Chris Hemsworth says this when it came time to name his twin sons Elsa Patakyhe looked no further than Brad Pitt‘s filmography as inspiration.
While promoting his upcoming projects, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga And Limitless Season 2, in a new interview with Vanity Fair, The 40-year-old Australian actor revealed this after watching Pitt, 60, as a child Legends of passion The idea kept coming to him over and over again, first as they prepared to welcome their young a decade ago.
“There has never been a more beautiful man on screen,” he said Co-chair of the 2024 Met Gala says of Tristan Ludlow, Pitt’s character in the 1994 film, which also stars Anthony Hopkins and Julia Ormond.
The Thor The actor shares that Pataky, 47, was pregnant with her sons in 2014 and they decided to watch Legends of passion together when he had the aha moment that led to one of two names for their twins.
“Isn’t he the coolest character in the world? “I think one of our kids has to be named Tristan,” Hemsworth recalls, summing up the conversation between him and Pataky. The couple eventually decided to name their other son, Sasha, after one of their stuntman friends. Pataky and Hemsworth are also parents to 11-year-old daughter India, who even occurred Thor: Love and Thunder.
To this day, Hemsworth says it’s Pitt’s character Legends of passion — as well as Patrick Swayze In Point break And Robert De Niro In Heat — that made him and his brothers, Luke And Liameveryone wants to pursue acting.
“Then it just became a complete obsession,” Hemsworth says of how his love of film became his life’s work and passion.
In the same interview with the magazine, Hemsworth addressed a difficult topic tackled while promoting the premiere season of Limitlesswhen he discovered he had a gene causes him to be susceptible to Alzheimer’s disease. He revealed this in an interview at the time Good morning America A genetic test conducted for the show found that his risk of developing the disease was eight to ten times higher than that of the general population.
Hemsworth said he had hoped the interview would inspire others and not spark a media circus, but the story was ultimately hijacked by media outlets that included the scariest parts and didn’t focus on his reaction to the news.
“It really pissed me off because it felt like I had become vulnerable about something personal and shared that,” he tells the magazine. “No matter how many times I said, ‘This is not a death sentence,’ the story revealed that I had dementia and was rethinking my life, retiring, and so on.”
The headlines only got worse when he shared that he planned to take a short break from acting after the season 1 finale Limitless, which was recently renewed for a second season. Hemsworth later explained his comments about the acting break in a Interview with ET in June.
“It’s all gotten a little out of hand,” he said. “I wanted to take some time off because I have been working for 10 years and have three children that I would like to spend more time with. The information about the predisposition… enabled me to make a whole range of other changes… from diet to my training to my mental fitness.”
Since then, things have been in full swing for the father of three and Marvel star. AND spoke to the actor next to his Angry co-star, Anya Taylor Joyat CinemaCon earlier this month while promoting the upcoming prequel Crazy Max Movies.
Hemsworth also chatted with ET the same weekend approximately Transformers One, in which he voices Orion Pax, a young Optimus Prime, at his side Brian Tyree Henry, who voices D-16, a young Megatron. The story behind the creation is the first animated film in more than 30 years.
“The big appeal for both of us, as fans of this universe, is the opportunity to tell a different story,” Hemsworth said.
He continued: “We know them historically [as] Mortal enemies, but here they start out as friends. It’s a great connection and bond, and it’s two individuals who have something to prove. Then the development of the characters that we either love or hate is an interesting journey, but the film has a lot of heart and a lot of comedic elements. So it was a great adventure.
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