He, however, decided to go through with it,
following “marching orders” from his children Emmeline Bale and Joseph Bale to
take up the Taika Waititi-directed fourth Thor film.
Bale jokingly revealed that he didn't have
much of a choice, as his children refused to give him any options. In fact,
they were so adamant about him working on Thor: Love and Thunder that they
didn't even take “I might [do it]” as an answer.
Bale told Entertainment Tonight: “We always
sit down and make choices together, but this is one that I thought couldn't
happen. They corrected me on that and they said, ‘No, dad, you're making this
one.” And I said I might and they said, ‘Yes, absolutely.' So I said 'Ok'.”
Bale further revealed that he liked the
script for Thor: Love and Thunder and Waititi's description of Gorr the God
Butcher. He told Screenrant: “It comes down to that, really. I just went,
‘Great!' Loved the script, loved Taika's description of the villain. ‘Let's go
do this.”
Besides Hemsworth and Bale, the Thor: Love
and Thunder cast includes Natalie Portman as Thor's astrophysicist
ex-girlfriend Jane Foster/ Mighty Thor, Tessa Thompson as the king of New
Asgard Valkyrie.
Russell Crowe as the Olympian god Zeus, and
Jaimie Alexander as Thor's childhood friend Sif. Waititi appears as the Kronan
Gladiator Korg. Additionally, Chris Pratt, Pom Klementieff, Dave Bautista,
Karen Gillan, Vin Diesel, and Bradley Cooper reprise their respective roles
from the Guardians of the Galaxy film series on the new MCU movie.
Thor: Love and Thunder is out July 8 in
cinemas worldwide. In India, Thor: Love and Thunder will release a day earlier
on July 7 in English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada.