When it comes to making movies featuring sequences with hand-to-hand combat, hits sometimes get through. Actors and stunt people can practice for months to perfect their choreography and pull punches, but accidental, realistic contact happens occasionally. This is something that rising star Jonathan Majors personally got to understand within the last year making the upcoming "Creed III" – but rather than be upset about it, he actually views taking real punches during the production as a kind of honor.

Majors discussed this subject during a recent interview with Deadline at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival – an event that saw the premiere of his new "Taxi Driver"-esque bodybuilding drama "Magazine Dreams." When the subject turned to his work on "Creed III," he was asked if there were any points while filming scenes in the ring opposite co-star/director Michael B. Jordan where he accidentally took a real punch. Majors explained that it happened more than once, but it was pain that he was willing to take in light of what it was that he was making.