Thor is finally wrapping up their main character casting as Natalie Portman jumps on board to play the female lead in the Marvel Studios comic book adaptation of the hammer wielding Thor. Sliding into the role of Jane Foster, a nurse who became Thor’s first love in the comics, Portman will be joining Tom Hiddleston (Loki) and Chris Hemsworth (Thor).
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“(Jane) is the human lead, so to speak, who helps ground the film in reality,” said Marvel’s Kevin Feige, who is producing. “We spend a lot of time amongst the other realms of the Nine Worlds of the Thor mythology and our human anchor to that.”
He added: “We wanted to avoid that syndrome of just because the hair is up and they’re wearing glasses it means they’re smart. … We wanted somebody that can have the chemistry that the best of our Marvel couples have had, whether it’s Tobey (Maguire) and Kirsten (Dunst) or Tony (Stark) and Pepper (Potts).” (THR)
This will not have been the first time that Portman had made her way into a comic book role, previously starring in the Alan Moore adapted film V for Vendetta. The next two films she stars in are Brothers and New York, je t’aime.
