Jonathan Majors

Jonathan Majors (born September 7, 1989) is an American actor.

Quotes

 * One of the things we deal with as a theme is legacy—thinking about the future of oneself, the future of one’s family, one’s culture. How they’re going to survive, and how their survival will be viewed by those in the future. In doing so, I had to really think about my past and the past of my people. I’m a member of the African diaspora, and what we have experienced, I had to tap into and use that…I quickly understood that me growing up in Texas, my grandparents living through Jim Crow America, my parents living through Jim Crow America, to a degree, my aunts and uncles; those are all very different experiences. There’s a difference in being raised somebody who’s gone through that and actually being a person who dealt with that....
 * On drawing upon his family history to play Atticus in “Lovecraft County” in “Lovecraft Country’s Jonathan Majors on Black art and that Superman fancasting” in AV Club (2021 Jun 23)


 * …art is inherently political. Period. First thing someone does when they colonize, where they conquer or they take something over, the first thing that they do—top of their list—is destroy the art of the people. They must destroy their art, because that is their humanity. That is their liberation. That is the essence of them. That is the spirit of a people, of a culture, the art that they make. When someone is being conquered, when someone is being taken over, when something is being erased, that’s the first thing that goes...
 * On the importance of artistic expression in “Lovecraft Country’s Jonathan Majors on Black art and that Superman fancasting” in AV Club (2021 Jun 23)


 * …Nerds come together, please, unite. Let’s all unite, it’s on. For me, that was very important, that Atticus is, and it’s coming to me now, a “yes and” character. Yes, he is that and he is this, and that’s the beautiful part about it. Yes, he’s this war hero. Yes, he can shoot a gun and run fast and take punches, but he also is a nerd. Those things are held at the same level. This man, this Black man, holds multitudes, and uses all of those things as a weapon. He weaponizes his mind. That is a beautiful thing and that was very important for me to let breathe and let live in the series.
 * On the richness of the Atticus character in “Lovecraft Country’s Jonathan Majors on Black art and that Superman fancasting” in AV Club (2021 Jun 23)