Actress Natalie Portman has spilled the beans on the latest casting news for “Thor.”
During an interview with MTV News, Portman let slip that actress Kat Dennings has been cast in the film.
While Dennings’ character is being kept under wraps, it is being reported that the character will somehow work for Portman’s in the film.
Portman plays Jane Foster, who in the early comic book lore was a nurse who became Thor’s first love. The character is being updated for the feature adaptation, with Foster being a doctor-scientist type.
Dennings played Nora in “Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist” last year.
Not to disrespect any of the cast of the new movie Thor, but when was the first time anyone saw Black norse men? Idris Elba may be a fine actor, but Heimdall is a Viking type, not an African or African American. Can we please stick with the legends?
Many Norsemen were well tanned due to their time on the open ocean. I am Scottish by heritage and belong to the Clan MacDougall. It’s a very old name going back to the 1300’s or even later. It has a very basic translation into “Dark Stranger” DoubGhall, I think. Apparently they were allied well with some of the Norse in their time.
There’s tanned and then there’s being of African descent. They wouldn’t hire an actor of northern European descent to play an African god, would they?
It always bugged me that the Thor in the comics wasn’t a redhead. All the legends of the god of thunder go out of their way to say that he has red hair. Was it too much trouble for Stan Lee to tell the colorist back in the 60s to get that one detail right?