Natalie Portman “didn’t really know” whether she would ever come back to the MCU, especially after 2017’s ThorRagnarok excluded her character altogether. “They don’t often make more than three films in a series,” she says with a shrug.
,” however, the 41-year-old will not only be playing a superhero in her own right — the Mighty Thor, Jane’s persona once she comes into possession of the mystical hammer Mjolnir — but one who can stand toe-to-toe, and nearly eye-to-eye, with Hemsworth’s Thor.
Seated at a quiet waterfront restaurant in Baltimore, where she’s shooting the limited series “Lady in the Lake” for Apple TV+, Portman often folds her arms inside the sleeves of an oversize T-shirt, which has the odd effect of accentuating her petite proportions.
“We’d rehearse the scene, they’d see the path, and then they’d build a path that was like one foot off the ground or whatever, and I would just walk on that,” Portman says, her eyes lighting up at the memory. “It was very easy for me,” she says with a laugh. “I mean, it’s always amazing to see yourself, even if only for a split second, in a Marvel film, because you’re in places that you’ve never actually been before. It’s like seeing photos from a vacation that you never took or something.”
Ironically, from the day of the premiere of “Ragnarok,” Waititi says he and Marvel Studios were already talking about what to do for another “Thor” film, and bringing back Portman’s Jane Foster was always high on the list. The question was what to do with her. With that pitch, Portman was on board — aided by the encouragement of her children . “I feel like it’s the phase of my career where I’m really trying to just impress my kids,” she says. “My 5-year-old and my 10-yearold were so enthralled by this process, getting to visit the set and see me dressed up in a cape. It made it really cool. You know, it’s very rare that my kids are like, ‘Please go to work!’ Usually, it’s quite the opposite.
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