"Chris Hemsworth"

we're gonna go we're gonna go cold and we're gonna go we're gonna go live in five we're gonna go well let's do a quick quick cold let's do a quick cold let's do it in five like when i get down we're gonna go cold okay this is this this is how we count down to the cold open right okay are you gonna say one or you're just gonna stop at two i'm not gonna say one and i'm also not gonna say two old broadcast house i'm gonna go five four three by the way you're wrong about that you know you've you've heard i've heard you say that before everyone always says the two it's just the one that's not it's that's not five four three welcome to the cold open welcome to smart smart smart smart ah everything hey hey everybody jay in through the nose out through the mouth now we start hi hi hey thanks for coming today hey you want to know oh good what oh no sorry do you have a story all queued up yeah i just i know i just actually thought of this the um our show opened last saturday you know i saw you on my instagram-ish thing and uh you were saying hi to the audience and i i immediately got a little nervous i was like oh my god there he is he's on stage he's in front he did it so you did it you did uh an initial yeah we in previews right now yeah first preview went great second one went terrible i love all the photos you look like you look like you're standing on the on the like the bow of a boat because you're always like standing there like looking off into the distance you know i'm the king of the world yeah he's proud and he's he's he's he's here um hey um okay tell us okay so tell us what was good about the first and bad about the second well you'll relate you like this kind of talk this is talking shop you know when you kind of connect to what you're saying it's very real and it's authentic right right and then sometimes when you do a show after a million times you sometimes there's a little tiny veil between you and the words yeah and so but you're doing the actions and you're emoting but it's a little manufactured yeah and that's how the second show was that's how the second show but i bet the audience i bet i bet it didn't feel good but i bet it still was good sean explain to the audience a little bit because you told me that you and i spoke earlier and you told me that and and i said well that's to be expected and and i said that because it's very frightening it's kind of a known thing right you do your first show yeah and it's great gangbusters yeah and then there is that sort of soft sophomore slump yeah i guess i wonder if it's an energy thing like oh man i'm exhausted right and then maybe that's just i don't know and then you kind of build back up again yeah but when you're yeah when you're standing on the stage and you're saying the words and like you your mind goes blank but your mouth keeps talking right was it just you going through this or were the other did the other actors have a good time was it a good show for them how are they sometimes you can just rely on the rest of the team you know jb jb and i and our crew were coming next week to see you and jb i don't know if you know this this is the best news sean told me today you ready it's an hour 15 yeah oh it's a tight hour 15 do i get to sit front row we're at dinner before we know it do i get to hold the book can i hold the book front row yeah and be the guy you turn to if you forget a line i would love that and then i give you the wrong line or you just you look to me and i just look up at you and i just give you a real polite middle finger yeah if you gave jb the book i i would say this is just give me a line from 12 jb jb would be off book in 10 minutes yeah that's the way it is yeah i hope you would be really good at that ridiculous yeah but when those curtains open and the lights come on you're like oh there's i have to do this it's the scariest thing in the world how was scotty was scotty a puddle of nerves i bet he was he looked scared but you know what he looked like he doesn't know what to do i i i went to pt today physical therapy because i'm standing so long on stage and so even right now as i'm talking to you i have to learn how to do sit-ups like you know like oh is that what they said your core you gotta engage your core yeah pt doctors say the middle's too soft and you're wearing you're wearing double hokas right you got custom double hokas on hey why don't you get one of those cashier mats custom double hokas hooks them at the bottom of my shoes yeah yeah yeah cut out a couple of uh like shoe size uh shoe size cashier mats like snowboards like huh so you've got to engage so you're doing sit-ups you're trying to do exercises to engage your core your core so yeah you're back right you guys all know that yeah but i i just kind of haven't been doing that anyway who cares don't get me going on core yeah you know guys someone who has a really good core is my guest he he he grew up in a remote australian