Elsa Pataki, wife of Chris Hemsworth, and her daughter appear in Thor: Love and Thunder, along with Portman’s sons Waititi and Bale.
We can say that Taika Waititi’s new film is the most familiar from Marvel Studios, and not only because of the staging and the comedic tone, but also because of the large number of relatives of the main cast that appear. Well, in addition to Elsa Pataki, the Spanish actress married to Chris Hemsworth, a daughter of the couple appears in Thor: Love and Thunder along with Portman’s children, Waititi and Bale.
Beware, this text may contain spoilers for the movie.
At the beginning of the film, during Korg’s account of Thor’s life, the stone strongman mentions, among the romances of the God of Thunder, that he once kissed a werewolf, on the back of a she-wolf . That wild girl is Elsa Pataki.
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Also, as revealed by Entertainment Weekly, the actor’s real-life daughter, India, plays Christian Bale’s daughter in the film, later revealed to be a character named “Love.” Hence the Love and Thunder. He adds: “Hemsworth’s twin sons, Tristan and Sasha, also appear in the film, with one of them playing young Thor in a flashback.”
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The site goes on to report that Hemsworth isn’t the only actor to bring his kids on set. “Marvel has confirmed that Natalie Portman’s children, Christian Bale’s children and one of Taika Waititi’s daughters also appear in the film.”
Christian Bale recalled with amusement what it was like to work with Hemsworth’s daughter: “One of the memorable parts for me was working with India, with Chris’s girl. She was so magnificent in it. But it was also really nice to see her relationship, and for her to have to say, ‘Who is this weird bald guy who’s covered in scars and crying over [mí]? [Vi lo buen padre que eres, que la convence suavemente, como: ‘No, quédate ahí. Sé que es un poco desagradable, pero quédate ahí’”.
Y Chris Hemsworth agregó: “Se supone que tenía que besar a [Christian] on the top of the head, and she said, ‘It’s all sticky.’ I’d tell her, ‘India, you’re not really kissing her head!’ She was like, ‘It’s sticky!’
According to what Taika Waititi told Marvel, including children of celebrities “It was not always the plan. The idea really started when Chris was talking about [su hija] India. And she was like, ‘Oh, you know, it would be pretty cute for me to be in a scene with my daughter.’ I started looking around like, oh, everyone has kids. All of these actors have children.”
Talent beyond acting
The children not only acted in the film, but also contributed to its making behind the scenes. The shadow monsters that Gorr summons were designed by the children. Says Waititi: “My daughter was watching me write the script one day and she looked over her shoulder at me and said, ‘What’s a shadow demon?’ And I told him, ‘I don’t know.’ And she said, ‘What does it look like? So she went and drew one.”
“I thought he would be a cool monster. I gave it to the visual development department and they turned it into a fully rendered monster. So I started asking everyone in the office. I looked for them to invite other children to draw some monsters. And then we had a collection of monsters. So all the monsters that Gorr summons, the reason they look so crazy is because they’re all designed by kids.”
“We actually know what monsters my kids are,” explains Bale. “[Taika] he had them draw a bunch of sketches, and then the magic of the special effects guys created something monstrous out of it. And absolutely relatable, and that’s very exciting to see.”
Source: Entertainment Weekly and Marvel.com
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