I’m gonna send you the script and I’m gonna send you some key artwork of what the character looks like.” Which he did and I read the script and immediately recognized that it was something emotionally compelling about this character and his journey. He said, “I got a part in this movie, I’d love for you to be a part in it.
Karl Urban: We’ve had conversations about a film in the past, but in this case I got a phone call from Taika. There’s always lots to talk about with the affable Urban, and when we sat down with him this time in Los Angeles, we touched on joining the MCU, playing opposite his LOTR co-star Blanchett for the first time, working with director Taika Waititi and more, including the future of Star Trek and Dredd. Now - and it seems like it should have happened before - he has joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Thor: Ragnarok as Skurge, an Asgardian worker who betrays Thor (Chris Hemsworth) to serve as right hand man to the villainous Hela (Cate Blanchett).
Leonard “Bones” McCoy in the three rebooted Star Trek films so far has been hailed by both diehard fans and critics as one of the strongest aspects of that series. He also created a defining new portrayal of Judge Dredd in the 2012 future cult classic Dredd, and his performance as Dr. Since then, he has appeared in movies such as Doom, The Bourne Supremacy, Red, Pathfinder, The Chronicles of Riddick and more. His first major exposure to moviegoers came in 2002, when he first played the Rohirrim warrior Eomer in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (a role he would reprise in the next year’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King). From his early days as Julius Caesar and Cupid on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, New Zealand-born actor Karl Urban has always been a favorite with fans.