Matt Damon
Matt Damon is said to have a cameo in the upcoming Marvel film, “Thor: Ragnarok.” In this photo, the actor attends a news conference to promote the film “Suburbicon” at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on Sept. 10, 2017. Reuters/Fred Thornhill

Everybody knows Stan Lee is going to make a cameo in the upcoming Marvel film “Thor: Ragnarok.” After all, what’s a Marvel movie without an appearance from the comic book genius? But the Chris Hemsworth-starrer has something even more special in store for fans, since Weekly Planet reported that “The Martian” star Matt Damon is going to make an appearance as an Asgardian performer.

“There’s a scene set on Asgard in which we watch an Asgardian theater production that essentially recounts the entirety of ‘Thor’ 1, like as a play. And in this theater piece, the role of Loki is played by an Asgardian actor played by Matt Damon,” the podcast revealed.

Speaking of the real Loki (Tom Hiddleston), producer Brad Winderbaum told Screen Rant that the god of mischief actually helped bring Hela (Cate Blanchett) to Asgard without really meaning to.

Loki was able to impersonate his father, Odin (Anthony Hopkins), and he was in a good place since he was finally ruling the kingdom. “[When] we left Loki, he kind of achieved his goals, he became the king of Asgard, and he is ruling that place. And what we come to learn, what Thor comes to learn early on, is that there’s a lot of terrible things in the cosmos that just shouldn’t be that way. And we learn that Odin was doing far more than it seemed on the surface to keep the universe safe,” Winderbaum said.

Unfortunately, Loki does not have enough strength and power to keep all of Asgard’s threats at bay. Hela, being the “biggest and most terrible one of all,” immediately took advantage of that fact.

So even though Loki does not really like his half-brother Thor (Hemsworth), he begrudgingly teams up with him in order to defeat Hela. “I think Loki’s a character who has always tested the limits of his power and has always tested the boundaries placed upon him. He doesn’t just stick his finger in the electrical plug socket, he burns the house down,” Hiddleston told Slash Film.

“Thor: Ragnarok” will be released on Nov. 3.

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