Lena Headey is being sued over her axed Thor: Love And Thunder role
Headey's former agency claims she never paid commissions for Thor, 9 Bullets, or a Showtime pilot that never aired
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Imagine getting cut from a movie and still getting sued for it?! That baffling scenario is what’s happening to Lena Headey, whose role in Thor: Love And Thunder is one of the many bits on the cutting room floor.
Unfortunately, her former agency doesn’t care one way or another if she’s in the film, just that she gets paid for it and pays them in return. According to Variety, UK agency YMU Drama (formerly known as Troika) has filed a lawsuit against Headey claiming she owes the agency at least $500,000 (7% of her fee) for her earnings on the Marvel movie. There are also allegedly unpaid commissions for at least $300,000 on her film 9 Bullets and $650,000 for Showtime dramedy series Rita, which didn’t even get picked up after Headey filmed a pilot.
Per Variety, the agency is “seeking an account of commission fees owed, an order for Headey to pay the fees, damages for breach of contract, interest and reimbursement of legal fees.”
For her part, Headey (who is also repped by CAA in the US) has argued that the agency wasn’t even involved in landing her the roles in 9 Bullets or Thor: Love And Thunder. (Apparently, director Taika Waititi approached her directly about appearing in the latter.) As for Rita, she claimed “she only ever received $325,000” for the single episode of the series she ever filmed, and “Troika has already been paid $22,750.”
Further, the actor asserted that she never signed a contract with the agency, which was founded by her longtime agent Michael Duff in 2005. (She left the agency when Duff departed in 2020.) Both parties were allegedly “acting on an oral agreement formed when Duff was still at Lou Carl Associates in the late 1990s.”
So, unless YMU can provide documents of a formal contract–and that contract proves the agency is owed money even for jobs it did not negotiate–it seems like a dubious case. The rest of us, meanwhile, will have to bear Headey being cut from the Thor with dignity. (#ReleaseTheHeadeyCut?)
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She was paid $7 million for a part that didn’t even make it into the Thor final cut? Thats nuts
Nice work if you can get it.
I’m guessing she still had to do the work that was cut, and now she won’t appear in this tentpole Marvel production that would raise her profile quite nicely. The 7 mil will no doubt cushion this disappointment though.Edit: Kinda like me taking the effort to write this post only to realise I’m no longer in Kotaku (which I seem to do constantly these days) and back in the greys never to be seen…
Have you ever dried your tears with a $100 bill? It’s pretty nice.
And here I am blowing my nose on 20$ like a peasant.
I’m pretty sure everybody in the world already knows who Lena Heady is. You know due to her being in that project awhile back that was the most watched show of all time.
I haven’t said otherwise, yet it’s still desirable for any actor to get the kind of visibility that comes from being in a Marvel movie.
Everybody you know, maybe. Everybody who comments on Reddit and the AV Club, maybe. But lots of people don’t have HBO and/or don’t watch much TV.
My dad has never watched GoT and he does, reluctantly, watch a lot of Marvel movies (cause he loves movies but not TV).
Plenty of people watch Marvel movies because they’re there. They aren’t nerds and they don’t follow nerd culture. They just watch what is popular and/or available and that is Marvel.
It’s called hyperbole.hy·per·bo·le/hīˈpərbəlē/nounexaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Seriously, the last time I got laid off they handed me a Cobra packet and told me I could keep my coffee cup if I wanted it. But it was 100% my coffee cup – I didn’t owe 7% of it to nobody.
Tried to. Couldn’t cut it.
Idk about you, but I’m pondering my life decisions HARD rn.
You seem ok. You avoided being in 300.
It’s an accepted risk purely on the studio. The actor had to do all the same amount of work, and they are union, no fucking around with getting paid.
Yeah how would you feel if you performed a job and then the employee was like “yeah were not gonna use your work for the final product so we don’t feel we need to pay you”.
That’s not a thing in any other career world so I don’t understand why people are confused about this. If you perform a job and agreed upon payment, it’s on the employer to pay you afterward. That’s how working works. That people seem to think different rules apply to celebrities is baffling. They eat food. They pay for shit too.
Which is REALLY fuckin’ weird, because isn’t Marvel notorious in the industry for lowballing their actors?
I don’t think as much anymore, but that probably is low compared to what everyone else is getting paid. Some of it may have been compensation for being cut or for not getting back-end points. Most of their actors get paid relatively low for the profile of the movie, but make all their money on box-office, merch, etc.
