Idris Elba may already be in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Heimdall, but that hasn’t stopped the Thor actor from wanting to someday portray a bigger Marvel character.
While speaking to EW, Elba said:
“I like that I have a little part in Thor. I’m neither movie star or day player. It allows me to do other things I love… I wish I was more present in the Marvel family. I like what I have, but I also wish that I had a bigger character in the Marvel universe. It’s been great, but I kinda think I need a bit more. I want to be a superhero. I like the idea of that.”
For now, we’ll see Elba next in Thor: Ragnarok, which is said to pave the way for Avengers: Infinity War:
“In Winter Soldier we broke down some of the real fundamental ideas about the MCU that you took for granted, specifically S.H.I.E.L.D.. I think that also in phase one, we established this cosmology that involved Asgard and Odin, and certain ideas of things that you just thought were eternal and could never change. And what this film does is it breaks them down in a very similar way [to how] Winter Soldier broke down ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’. Much like Winter Soldier took a lot of ideas off the playing field to make it harder on the Avengers in Ultron, [Ragnarok is] a similar thing. The whole cosmic world of the MCU was… you had Thanos, and you had Chitauri, and you have threats from above coming. But you also have Asgard, you also have these protective forces out there too… we make it much harder for those protections to come help our heroes as we enter [Avengers 3].”
Who knows? Maybe we’ll see Elba portray a different character at some point in the future. After all, Marvel Studios just recently used an actor featured in both Captain America and Spider-Man: Homecoming, so you can’t ever really predict what they’re going to do.