Earlier today we brought you some comments from James Spader about his upcoming turn as the villainous Ultron in Joss Whedon’s hotly-anticipated Marvel Studios sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron, and now both Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans have been speaking to BuzzFeed, with the MCU veterans offering up a few thoughts on Thor and Captain America’s roles in the film.
“[Age of Ultron] gave us room to kind of make [Thor] a little more grounded and human and have him in some civilian clothes and mixing it up at a party,” states Hemsworth. “I want to do those scenes more. It’s what I loved about the first [Thor film]. There was an innocence and naïveté to him, which as he matured into the king of the second [Thor film] — or the rightful king — we sort of lost a little bit of that. That was that story… Whereas the first [Avengers] was [about] the journey of the team, I think, this time, you have six or seven things going on, which I was really impressed by. I like where Thor has been taken in this. He sort of sees a whole other side to what’s going on in the conflict, and another potential threat. And he kind of segues a bit and has his own little sort of journey.”
“He’s still looking for a home, probably a metaphorical home,” says Evans with regards to Steve Rogers. “He’s always felt comfortable as a soldier. And he likes structure. He works well taking orders. But when that dynamic turned on him, he’s now left to depend upon his team, the Avengers. There really is no one above them telling them what to do. They’re kind of having to operate independently. So there’s a lot of leaning on one another, but there really isn’t a kind of clear chain of command. And I think Cap looks for that. I think he’s looking to understand where he belongs, not just as a soldier, as Captain America, but as Steve Rogers, as a person.”
Avengers: Age of Ultron is set for release in the UK on April 24th 2015 and North America on May 1st 2015 with Joss Whedon directing a cast that includes Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Mark Ruffalo (The Incredible Hulk), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Don Cheadle (War Machine), Cobie Smulders (Maria Hill), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), Paul Bettany (JARVIS / The Vision), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Quicksilver), Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch), James Spader (Ultron), Thomas Kretschmann (Baron Strucker), and Josh Brolin (Thanos).
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Originally published October 27, 2014. Updated April 12, 2018.
