Jonathan Majors is on the redemption route. For what he will not say

Throughout the entire implosion of his Hollywood profession, from His arrest almost exactly two years ago to harass him and beliefs about the assault, Jonathan Majors He claimed that he never hit a lady.

But on Monday, when Majors was during the return of the PR trial and pressure, which turned him to the covers of the magazine, Rolling Stone published audio recording of conversations between the major and Grace Jabbari. Majors was found guilty of 1 assault allegation and one violation of the harassment To the Jabbari strike In the head with an open hand and breaking the middle finger, squeezing him.

“I threatened you,” admits Majors in the recording, confirming her description, which stewed her and pushed her into the automobile. The recording gave the impression to be contrary to the previous claims of the Major and lift his redemption route His movie “Magazine Dreams” It opens in cinemas on Friday.

In an interview with the Associated Press on Wednesday, Majors refused to unravel the recording and whether he attacked women.

“I can’t answer it,” Majors replied. “I can’t talk to it.”

Majors says he has modified, but not everyone is convinced

Directions that were doomed to a trial period and decided by a lawsuit from Jabbari In November, he strives for an especially fast reflection after a violent fall. Before the arrest in March 2023, Majors headed towards Years of Marvel’s fame And a possible nomination for an Oscar for the “Dream magazine” by Elijah Bynuma, wherein he plays Zakład Niechprawy, aspiring a bodybuilder susceptible to rapid explosions.

Two years later, Majors returns to the public with the promise that he has modified only just a few months after the age of 12 months Advice on domestic violence in court. At the same time, he does not directly address any of the allegations against him – including those of the previous two partners, Emma Duncan and Maury Hooper, who in the statements submitted a pre -trial, intimately violence physically and emotionally offensive, which have some similarities to Jabbari’s case.

“This is not something I can talk about in accordance with the law,” says Majors. “One day I told my wife, I modified. I do not recognize myself. I do not recognize this guy. I’m in a totally different place. I even have little question that I used to be a confusion. This guy did not have tools to cope with him. I do not know if I like this guy.

Majors, who sat at a conversation at the Hotel in Manhattan with no current journalist, talked about his experience of the last two years – apart from every little thing that is particularly related to conviction, additional allegations of abuse or women who say they’ve hurt them. Despite the indisputable fact that he never called the offense, Majors claims that he is reformed.

“I would tell everyone who cares about listening: I had two years of deep thought, mediation and chewing about myself and my actions, my community, my industry,” he said. “I’m stronger now. I’m smarter now. I’m better now.”

Not everyone is convinced. Hooper, who met the directions at Yale Drama School and died with him in 2013–2015, described a traumatic and controlling relationship. A 12 months after the end of their relationship, Majors learned that he had a relationship with someone he knew, she said. According to Hooper’s statement, Majors called her and embarrassed her for the abortion he encouraged and told her to kill her.

“The level of anger I have experienced from this man, I do not know that you will exist it from life or behavior in just 52 weeks,” said Hooper AP. “People go to therapy for years. For years I went to therapy after Jonathan Majors to regain my mind.”

Hooper and Duncan’s statements were ultimately not allowed as evidence during the trial, but remain public. Advocates for the major ones denied some claims, describing each relations as “toxic”.

Duncan, who arranged and was involved in the directions in 2015-2019, described in his statement not less than eight physical or dangerous meetings. She said that in a quarrel in 2016 while driving at Chautauqua in New York he threatened to stop her and kill her. At the SPA in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she discovered SMS between the major and other woman and started to pack to depart. He pushed her on the couch and started to choke her, saying that he was going to kill her, said Duncan. (She did not reply to the message e -mail from AP, in search of a comment. Lawyers for Jabbari did not answer e -mail).

“There is a documented story of 10 years of abuse of women in whom she calls women” whores “, calls us” fat whores “, tells us to kill ourselves,” says Hooper. “When I hear people say,” Come, why cannot he return to the sheepdog? “I don’t know if these people read it or understand that we talk about the pattern.”

Another #metoo test in Hollywood

Changed political climate and the previous couple of cases, including overthrowing Harvey Weinstein’s sexual conviction in New York, He suggested that Hollywood entered the recent chapter in the #metoo movement. Trying to return Majors is considered one of the most striking tests of cancellation curbs and #metoo vindication.

“We suffer a period of huge political restriction and reaction in this movement,” he says Debra Katz, lawyer for civil rights who was represented by Christine Blasey Ford, prosecutor of the Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh, together with the prosecutors of Weinstein. “A lot of what we fought for seems to be on the line.”

But women are still approaching, and Katz believes that corporations and industries will pull the accused to be responsible. For your part, Majors, who was fell from all projects after his conviction, No recent movies were announced. “Magazine Dreams”, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023 before his arrest, after which was dropped by SearchLight photos, there is Published by Briaarcliff Entertainment, independent distributor “Student”.

“Jonathan made a mistake. There was a suitable process. Justice was served. And then we go further, which in my opinion is generally as we thought that this country is working,” said Tom Ortenberg, general director of Briarcliff on Thursday. “We are dealing with two elections: Should” Dreams of a magazine “be visible? Or maybe we should burn negative? “

Many A-Listers, including Michael B. Jordan and Matthew McConaughey, were in favor of Hollywood’s return to Hollywood. Despite this, Katz believes that the return of Majors will ultimately disseminate, because he did not transcend the strategy of what he describes as “getting a good PR company and show my soft side.”

“I think it will suffer a significant number of reasons,” says Katz. “He was not the owner of this behavior. He did not apologize. The only thing that seems to regret is that he was caught.”

The past’s past and where it occurs

For his major self -control, he focused more on the previous experience, which he suggests, was at the root of what he calls his confusion.

“There were many trauma that was complex and ignored. The best way to describe it is as an energy that unfortunately was there,” says Majors. “I fed the wrong wolf. And this wolf became unparalleled. I was really good in quick movement and crossing the angry wolf of trauma. The best thing that I could have happened to me – not for my career, but for me – it had to be faced with that.”

Majors, who raised his mother pastor in Texas after his father left, says from 9 to around 13 years, he was a victim of many cases of sexual abuse, says: “Two family members and friends of my sisters who were older than me – were older than her.”

“It seemed that children were children, and then it quickly became something different,” says Majors. “And then it became a model.”

Majors only recently began to fight the past, he says, working on it in therapy and conversations together with his family. A conversation together with his sister, he says, woke up memories.

“It was an experience that I just killed in my head,” says Majors, tearing up.

“This is not a BOO-HOO-BRO situation, such a sad-for you,” he says, wiping tears. “It’s life. It’s a hand you give away and I didn’t know how to play these cards. I’m learning to play these cards.”

Now, as Majors says, he was never happier. On Tuesday, He and Meagan good They were a marriage in a small, improvised ceremony in Los Angeles, who was culminated by his mother. “We called the family and said:” Hey, jump on the guy, “he says, calling it the best day of his life.

“Magazine’s dreams,” he thought, he would never see the light of day. But now he hopes It can work again.

“I understand now that acting is in many respects my service. In many respects it’s my calling,” says Majors. “If this is not the case, I am waiting for someone to tell me. I am waiting for God to tell me. He didn’t say it.”