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“But it all goes a little bit out the window when you work with Taika.”Įxplore the Marvel Cinematic Universe The popular franchise of superhero films and TV series continues to expand. “We have parameters at Marvel where they come to you with a package of visual development, which I respect very much,” Rubeo said. It helps, she said, that this is her third collaboration with the irreverent director Taika Waititi, with whom she worked on “Thor: Ragnarok” and “Jojo Rabbit” (which earned Rubeo an Oscar nomination). And the plot of “Thor: Love and Thunder,” which finds Thor (Chris Hemsworth) teaming up with his ex-girlfriend, Jane (Natalie Portman), as she deals with her suddenly granted superpowers, allowed Rubeo plenty of room to go against the grain.

If anything, Rubeo’s work on the new sequel “ Thor: Love and Thunder” is even more vivid: In an era when superhero costumes tend to be toned down from what’s on the page, and films like “The Batman” eschew color and light for dark squalor, Rubeo instead favors a flamboyant approach. “I’m Mexican, and I live in Italy, so I’m not afraid of color whatsoever.” “Bringing color into somebody’s world is so cool,” Rubeo said.

For the costume designer Mayes Rubeo, touring the warehouse is always a fun trip, not least because there is an aisle of costume leftovers from her work on “Thor: Ragnarok” that comprises the most colorful section of the entire building. There is a hush-hush building in North Hollywood full of supersuits and scraps, a costume warehouse where Marvel Studios preserves every major outfit that its heroes have worn onscreen during the last decade and a half.