Jonathan Majors Has New Defender in This ‘Marvel’ Actor

Jonathan Majors, whose career torpedoed when he was convicted of harassing and assaulting his ex-girlfriend in 2023, has a new defender.

Black Panther actor Michael B. Jordan, in a new interview to promote his film with Panther director Ryan Coogler, Sinners, told GQ that it was “tough” to see Majors go through the highly publicized ordeal.

Majors is “doing great, just got engaged,” Jordan continued. “I’m proud of his resilience and his strength through it all, and [his] handling [of] it. I’m glad he’s good. That’s my boy.” When asked whether he’d work with Majors again, Jordan said, “Yes. Yes.”

Jordan and Majors co-starred in 2023’s Creed III, before Majors was publicly accused by his ex Grace Jabbari. While promoting that film, Jordan often talked of the friendship they developed during filming.

Creed III hit theaters just after Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, in which Majors had been cast as Kang the Conqueror and was set to continue the character in future films. Ultimately his rising star came crashing down later that year when the accusations came to light and he was found guilty of two misdemeanor counts of harassment and assault.

Majors was dropped by Marvel in December and was seemingly blacklisted. Several more accusations of abuse emerged from other women, with in-depth reports from New York Times and Rolling Stone. The situation seemed to only worsen for Majors, as his ABC sit-down interviews after the trial elicited defensive responses.

Majors has positioned himself for a career comeback despite the “tough” year, however, as his previously shelved film Magazine Dreams, in which he plays a bodybuilder, premiered to great reviews at Sundance and seems to have shifted the conversation away from the allegations and back onto his acting work.