Loki’ Producer Clarifies Jonathan Majors’ Unexpected Comeback in This Week’s Episode
This week, Jonathan Majors returned to the Marvel TV series Loki as his new character, 19th-century scientist Victor Timely, while currently being charged with assault in the US. Kevin Wright, the show’s producer, told NME that the new episodes had been finished long before the actor had been accused of wrongdoing.
When Majors was detained in New York in March on suspicion of assault, strangling, and harassment following an alleged “domestic dispute” with a 30-year-old woman, the assault allegations against him were first made public.
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These accusations have been continually refuted by Majors. After his August court appearance, Priya Chaudhry, his criminal defense attorney, issued a statement reaffirming Majors’ denial and urging the dismissal of the charges.
They claimed to have presented proof demonstrating the woman had allegedly attacked Majors, not the other way around, according to the evidence they claimed to have presented. On October 25, there will be another court appearance.
Majors was dropped from a number of high-profile film and television projects after his arrest, including the suspense feature “The Man in My Basement.” Majors now appears in the second season of “Loki,” despite some fans hoping that his part would be trimmed.
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“In regard to our show, we had finished shooting [when Majors was arrested],” Wright told NME. “We were really happy with our story – and I would say the story that’s on screen is the story that we set out to tell. And anything else, I think, we wouldn’t say.”
Wright declined to respond when asked about Majors’ prospective role in the show after season two, saying he couldn’t “reveal too much without spoiling this season.”
Majors’ portrayal of the villainous He Who Remains in Loki served as a marker for his entrance into the Marvel universe in 2021.
This persona was a spinoff of the mysterious and all-powerful Kang the Conqueror, a part Majors would eventually play in the hugely successful movie “Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania.”
While He Who Remains died at the end of season one, Majors reappeared in episode three of season two as Victor Timely, yet another iteration of the character.
At the turn of the century, Timely is a scientist who lives in Chicago. A Time Loom prototype that resembles the one used by the TVA, a crucial futuristic organization in which the protagonist Loki is involved, is one of his most significant creations.
“I think Timely is just a fun character from the comics,” said Wright. “When you look at all the Kang variants, he’s the oddball out. [We thought], ‘We’ve got to do something with that.’”
“It also allowed us to time-travel and go to some really cool places.” The Chicago World Fair of 1893 is the setting for episode three, when Timely is introduced.
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“You think that it’s gonna be a sci-fi film from the future and it’s this kind of unassuming eccentric inventor from the past who really believes in the stuff that he’s doing.”
Loki’ Producer Clarifies Jonathan Majors’ Unexpected Comeback in This Week’s Episode first appeared on nme
