Thor: Love And Thunder Is Cutting LGBTQ Content
Thor: Love and Thunder is just a week away and fans are ready for the next installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After the surprise success of Thor: Ragnarok in 2017 and Taika Waititi's humorful, game-changing direction, the new movie has a lot to live up to. In particular, fans have hoped that this next installment in the saga of the thunder god would pay more attention to Tessa Thompson's character Valkyrie and expand on the many references to her bisexuality that Marvel has made essentially only off-screen. But according to Tessa Thompsons herself, Thor: Love and Thunder does not have room to explore that.
In an interview with Yahoo, Tessa Thompson revealed that while she still firmly stood by the character being bisexual and that she was playing Valkyrie with that in mind, Thor: Love and Thunder did not "have a lot of room for storyline." She also said that "we talked about it a lot, it was [a] big topic of conversation" in regards to Valkyrie's sexuality, but the fact that there is no on-screen result of that implicitly means it was not considered an important enough facet of the character to be portrayed in the movie. It is questionable that a movie that involves the primary title character, the title group of characters from another series of films, a brand-new villain played by Christian Bale, and presumably a whole new pantheon of gods led by Russell Crowe's Zeus cannot possibly find room for a character to have an on-screen love interest, but that is what it is. Thor: Love and Thunder is going to be a pretty busy movie, it seems.
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Anyone surprised? No? Didn't think so.