Thompson has played Valkyrie, a warrior from Thor's home realm of Asgard, since Taika Waititi's 2017 film "Thor: Ragnarok." Although Valkyrie is canonically bisexual in the comics' "The Fearless Defenders" series, the character's sexuality hasn't been explicitly confirmed onscreen.
In 2017, the actress told The Rolling Stone that she had pushed Waititi to make Valkyrie bisexual in "Thor: Ragnarok," but a scene of a woman leaving the character's bedroom was eventually cut.
During Marvel Studio's Hall H panel at Comic-Con in 2019, the actress finally confirmed that her Marvel character will be openly queer in the upcoming movie, "Thor: Love and Thunder."
"As new king [of Asgard], she needs to find her queen," Thompson said.
The Marvel star herself is open about being a queer woman in Hollywood.
"I can take things for granted because of my family — it's so free and you can be anything that you want to be," she said in a 2018 interview with Net-a-Porter. "I'm attracted to men and also to women. If I bring a woman home, [or] a man, we don't even have to have the discussion."