Robert Downey Jr. takes issue with Chris Hemsworth’s criticism of ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’

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Robert Downey Jr. has said that he does not agree with Chris Hemsworth’s critique of his performance in Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder.The 2022 film was the fourth instalment in the MCU that focused primarily on Hemsworth’s character, and in a new interview, the Australian has said that he feels like he became “a parody” of himself in the film, and that he “didn’t stick the landing”.“Sometimes I felt like a security guard for the team,” he added. “I would read everyone else’s lines, and go, ‘Oh, they got way cooler stuff.

They’re having more fun. What’s my character doing?’”Downey responded to Hemsworth’s comments in the same interview with Vanity Fair, explaining that he believes that Thor contained the “most complex psyche” of any of the central Avengers characters.“First off, Thor as a character was super tricky to adapt—lots of implied limitations—but he and Ken Branagh figured out how to transcend, make him somehow relatable but godlike,” he said.“Hemsworth is, in my opinion, the most complex psyche out of all us Avengers.

He’s got wit and gravitas, but also such restraint, fire, and gentleness.”Downey recently described his Oscar-winning turn in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer as being like “picking fly shit out of pepper”.Back in March, Downey Jr.