At the ThorLoveAndThunder press conference the cast spoke about Gorr the God Butcher, Thor's relationship with Mjölnir, and the film's epic soundtrack.
From Marvel Studios and director Taika Waititi, the latest MCU installment Thor: Love and Thunder finds the God of Thunder in unfamiliar territory, on a personal journey of self-discovery. The film is about life, love and family, wrapped in a bow of rock and roll mayhem and with a couple of screaming goats along for the ride, and explores the lengths that we’ll go to, in order to protect what we have and seek revenge for what we’ve lost.
KEVIN FEIGE: I think they respond to Chris Hemsworth and everything that he can do. And Taika certainly brought another dimension that was always there within Chris. There were moments, even going back to EPK interviews on our New Mexico set. I saw a clip of Ultron the other day, where he’s trying to make [Mark] Ruffalo feel better about smashing a bunch of people, and it’s so funny. It’s expert timing.
PORTMAN: That’s very sweet, but I was especially grateful to everyone’s imagination to cast a five-foot-three actress in a six-foot role. I think that takes a real leap of possibility in your mind, and is probably not something I will get the opportunity to do or be imagined as, by any other group. It was a great challenge. Tessa [Thompson] and Chris obviously had a lot of experience in that world, so I got to learn a lot from them.
Thor is keen to regain the Mjölnir. What did you enjoy most about exploring the God of Thunder’s complicated relationship with his two hammers? Along with being a fun, cosmic, Viking thrill ride, there’s a lot of loss and tragedy that these characters are dealing with. What was it like to find the balance between comedy and tragedy?
BALE: I loved it. Because you don’t really know exactly what you’re doing with a character like that until you see it completely, it’s in your imagination, and we didn’t have that long. We talked about it during quarantine, in an abstract way. But then, you put it on, and it worked out all right. This was a pious man with tattoos, and he’s cut those off, so he has all those scars. That’s when you really get to start playing with it and experimenting, as you film. You discover it as you go.
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