{"id":655095,"date":"2026-10-15T02:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/655095\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T02:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:58:10","slug":"meagan-good-on-her-reasonable-doubt-role-and-husband-jonathan-majors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/655095\/","title":{"rendered":"Meagan Good on Her ‘Reasonable Doubt’ Role and Husband Jonathan Majors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOver three seasons, Hulu drama Reasonable Doubt<\/a>, created by Scandal and Little Fires Everywhere alum Raamla Mohamed Hunter, has delivered on being a legal thriller filled with messy personal affairs and unexpected twists and turns revolving around super lawyer Jax Stewart, played by Emayatzy Corinealdi. The newly released season four is no different.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast season literally ended with a bang when the disgruntled Monica (Brandee Evans), who sexually violated a minor, popped up at Jax\u2019s new law firm with a gun. The first three episodes grapple with the repercussions of Jax being shot and what it means for her newly launched firm. Despite their uneasy relationship, Jax\u2019s husband Lewis (McKinley Freeman) allows Jax\u2019s trusted investigator Daniel (Tim Jo) to put in a call to Corey Cash for help so Morris Chestnut returns, as does Joseph Sikora as Bill, the white attorney who dates Black women but helped push Jax out at the firm. <\/p>\n

\n\tNew additions include singer Tank, who plays vile music exec Eric Cropper and Jax\u2019s main client, Beauty in Black star Taylor Polidore Williams as Eric\u2019s wife Brooke, La La Anthony as Eric\u2019s first wife Melina, and then Megan Good as Regina Harris.<\/p>\n

\n\tGood\u2019s role is a quieter one than fans are used to seeing from her. A whole generation has grown up with Good from her roles as a child actor in Friday, Eve\u2019s Bayou and Cousin Skeeter, to adult roles in the Think Like a Man franchise, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, the TV series Minority Report and both Shazam movies. In Reasonable Doubt, Good, who starred in the Prime Video series Harlem, is in a supporting role. Atypical for TV attorneys, viewers aren\u2019t introduced to her character as an ace in the courtroom. Instead, her personal life gets a more play very quickly. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI thought she was great in Harlem, and her whole career has been amazing. But I felt when I watched Harlem [that] I saw a lighter, different side of her, and I was like, Okay, she really has a range that a lot of people haven\u2019t seen. And she\u2019s killing this show,\u201d Mohamed Hunter shared with The Hollywood Reporter about Good\u2019s casting during a set visit in Atlanta where the L.A.-set series is largely filmed. \u201cI\u2019m just grateful she wanted to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGood was a constant presence by her husband Jonathan Majors\u2019 side<\/a> during his highly publicized 2023 trial in New York, where he was eventually convicted<\/a> of assault and harassment of his ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari. Good and Majors later wed<\/a> last year. \u201cIf you know someone and if you believe in someone, it\u2019s not conditional,\u201d she has previously said<\/a> of standing by him amid legal troubles and career fallout.<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow, Good spoke with THR about her role on Reasonable Doubt, what she\u2019s learned about acting from her husband and the moves she made to break out of the pretty box that incidentally has landed her here. <\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

\n\tCan you talk about your role in Reasonable Doubt and how this came about for you.<\/p>\n

\n\tI am playing Regina Harris, the new DA. It came about because we were talking about how I would love to come on the show and do something with Raamla and Emayatzy. Next thing you know, I came in and I was like, \u201cThe only other thing I would have been besides an actress, is a lawyer.\u201d So this is fun for me, because I\u2019ve never gotten a chance to play something like this. It\u2019s nice to be in a place in my life where I\u2019m able to expand as an actress and be seen in different ways, and experience different things and bring different things to it.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere are people you already know in this.<\/p>\n

\n\tTons. From Joseph [Sikora] who I did The Intruder with, to McKinley [Freeman], who was in the first film that I directed [If Not Now, When?] to DeVaughn Nixon [who plays Tyger Cropper], I\u2019ve known him since we were 14 or 15. Tank I\u2019ve known since I was 19. Taylor [Polidore Williams] I did [Tyler Perry\u2019s] Divorce in Black with. I could go on and on. It\u2019s really nice to be around so many really beautiful, good-spirited people.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat is your character\u2019s personality? What\u2019s her backstory?<\/p>\n

\n\tRegina has a lot of complex things happening at home. Her mother is really sick and she\u2019s her mom\u2019s primary caregiver. She\u2019s trying to balance both work and the career she wants and where she wants to go in that space, and also take care of her mother without any help. She doesn\u2019t have a husband. Her sister is very much against helping her mom. Their mother gave them up when they were both children, and so her sister still very much feels a way about that.<\/p>\n

\n\tRegina is trying to get the love she didn\u2019t get when she was a child, somehow make it right or make it make sense for her. And she\u2019s struggling with that because her mom is still the same person she was when she gave them up. I also think Regina is trying to figure out what she wants in her life. It\u2019s not just about the career or her mom. It\u2019s not just about if she wants be in a relationship or not. It\u2019s, what does she really want for her life? What\u2019s going to make her feel fulfilled and whole and healed?<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat\u2019s her relationship with Jax?<\/p>\n

\n\tInitially, she is Jax\u2019s lawyer on the case against Miss Wilson, who is played by Brandee Evans, the character [who shot her] at the end of the last season. It goes from her representing Jax to her going against Jax. It gets very spicy<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019m not trying to get in your business, but how has having an actor for a husband [Jonathan Majors<\/a>] helped you in your craft?<\/p>\n

\n\tAmazing. It\u2019s so interesting because I always talk about how we came into this completely differently. I came into it as a child actor, around 4 years old. it was a hobby, for fun. By the time I was 13, 14 years old, I was working consistently. And by the grace of God, I haven\u2019t stopped since then. There\u2019s only been maybe a year in my entire career I haven\u2019t worked. When I think about it, that\u2019s mind-blowing. I\u2019ve never had any other job in my life. <\/p>\n

