Adewale Akinnuoye - Agbaje as Algrim / Kurse: A Dark Elf, and Malekith 's trusted and loyal lieutenant, who is transformed into a monstrous creature in order to destroy Thor. Akinnuoye - Agbaje described Kurse as "an amalgamation of a bull and a lava - like creature. He has very animalistic tendencies but with this insatiable and unstoppable power. As an actor, that 's one of the hardest things to embody. You have to realize you are probably the most powerful thing you could imagine. And you have to be that. You ca n't pretend, so that when you face Thor, it 's real. '' Akinnuoye - Agbaje stated the role required three hours of make - up a day and had to put on heavy duty prosthetics explaining, "The outfit weighed about 40 pounds. I 'm sure there will be a certain amount of CGI but a good 80 % was me in that suit. '' About the character Akinnuoye - Agbaje said, "I suppose Algrim and Kurse would be the quintessential baddies, but in reality they are what I perceive as the scorn and the victims of the story. They are the elves who have basically lost their planet and their race to another race, the Asgardians. Here is a man / alien who places a noble objective beyond his own life and I think there is something extremely inspiring about that because he looks at the bigger picture and sees himself as a means to that end. '' Akinnuoye - Agbaje added, "I worked with director Alan Taylor in trying to maintain Algrim 's humanity all the way throughout Kurse 's transformation, so that even when you see Kurse the beast, you can still relate to him as being Algrim inside. And symbolically we did that by keeping the same piercing blue eyes throughout. ''
who plays the dark elf in thor 2
Adewale Akinnuoye - Agbaje