

Back when Love and Thunder was first announced, Natalie Portman’s return to the franchise was teased, this time as the female version of Thor which Jane Foster’s counterpart assumed for a time in the comics. Of course, it could be that Tessa Thompson’s love interest won’t be Sif, but another Thor. In the meantime she had an interesting cameo as Sif in Disney+’s Loki series. As ScreenRant reports, the actress was in Australia at the same time the rest of the cast was filming there. While we don’t know for sure if Marvel took her up on the offer, her presence in Love and Thunder has been all but confirmed.

But in July 2019, when IGN tweeted that Tessa Thompson was looking for someone to be her queen, in a now-deleted tweet, Alexander volunteered for the job.
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Jaimie Alexander was one of the few regularly appearing cast members of the Thor film series who didn’t make it back for Ragnarok, due to a scheduling conflict with her NBC drama Blindspot. Jaimie Alexander as Sif in Thor: The Dark World (2013) Considering some of the back-and-forth since Love and Thunder was first announced, there’s a decent chance we know who it might be. While she doesn’t come right out and say it, Thompson implies her character will have a love interest in the upcoming film. And getting to play a character that historically is not written for somebody that looks like me, all of that felt exciting.”Īs The Wrap notes, Tessa Thompson played Valkyrie as an LGBTQ character in the first film, but there was nothing in the narrative that allowed her to actually express that part of herself. “I think that will be a little different on the new Thor, which is exciting. “Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of time invested in love stories in Marvel movies in general,” Thompson said. While speaking to The Wrap, Tessa Thompson says that’s going to change in Love and Thunder. There isn’t much in the way of romance at all in Ragnarok.
