Australian actor and Hollywood megastar Chris Hemsworth has opened up on his one major career regret.
The 40-year-old said his performance in one recent film had turned him into a “parody” of himself.
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Speaking to Vanity Fair, Hemsworth said he took full responsibility for criticism of 2022’s Thor: Love and Thunder after fans said it was “silly”.
The film, directed by Rita Ora’s husband Taika Waititi, was the fourth Thor film in the massively popular Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise.
But reviews weren’t great, with Hemsworth accused of hamming it up just a little too much — and it seems the actor agrees with the assessment.
“I got caught up in the improv and wackiness, and I became a parody of myself,” he said.
“I didn’t stick the landing.”
He also felt he wasn’t always given the best lines to work with.
“I would read everyone else’s lines and go, ‘oh, they got way cooler stuff. They’re having more fun. What’s my character doing?’,” he said.
“It was always about, ‘You’ve got the wig on. You’ve got the muscles. You’ve got the costume. Where’s the lighting?’
“Yeah, I’m part of this big thing, but I’m probably pretty replaceable’.”
It was after Thor: Love and Thunder wrapped that Hemsworth realised he wanted to be taken more seriously as an actor, not just as a hunky action hero.
At the same time, he said he didn’t want to be thought of as an “overly self-important, pretentious w*****” who took his “craft” way too seriously.
However, if Hemsworth has mixed feelings about his performance in Love and Thunder, Marvel co-star Robert Downey Jr doesn’t.
He said the Australian actor had managed how to make Thor “somehow relatable but godlike”.
“Hemsworth is, in my opinion, the most complex psyche out of all of us Avengers,” Downey Jr said.
“He’s got wit and gravitas, but also such restraint, fire and gentleness.”
Hemsworth is currently promoting his next film, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the fifth instalment of the iconic franchise.
The movie tells the story of a young Imperator, Furiosa, played by English actress Anya Taylor-Joy.
Explaining his character Dementus at a recent CCXP convention in Brazil, Hemsworth said he was a “very violent, insane, brutal person that is born from the Wasteland”.
“He has been birthed into a space where it’s kill or be killed,” he explained.
“He’s learned to rule with an iron fist.
“There’s a charisma to him, and it’s very manipulative.”
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is in cinemas on May 23.
