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Chris Hemsworth looks back at his Thor: Love and Thunder Performance with regret. The 40-year-old Marvel Cinematic Universe hero criticized his on-screen portrayal as a “parody” of himself in a new interview.
“I fell into the improvisation and the craziness and became a parody of myself,” Chris said Vanity Fair in an interview published on Tuesday, April 30. “I didn’t stick the landing.”
Reflecting on his 2022 film, Chris admitted that at this point in his career, “he had been trying to build muscle and make things happen for so long out of obsession and desperation to build this career, and I was just exhausted .”
“I worried about everything,” he admitted. “Nothing was as fun as it used to be, or I imagined it would be. I was making films and doing press tours one after the other, I was married with three small children, and it was all happening at the same time in a very short window of time.”
Chris shares his children, daughter India and sons Sasha and Tristan, with his wife, Elsa Pataky. In the further course of his interview he said Thor The franchise star provided more context on his thinking at the time Love and thunder was published.
“You’re just living with the fumes, so to speak, and then you show up in front of something that has little left in the tank and you start picking things apart,” he said, before running through the questions he asked himself. “Why am I making this film? Why isn’t this script better? Why didn’t this director call me for this or why wasn’t I considered for this role? Why can’t I get the call from? [Martin] Scorsese or [Quentin] Tarantino? I had started to take everything too seriously and too personally.”
Admittedly, Chris added, his mind began to race with self-doubt, which affected his moments with family members and friends.
“My mom would come over for a cup of coffee and have to snap her fingers and say, ‘Chris, where are you?’ Come on, I’m here,” he remarked. “The chatter in my head became so intense – and then the guilt set in that every time I left a dinner with my parents or a friend I would say, ‘God, I wasn’t there.’ I just spent the time bitching or complaining.’ There is a narcissism in that. How many more years will we be having this conversation? Just shut up, Chris.”