“Chris (Hemsworth) helped me a lot in handling the hammer. It was pretty, pretty heavy,” he told Clarín. Marvel photo
Natalie is already doomed to her next movie, May December, which will be directed by Todd Haynes and will star alongside Julianne Moore. But first, she is more involved in promoting Thor: Love and thunderwhich is why he consented to this exclusive interview with Clarionevia Zoom.
-What are your memories of when you arrived in Argentina?
-Uhm, I remember I went skiing with friends and it was so beautiful. Haven’t been there in a long time so I really want to go back. I would really like to visit it again.
Natalie this weekend in Rome, where she traveled for the film’s premiere. photo EFE
It was around 2006 that Natalie came to Argentina to visit Gael García Bernal, who was her partner, who was shooting here. They had been together for three years, but at the time it was speculated that the Mexican was having a love affair with Dolores Fonzi.
The truth is, after separating from Portman, the actor of loves dogs Y Motorcycle diaries spent six years with the actress the band, and with whom they had two children, Libertad and Lázaro. They broke up in 2014.
The Mjolnir. “They had different versions, because when you use it 500 times a day, you have to make it a little more manageable.” AFP photo
-And how heavy was it to carry Thor’s hammer? I ask you this in a literal, but also metaphorical way.
-It was pretty, pretty heavy, actually, the real hammer. But they had different versions for different action sequences, because some things, when you do them 500 times a day, you have to make them a little more manageable.
And, metaphorically, I really understood the importance and significance of having, you know, the value in the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) that anyone who takes the hammer is worthy, one way or another. And so, yes, he was aware that he was trying to make Jane worthy of that honor.
“The Perfect Assassin”, his film debut, opposite Jean Reno (1994).
Chris Hemsworth) It helped me a lot to understand how I had to move the hammer, because in many scenes you work only with your imagination, in the air, and then they add it with CGI technology.
-And what was that reunion with Chris like?
-It was weird, but wonderful. When did we start (referring to the first Thorin 2011), was one of the first MCU films. Hombre de Hierro It had just come out, we realized it was going to be something big, but we still hadn’t sized how much. The reunion was very special, yes, he was so successful and gained so much popularity, and he is still a genuinely kind, amazing and hardworking person.
With Chris Hemsworth. They had already shot the first two of Thor. Why did you go back to the Marvel saga?
-What female heroines did you admire as a child?
-I think I’ve always admired characters who … First of all, I looked for characters who resembled me demographically. I definitely seemed to like Jewish women. I think I identified with that. And also, I believe, I have identified with characters who have fought against injustice. It was something I always loved emotionally as a child.
In “The Black Swan”, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
It won the Oscar for the black Swanplaying a somewhat emotionally unstable dancer, who gets the central role in Swan Lake, by Tchaikovsky, which puts his mental health at risk. Since he had taken ballet lessons from the age of 4 to 13, he decided that all of her ballet scenes would be performed by her, with no double of her body. For Darren Aronofsky’s film, you won the quartet that American actors usually aspire to: the Oscar, the Golden Globe, the BAFTA and the Screen Actors Guild Award, or SAG.
It was during the filming of this film that he met dancer Benjamin Millepied. They fell in love, got married and had two children, Amalia and Aleph. Millepied accompanied her to the Oscars ceremony in February 2011 when she was pregnant.
Extremely pregnant, Natalie arrives at the Oscars ceremony in 2011, along with dancer Benjamin Millepied, father of her two children.
-You did not participate in “Thor Ragnarok”, what convinced you to participate in a Thor adventure again?
-Good, Thor: Ragnarok it was great and the humor, sensitivity and visuals were next level. And I realized that Taika (Waititi, the director) had this incredible ability to combine all of this, as she does in all of his films. I really like crazy and offbeat humor. This is his own tone of him, with this deeply felt emotion. And it’s a great way to entertain people.
Natalie told Clarín that she has always “identified with characters who have fought against injustice”.
It’s amazing to have the chance to return, even more so when my character has become a superhero, something unexpected. And to see how the MCU expands, so many new characters are coming in and betting on superheroes, I think it’s great that they come into the world right now. There are more women in each film, which should be normal, but sadly it’s still unusual.
How was the return to Marvel
The truth is that when director Taika Waititi sat down to write the script Thor: Love and thunder A reappearance of Jane Foster and even less of Mighty Thor were not in his plans. But, and there is always a but, it crossed his mind to recover the character, who wasn’t there Thor: Ragnarok (2017), which he directed, but in Thor’s first two cinematic adventures.
Taika Waititi, with her Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for “Jojo Rabbit”. Who gave it to him? Natalie Portman and Timothée Chalamet. Photo by Reuters
What did he do? He went to Portman’s house and introduced him to the idea, after approval, of course, by Kevin Feige, president of Marvel. If you’ve seen the movie, you already know how they did it and how Waititi turned famed astrophysicist Jane Foster into the goddess of thunder.
In addition to movies, Natalie owns a women’s soccer team in Los Angeles. And among the owners of the club, founded on 21 July 2020, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, is Alexis Kerry Ohanian, husband of tennis player Serena Williams.
on the pitch Natalie, co-founder of the Angel City women’s soccer team, with her mates Kara Nortman and Julie Uhrman. photo EFE
-How do you live your experience with Angel City Football Club, the women’s soccer team you founded?
-It was great to join the Angel City foundation, and now it’s a big part of my life to go to football matches and watch our amazing players come together as a team. And it was really very emotional for me when the Women’s World Cup was broadcast, and I saw how my son, who was about seven, admired female players the same way he admired male players.
And I realized the incredible cultural change that we could have achieved if we had valued virtuous athletes in the same way that we value men, as they deserve. They are incredible. They are already incredibly popular. They are already incredibly successful, but they are not valued as they deserve. So my partners and I have tried to create a new model that will hopefully lead to a different kind of ecosystem where female athletes can be valued as they deserve.
There is no more time, but there will certainly be more Mighty Thor to talk to Natalie again.
Paul O. Scholz
Source: Clarin
