ABOVE: “Thor: Love and Thunder.” Photo via Marvel Studios/Facebook.
During an advanced screening of “Thor: Love and Thunder,” star Natalie Portman, who plays the role of Jane Foster and the Mighty Thor, answered one fan’s question and said, “[The film would be] so gay.”
“Super gay,” the director Taika Waititi followed.
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Watiti is known for LGBTQ+ storytelling. In both the HBO Max series “Our Flag Means Death” and “Thor,” he arranges romantic storylines for LGBTQ characters.
While the latest “Thor” may not be as “super gay” as Waititi described, it still features a number queer characters, including Zeus, a pansexual god, Korg, a gay rock man, and Valkyrie, a bisexual warrior played by Tessa Thompson.
Even though in this movie Valkyrie didn’t find “her queen” as Thompson said in a preview, she had a long conversation with Korg about same-sex relationships. The lengthy conversation marks a outbreak from MCU’s previous depiction on queerness on screen.
In the end of this movie, Korg attended the first on-screen same-sex wedding at Marvel’s universe.
Waititi understands how he is seen as an LGBTQ icon and it feels “amazing” to him.
“We’re all queer. Just to varying degrees of where we are on the [sexuality] spectrum I think. I think, innately, humans have all got some degree of queerness in them,” he told Out magazine.
In the interview with The Daily Telegraph, in correspondence to the question whether the queer representation in MCU universe would be normalized as 20 years ago, the director responded, “It’s where we should have been probably 1000 years ago. It’s 2022 and we’re still having this conversation. It’s insane.”
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