Christopher Hemsworth (born 11 August 1983) is an Australian actor. He rose to prominence playing Kim Hyde in the Australian TV series Home and Away (2004–07) before beginning a film career in Hollywood by taking on parts in the science fiction film Star Trek (2009) and the thriller A Perfect Getaway (2009).
Hemsworth went on to star in the fantasy film Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), the war film Red Dawn (2012), the action thriller Blackhat (2015), the biographical thriller In the Heart of the Sea (2015), the comedy Ghostbusters (2016), and the Men in Black film series spin-off Men in Black: International (2019). His most critically acclaimed roles include the comedy horror The Cabin in the Woods (2012) and the biographical sports film Rush (2013), in which he portrayed James Hunt.
Collider, he said he’ll never forget the moment he cast Chris as Thor and Tom Hiddleston as Loki for the first Thor film. Knowing that those casting decisions were ‘profoundly serious’, Branagh recalled himself and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige going back and forth before eventually calling Chris and Tom one morning.
Branagh said that Feige told him the pair would ‘never make a more important decision’ than the one they were making at that moment, with Feige warning him: ‘It’s either going to work or it’s not.
Good luck.’And Branagh admits it was a risk taking on Chris as the leading role, as he hadn’t been ‘his best’ during his first audition for the movie.
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