Taika Waititi Has A Blunt Response To Cut Love & Thunder MCU Cameos
Warning: Mild SPOILERS lie ahead for Thor: Love and Thunder.
Though already packed with stars, Thor: Love and Thunder saw a number of Marvel Cinematic Universe cameos hit the cutting room floor and Taika Waititi has a blunt response as to why they were cut. The new film picks up sometime after the events of Avengers: Endgame as Chris Hemsworth's titular hero elects to retire from his adventures with the Guardians of the Galaxy in the hopes of finding inner peace. When the evil Gorr the God Butcher begins wiping out gods across the universe, Thor must rise up with the help of his friends King Valkyrie, Korg and Jane Foster, who has become the Mighty Thor to help cure her cancer, to stop him before it's too late.
Alongside Hemsworth, the cast for Thor: Love and Thunder features the MCU returns of Tessa Thompson, Jaimie Alexander, Taika Waititi, Kat Dennings, Stellan Skarsgård, Natalie Portman, Idris Elba and the Guardians of the Galaxy cast. The film also marked the MCU debuts of Christian Bale as Gorr, Russell Crowe as Zeus and Ted Lasso's Brett Goldstein as his son Hercules in the mid-credits scene. Thor: Love and Thunder was also set to see the returns of a couple major MCU stars and the debut of a Game of Thrones alum, though they wouldn't make the final cut of the film and now the man at the helm of the sequel is explaining why they were left out.
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In a recent interview with Insider for the film, Taika Waititi opened up about the cut MCU cameos from Thor: Love and Thunder. The director says Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage and Jeff Goldblum didn't make the cut as their scenes made the film "screech to a halt" and said that audiences likely will never see
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