Game of Thrones Star Lena Headey Reveals MCU Role Cut from Thor: Love and Thunder

Game of Thrones histrion Lena Headey has elaborate her quality chopped from the last edit of Marvel blockbuster Thor: Love and Thunder.

Taika Waititi's follow-up the universally adored Thor: Ragnarok arrived successful July 2022 to mixed reviews, with reports suggesting that it had received important cuts and reshoots during its post-production to effort and amended enactment it into shape.

Several actors filmed scenes that were yet removed from the movie, including Jeff Goldblum, Peter Dinklage and Lena Headey, nary of whom look astatine each successful the movie's last release. Of those, Goldblum and Dinklage were known to beryllium reprising their roles from erstwhile Marvel projects — though Headey's quality has remained much mysterious, until now.

Speaking to ScreenRant, Headey said she had played 1 of a coven of witches who helped Thor arsenic helium navigated the "underworld" — apt the film's Shadow Realm location, wherever Christian Bale's Gorr the God Butcher dwells. Headey besides revealed respective different actors besides playing witches who besides had their appearances cut: Da'Vine Joy Randolph (of Only Murders successful the Building fame), arsenic good arsenic Australian histrion Angus Sampson (Tucker successful the Insidious films).

"I wasn't successful it, but I worked connected it," Headey said. "There were 3 of us. We were [a] coven of witches. I deliberation it was Taika's invention, and they were benignant of Thor's usher successful the underworld, but they were very, precise comic and benignant of insane.

"I deliberation determination was this full communicative of like, 'They got fired,' erstwhile really it was conscionable like, 'What are they doing here?'," Headey continued. "But I deliberation the volition was to find this onshore for them to person their ain adventures. It was myself, Angus Sampson, and Da'Vine Joy, truthful it was rather a trio of madness."

Ultimately, adjacent with the changes made to Thor: Love and Thunder during post-production, the movie remains 1 of the least-liked entries successful the MCU, with wide complaints that the movie failed to present a coherant communicative with affectional stakes arsenic it is much focused connected being silly.

Hemsworth has admitted helium "didn't instrumentality the landing" with the divisive Thor: Love and Thunder and said helium felt helium owed fans different film. Speaking to Vanity Fair, Hemsworth said helium had go excessively wacky successful Love and Thunder and the movie suffered arsenic a result, possibly particularly pursuing Thor: Ragnarok, which became somewhat of a breakout occurrence for the quality by adding much drama elements. Waititi, meanwhile, has said helium volition not beryllium backmost to nonstop different Thor movie immoderate clip soon.

Last year, Hemsworth released a tribute video titled ‘Thank You! The Legacy of Thor,’ which included clips of the histrion arsenic Thor going arsenic acold backmost arsenic an audition portion close up to his show successful 2022's Thor: Love and Thunder. Some fans took it arsenic a farewell video. Hemsworth aboriginal insisted the video was "a infinitesimal of gratitude, and it wasn’t thing else." Still, the character's Avengers: Doomsday trailer surely featured a darker code than we’ve seen from Thor’s caller MCU appearances, arsenic it showed the leader praying to his begetter for the information of his adopted daughter, Love. What happens adjacent with the quality remains to beryllium seen, though there's nary proposition Headey's quality volition ever beryllium seen again.

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