Chris Hemsworth: Russell Crowe comforted me during ‘Thor’ nude scene

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“The Project” with “Thor” director Taika Waititi to discuss the new film. “On set, it’s an agreement we have. I was naked too,” Waititi quipped.

Hemsworth revealed that he wore a “just a sock” as a “modesty garment” on set. “He wears a sock on one ear. That’s his thing.

He thinks it’s a distraction,” Taika chimed in. Hemsworth recently shared that he had been anticipating a nude scene in “Thor” since the series began a decade ago. “It was 10 years in the making that scene, kind of a dream of mine,” Hemsworth told Variety. “The first time I played Thor I took my shirt off and I thought, ‘You know what’s gonna sweeten this… a decade from now it’s all gonna come off.’” Waititi said that he wanted Hemsworth to be able to show off his incredible physique. “I feel like we had all talked about it,” Waititi told Variety. “We had talked about, ‘Yeah, we gotta show off this body.’ My whole thing was like, Chris works so hard, you’ve gotta show it off.

Don’t cover it up with all these suits and the cape and stuff, it’s not fair!”“Thor” actress Natalie Portman also got to show off her physical transformation for the film after she was asked to “get as big as possible.”“On ‘Black Swan,’ I was asked to get as small as possible,” the Oscar winner explained to Variety. “Here, I was asked to get as big as possible.