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She played the largely thankless role of Jane Foster in the first and second Thor films, to plenty of criticism, and now, Natalie Portman has confirmed that she has no plans to continue on with the Marvel franchise.

“As far as I know, I’m done. I don’t know if maybe one day they’ll ask for an ‘Avengers 7’ or whatever, I have no idea. But as far as I know, I’m done,” she said to the Wall Street Journal in an interview promoting her new film, A Tale of Love and Darkness, with which she is making her directing debut.

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As Foster, Portman played the love interest of Thor (Chris Hemsworth), an astrophysicist caught in his world when the crowned prince of Asgard was exiled from his planet to Earth. Foster and the Norse God quickly became friends (and much more) during the second film, Thor: The Dark World, where she was last seen as an unlikely host to the aether.

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige had previously confirmed her absence in Thor: Ragnarok in May 2016, but declined to cite any concrete reasons. Her character’s absence will be explained in the film, but has yet to be explained in real life. Could their be conflicts of character off-screen that fans don’t yet know about? We may never know.