One action can lead to a radically different life. In the multiverse, another universe could have had another Kang. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Jonathan Majors revealed that the first meeting with Marvel Studios took so long that he almost walked out.
Casting for the studio can be a long process. The announcement went live to the world in 2020 when he was said to be the villain in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which releases this Friday (February 17). This came with the surprise that he would be in Loki, which the world would not know until that finale dropped on Disney Plus. Back in 2016, that was when Jonathan Majors first sat down with the heads of Marvel Studios. When he revealed that he almost left, he did “hope this doesn’t bite me in the ass.”
“I grew up in a very particular way and I don’t want to waste nobody’s time. So I got in there and they’re busy. And I was like, ‘I’m supposed to be here, right?’ It got long and I went, ‘I’m just going to go. It’s cool. I’ll just go.'”
Jonathan Majors almost left his first Marvel Studios meeting
What saved the day for us to get our Kang, the villain of the Multiverse Saga who takes a similar position as Thanos did in the Infinity Saga, was casting director Sarah Finn. The actor was told to hold on as she was coming. They spoke, and Jonathan Majors said that once the meeting with the Marvel casting director started, it turned out to be a “great conversation.” Fast forward three years, they talked about Kang and gave him the big picture. That was enough to sell the Lovecraft Country actor on the role.
Not much is known about what to expect from Kang. Due to his comic origins and the multiverse storyline of the MCU, we will (and have already) seen multiple variants of the supervillain. He has starred in Loki and the third Ant-Man movie. Not much is known about where else we will see him, excluding the Avengers movies between 2025 and 2026. As Phases 5 and 6 prepare for the concluding films, he will likely pop up again or be mentioned throughout the other projects.