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Jaimie Alexander's Lady Sif has been a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2011, ever since she appeared in the very first Thor movie. Since then, she's made appearances in Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Love and Thunder, Loki, What If...? and even the recently retconned Agents of SHIELD. It's an impressive list of appearances, but as we learned at New York Comic Con 2024, it might not have have happened without an awkward meeting between Alexander and head of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige.

Some context here: Jaimie Alexander was a panelist at NYCC 2024's Happy Sad Confused panel, hosted by Josh Horowitz of the podcast by that name. During the course of the panel. frequent celeb interviewer Horowitz asked the panel what the weirdest thing they'd ever done to prepare for a role was. Jaimie Alexander volunteered to go first.

"The first Thor," she began, "I went to see Kevin Feige. And I happen to carry a knife."

When the audience began to laugh, Alexander got ahead of them.

"No," she said, "It gets worse." And she meant it.

"It was also my time of the month," Alexander said. "My purse fell off a chair, and there was a tampon. And a knife. Then, somehow, it came up that i had four brothers. So everybody was like, 'OK, you're Sif.'"

So as you watch through the Lady Sif's many appearances in the MCU (and hopefully her future ones), remember that she came by her role honestly. "I was just myself," in her own words. And the MCU is better for it.

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