Thor: The Dark World – Portman Returns…Because She Has To

Well, Edward Norton and Terence Howard have to be kicking at clumps of dirt and cursing quietly this week.Those two may have been forced out of roles they wanted to keep in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but after Hugo Weaving confessed earlier this week to having no interest in returning to reprise the role of the Red Skull, TG Daily (via CBM) is now reporting that Thor star Natalie Portman is only back as Jane Foster because Marvel declined to let her out of her contract when she said she didn’t want to be there.”It’s not something I would want to do again,” Weaving said in an interview earlier this week. “I’m glad I did it. I did sign up for a number of pictures and I suppose, contractually, I would be obliged to, if they forced me to, but they wouldn’t want to force someone to do it, if they didn’t want to.”