One of the best moments in Thor: Ragnarok was the performance of Asgardian play The Tragedy of Loki of Asgard, with the God of Mischief overthrowing his father to assume the throne, only to order a massive statue of himself be built and commission a play based on his own life that painted him as a true hero.
It’ll remain the single most self-aware scene in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe until Deadpool 3 eventually comes along, and saw director Taika Waititi throw his signature brand of irreverent and self-aware humor into a $180 million comic book blockbuster in a scene that’s as meta and hilarious as it is completely unexpected.
The play-within-a-film stars Matt Damon as Loki, Luke Hemsworth as Thor and Sam Neill as Odin, all being watched by Anthony Hopkins Tom Hiddleston’s Loki, disguised as Odin. If you think about it too much it just makes your head hurt, but in a recent interview Sam Neill admitted that he didn’t really have a clue what was going on either, given his complete obliviousness to the inner workings of the MCU.
“I’m not really entirely nerdishly into the Marvel franchise. I was completely baffled by so many things. I went with friends who sort of knew a bit more than me. I was like, ‘Do you know what planet we’re on at the moment? Is that Hopkins, or was that Loki?’. And they were explaining it, they said, ‘You’re in the film, why do we have to explain it to you?’. I said, ‘Because I’m a bit lost. I’m truly lost here’. I shouldn’t really confess to that. I should really know what’s going on. It is strange, it looks like Tony Hopkins, but it’s not.”
Matt Damon is reportedly in Australia ahead of reprising his role in Love and Thunder, while Neill admitted that he’s more than open to the idea of coming back for a second bout of thespian histrionics. Between his newfound recurring cameos in the MCU and next year’s Jurassic Park: Dominion, it appears as though the 73 year-old is getting back into the blockbuster business in a major way, although trying to figure out how Ragnarok‘s band of actors could factor into the Odinson’s fourth solo outing is impossible to even try and predict at this stage.
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