Jonathan Majors: Marvel Actor Guilty Of Assaulting Ex-Girlfriend
Dave and Erica face an unusual dilemma.
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Dave and Erica were just lying on their sofa.
“Hang on a minute,” said one of them. “I recognise that bloke from somewhere…”
“Do you, now?” said the wife.
“I do, I do, I’ve seen him in… uh… what’s-his-face… uh… uh, you know, the one with the magician, the space magician… Tom Hiddleston!”
“You mean Loki?” she said, pronouncing Loki as though it had been spelled l-o-w-k-e-h. This was the midlands, after all.
“Yeah, yeah, it’s the show Alex likes, yeah. He went mad for the new Ant-Man film, he did.”
“Oh, yeah, remember that now.”
“Shush shush shush, what are they saying?”
< Actor Jonathan Majors has been found guilty of assaulting his then-girlfriend after a trial in New York. >
< The jury found Majors, known for playing Kang in the Marvel universe, forcefully attacked British choreographer Grace Jabbari during an altercation in March. >
“Kang…” Dave went on, rubbing a thumb over the stubble on his chin. “Why is that name so familiar?”
“Alright, Dave, we’ve got it, you know the actor, well done, bravo.”
“No, no, rubbish. What I mean is I know it from something more than a film.”
“The telly?”
“No.”
“A magazine?”
“When do I ever read a magazine, duck?”
“Oh, alright. Maybe you’re getting it mixed up with one of those Asian words. What was it you had, the last time we went to that Thai place?”
“Don’t be daft,” said Dave. There was a pause as he continued to shake his head. His eyebrows were furrowed. And then, relaxing, he said: “I had the Khao Pad though, was bloody delicious.”
“Oh yeah, it was good, that.”
The pair went back to watching the news, Dave feeling slightly uneasy. He felt as if he was trying to take something from a shelf that was just out of his reach. If, just maybe, he kept shaking it…
And then it dawned on him. “Christmas!” he yelled out.
“Christ alive,” said Erica. “What the bloody hell are you screaming Christmas out for?”
“I know that actor because I bought an action figure for Alex, to give to him at Christmas… and it was one of him.”
“One of who?”
“Kang!”
“Kang?”
“The actor! That bloke who’s just turned out to be a woman beater!”
“Oh, right,” and there was a short pause.
“Do you reckon I should still give it to him?”
“What do you mean?”
“I’ve got him a present, and, right, turns out it’s a bloody sex offender in purple stockings.”
“And?”
Dave suddenly became unsure of himself. The certainty fell from his voice. “And… well, I don’t know if he should have it up in his room, you know? Up on his shelf, or whatever… this model of a wife-beater…”
“Oh, right, well,” said Erica, as sure of herself as she had been all evening. “How much did it cost?”
“Think it was about thirty odd quid.”
“Oh, well, I’d give it to him, then.”
And Dave and Erica went back to just lying on their sofa.
read the original story (BBC News):
Jonathan Majors: Marvel actor guilty of assaulting ex-girlfriend — BBC News
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