Thor: Love and Thunder star Tessa Thompson has revealed a key scene in the new movie was improvised.
Tessa plays Valkyrie in the MCU film, which hits cinemas in the UK tomorrow (July 7). In the movie, Valkyrie finds a new kick-ass sisterhood with Jane Foster (Natalie Portman).
Their close bond on-screen also continued off-screen, says Tessa, who opened up to Digital Spy about how their real-life friendship impacted the way their characters interact with each other.
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It resulted in one particular scene that Valkyrie and Jane shared together ending up being a little different to what was in the script.
"We also got to bring a lot of our own friendship and sensibility, which is really fun, because typically you're sort of trying to build that. So I think we had a kind of natural chemistry as actual friends," she explained.
"And also, we got to do a lot of improvisation, and so a lot of the stuff didn't actually exist on the page and was something that we found together and found with Taika.
"It's one of my favourite scenes both to shoot and in the context of the film, and it was really fun because there were so many different versions of it, because we made it so many different ways."
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Thompson previously revealed that she worked closely with director Taika Waititi to reinvent the nature of a female superhero for Valkyrie.
"For Taika and I, we talked a lot about, like, upending what a female superhero looks like," she said. "That you have this moment where she comes out, and you think it’s gonna be sort of that badass thing and then, she immediately falls over.
"That was really fun to both try to inhabit the spirit and the physicality that it takes to be a hero, which is its own skill, and also to allow her to be fun and sort of goofy."
Thor: Love and Thunder has a release date of July 7 in the UK and July 8 in the US. The other three Thor movies are available to stream now on Disney+.
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Gabriella Geisinger is a freelance film critic and journalist, with a focus on J-drama & film, and the Japanese production industry. She was previously Locations Editor at Screen International and Deputy Movies Editor at Digital Spy. Her writing can also befound in Curzon, 1883, and more. A born and raised New Yorker, she loves coffee and the colour black, obviously.
