Natalie Portman is currently generating a lot of Oscar buzz for her head-turning performance as Jackie Kennedy in the appropriately titled
Jackie but her recent turn to more drama-oriented cinema has not completely shut the door on a Marvel Studios return. This runs counter to her comments back in August and additional reporting which stated that Portman and Marvel had a falling out after the
studio parted with Patty Jenkins on Thor: The Dark World. Well, according to Portman, she's now interested in figuring out the blockbuster/superhero tentpole genre, particularly because of her young son.
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It is amazing to get to make movies that become part of so many people’s imaginations because it really is so widespread and now having a little boy too, you really see how much this becomes part of play and imagination and your internal life as a kid. It is really an incredible thing to get to be part of. As an actor it is like a completely different scale. Because when you are making those movies you are working with so much blue screen and so much fantasy, your imagination has to be so much larger.
It is really challenging for me that and I don’t feel like I have gotten it yet. I don’t feel like I have understood it yet. It is something that I’m fascinated by, because I’m really challenged by it more than anything almost. Because when you are in a room that looks like a room and has all the things a room has in it, you can interact with all that stuff, and all that stuff does what it does in life. You don’t have to imagine anything. You are just in the emotional state of your character. When you are doing those blue screen movies, you have to imagine everything outside and within. You have to create the whole world. It is like being a kid again."
While her above comments also pertain to her role as Padmé in the
Star Wars prequel trilogy, Deadline specially asked if she's interested in stepping back into the Marvel world. "
Yeah, well hopefully one day I figure it out! [laughs]"
Per Kevin Feige, 80-90% of
Thor: Ragnarok taking place in the cosmos so that obviously leaves little room for Jane Foster. But if Tessa Thompson's Valkyrie and Chris Hemsowrth's Odinson exhibit chemistry in the third solo outing for Thor, do you think Marvel would bring Jane back?
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