The Thor: Love and Thunder trailer took the title character to Olympus and showed us more of the God of Thunder than we ever expected to see in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While Thor's butt won't be pixelated in the movie itself, just the few censored seconds of footage from the scene we've been treated to has generated a lot of excitement online.
Talking at the movie's world premiere earlier this week, Chris Hemsworth explained why he was willing to bare all for his latest appearance in the MCU.
"It was 10 years in the making that scene - kind of a dream of mine," the actor says in the video below. "The first time I played Thor I took my shirt off and I thought, 'You know what’s gonna sweeten this? A decade from now it’s all gonna come off."
"I had had [my butt] out in 'Rush' many years ago," Hemsworth would go on to acknowledge. "In a Marvel film, it was a very large screen, it was a very big pair of cheeks, and, I don’t know, I had seen it before. Whatever [Laughs]."
Director Taika Waititi also chimed in on the importance of that scene, saying: "I feel like we had all talked about it. We had talked about, ‘Yeah, we gotta show off this body.’ My whole thing was like, Chris works so hard, you’ve gotta show it off. Don’t cover it up with all these suits and the cape and stuff, it’s not fair!"
They're clearly having fun with the response the scene has generated, and it looks like a very funny moment in the movie itself. Seeing it in context should be even better, and we've no doubt many of you will appreciate that pixelation being removed.
We actually got to pose our own question to Hemsworth at this week's global press conference for Thor: Love and Thunder, so check back here tomorrow for details!
Thor: Love and Thunder is set to be released in theaters on July 8, 2022.