Jonathan Majors reveals how he found out Marvel fired him — as Matthew McConaughey and others support him

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the Hollywood Reporter this week to give his first interview since being convicted on assault and harassment charges against his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari.During his chat with the outlet, Majors — whose big bad Marvel villain was set to get a spinoff film — revealed how he learned the colossal studio fired him and, for the first time, shared that he was sexually abused as a child.According to the “Magazine Dreams” star, he learned of his Marvel firing from a member of his team immediately after a Manhattan jury found him guilty of misdemeanor assault and harassment in December 2023.In his interview with THR published on Friday, Majors said, “He goes, ‘I’m just gonna tell you now, that way you’re not surprised, and you can start processing it.

They fired you. Marvel fired you.'”However, despite being dropped by Marvel and from a slew of other film and television roles in the wake of his legal woes, the “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” star has not given up hope on redemption and an eventual return to the big screen.“Do I hope to make more movies?

Absolutely. That is my intention,” Majors, 35, said. “But that’s not my call. I don’t have a studio. And I’ve given up control.” Of the sexual abuse, the star confessed, “I dealt with sexual abuse from both men and women from the time I was 9.

From people who are supposed to look after you, in the absence of a father. I was f–ked up.”THR’s cover story about Majors also featured several prominent Hollywood stars advocating for the embattled actor’s return.Matthew McConaughey, who starred alongside Majors in the 2018 crime drama “White Boy Rick,” said, “I’ve known and know him as someone who is continuously striving to improve as a human, a man and an actor.