So the very first search result I found was that Mark Ruffalo was paid $6 million for Infinity War, so it seems really weird to me that Lena Heady would be paid $7 million for a Thor cameo
And their point is that:$6 million + % of box office/merch sales >>>>>>>>> $7 million.It’s all speculation, but this scenario is not implausible.
Ragnarok had a budget of $180 million. Assuming that Love and Thunder has a similar budget, do you REALLY think that Marvel would blow 4% of the movie’s budget on a single cameo, and then not use it?
I doubt it is the case, but if she did get that and she filmed a role that could be easily cut, you’re probably talking $7 million for two weeks – at most – work.
The multi-film deals that Ruffalo and the others had came with built in growth as the number of films went on. He was allegedly paid $15 million for Endgame, and had a points similar to Scarlet Johansson.But again, I think that it also sounds like the reps are saying she was paid that much, but she’s arguing the amounts are wrong so she may no have received anywhere near that money.
I agree the 7mil seems a lot, but I also doubtr it was just a cameo. Marvel films get reworked way-y-y-y more than regular movies, so it’s possible she had a sizable part that was reworked out of the movie.Side note, I sensed slight bewilderment from Waititi during his press run for TL&T, like he had to triple-think his answers to questions about the movie, not just because of secrecy, but I had a sense he is also a little overwhelmed by the process of making that movie, just like Sam Raimi. I think a LOT happened to Thor during production.
I think actors’ first appearances are typically for not a whole lot of money. Sequels are where everyone makes bank.
To expand on what I said above, Ruffalo made $3 million for Avengers and Ultron, $6 million for Infinity War, and it’s speculated he made $15 million for Endgame.
So why would Marvel pay more for one cameo than they paid one of their main stars for two movies?
Cameo might be understating the role a bit, as all it says here is that the role was cut. It could have been a small role, ala Glenn Close in Guardians, that was cut for some reason. It’s probably not like Charlize Theron in Doctor Strange. It’s still too much, and like others in this thread, I’m fairly sure it’s a made up number by this agency trying to eke out as much money as they can.
I’m fairly sure it’s a made up number by this agency trying to eke out as much money as they can.Oh, that’s entirely the point I’m trying to make as well.
Either that or she and Waititi have some brilliant embezzlement scheme going on.
Ruffalo’s total screen time is low in all those movies. We also can’t guarantee she was paid that much.
Marvel is, but Disney isn’t.
They were, but that was when Kevin Feige still reported to Ike Perlmutter.Terrence Howard was the highest-paid actor in the first Iron Man. No, really, think back to when this was, not long after Crash, and it makes sense. So his contract called for him to make $8 million for the second one. They offered him $1 million. He walked and Marvel called up Don Cheadle that same day, offered him that same $1 million and he said “don’t mind if I do” without knowing the backstory. Perlmutter allegedly claimed viewers wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.RDJ, on the other hand, took a lower pay for that first one in exchange for a percentage of the box office on each Iron Man film and, on Civil War, a percentage of every dollar that movie grossed above Winter Soldier. By the time Endgame came around, he was pulling Scrooge McDuck money.
No – the agency that is suing her doesn’t know what her actual earnings are because she never told them so they sued her for a random number. There’s no way she got paid $7m for a cameo.
Yeah… 7 mil is way off. Karen Gillan only made $140~170k for being Nebula in GotG 1 and last I checked (honestly, dunno the credibility of the sources), she was only getting between 200~300k for Thor 4. The leads make most of the money in Marvel movies while the supporting cast usually makes 100~500k depending on the actor/role.
I suspect we’ll find out there was some very creative math in how YMU came up with the $500,000 number.
For architects, the best jobs are where you finish (and get paid for) the design, but it never goes into construction.
Many professions work the same way. Early in my career we’d issued a draft report to a client, they were happy with it and paid our fee. I was about to issue a final version with the draft stamp removed, and my boss said “have they asked for a final version?” When I said no, he told me to wait until they did. “You can’t be sued over a report stamped “draft”.”
ScarJo walked so Lena could run. (I tend to believe these are made up numbers by the agents, though)
And $650,000 for a pilot of a series that didn’t go to series? That seems…off.
She probably is in it as a surprise cameo/character, but has to pretend it’s been cut after the agency spoiled the surprise with this lawsuit.
