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10. Idris Elba Detested His Reshoots - Thor: The Dark World

You'd be forgiven for assuming that Idris Elba couldn't think of anything worse than starring in another CGI-stuffed big screen superhero adventure, what with his comments regarding the reshoots that took place for the second Thor feature, The Dark World, stealing headlines a few years ago. But that still didn't stop him from suiting back up for James Gunn's The Suicide Squad last year.

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But jumping back to that disheartening MCU experience, Elba once went on record to state that his stint inside of this titanic universe started to feel like a chore by the time The Dark World came to pass. Specifically highlighting the fact his "head was all over the place" after Age of Ultron, things hadn't got any better since some rather painful reshoots for that Thor sequel in the wake of his work on Mandela.

As Elba would reveal to The Telegraph:

"...I'm thinking: '24 hours ago, I was Mandela.' ... Then there I was, in this stupid harness, with this wig and this sword and these contact lenses. It ripped my heart out."

Elba was somehow convinced to return for Ragnarok and Infinity War in the end, but the damage was seemingly already done.

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