Natalie Portman, returning as Jane Foster in Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder, has defended her role in the Star Wars prequels and Léon: The Professional during an interview with Variety.
Whilst discussing the negativity around Thor: The Dark World, which some regard as one of the worst films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Portman says the criticism did not affect her.
“I mean, I had it with ‘The Professional’ too,” she says of the 1994 Luc Besson thriller that was her feature debut. “It was slaughtered critically, and now, despite having been in Marvel and ‘Star Wars’ movies, it’s the main thing people come up to me about. That and ‘Star Wars’ are two examples of things that when they came out, I was like, ‘Oh, my God, this is a disaster.’ And then 20 years later — actually, 30 years later for ‘The Professional’ — it’s beloved.”
Thor: Love and Thunder, directed by Taika Waititi, opens on July 7th in the UK and July 8th in North America.
