“I was really lucky to have Tessa and Chris having gone through it before as mentors and guides, because I didn’t realize how much of the training was also about eating,” Portman said. I think she’s very excited to have the Mighty Thor come along to have a sister in arms.”ĭirected by Taika Waititi, the film sees Portman and Thompson’s characters team up with Chris Hemsworth’s Thor on an epic quest to defeat the revenge-driven Gorr the God Butcher, portrayed by Christian Bale, who seeks to slaughter every god in the universe.Įmbodying a strapping superhero meant packing on muscle for Portman, who says she leaned on her co-stars to help with her physical transformation. She was a career soldier, essentially, so she really misses being active and having a mission, and certainly her sistren. “She’s a little disenchanted, not with her people … but with the amount of bureaucracy she has to deal with. “She’s sort of cleaned up her act enough at least to represent her kingdom,” Thompson, 38, said. The journey unites her with Thompson’s spear-wielding warrior, Valkyrie, who is now grappling with unfamiliar responsibilities as the new king of Asgard. Portman, 41, returns with her first major role in a Marvel film in nearly a decade, reprising the character of astrophysicist Jane Foster, who this time obtains the superhuman abilities of her ex-boyfriend Thor and becomes a new hero known as the Mighty Thor. That’s the person I’m supposed to be connected to.’” For kids watching it, they have a choice of who they can relate to, who they identify with, based on many, many choices of different personalities, as opposed to, ‘Oh, that’s the girl.
“What you’re offering audiences is just a wider variety of what women can be,” Portman said. The actresses feel the power of portraying formidable female superheroes with complex and very different stories in the new Marvel movie, which hits theaters Friday. Lightning strikes twice in “Thor: Love and Thunder” – thanks to Natalie Portman and Tessa Thompson.
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