'Although the pain was great, I believe he knew that his strength was greater,” Jonathan Majors says of the Navy aviator he plays in 'Devotion.'
“I don’t know what to say about that,” the 33-year-old actor chuckles over coffee at a hotel restaurant on a rainy L.A. afternoon. “A little fun doesn’t hurt nobody.”He plays the Navy’s first African American pilot, Jesse LeRoy Brown, in the Korean War-era biopic. Majors saw some of himself in Brown.
From the start, the film suggests Brown paid a steep toll en route to the heavens. New transfer Tom Hudner, played by “Top Gun: Maverick” breakout Glen Powell, enters a dark airbase locker room and hears his future wingman off-camera, verbally beating himself up with racist rhetoric and charges of inadequacy. The withering monologue was apparently one of many Brown had given himself since childhood — not to internalize the contempt directed at him but to overcome it, Majors reckons.
“Devotion’s” missions include taking on MiG jets with World War II vintage Corsairs; Majors put in 27 hours of flight and ground school for the assignment, and taxied one of the few propeller fighter/bombers that still moves.The key task, though, was developing the tight relationship between Brown and Hudner, who was liberal as a 1950s white man could be but still had a lot to learn.
“He looked at me with those piercing blue eyes and that Texas drawl and I had my Texas drawl so OK, we’ve got that covered, two Texas boys,” Majors recalls, grinning big. “We got so close [that night], but then we had to go to work. You’ll see in the film that Jesse is quite standoffish; he’s not the chummy guy that I was in the bathhouse. I had faith that I could do that and not break my co-star’s self-esteem because of how we met.
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