Chris Hemsworth believes he has played Thor in eight Marvel movies (or could be nine) now.
So following up on the great success of Thor: Ragnarok with director Taika Waititi who felt original and distinctive was an Asgardian-scale challenge.
Chris Hemsworth and Taika Waititi at the Australian premiere of Thor: Love and Thunder in Sydney tonight. Credit: Wolter Peeters
“The first time we worked together it seemed to me,‘ this is the last one, go ahead, do whatever you want, ’” Hemsworth said before the Australian premiere of Thor: Love and Thunder Monday night.
Waititi, sitting next to him in a hotel room overlooking the Sydney Opera House, said they had nothing to lose by making Ragnarok a wild, high-energy comedy that ended up grabbing $ 854 million ($ 1,200). million dollars) five years ago.
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“Every idea we had, [we] you just have to put it down because “who knows if we’ll ever get a chance to do it again,” he said.
“When they said,‘ Let’s do it again, ’it was like,‘ Oh shwooo. Do we have more ideas? What we do?”
Shot in Sydney before the pandemic, Thor: Love and Thunder has a top-notch Hollywood cast that includes Natalie Portman as astrophysicist returning Jane Foster, Christian Bale as villain Gorr the God Butcher, Russell Crowe as Zeus, Tessa Thompson with Valkyrie and cameos. of Matt Damon, Chris Pratt, Sam Neill and Melissa McCarthy.
Another high-energy comedy that is also a sincere romantic, Thor goes through an existential crisis, which gets worse when ex-girlfriend Jane appears as a woman of thunder.