“Loki” definitely isn’t the first superhero role Gugu Mbatha-Raw has been offered. Mbatha-Raw plays Ravonna Renslayer in the Disney+ series, which also stars the actress’ drama school buddy Tom Hiddleston as the lead Loki.
She tells Porter of walking away from superhero roles in the past: “There have been a few I’ve auditioned for and not got. And one or two that I got and turned down.
Sometimes [the role] was so secretive, I was like, I’m not signing up to something where I don’t know what it is. Sometimes, I wasn’t sure the character was going to have enough layers. “Sometimes, the tone of the piece just wasn’t my taste: how the violence is depicted, how the women are represented.
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