Tessa Thompson on Thor: Love and Thunder and Taika Waititi’s Imagination

With Thor: Love and Thunder opening in theaters on July 8th, I recently spoke with Tessa Thompson about playing King Valkyrie in the MCU sequel. During the interview, Thompson talked about working with director Taika Waititi, what it’s like being on set in the middle of the chaos, why the Volume technology is such an innovation, why she loved the New Asgard set, and more. Check out what Thompson had to say in the player above, or you can read our conversation below. You can also watch what Chris Hemsworth and Taika Waititi told me about Thor: Love and Thunder’s four-hour cut here. “Thor: Love and Thunder finds Thor (Hemsworth) on a journey unlike anything he’s ever faced – a quest for inner peace. But his retirement is interrupted by a galactic killer known as Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale), who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat the threat, Thor enlists the help of King Valkyrie (Thompson), Korg (Waititi) and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), who – to Thor’s surpr