Jonathan Majors gives a heartbreaking response to his newfound fame in light of his role as Kang in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Jonathan Majors recently gave a cryptic and heartbreaking response when asked how he felt about his future given his recent upwards trajectory.

“Jonathan Majors has questioned his fate as his popularity rises:

“[If life] keeps popping off the way it is… I’m going to die soon. I’m OK with that. It won’t be drugs. It won’t be alcohol. It’ll just… something’s going to get me.” Full quote: thedirect.com/article/mcu-ka”

When Majors was asked by New York Times’ Rowan Ricardo Phillips about how he feels in the midst of his growing fame with roles such as Kang in the MCU he had a heartbreaking response to give.

If life “keeps popping off the way it is,” he said, stopping in his tracks, “I’m going to die soon. I’m OK with that. It won’t be drugs. It won’t be alcohol. It’ll just … something’s going to get me.”

“Know what I mean?”

Majors talks as if nothing good can last, and that doom and bad times will eventually come for him.

Later in the article, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania director, Peyton Reed, talked about what it was like working with Majors.

“It’s become a cliché over the decades to compare somebody to a young Marlon Brando, but Jonathan has that,” Reed told the paper. “He has just this energy and this presence, and our movie is definitely benefiting from that.”

Marvel Studios President, Kevin Feige, also offered high praise for Majors earlier this year, talking about the responsibility Marvel has put on his shoulders.

“It comes down to the cast and with Jonathan Majors, who I think took over the Hall H stage, you know, in the three minutes he was up there,” Feige told us. “It’s amazing, and I said to him there’s nobody’s shoulders I’d rather be putting the multiverse saga on than his. It’s really impressive what Jonathan Majors is able to do and all the different incarnations, variants, if you will, of Kang that we will see him do. It’s really pretty cool.”

“What I love is that he’s totally different from Thanos. That he is completely different. That it’s not just how about there’s a bigger purple guy with a helmet? That’s not what Kang is. Kang is a very different type of villain and the fact that he is many, many different characters is what’s most exciting and most differentiates him.” The Marvel Studios President added.

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