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Taika Waititi
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July 11, 2022, 3:49 am
Jewish-Indigenous director Taika Waititi takes a hammer to Thor in ‘Love & Thunder’
The filmmaker says his goal was to smash audience expectations for the chiseled superhero, showing that there are more sides to Marvel’s most monolithic crusader
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