Natalie Portman won’t be in Thor: Ragnarok because she’s a mere mortal
Natalie Portman’s played Jane Foster in two Thor films so far, but while her astrophysicist character’s career has certainly taken off—remember Thor’s humble brag in Age Of Ultron?—production on the third film in the series seems to be proceeding without her. For a while, there was no official word on whether Portman and her character would return, but things haven’t looked good. Thor: Ragnarok is, after all, going to be more of a superhero-buddy road trip movie—at least, according to Mark Ruffalo it is. Then we learned that Tessa Thompson had been cast as an Asgardian love interest, and we thought things might truly be done between Jane and Thor, as well as Portman and the Thor franchise.