The Sweet Change Hemsworth Made for scene in Thor: Love and Thunder

A kissing scene in Thor: Love and Thunder, Natalie Portman opens up about a sweet gesture Chris Hemsworth made out of respect. Natalie Portman opens up about a sweet gesture Chris Hemsworth made in preparation for a kissing scene in Thor: Love and Thunder.

The movie sees Taika Waititi return to the director's chair following the immense success he saw at the helm of 2017's Thor: Ragnarok. Hemsworth is back as Thor alongside Tessa Thompson, Christian Bale, Russell Crowe, Waititi, Jamie Alexander, and Portman. Love and Thunder marks Portman's return to the role of Jane Foster after she was less than happy with her experience working on Thor: The Dark World, leading to her departure from the franchise.

Thor: Love & Thunder Had No Choice But To Kill a major Marvel death, and while it was sad, it was the only way to end that character's story. Here's why. Thor: Love and Thunder is funny, Jane Foster's death is a dark, heartbreaking twist that simply had to happen. Thor: Love and Thunder's ending is surprisingly uplifting, given the triumph of hope and love over pain and vengeance, the death of Mighty Thor is still a down note. And though the post-credits scene sees Natalie Portman's hero ascend to Valhalla, it's clear that her life has not reached a satisfying end.

Marvel's Mighty Thor, Jane is shown desperately trying to get her ideas out, to the point that she attempts to speed up her chemotherapy to get back to the lab. She isn't a Tony Stark type, obsessed to the point of self-destruction, but rather is working against a fatally quick timer, wanting to further save the world in her own way. That she's doomed to have her genius cut off is the movie's true tragedy - far more than the lost love story with Thor - which Love and Thunder's post-credits fails to balance out with positivity.

Waititi convinced Portman to return after Ragnarok wowed audiences, and this time, Jane Foster finds herself in a popular storyline from the comics where she wields Mjölnir and becomes the Mighty Thor. Foster's return also has significant implications for Hemsworth's Thor, who finds himself still in love with her all these years later. Thor: Love and Thunder questions, some of which pertained to the sweet nature of Hemsworth. According to Portman, on the day she and Hemsworth were meant to film a kissing scene, the Thor actor chose not to consume meat as a gesture of kindness to Portman, who he knows is vegan.

Portman and Thomspson's comments reinforce what many have already said about Hemsworth's character. Chris Pratt recently praised Hemsworth on Twitter, and Waititi has had nothing but positive words for the actor, going so far as to say he would only make Thor 5 if Hemsworth were involved. Hemsworth even tries to keep a positive family vibe on set, with his kids appearing in Thor: Love and Thunder. Thor: Love and Thunder looks like it will continue to dominate the box office this coming weekend with limited competition on the horizon. And while the film has been hit with mixed reviews, it should be more than capable of maintaining Marvel's impressive track record at the box office. Audiences knowing how nice the title actor is and how well he treated his costars is just one more thing Thor: Love and Thunder has working in its favor.

Thor: Love and Thunder, given the hints offered by Marvel Comics and Jason Aaron's Thor tenure, but Jane had to be killed off by the ending. This wasn't a valiant death at the hands of a villain, or a brave sacrifice in battle, or even the result of an Infinity Stone poisoning her body; Jane Foster's death was fated by rules that go well beyond superheroism and fantasy. Even Marvel movies cannot magically cure cancer, because the real-world grip the disease has on the world would make that flippant conclusion deeply insensitive.

Jane Foster's death in Thor: Love and Thunder isn't the result of a bullet, or a cosmic blast of magic, it is because of a devastatingly real issue: her genetics. Her mother died young, and Jane probably grew up with the fear at the back of her mind that her fate might follow her mother's. With that context, Jane's drive, her ambition, her excellence, and even her capacity to love a supposed threat like Thor all completely change. And Love and Thunder would have done Jane a great injustice to miraculously save her Jane beaten her cancer thanks to her treatment, which she ultimately did in the comics after returning from Valhalla, there would be no injustice, of course, because there are real-world parallels. But it is particularly telling that in both the Marvel comics and the MCU, characters afflicted with cancer tragically die. Mar-Vell was killed and did not simply return in the usual comic book death manner, and Peter Quill's Star-Lord origin was trimmed with pathos because he witnessed his mother's death, helplessly from something as painful and human as cancer.