Taika Waititi was so impressed with Natalie Portman’s performance in Thor: Love and Thunder that he asked her to appear in his upcoming Star Wars film, forgetting that she had already appeared in the Star Wars prequels.
“Basically I was like, a lot of fans miss Jane Foster, and people want to see her again. It just seemed like the perfect opportunity, because the character was so great in the Jason Aaron run of Thor,” the director said in a recent interview with Rolling Stone.”Kevin [Feige] was already like, ‘I’d love to try and figure out a way to bring Mighty Thor into this film and bring Natalie back.'”
According to the helmer, Portman didn’t take much convincing to get on board despite never reading the comic in question.
“It didn’t take much convincing,” he added. “She had never heard of that run of the comic, so I just dropped off some comics for her…. Anytime you ask, how did we cast so-and-so? We offered them millions of dollars and they said yes!”
That’s when Waititi said he posed the idea of Portman joining the Star Wars franchise.
“Natalie said to me, what do you do next? And I said ‘I’m trying to work on a Star Wars thing,” he concluded. “Have you ever wanted to be in a Star Wars movie?’ She said, ‘I’ve been in Star Wars movies,’ I forgot about those ones.”
We look forward to finding out more about Waititi’s Star Wars film soon. Thor: Love and Thunder, directed by Taika Waititi, opens on July 7th in the UK and July 8th in North America.
