Brett Goldstein Talks Playing Hercules In Marvel's Thor: Love And Thunder

Appearing on the podcast "Happy Sad Confused," Brett Goldstein revealed he was just as shocked as we were at his addition to the MCU. "It came completely out of nowhere," he explained. "I just got an email saying, 'The Marvel producers would like to talk to you about something.'" From there, the top-secret system for any star that Marvel wants in one of its projects was applied.

"Obviously, I wasn't allowed to know any of it, and then I had a Zoom, and they literally just explained, 'Hey, Brett, we're making this 'Thor: Love and Thunder,' and at the end of it, blah, blah, blah, this happens, this happens, and then the camera spins around, and it's you,'" Goldstein recalled. "And I went, 'Are you f***ing joking? ... Is this real?'"

He went on to explain that concept art of him as Hercules had already been made, certifying how serious Marvel was in casting him as the ancient but new-to-the-MCU superhero. "That was the one that was most completely out of nowhere, left field, never considered it. It wasn't on my radar. Just a wild thing," he said of the role. What's even wilder, of course, is the possibility of seeing Goldstein's Greek god go up against (Thor's words, not ours) the mightiest Avenger — and Goldstein may just know how to come out on top.