LA Times Hero Complex caught up with Natalie Portman, who plays Jane Foster in the up coming
Thor. Portman described how she saw Jane and how she went about playing her.
“The fact that she’s a scientist and on the fringe of mainstream science and is almost this absent-minded professor type with her devotion to her work, I felt you haven’t really seen that as a female before. She’s cluttered and just off. She’s emotional and passionate and kind of a mess. To be able to see that kind of woman in this type of movie, I thought that would be something exciting. Any time you read about those special scientists and their lives, it’s that they’re poets and artists as much as they are like other scientists.”
“I really didn’t know about it until I started talking to Ken about doing the role and then I started looking into it. The openness that they approached this with the way they were interested in me bringing what I wanted to the character and to help create this version of her it made for a big job. I really felt they were going to let me do whatever was needed to make this character human and compelling and a great partner for Thor.”
Thor hits theaters May 6, 2011
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