It’s official: Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie will be Marvel’s first openly Lgbtq+ superhero. Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige recently confirmed that the character will have an explicitly queer relationship of some kind in Marvel’s forthcoming “Thor: Love and Thunder,” the fourth McU movie centered around the hammer-wielding superhero played by Chris Hemsworth. Many have been wondering when the blockbuster franchise would introduce an Lgbtq character, including Thompson herself. The announcement is all the more significant because Thompson is openly bisexual.
“The answer is yes,” Feige told i09 of Valkyrie having an Lgbtq storyline. “How that impacts the story remains to be seen with that level of representation you’ll see across our films, not in just Thor 4.”
Feige confirmed what Thompson herself had teased during Marvel’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” unveiling at Comic-Con Saturday. “As new king, she needs to find her queen,” Thompson told fans...
“The answer is yes,” Feige told i09 of Valkyrie having an Lgbtq storyline. “How that impacts the story remains to be seen with that level of representation you’ll see across our films, not in just Thor 4.”
Feige confirmed what Thompson herself had teased during Marvel’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” unveiling at Comic-Con Saturday. “As new king, she needs to find her queen,” Thompson told fans...
- 7/21/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
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