Chris Hemsworthwas struggling financially before landing the most lucrative role of his career.
TheMen in Black: Internationalactor, 35, appeared on thelatest cover ofVarietywhere he opened up about the beginning of his career and how he got into acting. Hemsworth’s first role was on Australian soapHome and Away, which he booked as a high school dropout in 2004.
“I almost put too much pressure on myself,” Hemsworth said. “If I hadn’t taken it upon myself to take care of my family, I might have been more relaxed. I remember I had an audition right before Christmas one year, where things were not going good. I’d stopped getting callbacks, and I was getting worse feedback. I thought, ‘God, why did I do this?’”
The pressure led him to miss out on roles, which he still regrets.
“I got very close toGI Joe,” Hemsworth said of the 2009 movie starringChanning Tatum.
“I got very close to Gambit in the WolverineX-Menmovies,” Hemsworth continued, though the role eventually went toFriday Night Lightsstar Taylor Kitsch. “At the time I was upset. I was running out of money. But if I played either of those characters, I wouldn’t have been able to play Thor.”
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Hemsworth now has no shortage of roles to choose from, but he revealed in the same interview that he still gets nervous before movies and almost dropped out of 2016’sGhostbusters.
“The night before I was shooting, I almost pulled out,” he said. “Three or four weeks prior, Paul [Feig, director] said to me, ‘I’m going to write up the character. Don’t worry.’ And then I got the script and nothing had changed.’”
Hemsworth told the magazine his agent, Bryan Lourd, had set up a meeting with Feig who told him the part had some good moments — through the use of improvisation.
“I was really scared walking onto that set,” Hemsworth admitted. “I had no real plan, so I was just feeding off of them, and I just felt ridiculous. So I used that.”
The movie was a success, raking in $128 million at the U.S. box office and $229 million worldwide. Although some critics praised the film, it still received backlash from fans for being a film that centered on female characters.
“That whole period I was like, ‘What ownership do you guys have over those characters?’” Hemsworth said. “Oh, you watched the film, therefore you should have a say over where it goes?”
He added, “I thought it was very unfortunate and kind of disappointing.”
Men in Black: Internationalopens June 14.
source: people.com