\n\tJonathan came in as someone who pursued this as a young teenager, someone who went to North Carolina School of Performing Arts, went to Yale. He has done every single August Wilson play, playing the title characters. Our approaches are different, so learning from someone I really respect, who I was already a fan of as a talent. Before we ever met, I was like, He\u2019s different. He\u2019s a generational talent.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter watching The Last Black Man in San Francisco, I looked him up, because how do you play two different characters in a two-character play? <\/p>\n

\n\tHave you seen Magazine Dreams?<\/p>\n

\n\tI did. But that was a little hard for me to watch because it\u2019s pretty intense.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s probably the film [of his] I\u2019ve seen the most now, just because he doesn\u2019t watch himself. I had to watch the screener before it came out. And then after I watched it, I was like, Hold on, I need to watch that again. But I watched it again. And then, of course, at the film festivals and then different screenings. I\u2019ve probably seen the movie nine or 10 times at this point. And I just was like, There\u2019s no way he\u2019s this good. He\u2019s really good. <\/p>\n

\n\tSo to have him damn near as a coach when I\u2019m working is really a gift because he gives 110 percent and he means it and loves it\u2019 he lives it and he breathes it. And while I love it and I live and breathe it too, it\u2019s a completely different approach [from] when you were a child actor, and kind of raised into it versus you chose it, and you went and you pursued it and you cultivated it. And so coming together, it\u2019s really fun because there\u2019s such a mutual respect. Like he watched me growing up<\/p>\n

\n\tYou are iconic.<\/p>\n

\n\tThank you. So it\u2019s fun. It\u2019s a fun household to have these conversations [in] and to have so much to offer each other. I think even in navigating the industry, he\u2019s very pure and very not exposed to a lot of things. And while I\u2019ve chosen to hold on to my purity, there\u2019s also a ton of just wisdom that comes with seeing things firsthand and just knowing how to discern certain things and being like, yeah, that\u2019s that, and then figuring out how to navigate those things and always be true to yourself and never compromise. So when you put our roles together, it\u2019s really beautiful, because we get to both be kids together and be adults who cover each other and who have similar understandings and completely different understandings that both actually just kind of interlock and add so much to each other\u2019s life. It\u2019s really nice.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd that shows when he\u2019s training me for a role. I can feel the difference, and I have access to things that have always been there, but I may not have known how to grab access to them, or may not have known that they were there at all. So it\u2019s kind of reinvigorated my excitement for what comes out of me as an actress. But as I said earlier, there are things now that I\u2019m discovering that have come out in my 40s that were totally different than when I was in my 30s. There\u2019s things that will come out when I become a mother. There\u2019s things that will come out when I get in my 50s, and some I\u2019m excited about all of it.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen did you decide to break out of the pretty girl box?<\/p>\n

\n\tI tried to break out of it for a long time. And I fought a lot [to break out of it] for years. That was initially why I cut my hair off. I was like, Okay, if I keep having long hair, people are going to think this. You watch child actors try to cross over from being a child actor, and most the time, people go, No, you\u2019re just still this person, or this character. They keep calling you by that character\u2019s name. And especially if you\u2019re a young woman, they don\u2019t ever want to believe that you can grow up. <\/p>\n

\n\t[I was] 19 years old when I realized, I still look 16, but I\u2019m getting ready to start getting into my 20s, and I want to make that transition. The only way that I knew [how to do that] at that time was like, I need to make them see that I\u2019m a woman, that I am a young woman, and that I\u2019m not a little girl anymore.<\/p>\n

\n\tThen by the time I was 25, 26 I was like, Well, they know I\u2019m a woman. Now I want to do something different. [I had] a lot of pushback on that. When you have auditions for certain things [and the conversation is], I don\u2019t think she\u2019s right for that. I\u2019m like, why? [And it\u2019s] like, I don\u2019t know. She\u2019s just\u2026 [And] I\u2019m like, she\u2019s just what? I\u2019m just what? You just have a preconceived notion of me based on either how I look or characters that I\u2019ve played, that you think that\u2019s who I am and that\u2019s all I have to offer.<\/p>\n

\n\tInitially I took it as a challenge, but then it got frustrating over time. God really was cultivating in me [a spirit of] not allowing myself to get discouraged and to take pride in who I am and in who I\u2019m growing into, and not letting anybody diminish that for me or my process. And also not rushing through the process knowing that everything will happen in God\u2019s time [and that] I just have to do my part. But obviously, it was quite a journey.<\/p>\n

\n\tI hadn\u2019t done TV in probably a decade when I decided to do a show for NBC called Deception. I was playing a cop, and no one had seen me do that yet. The last thing I did before that was Californication where I played RZA\u2019s love interest. But I had to do nothing with sex appeal, nothing with any tight clothes so that\u2019s why I chose to do [Deception] at that time. From there, it was really going after the things that were outside of that box, and crazy enough, a lot of stuff that I did do was not what we\u2019ve all seen, like Rian Johnson\u2019s first movie Brick with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. A lot of people didn\u2019t know I did that movie until damn near 15 years later. Those were the things that kind of kept me afloat as I was trying to transition out of that. So, it\u2019s been a journey, but not one I regret and not one I complain about.<\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first three episodes of Reasonable Doubt premiered on Hulu on Oct. 6, with other episodes streaming weekly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over three seasons, Hulu drama Reasonable Doubt, created by Scandal and Little Fires Everywhere alum Raamla Mohamed Hunter,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,169988,256803,232662,282],"class_list":["post-655095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jonathan-majors","tag-meagan-good","tag-reasonable-doubt","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}