Why Everyone's Talking About Jonathan Majors' Chiseled Body and Performance at Sundance

Posted By TheNewsCommenter: From Thedailybeast.com: “Why Everyone’s Talking About Jonathan Majors’ Chiseled Body”. Below is an excerpt from the article.

Before Sundance began, Majors’ transformation into a bodybuilder was causing a stir. Now his performance in “Magazine Dreams,” physique aside, is getting even more attention.

If you’ve been paying attention to the Sundance Film Festival, you’ve definitely seen it. Even if you haven’t, the photo has spread with such impressed, blushing, and astonished frenzy throughout social media and entertainment news websites that there’s a high likelihood that it’s made its way in front of your eyes—and you gasped (and maybe even leered a bit) in response.

It’s the preview image of actor Jonathan Majors in the film Magazine Dreams, which premiered at Sundance and, both on the ground in Park City and in the discourse happening online, ranks among the most talked-about movies at this year’s event. (Its premiere on Friday evening had one of the longest lines of patrons hoping to score last-minute tickets that I’ve seen in my years of covering this festival.)

People are talking about this film. People have opinions about this film. They are surprised by what they ended up seeing. But, first, they had to know to see it. So let’s get back to that photo.

In the image that was provided to the press to promote Magazine Dreams, we get the first look at Majors, an actor best known for his roles in the HBO series Lovecraft Country and the Netflix film Da 5 Bloods, as an aspiring bodybuilder.

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