After allegations against “Loki” star Jonathan Majors: Has his role changed in season 2? Producer gives a clear answer

As the mighty Kang, Jonathan Majors is expected to follow in Thanos’ footsteps and become the main villain of the MCU’s current multiverse saga. However, after allegations of violence were made against the “Creed III” star in April 2024, this future is somewhat uncertain – even though the key role has already appeared in “Loki” and Kang’s actual debut in “Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania” was crucially prepared.

When asked whether the allegations against Majors had an impact on his role as Kang-variant Victor Timely in the second ‘Loki’ season, producer Kevin Wright, one of THE creative minds behind the Marvel series, gives us an interview with FILMSTARTS a clear answer.

We also talk to Wright about what’s in store for the rest of Season 2 – including whether the series can continue beyond that, and how to keep up with such a story across countless parallel worlds and timelines without overwhelming the audience.

What happens in episodes 5 and 6 of “Loki” season 2?

Kevin Wright: Clearly. Everything happens quite quickly in the first four episodes. Things go wrong all the time, characters have to make very difficult, essentially impossible decisions. What happens at the end of episode 4 feels like a finale of sorts. But putting it there properly speeds up the story and allows us to get to a really wonderful place in Episodes 5 and 6 and really dig into the big questions. Especially when it comes to exploring identity.

Kevin Wright: (laughs) Well, my sales pitch worked.

Kevin Wright: (laughs) This is a team effort. We have a lot of white boards with a lot of diagrams. It always starts in the writers’ room. We’ve detailed how we think all of these story points, realities, and timelines work to get everyone on the team on the same page. And as we develop that further and go into production and the directors come on board, we’re trying to figure out how to get that to the screen as easily as possible.

So it’s often a matter of summarizing this information in one or two sentences so that the audience can understand it in context with what they see and hear. We often talk about fascination and simplicity versus confusion and homework. If it’s simple and intriguing, people will stick with it. When it starts to get confusing and feel like homework, they drop out. And it is essential to convey the whole thing through the characters.

Will “Loki” get a third season?

Kevin Wright: No. But I know why you ask that. It can be really scary. We set the bar high with season 1. And how do you proceed from there? The fact that the fans liked the first season so much has now given us a lot of freedom. We now knew that they were participating in this complex and strange world of TVA and time travel. And they were also definitely excited about the multiverse, not just here but in pop culture in general, as the success of “Everything Everywhere All At Once” showed. It works because it’s so character-based, just like “Loki.”

If we keep telling our story, keep it simple, focus on the characters and just finish what we started, people will like it. It’s about deepening the world and the characters, which is a freedom that every other season of a series deserves.

Kevin Wright: We always thought that seasons 1 and 2 were two chapters of the same book. There are certainly other books on the shelf, but we didn’t want to do in season 2 the same thing we did at the end of season 1, where we left the audience with a huge cliffhanger. We wanted to find closure for all these characters. But there are still many stories to tell.

Kevin Wright: I’d like to see that too. We’ve told a nearly twelve-hour story about Loki, and I’d love to see what other filmmakers learn from it in their corner of the Marvel sandbox.

Kevin Wright: We had a few ideas early on, but it wasn’t until about halfway through production on Season 1 that we knew we could actually continue the story. And that allowed us to conceive and develop Season 2 on the fly while we were still working on Season 1.

No MCU consequences for Jonathan Majors (yet).

Kevin Wright: No. What you see now on Disney+ is exactly what we wanted to do. We haven’t had any readmissions either.

Kevin Wright: Tom [Hiddleston] and I became close to him very early on [Marvel-Studios-Chef und MCU-Mastermind] Kevin [Feige] worked together to find the right tone for the series. And once Kevin was on board with the world of TVA, the look of the show and the ideas behind it, we had tremendous freedom to tell and expand our story. We’re just getting started. I was in London with the team and we set up the series. I have the scripts with Kevin, [Produzent] Louis [D’Esposito] and Brad [Winderbaum], our streaming boss, shared. And the reactions were nothing but enthusiastic.

Of course we received comments and ideas and we made adjustments here and there. But there was never any specific direction on how things should fit into the larger universe. Kevin is just excited about this world and what it makes possible for us, and realizes that it can contribute to the bigger picture in so many ways. We were encouraged to delve deeper into this world. I think it gives him more fertile ground to develop new stories.