community four hours from the nearest town spent his teenage years income and at one point repaired breast pumps in a factory for 10 bucks an hour he moved to la to be an actor and was about to quit until one last audition flipped the script it's the way it always happens he named his son after brad pitt's character in legends of the fall but you may know him as captain kirk's father it's the brilliant charming chris hemsworth hemsworth oh hello how are you how are you hi chris i think chris guys this is chris knows my wife okay and i'll leave it at that i'll leave it how do you oh well we got to start there you'll leave it at that and i'll pick it up from there chris wait for real yeah they've done a little bit of partying together we've oh what is that yeah it's getting worse um no you've been at all those parties man i know you weren't involved so you weren't allowed to come i'm kind of jealous well i lost my privileges years ago and i think it's better for me to stay out of what we call trigger uh environments wait wait what are we alluding to what happened with the they've got some mutual friends and they have fun and they create trips and they go places and like recently or in the past trips of okans yeah yeah i think recently yeah and then i you know i stay home and i i just i work on i work on stuff i do charity work you know and i i uh fix the house i take care of the kids that's watching tv now huh yeah can you share chris hi nice to meet you by the way thank you for being here can you share share with us one of those vacations or trips uh they're hard to recall aren't they yeah they're quite quite a blur the last one was at palm springs and there was about oh that's nice 50 or 60 people flying out there and it was quite a big three-day event and um and you were missed jason but we talked about i would have i you by god i would have crushed you would have crushed back in the day back in the old days still be there hey well you know what well it's amazing you and i never partied i know we did we've been through this we did one night jason doesn't chris uh jason doesn't remember but before our privileges privileges were suspended years ago jason and i had a night out and i don't want to get into the details of but we were irresponsible in our 20s there were moments where we had fun i had some fun with david cross too a couple of times too anyway he's kind of done that did that free iphones and cameras and you can kind of jason one time took his belt off he tried to climb he tried to climb a light pole once i was with him and david cross and i only stayed late because i was like looking out for their safety because they were both acting like ding dongs remember i stole your i had your belt for like two years belt come off what happened just after that was i looking to self-asphyxiate oh my god anyway chris welcome to smart yes thank you so much i want to start like in the intro like learn i've read so much about you coming up to this and i knew none of this first of all i just want to in the intro you named your son after brad pitt's character is that true tristan it was a legend of the fall and did you talk about it with your wife yeah no so so we we liked the name and then we were sitting on the couch one day uh we had a few different ideas and that film came on and the scene where he's on the horse and rolls into the into the space across across the field and couldn't look more legendary and um yeah me and my wife both of course went oh this is the coolest character ever isn't it and his name was tristan and i was like what about that that could work and then off we went how about that that's pretty cool now has your kid grown into that name like does he look like a tristan now he does he i mean he is short of hair now but he had for the first kind of he's 11 now for the first time in his life the first kind of nine ten years he didn't cut his hair this was long blonde hair he would you really went with the legends of the fall i didn't know if it was an influence by our doing or whether there was some sort of uh it wasn't a halloween costume no but he um did he look did he look like mini thor he absolutely did yeah and he's incredibly high energy and rides horses and motorbikes and surfs and so oh that's cool he fits the he fits the name and did you ever be proud did you ever meet brad and tell him that uh not that particular story no i met okay once and and uh and i'm a big fan obviously and yeah kind of had this awkward interaction where i went for the handshake or he went for the handshake i went for the hug that kind of in-between thing and almost turned into a kiss and then i was throwing it over the party my god it would slow down too slow for me at that moment i was standing across the room my agent was like he wants to meet you i'm like nah he doesn't want to meet me whatever and then uh eventually an hour later i was like oh Brad, you're here. Oh, just trying to act all. Hey, look at you. One of those. Where are you today? Are you down under? No, I'm in New York. I'm in a press tour for Crime 101, a film I'm promoting. Oh, I can't wait to see that. You know where he is, JB. Look, you can see where he is. