In a video interview with Entertainment Weekly, Taika Waititi reflected on some of his most important projects and shared his memories of directing ‘Thor: Ragnarok.’
“That really propelled me into the nerdosphere, if you will,” he remembered of the film. “I was living a really lovely, peaceful life, and as soon as I did this, well boy, did the nerds come for me. They said, ‘This guy’s gonna ruin this. He’s gonna ruin Thor!'”
Waititi didn’t think the movie could have done much damage to the god of thunder’s standing among fans, as 2013’s ‘Thor: The Dark World’ was considered by fans to be one of the least successful films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
“It’s like, ‘What, you mean again?'” he recalled. “And they were like, ‘He’s gonna ruin this for everyone, Thor’s so cool!’ And I said to them on Twitter — before I left Twitter — I said, ‘You don’t know what you want until I give it to you.'”
The filmmaker believes he won back geek audiences with his work on The Mandalorian. “Speaking of angry geeks, ‘Star Wars,’ ‘The Mandalorian,'” Waititi said of the series, for which he directed an episode and voiced the droid assassin IG-11. “That’s what brought the nerds back. They said, ‘Okay, you have a right of passage in this.'”
Waititi said that working on a ‘Star Wars’ project brought out his inner child.
