Chris Hemsworth and Taika Waititi say their kids helped create the monsters in 'Thor: Love and Thunder'

• "Thor: Love and Thunder" stars Chris Hemsworth and Taika Waititi spoke to People about the movie.
• They said that their kids gave input regarding the appearances of Gorr's shadow monsters.

"Thor: Love and Thunder" stars Chris Hemsworth and Taika Waititi said that their kids inspired the looks of the villain Gorr the God Butcher's grotesque shadow monsters.

"The monsters in the film were originally based on drawings that all of our kids did," Waititi, who directs and portrays Korg, told People in a new interview. "I was typing the script and my daughter kind of leaned over and she was like, 'What's an oil monster?' That's like the first thing I could come up with [when] I was writing."

He continued: "I said, 'I have no idea. I just wrote oil monster, whatever that means.' And she goes, 'What do you think that looks like? Do you think it's spiky?' And then she draws this like snakey thing."

"And then Taika said to me, 'Tell your kids to do some drawings,' and they did some drawings," Hemsworth added.

Waititi has two daughters, 10-year-old Te Kāinga o te Hinekāhu and 6-year-old Matewa Kiritapu, whom he shares with ex-wife Chelsea Winstanley.

Hemsworth and his wife Elsa Pataky have a daughter named India Rose, 10, and twin sons Sasha and Tristan, 8.

In addition to giving creative input on the look of the monsters, Waititi and Hemsworth's family members make appearances in "Thor 4."

Waititi's children are credited as playing Asgardian kids who Gorr (Christian Bale) takes hostage.

In the Hemsworth clan, Tristan portrays a young version of Thor in one of the movie's early montages about the superhero, India stars as Gorr's daughter, and Sasha plays another Asgardian child who gets captured by Bale's villain.

Pataky also has a cameo as a wolf woman who Thor kisses and Hemsworth's older brother Luke reprises his role as an Asgardian actor playing the God of Lightning in a stage production.

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