Thor: Ragnarok left a significant Skurge sequence on the cutting room floor, according to actor Karl Urban.
Most recently seen in the third season of Prime Video's golden goose The Boys, Urban spoke to GQ about his role in the 2017 Marvel flick, directed by Taika Waititi.
Tattooed and brutish-looking, his Asgardian warrior started off as the new defender of the Bifrost (following Heimdall's self-exile) before teaming up with Cate Blanchett's usurper Hela, and eventually sacrificing himself when his conscience returned.
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"There was actually a scene that didn't make the final cut. Because the character has a really wonderful arc," Urban shared.
"That first of all, out of self-preservation, he aligns himself with Hela. Because he could see that if he doesn't he's going to be killed. But then, through the course of the film, he gets more and more sickened by what he's required to do in order to hold that decision up, to work for her.
"There's a scene where he chops the head off this young girl in a town square because Hela asks him to. And then post that scene, there's a scene which didn't make the final cut, is he absolutely sickened to the core."
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Painting a vivid picture of what audiences will never see, the Lord of the Rings star continued: "We find him in some corner. And he's actually being physically sick by what he's done. And that was really sort of the genesis for this turn that he takes, and the guilt that he feels about what he's done, and how he's going to, at the right point in time, make it right.
"And that's always fun, when you have a character that you can take him in one direction, and then have a pivot."
Clearly very busy right now, you can also catch Urban voicing Jacob Holland in Netflix's animated The Sea Beast now.
Thor: Love and Thunder is playing in both US and UK cinemas. The other three Thor movies are available to stream now on Disney+.
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