way the have to go. They aren't having the best run at the moment so another spoke in the wheel for the Marvel universe. What with all the executive firings....

So are the charges dropped yet?

she alwys has that mean lookin pucker on her face. ick.

It pays to be white, Jewish, and trans!

R69 It makes me mindful of Viola Davis in First Lady.

I wonder if they'll have his Kang become Immortus and cast him with a different actor (since Kang and Immortus are the same person in the narvel universe under different names, and they don't look alike).

R86 I also just realized, he seemingly will be front and center in the second season of Loki.

I can't see his role in Loki is a problem, given that in the series the role of Loki himself has been played by Tom Hiddleston, Richard E Grant, a woman and a CGI alligator. Alligator-Kang would be great!

[quote]I also wonder about the steroids thing - every man in a superhero role is very clearly on steroids these days, and he definitely was. How involved with that sort of thing do we think Marvel is? Do they outsource those decisions, or actively encourage it behind the scenes?

He would have been taking steroids for the bodybuilder role or for the Creed role, you freaking dumbass, not the Marvel villain role where he doesn’t remove his clothes.

[quote] I can't see his role in Loki is a problem, given that in the series the role of Loki himself has been played by Tom Hiddleston, Richard E Grant, a woman and a CGI alligator. Alligator-Kang would be great!

The mid credit scene of Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will make that pretty difficult. Every single version was played by Majors.

The only thing they can do is replace him with someone else without making it a plot device. Maybe even reshoot some of the scenes of Loki's first season and the latest Ant Man film with the new actor and show them in future Marvel projects, and let official press releases do the rest.

Apparently he was always a total dick even back in school, so blaming it on steroid abuse to get jacked for his roles doesn't work. Shame, I really liked him in Lovecraft Country.

Marvel replaced Terrence Howard with Don Cheadle and Edward Norton with Mark Ruffallo so it’s not really a problem at all.

R78 gets it

Jeez “how will Marvel replace him”? Exactly like they did in the past!

Not to mention Harrison Ford replacing the late William Hurt’s character, while Liv Tyler is reprising her role as his daughter Betty Ross.

The idiocy some people are reacting to this is ridiculous and rooted IMO in racism. He hit his girlfriend, it’s not like he killer her. They aren’t going to remove him from finished films and tv shows à la a Stalinist purge.

Good point r80. DCU sure as hell are not removing Ezra They Miller from already completed work.

[quote]He hit his girlfriend, it’s not like he killer her.

Hitting a girlfriend cannot be excused and it's proper for society to completely ostracize him as a result.

Omg I fucking hate this retro-chivalric code where hitting a girlfriend is like murder. Of course hitting a girl is wrong but we have no idea of what the situation was that may have caused him to snap. Look at this elevator footage. And this chick ended up murdering the guy.

Calling him getting dumped by his agency an overreaction is a bit premature. These Hollywood types, including Feigle running the Marvel franchise, know more details, and what may come out in a few weeks, than us. These guys wouldn't dump a golden goose who'd make them a shit ton of money just for choking his girlfriend. Not when DC still insists they have Ezra Miller's back.

OMFG they would not dump him because “they know more than we do”

They would dump him because he’s UNINSURABLE. All they care about is money. They don’t give a shit about the bitch he beat up.

[quote] OMFG they would not dump him because “they know more than we do”

[quote] They would dump him because he’s UNINSURABLE.

And they would base that on, guess what, the stuff THEY know, but the public not yet.

Breaking news R86

Many people in Hollywood behave ABOMINABLY

Harvey Weinstein and Scott Rudin were tolerated for DECADES!

But they don’t have to be insured. Film actors have to be insured. Majors was probably given advice on how to repair the reputational damage so he could be insureable. Thats why he wasn’t dropped immediately after the incident. They people behind him are invested in him succeeding because he makes THEM money. Every opportunity JM has trickles down to them. Managers get 15%. If JM cannot work any more because he is uninsurable, then he’s of no use to them. They don’t give a shit about the victim.

Dear mother of God, do you really insist that he's insurable because he choked his girlfriend? That's all we fucking now as of right now. We don't know the fucking reason why he is apparently uninsurable. Hollywood knows, the public doesn't.

That's all we fucking KNOW as of right now.

Instead of serving time maybe it's enough to just order him to clear his medicine cabinet.

Beautiful body, atrociously hideous face, and terrible actor.

[quote] Dear mother of God, do you really insist that he's insurable because he choked his girlfriend?

No, I told you, I think he’s uninsurable because he wouldn’t go to rehab or get mental health treatment!

I guarantee you there were probably grown men with tears streaming down their face begging him to go to rehab. Majors probably thinks he doesn’t think he did anything wrong. I know nothing about his personality but for some reason I keep thinking if MadTV’s Miss Criddle character.

As suspected, more women are coming forward alleging abuse.

Jonathan Majors “Has Not Abused Anyone,” Actor’s Lawyer Asserts As Whispers Of Other Incidents Swirl:

Ah, there’s the other shoe.

Major problems. 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️by Jon