Jonathan Majors Gets Co-signs from Former Co-Stars
Whoopi Goldberg, Matthew McConaughey, and Michael B. Jordan advocated for the actor in a THR piece.
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Will he get by with a little help from his (famous) friends? Ahead of the release of Jonathan Majors’s long-delayed film Magazine Dreams, some celebrities seem hopeful that he’ll make a Hollywood comeback. A new profile of Jonathan Majors in The Hollywood Reporter — which marks his first comprehensive interview since he was sentenced last year to a “batterers intervention program” after being convicted of assaulting and harassing ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari in a criminal domestic-violence case — includes statements in support of the actor from three of his former co-stars. “You don’t get to say sorry these days,” Whoopi Goldberg, who has worked with both Majors and his Coretta Scott King of a fiancée, Meagan Good, told THR. “He was arrested. He went to court. He did what he was supposed to do. I’m not sure what else there is.” Michael B. Jordan, who directed and co-starred alongside Majors in Creed III, expressed a desire to continue collaborating with him, telling THR over email, “I would love to make Creed IV together — among other projects.” Matthew McConaughey, who starred alongside Majors in White Boy Rick, also vouched for the actor. “I’ve known and know him as someone who is continuously striving to improve as a human, a man and an actor,” McConaughey wrote in a statement. “I believe in him.”
Majors pleaded not guilty in the criminal case involving Jabbari, whose legal team reportedly did not respond to THR’s requests for comment. After he was convicted, she also filed a civil lawsuit against him that was ultimately dropped in November 2024. The settlement presumably restricts what both of them can say about the domestic-violence case; Majors, who has previously denied ever hitting a woman, said he is unable to comment directly on her allegations.
Maura Hooper, one of two other exes who have publicly accused Majors of abuse, suggested to THR that she is dubious about this comeback campaign. “I don’t really care that his movie is coming out,” she said. “What do you get at the end of a 52-week domestic violence course? Do the victims get a debrief? How could I know if he’s changed? I don’t see redemption happening here.” For his part, Majors acknowledged that he doesn’t know what’s going to happen with his career moving forward. “Do I hope to make more movies? Absolutely. That is my intention,” he said. “But that’s not my call. I don’t have a studio. And I’ve given up control.”
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