Jonathan Majors, the actor who portrays the villainous Kang within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, was arrested and charged in New York Metropolis this weekend after an alleged home dispute. TMZ first reported the information.
Police responded to a 911 name Saturday morning and located a 30-year-old girl who appeared to have been assaulted. The woman said Majors struck her “concerning the face with an open hand, inflicting substantial ache and a laceration behind her ear,” a prison criticism obtained by ABC News says. Upon arriving on the scene, the police noticed the injured girl and arrested Majors.
Later within the day, the actor appeared in court docket and was charged with two misdemeanor counts of third-degree assault, second-degree aggravated harassment, second-degree harassment and third-degree tried assault. He was launched with the subsequent court docket look scheduled for Could 8.
“He has achieved nothing mistaken,” a spokesperson for Majors said in a statement. “We look ahead to clearing his identify and clearing this up.”
The arrest and fees come at a time when Majors’ fame is at an all-time excessive. After first gaining nationwide recognition from his work on the HBO present Lovecraft Country and the movie The Final Black Man in San Francisco, Majors started to get forged in bigger movies, a number of of which hit theaters in early 2023. There was the sequel Creed III the place he performed a childhood pal turned rival to the title character, in addition to Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the place he performed Kang, a personality who’s deliberate to hold by means of the subsequent a number of years of Marvel storytelling.
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No phrase but if the arrest and fees will change any of that particularly however Majors had been featured in adverts for the U.S. Military, which selected to drag these after the occasions. “Whereas Mr. Majors is harmless till confirmed responsible, prudence dictates that we pull our adverts till the investigation into these allegations is full,” the Military Enterprise Advertising and marketing Workplace mentioned in a press release to CNN.
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