Natalie Portman Juggles Marvel Movie Workouts With Pandemic Depression on Fallon

It's hard enough to stay healthy during this pandemic, so imagine how impossible it must be to get into super-buff Chris Hemsworth-style Marvel-movie shape right now? That's Natalie Portman's struggle as she prepares to film Thor: Love and Thunder, in which she actually becomes Thor herself.

"I'm trying," she laughed after Jimmy Fallon asked her about her workout regimen Tuesday night on The Tonight Show. "I've also had, like, months of pandemic — you know, eating baked goods, lying in bed and feeling sorry for myself, so I'm like super-tired after working out. And during. And dreading before."

But she also said she's excited for the film. "It's going to be really silly and funny and great. We've got Taika Waititi. He's wonderful, so I'm very excited to just be riffing with all of them."

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