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Jonathan Majorssays less-than-favorableAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumaniareviews don’t “change how I see myself, period.”
While appearing onIndieWire’s Screen Talk podcastFriday, Majors, 33, downplayed the film’s negative reviews — the movie carries a 48% approval amongRotten Tomatoescritics — and said he does not take reactions too close to heart.
“I’m a performance within a story,” Majors said of how he relates to the movie’s reviews. “One thing I will say to my team as we’re leaving a premiere as they’re reading reviews — I just keep saying ‘How’s the movie doing? How’s the movie doing?’ "
“I try to clean my plate and take care of my part,” he added. “The response is: ‘You’re straight. You’re good. They like you.’ And they tell me about the movie, and sometimes the movie is also on that level, and sometimes [it is not.]”
TheLast Black Man in San Franciscoactor went on to explain that all critics “have an opinion.”
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“It’s just people. They have an opinion. You always have an opinion… I’m no fool, I got 33 years of living, real living,” he said on the podcast. “I know these are people writing it, right? These aren’t my Yale professors. These are not my NCSA drama teachers.”
“So I go, ‘okay, cool.’ So I look at the aggregate and, ok, [48%],” he continued. “But what does that [number] mean when you also got this [large] amount of box office [earnings]?”
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Ultimately, Majors spoke to how hard filmmakers and actors work on movies, even when they wind up getting less-than-favorable reviews after release.
“I invested in these things. That’s the other part, you know. The artists and the filmmakers that made these movies invested years, sometimes, into the two hours and 15 minutes you see,” he added on the podcast. “I’m not saying be nice, I’m just saying understand it’s a real transaction that’s happening when you put pen to paper, you know?”
“I was in a pretty low spot… Those were not good reviews, and I was like, ‘What the …?'” he said, noting he is “really proud of what I wrote forJonathan [Majors]andMichelle Pfeiffer.”
“I thought that was good stuff, you know? And so I was just despondent, and I was really sad about it,” he added, before saying he felt better about reactions once he attended an opening weekend screening.
source: people.com
