'Thor: Ragnarok' costume designer spills details of Cate Blanchett's antlers and Mark Ruffalo's too-tight pants

Thor: Ragnarok doesn’t look quite like any other Marvel film, which is a point of pride for costume designer Mayes Rubeo. Her otherworldly designs are at once psychedelic and medieval, old Norse and scrappy steampunk, fantasy goth and ’80s punk.

For Rubeo, however, the film has one clear influence: Jack Kirby, the Marvel comic book artist and writer who co-created the character Thor in 1962. Director Taika Waititi used Kirby’s illustrations as a reference point for the whole film but particularly for the character Hela (the villain played by Cate Blanchett) and the scenes set on the planet Sakaar, where Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) are imprisoned and forced into a gladiator-style fight.

While this is Rubeo’s first Marvel film, the Mexican-born costume designer has carved out a specialty in films with a heavy motion-capture presence, including Avatar, World War Z, and Warcraft: The Beginning. Her process involves creating physical versions of all the costumes for the actors to try on — and, yes, that includes the giant antlered headpiece worn by Blanchett. Yahoo Entertainment spoke with Rubeo about designing the world of Thor: Ragnarok and adapting Tony Stark’s ’80s-tastic wardrobe to (barely) fit Ruffalo.

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