Talking to “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, Majors explained how warnings from his mother, a pastor, inspired him to carry the ceramic receptacle he’s often seen holding.
“I’m 33 years old. I’ve been doing it since I left my mother’s house when I was about 18,” said Majors, who stars as villain Kang the Conqueror in the new “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” film.
Majors’ mom was “so terrified” of him entering show business, he said, that she’d tell him, among other things, to “watch your cup, watch your glass.”
He always kept it in mind for safety. But now, he said, it means “mind your cup, you are a vessel, nobody can fill you up, nobody can pour you out. You do that yourself.”
“And so holding onto this is a reminder that even in this craziness that is happening, my self-esteem is my self-esteem,” he added. “Nobody can big me up, as it were, or tear me down.”
Watch the interview here: