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3. Natalie Portman May Return To The Thor Franchise
Despite her apparent fall-out with Marvel over Patty Jenkins losing the Thor: The Dark World gig, Natalie Portman apparently has not completely shut the door on a Marvel Studios return.
“It is amazing to get to make movies that become part of so many people’s imaginations because it really is so widespread and now having a little boy too, you really see how much this becomes part of play and imagination and your internal life as a kid. It is really an incredible thing to get to be part of. As an actor it is like a completely different scale. Because when you are making those movies you are working with so much blue screen and so much fantasy, your imagination has to be so much larger.It is really challenging for me that and I don’t feel like I have gotten it yet. I don’t feel like I have understood it yet. It is something that I’m fascinated by, because I’m really challenged by it more than anything almost. Because when you are in a room that looks like a room and has all the things a room has in it, you can interact with all that stuff, and all that stuff does what it does in life. You don’t have to imagine anything. You are just in the emotional state of your character. When you are doing those blue screen movies, you have to imagine everything outside and within. You have to create the whole world. It is like being a kid again."
She's specifically talking about the Star Wars prequel trilogy there but Deadline followed up to ask if she's interested in stepping back into the Marvel world. "Yeah, well hopefully one day I figure it out! [laughs]"
So there you are.
Rating: 5/10
Just because she wants to, doesn't mean she will. She's not in Thor: Ragnarok, and word has it that Thor is about to shack up with Valkyrie for that, it would be pretty difficult to shoe-horn Jane back in, unless they're planning on some sort of love triangle sub-plot for Infinity War...?