“It was a lot of fun training me,” Natalie Portman recounts how she became Mighty Thor

In 2010, the renowned Natalie Portman starred in ‘Black Swan’, where she plays Nina, a tender and introverted dancer, with a body light as a feather but strong as marble, but for her return to Marvel in 2022, the actress had to completely change and become a muscled woman to revive mighty thor.

Leaving behind the gaze of a dancer in the drama that ended up awarding her an Oscar for Best Performance, Natalie Portman is reintroduced into the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Jane Fosterbut this time she will not only be a scientist, but also a powerful superhero who will ally with the god of thunder.

In a new report by Free newspaperactress Natalie Portman talked about her incredible transformation into the intrepid Mighty Thor, clarifying that she had a lot of fun during her arduous training: “It was a lot of fun to train, for the first time in my life, to gain strength“Expressed the protagonist of ‘Thor: Love and thunder’.

Women, in general, train to be as small as possible, so it was interesting to work on increasing muscle size and mass. “

In an interview, Natalie Portman explains: “I worked with a fantastic trainer, Naomi Pendergast, as well as the stunt team.thanking the work that the production has done to support her in her training which lasted several months until she managed to become a powerful superheroine.

“Despite having been in many action movies, he had never done any combat training. It was very exciting“, Clarifies the actress on her participation in ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’, which you will be able to see as Mighty Thor starting next July 8 when it is scheduled wonderful movie have its release in theaters.

Natalie Portman looks powerful and without the help of special effects

In the previews you can already see a little bit of what Natalie Portman looks like as Mighty Thor and, contrary to what many might believe, her muscles and massive presence are kindly granted by the actress, as Marvel president Kevin Feige has claimed that the only thing the production did to help her was use a bench to make her look taller.

Natalie Portman measures 1.60 cm while Chris Hemsworth It exceeds her by 30cm, so the production decided to make Mighty Thor much taller than Jane Foster, to give an appearance of power and fairness, while the muscular, massive and full of power look is just a reflection of the great work. of the famous actress.