Jamie Alexander returned to the MCU in Thor: Love and Thunderreprising the role of Lady Sif and new behind-the-scenes footage reveals that her role was almost bigger than in the final film.
Sif was brought back to the Thor franchise having taken on Christian Bale’s Gorr the God Butcher in love and thunder. Her encounter with the Butcher God had left her injured and near death, meaning Sif was sidelined for the remainder of the film.
The gag for Thor: Love and Thunder has now revealed that a wheelchair-bound Sif nearly featured in one of the film’s key scenes, only to be cut later.
A snapshot revealed in Thor: Love and ThunderGag Reel features Jamie Alexander as Lady Sif sitting in a wheelchair during the New Asgard Town Hall scene, in which the two Thors, Korg and Valkyrie plan their journey to Omnipotence City.
Sif was absent from this scene in the finished film and was likely removed as she wasn’t involved in the Omnipotence City mission, meaning it made more sense for the scene to just focus on the characters who would be at the heart of the film’s plot. .
Sif’s encounter with Gorr had caused him to lose an arm. This cutscene would have revealed that she also ended up spending time in a wheelchair, preventing her from joining her fellow Asgardian heroes on their mission to defeat Gorr.
Many fans were unhappy with the short stature of Jamie Alexander’s Sif Thor: Love and Thunder. This gag reel moment confirms that she was originally meant to have a bigger role, even though she would have been left out of most of the film’s action.
Towards the end of Thor: Love and ThunderSif is seen training young Asgardians to fight, so there’s hope she could return elsewhere in the MCU in the future.
Here is the synopsis of Thor: Love and Thunder:
The film finds Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on an unprecedented journey – a quest for inner peace. But his retreat is interrupted by a galactic killer known as Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale), who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat the threat, Thor enlists the help of King Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), Korg (Taika Waititi), and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), who – to Thor’s surprise – inexplicably wields his magic hammer, Mjolnir, as Mighty. Thor. Together they embark on a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher’s revenge and stop him before it’s too late.
Directed by Taika Waititi and produced by Kevin Feige and Brad Winderbaum, the Thor the sequel stars Chris Hemsworth, Christian Bale, Tessa Thompson, Jaimie Alexander, Taika Waititi, Russell Crowe, Natalie Portman, Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper.
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