

Rice and chicken, six times a day” he quipped, noting that the training wasn’t “hard,” but it was like an event. The world has yet to get their first glimpse at Kang - save for lucky fans who saw the trailer at Comic-Con and D23 - but everyone has seen the actor’s recent physical transformation, courtesy of his ab-tastic Men’s Health cover, which exploded on to the internet last week. That’s a bar that is a bar.’ And then they showed who it is and I was like, ‘Oh, oh, oh, okay, cool.’” I was like, ‘What is that?’ I was like, ‘Oh, that’s a great line. “When I first heard the trailer, I didn’t recognize the voice, and he was narrating the whole thing. He used all my material, but he’s a different cat,” he cracked. The first time he saw himself as Kang, Majors “couldn’t quite believe” it was him on screen.

“Every time there’s an event about it or something breaks about it, I go, ‘Yeah this is real,’” he said. While he just aims to take his Marvel duties “scene by scene,” it’s not lost on the actor precisely how “epic” is it to be part of these films. At the Academy Gala on Saturday, Majors shared his excitement about joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Variety’s Marc Malkin, saying, “Every time they call and say, ‘Hey, we need you for this,’ it’s another miracle.