She did the acting. It’s not her fault they decided to cut it. What’s so nuts about her getting paid for work she performed?
I forget if it’s Jamie Fox or one of the Wayanses; anyway, one of them gets a check for playing Robin in Batman Returns and Robin wasn’t even in the script.
It was one of the Wayans. Robin was in one of the scripts as I recall and was meant to be in the film but it got dropped.But he’d signed a pay-or-play contract so he got paid for it (and Forever too I think, even though the role was recast).There’s a Robin action figure released around the same time as Returns which has a flat-top haircut which was widely believed to have been based on him which had been repainted to be Tim Drake, despite having a haircut the character never possessed.
Here’s Marlon Wayans talking about it on this very site: https://www.avclub.com/marlon-wayans-1798207843
I assumed the AV Club had made one of their patented cock-ups and meant 7% *of* $500,000 but no, I went to the Variety article and they state the same figures.To those posters in the thread, I don’t think anyone is surprised that Headey got paid despite her role being cut. The suprise is that she was (allegedly) paid a significant portion of the total budget for a role superfluous enough that it could be cut entirely.
She didn’t do any less work. You’re aware that your part being cut doesn’t erase all the days you spent acting on set, right?
There is no chance her quote is that high, especially with notoriously cheap Marvel. I just can’t believe that number.
She was not – the agency doesn’t know what she was paid, they had nothing to do with the deal. It’s a made-up number.
They’re all made up numbers.
That’s zero reflection on actors and 1000% a reflection on the fickle decision making of directors and executives. Imagine hiring someone for such a large sum and having the attitude that they can be cut out at any time. And of course the actor will inadvertently look like an asshole for getting a big paycheck even though they didn’t appear in a work. (BTW, they still had to do the fucking work, whether or not anyone saw it.)
with the D+ distribution, there’s probably a dearth of residuals, so they’re all paid out up front
Kind of wild how a studio can pay an actor close to $8m for a role that can be left on the cutting room floor.
i think they’re being creative here. they also say she owes roughly the same amount for the pilot.
Well, she showed up, got into the costume and makeup and shot the scene(s). She did the work, it’s not up to her what directors or editors do with it.
I think the point is that paying that kind of money for a potentially disposable part seems a bit…generous. I’m guessing Adam is right and it’s bullshit.
It’s only generous in the eyes of us poors. To the rest it’s an honest day’s work.
Well it has more to do with WHO the actor for that potentially disposable part is.
If it was somebody worth $8m for just a tiny bit of the film, the part would not be disposable.
I suppose. I’m sure there’s more to it, things we don’t know and numbers being manipulated, but I don’t have time for facts. I’m here to wildly speculate and makes assumptions based off a repost of an article by a writer that heard this from somewhere.
You are a taco after my own heart. Damn the facts, prime the snark bomb and let’s get back to commenting on shit we haven’t read yet!
Well, apparently it happens often in movies and sports. John Wall of the Houston Rockets got paid almost $170 million over 4 years to not play.
They could have paid me half that to not play Basketball for 4 years.
That’s inaccurate. They paid him $45 million to not play this last season.Doesn’t that sound much more reasonable?
I would imagine Kevin Spacey got even more since he was the star of “All the money in the world” and they had cut him from the entire film after it was done.
It’s a big number, but paying Lena Headey $7million up front is a lot cheaper than paying actors $7 million + box office + merch when the movie makes a billion dollars.That said, it does look like her agency is exaggerating.
I’m betting there is some fine print somewhere that gives them some recourse to sue, or else they wouldn’t even try.
Oral fine print?
It was whispered…
My guess is that her contract does state that they get paid even for deals that they don’t negotiate. Otherwise there could be situations where the agency gets a lead, say they hear that Michael Bay wants to cast her in Transformers 9 and ask her if she is interested. She says no, but then a couple of years later, there she is in the movie because she took the lead and went straight to the producers of the film. Similar things happen in real estate contracts to keep agents from getting cut out of their commission after putting in work that results in a sale.
This sounds it will make a very boring argument in regards to who owns the representation rights after her original agent started a new company that later changed hands (possibly after she left it?) and is competing with the American company representing her too. Could be anything from an agency that just wants to get paid it’s commission up to being a team of lawyers that found some old deal they think they can use to force her to payout a bunch of cash through a win or settlement.
