Hi Tessa, How are you?
Good, thanks.
How are you?
I'm very well, thank you.
I'm very well. Congratulations on the film.
Thank you.
I'm going to start with a important journalistic question.
The dust has settled. The film is about to come out.
How do you now feel about Old Spice
as it now is and now become a brand
that you have attached yourself to where from?
It has not become a brand.
I am proud to say that Old Spice was the first deodorant
I ever used because it was my grandfather's deodorant
and I would use it at his place because I like the smell of it.
So, yes.
And it was before I was like too young, you know, my parents,
I was not ready for like antiperspirant or deodorant yet.
But I have been an Old Spice fan for many a year, so I was delighted
to get to represent the brand Valkyrie may be less so delighted just because she
she doesn't, you know, she's trying to resist to corporate leanings.
But I personally as Tessa was delighted.
That's good to hear.
That's I story to have that. That's cool.
Tell me about ask me that.
Actually, it's literally the first thing I wrote down in my notes.
Watching the film was Old Spice.
I was like, There's a question that has requested, as I've been asked, surely
I did like did love
the Annihilation reunion between you and Natalie Portman.
How excited were you that she was coming back and how did you know
before you went to Comic-Con that she was coming back?
Yeah. Yeah, I knew.
I knew before.
I knew before Natalie and I met.
Of course, making Annihilation and have stayed friends.
So it's been a joy to, like, get to know her and be her friend over the years.
And finally, when I was making and when we were making annihilation,
I was flying straight from London
to Australia to make Thor right after.
And so as a consequence, I had to start training for Thor
while we were making annihilation.
And one of the big areas of training was all the sword work.
And so I would bring the sword to set because sometimes we have a lot of time
in-between scenes and I'd be doing all my sword stuff
and Natalie would be there being like, What are you doing?
So it was funny.
It kind of felt like a full circle moment because I remember
asking her questions like, Oh, what are these movies like to make?
And she's like, Well, they're great. But I don't know.
I mean, I've never been a superhero in them.
So I when we were having that conversation,
I didn't think that then we would get to actually be superheroes together.
So it's felt like really beautiful.
I don't know, poetic synchronicity, I guess.
Yeah.
Have you been using your British accent again
now that your in Britain has it, has it as you've come out again
since you've been been back?
Because yours is yours is very impressive, I have to say.
Very impressive.
Thanks.
Well, that that was
the other thing is I was helped because I was making annihilation.
So I was I was here and I would like go out on my own sometimes on the weekends
and I would like use the accent and tested and see how I'd be doing with people.
You know, I went on James Corden the other day and he said he
he said I was slipping into an English accent
and I got so embarrassed because there's nothing more embarrassing
than being an American and spends a little time
in England and suddenly comes back with an English accent.
That's like, so embarrassing.
But it is a really nice accent.
And not even just the dialect.
Also the way of speaking like I called Harrods the other day
and they were like, they're
like, Pardon
of this?
They said the phones are currently plugged.
And I was like, that is so cool.
Like, you could never say our lines are plugged in in
and you would just never you'd be like, the line is very British.
Things are so fresh and it's so beautiful.
I just really like it
as a final question.
Obviously now we've seen all these like multiple versions of different characters.
We've seen multiple versions, Captain Marvel and a plethora of others.
If you could pluck out any actor to play an alternate version of Valkyrie
from an alternate universe, do you know anyone who you think would do a good job?
That's another question I've never been asked, and that's so cool.
Does do they have to already be in Marvel or could it be any...
No, any! you fill your boots.
Well. Oh,
there's so many.
I mean, if I was taking from Marvel Tilda Swinton, that's a good one.
That would be so cool.
I thought if that was like
an older version of Valkyrie with someone like Meryl Streep in her
My God or Florence, Florence Pugh would be amazing as Valkyrie.
I'd love to see what Florence would do as Valkyrie, if that's a good idea.
We can body swap.
You could do a yeah, you could do a body swap.
Yeah, you can be you can be Yelena and she can be.
Yeah, that'd be great, I have to say, because in the next rooms.
Yeah, you know what to pitch next.
I love it, don't you? Congratulations on the film again and yeah, good luck.
Well, thank you so much.