Loki Producer on Whether Jonathan Majors’ Legal Troubles Will Impact Season 2

Jonathan Majors’ arrest and subsequent legal battle came at an inopportune time, given the beginning of his integral role in Loki season 2

In an interview with Diversityshow executive producer Kevin Wright talked about whether Majors’ off-screen legal troubles have any bearing on the upcoming second season of the Disney+ series, which premiered Thursday.

“No. This is maybe – no maybe – this is the first Marvel series that never has additional photos,” explained Wright. “The story that’s on the screen is the story we set out to make. We went out there with a very specific idea of ​​what we wanted this to be and we found a way to tell it in that production period. It’s very much what’s on the screen on Disney+.”

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Wright also confirmed that there had been no discussions about changes and additional filming in the new season, adding that “it seemed too hasty to do anything without knowing how this was all going to play out.”

However, in solving how Loki team that initially planned to enter the second season, the producer said that they “had to keep reminding themselves that TVA [Time Variance Authority] is a great world, we live in the drama of what we create there.”

“Which means not rewinding through the drama that they just decided to stop shortening the timelines, but also staying in the emotional turmoil that Loki and Sylvie enter this season with,” he continued. “Also, there were certain things in the first season that felt like they might be a risk, and we didn’t know how the audience would react. Once we realized that they accepted it, it felt like a great freedom to move forward.”

Tom Hiddleston as Loki in the Disney+ series ‘Loki’.

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The new season of the Tom Hiddleston-led series dives deep into the fabric of space-time and the multiverse. The series also stars Ke Huy Quan, Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sophia Di Martino, Wunmi Mosaku, Eugene Cordero, Rafael Casal, Tara Strong, Kate Dickie, Liz Carr and Neil Ellice.

A timeline of the recent charges and arrests of Jonathan Majors

Majors made his Marvel debut Loki season 1 as The One Who Stays, a variant of the evil Kang the Conqueror from the multiverse. From there, he returned in February with a bigger role in Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.

Majors, 34, was arrested in New York in March over an alleged domestic dispute involving him and another woman. Then multiple misdemeanor charges were filed against him for assault and harassment.

Jonathan Majors attends the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 12, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California.

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After that, Majors – who denied all the allegations – was dropped from various projects. Public relations firm representing The Land of Lovecraft the actor also broke up with him.

His assault trial was recently postponed for the third time.

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2nd season Loki premiering Thursday on Disney+.

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