Actress Jaimie Alexander, whose playing 'Sif' in next summer's highly-anticipated
THOR movie recently talked about her "goddess of Asgard" role & Marvel comics with
NBC's New York's Scott Huver. And she also praises director Kenneth Branagh, before acknowledging her love for superheroes.
“I grew up with four brothers, so I was always into comic books,” she reveals, recalling her first meeting with legendary Thor writer-artist Walt Simonson. “I started to realize what these characters mean to people and it gave me this ability to create this stoic, powerful woman on screen.”
“When I first got the part,” she remembers, “Kenneth Branagh came to me and said, 'Listen, everybody has to work out and get into shape, but if you start to get too thin we're going to make you stop working out. I don't want you skinny."
"It was great to hear that, because unfortunately in Hollywood you don't really hear that there is such a thing as too skinny. The guys at Marvel, they're not into the whole stick figure thing. And I'm not either!”
Despite intensive weapons training, Alexander says her fight skills aren’t entirely war-goddess level. “I should be able to take out anyone after all that training, but I'm naturally just insanely clumsy, so it took a lot of finesse and a lot of practice to make sure that I wasn't smacking someone in the face on accident – which I did twice! We had a great stunt team and they were very forgiving.”
“I love it!” Alexander says. “I think that there are so many worse things that someone could be interested in other than superheroes. It's better than being involved with drugs or guns and knives.”
Alexander starring opposite Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, and Anthony Hopkins,
THOR hits theaters May 6, next summer. And as for the first official trailer, Jaimie Alexander tweeted last night,
"You might just see a little "Asgardian surprise" beforehand RT @GreggBishop TRON tickets in hand! Who's going??". But while we're guaranteed next week, I've heard that the 3D print for the trailer is scheduled to appear in front of the third
Narnia film this week. What do you think?
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