How Natalie Portman's Mighty Thor Is Different From Hemsworth's Hero
At a recent press conference, Natalie Portman explained how her Thor: Love and Thunder character, Mighty Thor, is different from Chris Hemsworth's original Thor Odinson. The upcoming fourth Thor film will mark Portman's return to the massive Marvel superhero franchise as the astrophysicist Dr. Jane Foster, who also happens to be Thor's ex-girlfriend. Although she appeared in Avengers: Endgame through the use of archival footage, the actor has not been featured in any MCU film since 2013's Thor: The Dark World.
Set after the climactic events of Avengers: Endgame, Thor: Love and Thunder finds the titular superhero struggling to pick up the pieces of his life during what director Taika Waititi has called the character's mid-life crisis. With Thanos defeated and Asgard relocated to Earth, Thor travels the universe searching for a new purpose and encounters Foster wielding his enchanted former weapon, Mjolnir. With Foster now taking up the mantle of the Mighty Thor, she must team up with her former flame, as well as the Asgardian warrior King Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), to take on Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale), who is on a mission to wipe out all gods from the universe.
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During a recent press conference, Portman explained that her version of Thor is different than Hemsworth's popular Asgardian hero because of the vast disparity in their experience as superheroes. Portman also spoke about how Mighty Thor doesn't have complete control over her powers yet, so her superhero status is inherently more precarious than Thor's. Read what Portman said about the differences between the two heroes below.
"[Thor and The Mighty Thor are] completely different. I
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