Jonathan Majors is on a roll. Not only did the 30-year-old actor recently earn a Gotham Award nomination for his performance as Montgomery Allen in “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” he’s…
“I’ve done the math,” Majors said. “Eight years of steady acting training nonstop [he studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Yale School of Drama] … three years in the profession. And I’m still in the apprentice mode and I’m still watching everybody and learning.”
Determined to get the part, he flew from New York to San Francisco to audition for writer-director Joe Talbot and screenwriter-star Fails [Majors lovingly calls the trio “Jimmie, Joey and Jonnie”], but the trip got off to a bumpy start. Speaking about a scene where Monty’s monologue mirrors the rhythm of a sermon, Majors said he related because his mother is a pastor. “I know this rhythm, this melody. I know this pain, I know this hurt. I grew up with it, you know, it’s in my blood line … and an artist [like Montgomery], I’ve been that since birth.”After the film picked up the grand jury prize at Sundance, awards buzz started building. But Majors is keeping it all in perspective.
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