Jonathan Majors addresses negative reviews of ANT-MAN 3 and how it doesn’t change the way he sees himself

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantummania is one of the worst-reviewed films in MCU history. Critics and audiences haven’t been kind to this one, and that’s because it has a lot of problems. If you can look past these issues, though, it can be an entertaining film.

Regardless of the bad reviews, there is one aspect of the film that most fans praise, and that is Jonathan Major’ performance as Kang the Conqueror. He was amazing in the role, and in a recent interview with IndieWire’s “Screen Talk” podcast the actor addressed those terrible reviews by saying:

“It doesn’t change the way I see myself, period. They are all data. They are a performance within a story. One thing I’ll say to my team as we’re leaving a premiere if they’re reading reviews, I’ll say, “How’s the movie?” I try to clean my plate and take care of my side. The answer is: ‘You’re straight. You’re good. They like you.’ And they tell me about the film. Sometimes the movie is on that level too, and sometimes [it’s not].”

Majors then spoke of the critics who wrote these reviews saying:

“They’re just people. They have an opinion. You always have an opinion. I’m not a fool. I know these are people who write this. These are not my Yale professors or my drama teachers. These are people who have children and have perspective, have a religious upbringing or a lack thereof. They live in this city, they either want to be seen this way or they don’t want to be seen this way. I look at the aggregate and, okay, 47. But what does that 47 mean when you’ve also gotten this amount of box office? What do these things mean? It’s information. I’m in the know. I will not play myself. If you’re a level critic, I probably know you and understand your politics.

I love his take on this! He has such a refreshing attitude to reviews and his understanding of them and the people who write them.

the screenwriter of the film, Jeff Love, had a very different reaction to negative reviews, previously saying, “To be honest, those reviews took me by surprise.” He went on to say that these reviews put him in “a pretty low position… Those weren’t good reviews, and I was like, ‘What the…?'”

The big difference is that Jonathan Majors was great in the movie, but the movie script… not so much. Regardless, he’s proud of what he’s done with certain characters saying, “I’m really proud of what I wrote for.” Jonathan Major AND Michael Pfeiffer [scientist Janet Pym]. I thought it was good stuff, you know? And so I was just disheartened, and I was really sad about it.

Loveness also went on to say, “I’m like, ‘Damn! NO, [the reviews] they are wrong! I’m right! MODOK is awesome!’ Overall I’m quite happy and think I’ve learned to take a punch this week. And now that I’ve learned that it’s not that bad, I can just keep doing stuff.

What do you think of what Majors had to say?