There’s allegedly no contract. The article says it’s an oral agreement, if that.
Mate, oral agreements are contracts, they’re just not written contracts so they’re harder to prove.
That’s the point I was trying to make. Saying a deal does not respect the clause of an oral agreement has to be unbelievably hard to prove.
If there really is a pattern of conduct going back to the 90s, it would not be unbelievably hard to prove.And I haven’t seen the complaint or answer yet, but if her defense so far really is “it’s not in writing” then it sounds like she’s in bad shape.
The only issue with your comment I was taking was the statement that there was no contract, it was an oral agreement. Because, as I said, oral agreements are by nature contracts.Proving the terms of an oral contract are harder to prove than written contracts, but not necessarily unbelievably hard. The court could take into account all sorts of evidence: email exchanges discussing their working relationship, their conduct after the fact, payments (if any) she made to them (if any), etc. And don’t forget testimony. Testimony is evidence, how much weight one is to give the testimony is up to the fact finder (a jury or the judge in bench trials). Sometimes it might come down to a “he said, she said” situation and the fact finder decides who to believe.Contract disputes aren’t criminal. This “agent” doesn’t need to prove a contract existed beyond a reasonable doubt, only by the preponderance of the evidence. This means the agent just needs to prove that it’s more likely than not that a contract existed (or, just over 50% in the agent’s favor).
I did contract law for a few months when I was starting out as an associate (snoozy area lol), but this truly does seem like a clause that would need to be agreed upon in writing. Unless she was told to seek independent legal counsel for any agreements in her emails, or had a lawyer review with her, then I doubt this will proceed much further.
Oral contracts are still contracts, even if they aren’t enforceable under the Statute of Frauds.
but for such a specific clause to their agreement, it would be very difficult to enforce. Arguably the onus falls on the agency since they are experts in these types of contracts, and should have known to get this in writing.
“An oral contract isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.” – Sam Goldwyn, allegedly
Goddammit, every time you post I want to “Mr. Hutz,…” quote at you, but I don’t want to come off dickish, so I refrain.
I want to “Mr. Hutz,…” quote at youNot sure what quote you’re referencing so go ahead. I’m curious. I acknowledge that in this instance you’re not being dickish because I’ve invited it.
“Mr. Hutz, do you have any actual evidence to present?” was the only one that sprang to mind.
My (wrong) guess was you were referring to when Marge Simpson exclaimed “Mr. Hutz!” after she accused me of dubbing my voice over Aunt Gladys’ will, where she very generously bequeathed me $50,000.;-)
Oral agreements are worth the paper their written on.
In this case she could admit there was an oral contract, but it was just for parts they brought to her. The agency can say nuh-uh, it was for everything. Which isn’t much of a case.I’d say the only way they can prove it demonstrating she paid royalties for everything she’d done since the late 1990s (or at least 2005) whether this Duff guy (OH YEAH!) brought it to her or not.
Oral contracts are enforceable contracts. This does not fall under any conceivable statute of frauds situation, in general or in California specifically.
You’re assuming there’s a written contract. Her position is that there is not. You can be bound by an oral contract (contrary to what a lot of people think), but it’s going to be a lot more vague, and it’s going to be very hard to sue on that basis. Being vaaaaaaguely familiar with UK talent agencies, it looks like YMU are behaving like chancers to me, who recently (well, in 2020) lost a key guy, and are just trying to make some £££.The fact that this is going public is not good for the talent agency, because a lot of their talent are going to be asking questions about this, and about whether they really have their best interests at heart.Looking at their talent, it seems like they don’t have any Hollywood people at all (they don’t list Headey as a client, I note), not even British-Hollywood. The vast majority of their roster is “middling-to-famous TV presenters”, rather than y’know, actors. Literally the only actors I see are some mediocre comedians.So I’d be extremely skeptical of their claims, and very doubtful they wanted this to become news.
Agency work likely doesn’t work like that. If they gave her the lead (the tip, not the size of the role), then they get paid.If they didn’t talk to her about it … then I don’t think she should have to pay them … but her contract might include clauses like “because we do lots of work promoting you behind the scenes, that work leads to pitches to you even if we weren’t directly involved”.Like being a delivery driver. If you can afford to drive around and just check in at pizza places, and ask if they have any orders to go out (randomly), then Doordash doesn’t deserve a cut, do they? … which is a stupid example, I know, but you get my drift.
