Natalie Portman's Lady Thor In Love & Thunder Already Proves Doubters Wrong
Natalie Portman's Mighty Thor makes but a momentary appearance in the Thor: Love & Thunder trailer, but she's already serving humble pie to any doubters. Kevin Feige certainly made us wait, but the Thor: Love & Thunder trailer has finally arrived. Overtaking Zeus, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and everything else revealed, the promo's undoubted highlight is a final sting of Natalie Portman's Jane Foster, now clad in Asgardian armor and wielding a glued-together Mjolnir as «Mighty Thor.» There's no context or explanation as to why Jane is no longer a one-dimensional source of exposition and a bland love interest. She literally just catches Mjolnir and strikes a pose… but that's enough.
Natalie Portman's return to the MCU in a superhero capacity was first announced back in July 2019, triggering a wave of excitement over this new twist on Jane Foster, but not every voice was a positive one. Like the vast majority of comic book superhero actors (Robert Pattinson excluded… maybe), Portman underwent a grueling training regime in preparation for her Mighty Thor gig. Although the reaction was mostly one of eager anticipation, Portman's Thor workout also prompted a strange discussion over her arms — whether they were real, whether they looked out of place, and so forth.
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Jane Foster's MCU return in the Thor: Love & Thunder trailer proves any such lingering doubts entirely wrong. There's no point denying it, Jane has plainly been doing more than reading books and dating Roy from The IT Crowd since we last saw her in Thor: The Dark World. She's physically stronger, and this is visible in her single Thor: Love & Thunder trailer appearance. However, the
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