Matt Damon
While all of these cameos are awesome, the most eyebrow-raising has to be the guy who’s playing Loki in the God of Mischief’s Asgardian stage play. If you were sitting in the theater saying “Hey, that Loki actor looks like Matt Damon,” then you weren’t imagining things. That really is Matt Damon!
It’s a ridiculously tiny part for the Jason Bourne star, and he’s kind of hard to recognize under a Tom Hiddleston-esque long black wig. Still, how did Taika Waititi pull off this casting coup and what was the thinking behind it? The director explained to Radio Times:
“That was just through contacts. If Loki was gonna write a play about his death, then he would want to get the most talented actors he could, the biggest stars of Asgardian theatre, to come and do this thing.”
Superhero movie fans have been calling for Damon to appear in a comic book film for years, ever since he was offered the part of Two-Face back in 2007’s The Dark Knight. Let’s hope he’s got a taste for it now so he might be more inclined to appear opposite his old pal Ben Affleck in a future DCEU movie.
Be sure to catch Thor: Ragnarok in US cinemas on November 3rd.