In Elijah Bynum’s Magazine Dreams, Jonathan Majors plays a roided-up rage monster who hurts those unfortunate enough to cross his warpath. I’ll let you do the association to real life events on your own here. It’s a shame, truly, that Majors, who was convicted of assaulting his ex-girlfriend before being swiftly ejected from the MCU, is a person who has done objectively bad things. Because he’s also an objectively great actor. His turn in Magazine Dreams—as an emotionally-isolated, physically imposing bodybuilder with frighteningly low IQ and EQ—would be among the best performances of any year. The guy can act. But watching him embody this volatile, dangerous man, knowing what he did off-screen, makes for an alarmingly uncomfortable experience, as it is alarmingly difficult to separate the art from the artist in key moments.
