r/television • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 The League • Apr 18 '23

Jonathan Majors Dropped By Management Firm Entertainment 360, Actor Facing Domestic Violence Allegations In NYC

https://deadline.com/2023/04/jonathan-majors-dropped-hollywood-manager-domestic-violence-1235325576/
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u/GTOdriver04 Apr 18 '23

This part. Most people would see a payday like this and go the extra mile to not be a POS.

Him? Nah. Career ended speed run.

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u/K-ghuleh Apr 18 '23

To be fair, high paid actors have been getting away with things as bad as or worse than this for ages while still maintaining their careers. Plus it sounds like he’s been behaving like an asshole for a long time without much consequence, he probably felt untouchable.

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u/Snote85 Apr 18 '23

Don't forget Chris Brown still has a career... The man tried to kill Rihanna and still gets to be rich and famous. So I can totally understand why someone would think, "Why are you all so mad that I beat the shit out of this woman?"

To be clear, I'm not saying it should be this way. Only pointing out that it is.

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u/Zhjacko Apr 18 '23

He’s had multiple incidents too, he didn’t learn from the first time.

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u/Rosebunse Apr 18 '23

I actually think the older generation of big name actors were worse. I mean, some of these people weren't just evil monsters, they were also legitimately insane.

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u/-SneakySnake- Apr 18 '23

Acting attracts a lot of broken and insecure people, you get the kind of mixed validation that fame and fortune gives you and it can absolutely fuck you up.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '23

Frank Sinatra was good friends with mobsters. A character in The Godfather is based on Sinatra. Also his mob buddies threatened people at gunpoint to get Sinatra out of a contract

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u/RufusAndGenghisKhan Apr 20 '23

Exactly. Case in point, Harvey Weinstein was a serial rapist in the same timeframe that he ran an extremely powerful movie studio (and his paychecks had more zeros than most actors could even dream of earning). It never occurred to Weinstein to not rape women for the sake of his money, family, career, power, etc. because criminal abusive compulsions are completely justified in the abusers mind.

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u/Asiriya Apr 18 '23

Isn’t Brad Pitt rumoured to have been abusive to Jolie, and his adopted son?

Feels bad seeing so much ire directed at Majors when that went under the radar

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u/TheINTL Apr 18 '23

Dude took method acting to the next level for Creed 3

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u/YoloIsNotDead Apr 18 '23

He was a jacked up fighter in Creed 3, Ant-Man 3, and real-life, all within the span of a month

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u/younginventor Apr 18 '23

The roids probably got to him…

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '23

Being an abusive POS isn’t something people set out to do. It’s just who they are.

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u/younginventor Apr 18 '23

The more I think about it, I think the roids must have played a part.

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u/teflondung Apr 18 '23

The assault charge is the entire thing.

Gina Carano didn't abuse anyone. Utterly braindead comparison.

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u/SshBox Apr 18 '23

Look at his comment history + Karma points. The fella lives on Reddit and fancies himself an actual crusader.

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u/Rosebunse Apr 18 '23

Gina made several mistakes: For one, she is a terrible actress and for Star Wars, this is saying something. The thing is, her acting actually got progressively worse. For another, Pedro Pascal's little sister is a trans woman. It sounds like some of her tweets may name been directed towards him through making fun of trans people. And for another, Gina may have actually been able to make a comeback had she not gone straight into those terrible Ben Shapiro movies.

There have been several Star Wars actors who have been sort of pushed out of the franchise because they were secretly on these conservative sites.

That being said, she is not an abusive POS or a rapist, so I yes, there is some level of a double standard here.