Thor: Love and Thunder Director Taika Waititi Compares Marvel Characters to American Celebrities

Taika Waititi is currently having a successful awards season, but we'll always love him best for [...]

Taika Waititi is currently having a successful awards season, but we'll always love him best for helming Thor: Ragnarok. Before the director moves on the next Thor movie, he'll likely be attending all of the big awards shows for Jojo Rabbit, which just received six BAFTA nominations. Despite his latest movie's success, it appears Waititi still has Marvel on the brain. The Mary Sue's Rachel Leishman recently made a joke on Twitter about the "superhero disguise" which shows multiple Marvel characters incognito alongside You's Joe (Penn Badgley). The tweet caught the attention of Waititi, who had a hilarious response.

"The superhero disguise." Leishman joked.

"I think you mean 'American celebrity in public' disguise," Waititi added.

Leishman replied back with a hilariously incriminating photo:

"The truth is out there," she wrote.

"I'm not a celebrity. I'm a Taika," Waititi joked.

Many people commented on the director's tweet:

"The way you called everyone out," @rachelzegler wrote.

"Put Joe in Thor: Love and Thunder," @getFANDOM joked.

Waititi will soon be returning to Marvel to direct Thor: Love and Thunder. Not only will Chris Hemsworth's Thor be the first MCU hero to get a fourth installment to their respective franchise within the franchise, but the movie will also see the return Natalie Portman as Jane Foster and Tessa Thompson King Valkyrie. Waititi is currently working on Next Goal Wins, which is based on the documentary of the same name. The film followed the American Samoa soccer team and their Dutch coach, Thomas Rongen, as he attempted "the nearly impossible task" of transforming the team into "perennial losers into winners."

Jojo Rabbit is still playing in select theaters, Thor: Love and Thunder will hit theaters on November 5, 2021, and the first two seasons of You are streaming on Netflix. Other upcoming Marvel Studios projects include Black Widow on May 1st, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier in the Fall, WandaVision sometime this year, The Eternals on November 6th, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings on February 12, 2021, Loki in Spring 2021, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness on May 7, 2021, Spider-Man 3 on July 16, 2021, What If…? in Summer 2021, Hawkeye in Fall 2021, and Black Panther 2 on May 6, 2022. Marvel Studios Disney+ series without release dates include Ms. Marvel, Moon Knight, and She-Hulk.

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