has praised Chris Hemsworth’s portrayal of Thor and the character’s arc. While Chris Hemsworth has voiced his frustrations about playing Thor and has expressed disappointment over how Thor: Love and Thunder turned out, Robert Downey Jr.
offered a different perspective. Chris Hemsworth recently revealed that he initially got frustrated playing Thor, saying that he sometimes “felt like a security guard for the team.” In his interview with Vanity Fair, Hemsworth admitted to finding other MCU characters’ arcs much cooler, while thinking that Thor was “pretty replaceable.” He said: “I would read everyone else’s lines, and go, Oh, they got way cooler stuff.
They’re having more fun. What’s my character doing? It was always about, ‘You’ve got the wig on. You’ve got the muscles. You’ve got the costume.
Where’s the lighting?’ Yeah, I’m part of this big thing, but I’m probably pretty replaceable.” But speaking to the publication, Robert Downey Jr.
voiced different opinions about Hemsworth’s Thor. He said: “First off, Thor as a character was super tricky to adapt—lots of implied limitations—but he and Ken Branagh figured out how to transcend, make him somehow relatable but godlike.” He then continued to praise Hemsworth’s portrayal of Thor: “Hemsworth is, in my opinion, the most complex psyche out of all us Avengers.