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right. That's our place. That light switch right there turns on the fireplace if you've been looking. That's what that does? Yeah, I never knew where. It's going to take a little while. It's going to click for a bit. You won't explode. Hey, that Bart Layton. I love that guy. What a great director he is. I can't wait to see your film. I just saw it last night. It was fantastic. I loved it. Yeah, incredible. Yeah. Edge of your seat the whole time. No notes? A couple. Is it locked? No, they're not locked yet. Always notes. Okay. If you want to give us a few notes off air, I won't take them so personally. No, Chris, don't you want some. Don't you want to do a film next that doesn't take, like. six months to shoot and all these sort of life-threatening stunts you've got to do? Don't you want, like, a nice, calm, sort of like the equivalent of a sitcom in a movie? Sure. You know, that you can just relax. Yeah. Yeah. The four, five, six-month shoots are tedious. And I know you've all experienced this, but unnecessary, too, I feel like, at this point. You know, like, the technology of cameras and lighting and what you do in post-production, and everything is still done how we did it 10, 20 years ago. Yeah. And you have, you know, 20 big trucks there full of equipment sitting there just in case, and especially on the bigger budget, you know. And you just stand around and do nothing. Then you do a smaller film, and everyone's. It's fast-paced. You don't have the luxury to sit around and wonder and. You know, it feels like the preparation's almost done in a far more specific way, because there's such a limited time frame. And I love that style of working. Like, I grew up working on a soap opera, and it was, we'd shoot 20 scenes a day. And as, you know, the scripts were not great, but you made them work. But just the momentum you get from that and the sort of, just by having your feet on the ground continuously, day after day, the knowledge you gain from that, I think, is fantastic. Yeah, learning to be good quick. Yeah. Right? Like, you've got to be good. Like, you've got to be good fast on those soap operas, yeah? Yeah, yeah. What was the soap opera? Or you're going to be bad fast, too, which is what most of what I did. Yeah, we just had Margot Robbie on. She said she was on a soap opera. She was on Neighbors. Yeah, I did Neighbors for, like, an episode, and then I did Home and Away, which is the sort of competing one for, like, three years. And when Margot was on, she talked about, when she moved to L.A., that there was, like, an Australian mafia that helped each other out, kind of thing. Right? You know what I mean? Were you part of that? There was, like, a drive-through. To be honest, I always felt there was the Australian mafia kind of film industry, and then the, like, the folks that had trained at NIDA and, I think, Mel Gibson and Cate Blanchett and, you know, the big acting schools and then the theater group, and then I was on the soap opera. And I always felt a little outside of that cool mafia bubble. Right. And I remember kind of turning up to a few premieres and kind of being on the guest list. Yes, but not really, and having all those awkward moments. And I honestly, when I came to L.A., I didn't know that whole crew of Australian people. And I started working, and eventually met them all, and, you know, Joel Edgerton and a few folks that, you know, good friends of mine now. Love that, Joel. I always felt I was, I did, you know, I did a soap opera, I did Dancing with the Stars, so I wasn't seen as being taken seriously. Wow. Everyone was giving you the Brad Pitt handshake. Yeah. Did you rent a car from the Romanian guy? Margot rented a car from a Romanian dude who didn't require any ID. Oh, God, no. She first moved, yeah. Good. No. Well, now I imagine you're fully embraced, and it's all one big happy party. It is. It's such a, it is. Because it's, it is such a small industry, you know, and those who have had success in Australia and make the leap overseas and work, there is just such a cool gang of, you know, people in support now. It's remarkable. Again, we said it with Margot, but it's remarkable how many Australians come off those two shows and come and have huge success in this country. It's really cool. In the film business. It's remarkable. It really is. Yeah. It's the SNL of Australia. Yeah. Like, SNL borne so many stars. All right, so you're in New York and you're doing a bunch of press for Crime 101. Yeah. I would imagine you're going to do a talk show or two, but are you, are you noticing, are you doing like some of the content stuff that is kind of like a part of most of these press tours