When Marvel and Walt Disney announced that Tessa Thompson would portray Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnorak, a lot of people cheered. Thompson, who is of multiracial heritage, was cast to portray a character that was originally written as a white woman. Some Thor enthusiasts were quite upset, taking to social media and saying that character would never do well as a non-white woman and the movie would suffer. Thor: Ragnorak opened to a remarkable $109 million international box office and, on the Friday of its U.S. debut, hauled in $47 million domestically (with an additional $14.5 million on Thursday) plus a $44 million haul on Saturday. I never in a million years grew up thinking that I would be or could be in a superhero movie.

Source: Forbes November 05, 2017 16:52 UTC