After Thor: Ragnarok, fans had high hopes for Taika Waititi's return to the MCU with Thor: Love and Thunder. Unfortunately, the 2022 movie didn't quite deliver and has ended up being one of Phase 4's most divisive projects.
Russell Crowe showed up as Zeus for a surprisingly campy take on the Olympian, though he did get serious in a post-credits scene that saw him enlist his son, Hercules, to teach the God of Thunder a lesson. It's unclear when and where the duo will make Thor, and Earth, pay for their transgressions but Crowe seems confident he'll eventually return.
"Well, nobody's brought anything up with me, but, I mean, it seems like that's the idea at the end of the last one, right?" he pondered while speaking with Happy Sad Confused. "But, I don't really know."
"Yeah, look, if you're a young actor and you get the opportunity to be on a set with Taika Waititi, take it," he said of the movie's director. "It's a lot of fun, he's a creative genius, but he's also just a lovely bloke."
After praising Hemsworth's "comedy chops," Crowe joked about his Marvel Studios experience by saying, "What you see when you're at the movie theatre is this big, sumptuous, amazing set, but in reality, it's just me, and Chris, and a couple of cardboard boxes covered in blue shit, you know?"
Much of Thor: Love and Thunder was shot in The Volume, so that's likely what the actor is jokingly referring to there.
In the comic books, Hercules eventually becomes a member of The Avengers, though it's unclear whether Ted Lasso star Brett Goldstein plans on being that big of a part of the MCU. He's a character who could definitely be a key player moving forward, however.
Are you looking forward to seeing Zeus and Hercules take on Thor?