Thor: Love and Thunder
Thor : Love and Thunderstar , Tessa Thompson , reveals a surprising way Shakespeare influenced her public presentation as Valkyrie . The highly anticipatedThorsequel find the titular part in the midst of a mid - life crisis as he struggles to pick up the slice following thedevastating result ofAvengers : Endgame . With Thanos defeated and his family stagnant , Thor ( Chris Hemsworth ) search for a new purpose in his life . However , when Gorr the God Butcher ( Christian Bale ) steps into the fray with a mission to wipe out all gods , Thor must reunite with his best friend Korg ( Taika Waititi ) , the Guardians of the Galaxy , his former dear interest Jane Foster ( Natalie Portman ) as the Mighty Thor , and the Asgardian warrior King Valkyrie to take on the new villain .
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While as a Edgar Albert Guest on the popular talk of the town showHot Ones , Thompson reveal that her experience with Shakespeare influence her performance as Valkyrie inThor : Love and Thunder . When involve whether her time with the Los Angeles Women ’s Shakespeare Company informed her overture to her character , the worker explained that it had through her experience gender - swapping purpose . Read what Thompson break below .
" Oh , that ’s so interesting . Yeah , [ that ’s ] something we talked about because , you know , we ’re always gender swapping . So many of the women in that company would play men and there was this idea that homo just are more kind of upright , that men are n’t inclined to break their wrinkle and for some reason we associate that with tycoon . So , if I ’m here talking to you in a tantrum and I ’m doing a flock of this ( rests head on hand ) or this , it ’s a way of life of bespeak – it should n’t be a way signal – that I do n’t have as much king . I intend in take on Valkyrie , this lineament that want to feel really powerful , not masculine necessarily , but I thought a lot about that in terms of eubstance placement , and then also just getting buff helped . "
The Los Angeles Women ’s Shakespeare Company produce professional productions of the famed English playwright ’s full treatment using an all - distaff cast . As a solvent , women will have to play men , allowing the actors to discover the intricacies between masculine and feminine roles in social club to surrender convincing functioning . Thompson explain that she used that worthful experience and applied it to howValkyrie carries herself as the Asgard king .
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Source : Hot Ones