Entertainment Weekly ’s latest cover story offers all sorts of new info and plot details about Thor: Ragnarok, including an interview with Cate Blanchett about her character Hela, the Goddess of Death, who can manifest weapons from her body. From the sound of it, she’s got an axe to grind with Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and his Asgardian buddies.
“She’s been locked away for millennia, getting more and more cross, and then, with a mistake, she get unleashed and she ain’t getting back in that box,” Blanchett tells EW.
Blanchett even went back to the comics to better acquaint herself with Hera’s origin story, saying, “You gotta know the history of the character. And there are so many iterations of the origin story. For any of these characters, there’s never one origin story.”
That's nice. How does one replicate that badass smoky eye, though? Because no amount of impulse spending and attentive listening at Sephora (and there’s been a lot of both, lo these many years) has ever yielded anything close to this:
What woman alive doesn’t look at this picture and think, “Damn, I could do that. Like, a softer version of that. I could pull it off. I think I have an old Urban Decay pallette laying around here somewhere...” We’ve been there before, and you probably have too, resolute that this is the day we master makeup, and femininity as a whole really. But inevitably, about 11 minutes later, we end up looking like the girl crawling out of the TV in The Ring, blowing through half a bottle of that special fancy makeup remover and calling it a night.
While we’re on the topic of superficial aesthetics in Thor: Ragnarok, we don’t much care for Chris Hemsworth’s new haircut. Give us back those manly locks!
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Admittedly, while Hera’s makeup is wholly on point, her hair also isn’t so great here. Was there a mass extinction of hairstylists in Asgard? That said, it's probably hard to look flat-iron fresh while you’re kicking the crap out of a flaxen-haired god.
At any rate, here’s hoping that Thor: Ragnarok and Guardians of the Galaxy 2 culminate in a MAC x Marvel collection. Thor: Ragnarok is out in theaters Nov. 3.
