Jonathan Majors has responded to the information that Robert Downey Jr will play Marvel’s subsequent large supervillain, Physician Doom.

Majors was poised to comply with within the footsteps of Josh Brolin’s Thanos, taking part in Kang the Conquerer within the forthcoming fifth Avengers movie, titled Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.

Nonetheless, that every one modified final yr when Majors was arrested and charged with assaulting his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari.

In December, Majors was discovered responsible of 1 depend of harassment and assault. He was dropped by Marvel on the identical day.

On Saturday (July 27), Iron Man star Downey Jr shocked crowds at Comedian-Con in San Diego as he was dramatically unveiled as Physician Doom throughout a Marvel panel.

“Yeah, heartbroken. After all,” Majors advised TMZ of his response to the brand new casting after a reporter approached him exterior a restaurant.

“I really like Kang. Physician Doom is depraved, although,” he mentioned.

The TMZ reporter then requested the actor if he was dissatisfied to not be given the identical alternatives as Downey Jr, on condition that the latter has additionally confronted authorized troubles up to now. Downey Jr was arrested in 1996 for possession of heroin, cocaine and an unloaded gun and given three years of probation.

“I believe it’s honest that Mr Downey is being and has been greeted with persistence and curiosity and love… and allowed to work his artwork and be inventive at that degree,” Majors mentioned, including: “I didn’t actually get that.”

Requested if he would return to the MCU as Kang, Majors replied: “Hell yeah! Hell yeah! I really like him. I really like Kang. If that’s what the followers need, and that’s what Marvel needs then let’s roll. Hell yeah.”

Whereas he averted jail time, Majors was sentenced to a one-year, in-person batterer intervention program in Los Angeles, California, mandated to proceed with remedy and pay a $250 surcharge.

The Manhattan Prison Court docket decide additionally issued a protecting order for Jabbari.

In the course of the trial, jurors heard how Majors pulled Jabbari’s finger, twisted her arm, hit her and pushed her in a means that precipitated her to fall onto the pavement. Surveillance footage confirmed Majors shoving Jabbari right into a automobile earlier than pulling her again out of the automotive and dragging her onto the sidewalk.

Majors was arrested on the evening of the incident after officers responded to a 911 name to his Chelsea penthouse residence.

After the actor was discovered responsible of two misdemeanors, Majors was instantly dropped by Marvel Studios. He had beforehand performed Kang the Conquerer within the Disney+ collection Loki in addition to the 2023 movie Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.

Majors, who was on a stratospheric trajectory earlier than the conviction, was additionally dropped from numerous different tasks, together with a model take care of Italian style home Valentino, commercials for Main League Baseball group the Texas Rangers and the US Military, and the lead function in The Man in My Basement, an adaptation of the Walter Mosley novel.

In the meantime, Downey Jr first appeared within the MCU as Iron Man in 2008. He reprised the function in 10 Marvel movies throughout the following 11 years earlier than exiting the franchise in 2019 following Avengers: Endgame.

The brand new movie, Avengers: Doomsday, which doesn’t but have a launch date, can be directed by Joe and Anthony Russo in their very own return to Marvel.

“After we directed Avengers: Endgame, Joe and I actually believed that it was the tip of the highway for us within the Marvel Cinematic Universe,” Russo advised followers on the occasion.

“Within the time since, via a really particular story, Joe and I’ve come to doubtlessly see a highway ahead with you.”