Fans seem to agree with this. “Thor: Love and Thunder” didn’t get everything right for Valkyrie, they also agree that her wardrobe was not one of those things — particularly a certain sweatshirt she wore. Taika Waititi, Tessa Thompson and others have a new video that explains exactly how they made this fashion choice.
The action begins when the lights go off “Love and Thunder,”With Gorr, the God Butcher (Christian Bale), attacking New Asgard with his shadow demons’ help, we see Valk ready for battle once more. Only this time, instead of her sleek white valkyrie armor, she’s simply wearing a “Phantom of the Opera”She was wearing a sweatshirt she was sleeping in (the attack took place in the middle of the night).
It’s a small thing, and yet fans latched onto it immediately — something both Thompson and Waititi noticed. They made sure to credit the right people. In Vanity Fair’s “Notes on a Scene”series, the duo revealed that the inspiration for that particular Valkyrie look came from Waititi’s co-writer.
“That came from — Jenn [Kaitlyn] Robinson, who wrote on the film, was wearing that one time, when you first met her,”Thompson reminded her costar and director. “And then we were talking about, like ‘Is [Valkyrie] a basketball fan? Yeah. Musical theater fan, definitely.”
Waititi was excited to agree, noting that Valkyrie had been wearing the same sweatshirt almost instantly. But, according to Thompson, it wasn’t necessarily always going to be a “Phantom” nod.
“CATS also was a strong contender,”She admitted.
The entire conversation is available in the video above.