I think Elsa Pataky’s second pregnancy is evidence that she’s completely happy with being “Chris Hemsworth’s wife.” I don’t mean that as shade at all – Chris is an increasingly in-demand actor, a man on the verge of becoming flat-out A-list, which is something very few actors in his age group have managed. There were two ways Elsa could have played her marriage to Chris – she could have parlayed the marriage into her own separate and lesser career, always striving and hustling and making the Hollywood game the most important thing… or she could accept that Chris was always going to be “the star” of the marriage, and she should position herself as his nurturing wife rather than attempting to be a star in her own right. I think Elsa has made her peace with it. She’s never going to be “glamorous movie star Elsa Pataky.” She’s going to be “Chris Hemsworth’s glowing wife, Elsa.”

That being said, I do think Elsa still has the itch. She subdued all of her natural camera-hungry instincts during the Thor 2 promotions (where was she?! I still miss her), but as Natalie Portman recently admitted, Elsa managed to wrangle her way into Thor 2! They probably had to carry her off the set when the scene was done.

If it looked like Chris Hemsworth wasn’t just acting during his passionate kiss at the end of the credits on “Thor: The Dark World” – it’s because he wasn’t.

Co-star Natalie Portman revealed to the Daily News that due to a scheduling conflict she couldn’t reprise her role as Thor’s mortal girlfriend in time to film the scene. So a special stunt double filled in – Hemsworth’s real-life wife, “Fast & Furious 6” actress Elsa Pataky.

“It was for reshoots (after the film was finished) and he was working in Hong Kong and I couldn’t get there because I was working on my own film,” Portman told the News.
“And so they put his wife in my wig and costume, that’s why it was so passionate.”

The Spanish-born Pataky, who has been married to Hemsworth since 2010 and is now pregnant with their second child, had been traveling with her demi-God and their daughter India at the time anyway. With the assistance of a few trick camera angles, moviegoers were none the wiser.

“It was such a perfect solution, wasn’t it,” said Portman.

[From The NYDN]

See, this should show you my Dragonfly geekiness – my first thought upon reading this was, “Huh, that’s weird that they would need to do reshoots with Natalie whatsoever, I thought the reshoots were just to add MORE HIDDLESTON.” Which is true, the bulk of the reshoots were to rework The Hiddles and to add more Hiddles because the film should have been called Thor 2: The Dancing, Singing, Always Present Loki. But I guess someone was like, “Eh, let’s reshoot the epic kiss too. Should we throw a wig on Hiddles? Oh, is Elsa here? Yeah, she can do it. Oh, she brought her own wig and makeup trailer? She already had a costume made? Well, that’s strange.”

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