It’s pretty common in representation contracts to have the rep get paid even if the client went directly to the artist. The idea is that the rep is doing work to promote the artist and that can lead to such contacts. There is often a sort of grace period for a time when representation begins (say, a year) where the artist does not pay commissions on existing relationships but then does afterward because the rep will be doing work on maintaining those relationships.
Agency work does work like that. I know many actors (and I’m married to one) and their contacts always state that the agency gets a commission whether the agency brought them the work or not. It’s so you can’t screw an agency out of money that you agreed to give them by signing up with an agency in the first place.
There is something to this. Just because you got offered the role directly doesn’t mean the agency didn’t do any negotiating or had no role in making sure the contract was honored.
And here I’d heard a Lannister always pays his debts.Oh, every penny… but never a groat more, my lord.
Well played.
His. His debts. Doesn’t apply to the women.
I would’ve thought they had it set so the agency got their % without the talent/client/whatever having to do anything.
But then, until this afternoon I didn’t even know Jack Harlow existed, let alone that he’s white.
yeah, I would think agency and manager % would be baked into the contracts like a real estate sale.
In all fairness, I don’t think Jack Harlow knows that he’s white.
Do we know what character she played?
Reportedly was supposed to be a different and older Valkyrie.
If it was in a Valkyrie flashback, then that might explain why it was cut. If, say, it was a revenge-fueling motivational flashback where Hedley’s character gets killed by Gorr, they might have spent a day or more filming a sword fight with Christian Bale. So her work might have been more substantial and paycheck-y than simply casting her for the classic Cersei moves: sipping wine from a gold chalice, smirking, and tossing verbal barbs at her lessers. Which was my knee-jerk first guess: that she was cast as Hera. Perfect for sipping wine etc. But then again, if she were in scenes with Russell Crowe, you’d think they’d want to keep those in. Those two, I assume, would pair nicely.
I mean I posted it elsewhere but I think people are making a wrong assumption from this article that Headey got paid $7m. Her agency has no idea what she got paid because she didn’t report the income to them. The $500k is surely just a random number they picked because there’s zero chance she got anywhere near that for a minor role in the movie that was easy to cut.
Oh, I totally agree. The suit sounds like a shakedown. They were probably hoping for a quiet settlement for 1/3 of what they were asking.
She’s 48 and female, so I’m guessing she was playing a grandmother Valkyrie.
I always thought they should have cast her as Amora the Enchantress a long time ago.
No, an agency collecting their commission even if/when the actor’s role ultimately gets cut is not a “baffling scenario.” Looks like there are some details specific to this case regarding who negotiated what, but this article seems to be confused by the concept of commission fees.
You seem to be confused in general, try reading closer
I can’t speak to Lena Headey’s specific case/issue, but the overall premise of this article is ridiculous.Of course actors owe commissions to their agents for roles that are cut from the film. The actor was paid, the agent gets a commission. It doesn’t matter that the role was cut. That would be like saying Albert Pujols doesn’t get a cut of the salary the Angels paid him for most of last season because he was cut by the Angels early in the season. Albert got paid under the contract with the Angels (regardless of whether or not he was still an Angel) and his agent got paid.
The author of this article is missing the entire point of the dispute. Lena Headey isn’t arguing that she doesn’t owe the commission because she was cut, she’s arguing she doesn’t owe it because the agent wasn’t involved in landing those roles and, moreover, they were never actually in an agent-client relationship because the written contract was never signed.
Bad username/comment synergy here. You don’t sound like your business cards turn into sponges when you put them in water.
Anyway, I guess the point is muddled by the tone(quelle surprise), but they do note the correct dispute in the second half of the article. At least, I read it and got that much out of it.
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It has the whole tone of someone trying to weasel out of paying a builder.“Yes, I hired you to remodel my kitchen, but I never use it so I don’t why I have to pay your fee.”
Meh, I don’t know enough about the details of the case/their relationship. It could also just as easily be a sleazy person in the industry try to get a cut of her fees despite her never agreeing to employ the agent.I only take issue with the author’s complete missing of the mark.
I think it’s more like, “Even though you said you were going to remodel my kitchen, I ended up using another contractor so I don’t know why I have to pay your fee.”
