Chris Hemsworth’s Glad Love & Thunder Shows Thor’s Bare Butt

There’s loads of issues which have people excited for Thor: Love & Thunder, be it the debut of Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster or the movie’s purported groundbreaking queerness. (For an MCU movie, I imply.) Depending on who you’re, although, one more reason to get excited is seeing Chris Hemsworth’s titular hero get his garments blasted off by Russell Crowe’s Zeus, baring all of it in such a manner that actually all the ladies and guards proper subsequent to Zeus faint and fall to the bottom. This is pixelated within the trailer itself, however the movie correct will present Thor’s butt throughout what seems to be an intensive scene that even options him preventing within the nude. Presumably, the frontal pictures throughout this set piece will simply hi-lariously play coy and fastidiously positioned weapons and different objects to cover Thor’s hammer.

According to Hemsworth throughout the Love & Thunder premiere earlier this week, he excited to bump up the requisite Shirtless Marvel Man Scene. Talking to Variety, he admitted that he’s wished a second like this since he needed to take his shirt off again within the unique 2011 Thor. “It was 10 years in the making,” he laughed. “First time I played Thor I took my shirt off and I thought, ‘You know what’s gonna sweeten this… a decade from now it’s all gonna come off.”

Previously, he’s bared all of it in 2013’s racing biopic Rush, so he wasn’t too uncomfortable with getting to point out his “very big pair of cheeks,” even because it’s technically breaking floor for the MCU. For director Taika Waititi, the scene was an ideal alternative to point out off its main man’s rippling bod. Since Hemsworth’s supposedly retiring from the function after this film, it felt becoming to let him go on a considerably nude observe, and vindicate his train routine. “Chris works so hard,” mentioned Waititi, “you’ve got to show it off. Don’t cover it up with all these suits and the cape and stuff, it’s not fair!”

Thor: Love & Thunder, starring Chris Hemsworth’s ass, hits theaters on July 8, and our overview of the movie will come nearer to launch.

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