Dune: Part Two star Stellan Skarsgård has opened up about his five-movie tenure as Erik Selvig in the Thor and Avengers movies.The actor recently reflected on his time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe during a career retrospective with Vanity Fair (via ComicBook.com). Despite coming to enjoy acting in the MCU sandbox, Skarsgård shared that he was initially not excited about joining the first Thor, but eventually came to love being part of the wildly successful superhero franchise. “The film was fun. We lived in Santa Fe, where they have more Birkenstocks and gray ponytails than anywhere else in the United States,” the actor said. “No, I wasn’t excited. I was, ‘What the f–k?’ I didn’t know much about Thor, or I knew about the real Thor, but I didn’t know much about the comic books. … So the thing was that Kenneth Branagh was directing it, and he’s good. I said ‘OK I’ll do it’ but the thing is, when you sign up for one of these, you sign up for four, so I felt I sold my soul to the devil, but I didn’t, because especially the first one, I had a lot of fun.”In 2011’s Thor, Skarsgård plays astrophysicist Erik Selvig, who assists Thor Odinson in reclaiming his title as the God of Thunder. He later becomes involved with S.H.I.E.L.D. following the events of the Phase 1 movie. Skarsgård, who signed a multi-picture contract with Marvel Studios, also appeared in Marvel’s The Avengers (2012), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). “Why did I continue to do Marvel after that? I had a contract, and it was fun doing those small things,” admitted Skarsgård. “You don’t have to be too pretentious about what you do. It’s not a crime to do not-high-brow material.”
Dune: Part Two star Stellan Skarsgård has opened up about his five-movie tenure as Erik Selvig in the Thor and Avengers movies.
The actor recently reflected on his time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe during a career retrospective with Vanity Fair (via ComicBook.com). Despite coming to enjoy acting in the MCU sandbox, Skarsgård shared that he was initially not excited about joining the first Thor, but eventually came to love being part of the wildly successful superhero franchise. “The film was fun. We lived in Santa Fe, where they have more Birkenstocks and gray ponytails than anywhere else in the United States,” the actor said. “No, I wasn’t excited. I was, ‘What the f–k?’ I didn’t know much about Thor, or I knew about the real Thor, but I didn’t know much about the comic books. … So the thing was that Kenneth Branagh was directing it, and he’s good. I said ‘OK I’ll do it’ but the thing is, when you sign up for one of these, you sign up for four, so I felt I sold my soul to the devil, but I didn’t, because especially the first one, I had a lot of fun.“
In 2011’s Thor, Skarsgård plays astrophysicist Erik Selvig, who assists Thor Odinson in reclaiming his title as the God of Thunder. He later becomes involved with S.H.I.E.L.D. following the events of the Phase 1 movie. Skarsgård, who signed a multi-picture contract with Marvel Studios, also appeared in Marvel’s The Avengers (2012), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). “Why did I continue to do Marvel after that? I had a contract, and it was fun doing those small things,” admitted Skarsgård. “You don’t have to be too pretentious about what you do. It’s not a crime to do not-high-brow material.”
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