Chris Hemsworth Takes Blame for ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Failure: ‘I Got Caught Up in the Improv and the Wackiness’ and ‘Became a Parody of Myself’

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/chris-hemsworth-thor-4-failure-frustrated-marvel-1235986778/

25 comments

  1. Chris:
    > I got caught up in the improv and the wackiness, and I became a parody of myself,” Hemsworth now told Vanity Fair. “I didn’t stick the landing.”

    > “Sometimes I felt like a security guard for the team,” Hemsworth said. “I would read everyone else’s lines, and go, ‘Oh, they got way cooler stuff. They’re having more fun. What’s my character doing?’ It was always about, ‘You’ve got the wig on. You’ve got the muscles. You’ve got the costume. Where’s the lighting?’ Yeah, I’m part of this big thing, but I’m probably pretty replaceable.”

  2. The whole production was such a letdown man. After Ragnorok and Christian Bale’s casting, I was about as hyped for this as Endgame tbh.

  3. I cant fucking believe chris hemsworth gets insecure. If he does, thats truly a testament that everyone does

  4. Let’s get Christian Bale to play a badass villain, and give him 5 minutes of screen time and a crappy write out.

    Don’t worry Chris, wasn’t all your fault.

  6. It’s absolutely taika’s fault that movie was dogshit.

  7. The best description I have read of this is that Ragnarok was a Marvel movie directed by Taika, while Love And Thunder was a Taika movie bankrolled by Marvel.

  9. Nice of him to take the blame, but there were several others ahead of him upon which the blame truly falls.(Looking at you Watiti, Fiege, and Iger!)

  10. If only the movie had a director to keep things in check.

  12. I didn’t enjoy Ragnarok, and I didn’t especially enjoy Love and Thunder because I felt that it mocked some serious subjects. Jane having cancer while I completely accept that it didn’t need to be a psychodrama could have been something more profound and fulfilling as a story, but ever since endgame I felt marvel took a particularly malicious take on the subject of depression when it came to thor, and made him a joke because of it.

    If you want to craft a comedy with thor, fine, do that – lean into it, bing back his alter ego of donald blake and embrace jack kirby’s art style in all its glory, but the consequence of two thor films is thhat I no longer see Waititi as a creative mind that’s a bit weird but insanely funny, but just a pure arsehole that probably kicks sandcastles over in his spare time.

    I can’t and won’t overlook that kind of cruelty.

  13. Him saying that, when it really was Taika’s fault for drinking his own kool-aid, shows why he is worthy

  14. It’s the only Thor movie I enjoyed so, I suppose that demonstrates why I can’t be trusted with culture.

  15. So glad Takia won’t be touching the next Thor. Wasting Gorr the way he did should be a criminal offense

  16. It’s amazing to me that they spend hundreds of millions on everything but the script? Let’s just improv that. It’s one thing to have a few off handed improv moments in a movie but it shouldn’t be the bulk of it. Didn’t we learn this from the 2016 Ghostbusters movie?

  18. Chris is absolutely not to blame its Taika that is to blame he didn’t care for the character Thor or the lore

    I liked two of Taika’s movies hunt the wilderpeople and Thor ragnarok that’s it…I think he’s overrated

  19. The biggest failure of the movie was the way it wasted Christian Bale.

  20. While I appreciate Chris for holding himself accountable (because these days, it’s always someone else’s fault), this movie’s failure is on Tiaki. It’s the director’s job to rein in an actor, even the star. But massive respect for Hemsworth,

  21. Good on him but there was so much else wrong with it. They really fumbled Gorr and what he can be. Could have been an incredible villain.

  25. Waititi fauler Thor as a character imho. Before Ragnarök, He was one of the few grounded characters who actually showed growth and Waititi reduced him to yet another quippy generic MCU manchild

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