The return of Jane Fosterand this time it looks very different in Thor: Love and Thunderthis is because the actress Natalie Portman trained for over ten months to get into superhero form and reprise her role as Jane again from 2013’s Thor: The Dark World, but with one big difference: she’s wielding the power of her ex-boyfriend Thor (Chris Hemsworth), in the new movie from Marvel Studios that will premiere on July 8.
I mean, this hammer-swinging heroine worthy of lifting Mjolnir, Portman, a five-foot-tall woman, becomes mighty thora two meter tall being, the new goddess of thunder, but it was during a recent interview with Total Film that the head of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feigrevealed Marvel’s small role in Portman’s big turnaround:
“The only thing we helped with was making Mighty Thor a little taller”Feige said. “That was the only movie magic we used. Everything else was all hers.”. Because, as Portman explained: “I trained for a long time before and during, and I was doing the whole protein shake thing. It really helped prepare me for the level of action we ended up doing.”
“We had amazing stuntmen that made things really tough, but there’s still a lot of running and jumping and sword and hammer fighting. It definitely helped to be strong. Having that cape weight all day, you want to have some strength in The upper part of the body”.
Also, during an interview with Variety, Portman noted that “they asked him to be as big as possible”Her muscular physique matched that of her comic book counterpart, but now, going toe-to-toe with Hemsworth’s Thor, adaptations had to be made for this larger, more powerful Jane:
“We’d rehearse the scene, they’d see the road and then they’d build a road that was like a foot off the ground or whatever, and I’d just walk on it.”Portman explained. Recalling the experience of him performing with a sledgehammer in Love and Thunder filmed in Australia, Portman laughed: “They would call it a sledgehammer, but depending on the accent, it sometimes sounded like something else. Because we’re all kids.”