Loki Season 2 director Kasra Farahani reveals a key historical figure is the inspiration behind Jonathan Majors’ Kang variant, Victor Timely, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series.During an interview with Screen Rant, Farahani spoke about the origins of Victor Timely and who Majors modeled his character after for the sophomore season of Loki. According to Farahani, he and Majors looked towards real-life inventor Granville Woods as inspiration and made real-life parallels with the first post-Civil War African-American mechanical and electrical engineer. “The other thing that Jonathan and I talked about is this historical figure named Granville Woods, which is in some ways an uncanny mirror for Timely,” Farahani said. “He was a Black inventor who lived basically the exact time Timely would’ve lived, who invented many things and was constantly having people trying to steal his patents, claim them, including Edison who tried to claim ownership of his patents twice and lost in court both times. So there was that.”Victor made his Loki Season 2 debut in Episode 3, “1893,” appearing as an intelligent yet nefarious 19th-century inventor who cons people to help fund his various experiments. Victor was personally chosen by another Kang variant, He Who Remains, to build the Time Variance Authority (TVA) and works under a guise to try and do his bidding while interacting with Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Mobius (Owen Wilson) and Ravonna Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw). For Farahani, it was important to convey Woods’ traits in Victor to make the character authentic. “We wanted to get that element in there because if you have a figure like this in this moment in time in history, and he would be facing those challenges,” he said. Majors features in more than half of Season 2, as confirmed weeks ahead of its premiere.RELATED: Loki: Victor Timely’s Connection to Kang, Explained
Loki Season 2 director Kasra Farahani reveals a key historical figure is the inspiration behind Jonathan Majors’ Kang variant, Victor Timely, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series.
During an interview with Screen Rant, Farahani spoke about the origins of Victor Timely and who Majors modeled his character after for the sophomore season of Loki. According to Farahani, he and Majors looked towards real-life inventor Granville Woods as inspiration and made real-life parallels with the first post-Civil War African-American mechanical and electrical engineer. “The other thing that Jonathan and I talked about is this historical figure named Granville Woods, which is in some ways an uncanny mirror for Timely,” Farahani said. “He was a Black inventor who lived basically the exact time Timely would’ve lived, who invented many things and was constantly having people trying to steal his patents, claim them, including Edison who tried to claim ownership of his patents twice and lost in court both times. So there was that.”
Victor made his Loki Season 2 debut in Episode 3, “1893,” appearing as an intelligent yet nefarious 19th-century inventor who cons people to help fund his various experiments. Victor was personally chosen by another Kang variant, He Who Remains, to build the Time Variance Authority (TVA) and works under a guise to try and do his bidding while interacting with Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Mobius (Owen Wilson) and Ravonna Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw). For Farahani, it was important to convey Woods’ traits in Victor to make the character authentic. “We wanted to get that element in there because if you have a figure like this in this moment in time in history, and he would be facing those challenges,” he said. Majors features in more than half of Season 2, as confirmed weeks ahead of its premiere.
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