Self management is cheaper and you get to keep all the money that doesn’t go for taxes. She certainly knows how to do intimidating characters so she can do her own contract negotiations. But it’s one of those things that people routinely pay others to do because it’s hard, and generally justify to themselves as more necessary than it really is.
pfft. as if you’ve played ball at this level.
I think it probably depends on how good your agent is. A good one will have industry contacts, knowledge of studio politics, a more objective sense of your worth and what comparable actors are being paid, experience in negotiating, and an ability to ask for money without settling or letting decorum or hurt feelings potentially ruin a working relationship. I absolutely believe that could make more than a 7% difference in take home pay.A bad one, especially for a famous client, can coast on your rep and make millions from a few phone calls, and unless you’re paying close attention, they can be hard to tell apart.
Damn that sucks. I would for Headey to join the MCU.
When you someone eat it?
Headey did not get paid $7m for a cameo lol. Her agency doesn’t know what she actually made because she never reported it to them so they sued her for a random number. That’s why part of their demand is an account of what she has made.
It doesn’t matter how she got the part, call from director, email from a pal, text from her mom, she still owes commission because she’s a client of the agency. That said, the agency is dumb for not getting her signature on paper at some point. These contracts are very clear who gets what and until the client formally leaves the agency, everything you do is commissionable, unless it’s established up front that some things are off limits. Those numbers make no sense though.
The whole, “The director approached me directly” doesn’t cut any ice with me. All of that may be true, but you still pay an agent to negotiate the contract, make sure union rules are followed and to be the hammer if something kinky happens. Just because an old college buddy offers you a job at a cocktail party doesn’t mean HR got the day off.Now, if these goobers don’t actually have a signed contract, and they are throwing out ridiculous numbers, then screw them.
Maybe her American agency negotiated that and the UK agency (which currently doesn’t represent her) was hoping to get a cut too?
Ahem, that’s HEDLEY!
“Unfortunately, her former agency doesn’t care one way or another if she’s in the film, just that she gets paid for it and pays them in return.”Yeah that’s usually how contracts work.
The article should do a better job asserting that Troika is “claiming” Headey was paid all this money for these roles. It’s highly, highly unlikely she was paid $7 million for a small part in this movie, and Troika’s saying she owes them similar fees for a Showtime pilot that never even aired. They’re just making up numbers/ I guess they claim something like royalties or percentage of box office if she even got that, which they wouldn’t know, because apparently THEY DIDN’T WORK ON HER CONTRACT.
I understand that she might have been disappointed that these things didn’t get her further work / money but…. if she got paid for being in Thor even if it got cut – what’s crazy about paying her agency their dues? They are obligated to a cut of what she earned for that and it’s shitty of her not to pay them.
I don’t understand why the tone of this article is in disbelief about it? She got agents to get her a job and agreed to give them a percentage of her earnings for that service and she got paid for doing that job and then she just casually didn’t pay the agency… um yah that sounds like a lawsuit. It literally has nothing to do with whether or not she appears in the theatrical cut.
This is a very black and white situation of her asking the agency to perform a service and then her just…. not paying them after they did so? That’s shitty.
Sounds like it’s an oral agreement that was made with an agent who is no longer with them though. It’s very possible they haven’t done anything for her since then or even been in contact and she had no reason to think they still considered her a client.
The article states that the agency did NOT get her those jobs, so, they didn’t perform a service at all, but still want a cut
So a Lannister doesn’t always pay her debts!
Seems like a clear cash grab on the agency’s part unless they can prove otherwise.
Being owed what she agreed to pay them is a cash grab?
I’m trying to figure out WHO she could have been playing?Hera? Zeus’ sister-wife and “mother figure” to the gods?
or perhaps one of his flings, like Alcmene, which either opens the door to another Marvel god and Avenger (or two)?maybe Gaea/Gaia? ties into the Terran Godmoot scenes we’ve had in the trailers, as a Mother Earth is pretty basic to all of the pantheons.
Or at least, another goddess? Since Bast is sitting in front of Val & Jane during the Thor vs Zeus moment in the trailer.hell, maybe it’s just Jane’s oncologist, if they hew to her backstory from the comics?It had to be a sizable role, for her to get $7M for it, not just some 1-2 week of screen work gig. It’s come out now that Bale had scenes with Dinklage (Eitri in Infinity War) and Goldblum (Ragnarok’s Grandmaster), which were both cut, likely due to potential future uses of the character if they were to meet up with his “God Killer” character.