now? Like, Willie, I know you've got a Hot Wings out there. I still haven't seen, but I'm dying to, but like I saw a clip of it. Yeah. So like every, have you been doing some of that stuff? Yeah, I did. I actually did Hot Wings for a previous film. A lot of fun. How far did you get? Did you do all 10? I did. And I was getting really cocky and kind of just more, more, more, more, more. And this one's not so bad. And Will, you know, by the way, ninth or 10th one, it's just a different game. And they just stopped recording because I was like, I had to throw up and they got me ice cream and milk and I was like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And we were all supposed to go out for dinner that night and I hadn't eaten all day. And I did the show, and by the time I did the show, it was the first thing I put in my stomach was this bowl of hot sauce. And then I just went back to the hotel room and I sat there for the next 12 hours hugging the toilet bowl. Did you sit down? I didn't. I was just on the floor. Nothing was operating properly and everything wanted to come out. Why does it? It's so, I had to take the ice cream and I ended up slathering it on my lips like zinc, like a surfer. Tell me slow, and then was it dripping down your chin? It was, I honestly, at one point I was like, I wanted to rip, like it was spurting so bad. And I was just the whole time, I was slightly angry. Yeah, and then you enjoyed a second. He just kept looking at Louis K. By the way, I did. I called him out. And by the way, the only reason I went all the way through is because they told me, JB, that you had made it all the way through. Sure, not a problem. Shut up. This mouth can take a lot. Hey, but I only took one bite. There's nothing enjoyable about having it that hot. Anybody wants to have that shit on their food. I know, but did you eat the whole wing? I just took one bite. No, one bite, one bite. Yeah. Yeah, that's all it took. That's all it took. Well, Chris ate the bones. That's why you threw up. Yeah. But I was just on, I did Graham Norton with John Bishop. Oh, wow. Oh, you did? Yeah, oh, nice. Lovely. And a fantastic film, by the way. Oh, thanks, man. He's a great dude, isn't he? He's great. He's amazing. And he told the whole story. And yeah, what a beautiful story. The kind of thing you can't write. Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah. Real life kind of shows you the better stories. What would the sequel be on that, Willie? What would be the sequel? Is this thing still on? What's going on? What's, John Bishop, yeah, what would happen with you? You know, you'd go to the Olympics with Laura, right? By the way, no bad pitches. Keep going. And she'd win the gold. As a coach. She'd win the gold as a coach. As a coach, yeah. And then you guys would go on tour doing a stand-up tour as a couple. And I'd get canceled on tour. And then it would be, you know. Let's write it. Yeah, let's write it. Here we go. It writes itself. Chris, I haven't seen you since we were singing that song in that car on that crazy show. Yeah, that crazy commercial we did. Karaoke? No, what was it? It was for a video game. For a video game. Some head-banging. Yeah. Sounds like a payday. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Congrats, you guys. And artistic, you know, integral expression, all of that. Yeah, yeah, that too. It was a crazy huge production for a video game commercial. It was a mobile game. Yeah, yeah. It was, well, God, what was it called? Chris, do you play? We had fun, though. We loved it. We loved it. We loved it so much. We loved whatever it was. Chris, do you play those video games that you need like a headset to play? No. You know, you're shooting people up? No. Willie does that. No, no. Well, you don't still do that, do you? I don't. It's been years, actually, to be honest. Yeah. I want to know. Sean, you're into Sonic, aren't you? The burgers or? No. Immediately to food. We'll be right back. And now, back to the show. So, Chris, I want to know about growing up and talk to me how that started and where the first love came from. Like, what was the first thing? Like, also an acting family, Sean. It should be pointed out. No, for sure. Well, I was getting there, Will. Well, I'm sorry. Yeah, neither of my parents were actors. My mom has more of an artistic flair. You know, she paints a lot and writes. Was interested in acting and then she got pregnant with my older brother when she was 19 and then had me and then had my younger brother and so we kind of ruined our dreams in that sense. And there's three? Are there any more than the three brothers? No, it's just the three of us, yeah. There's three, yeah. And I grew up in Melbourne and then moved to Northern Territory in the outback and lived in an Aboriginal community there and my dad was mustard cattle and buffalo and so on and it was. - No way. - Yeah, it was a complete removal from the suburban Melbourne city life. We were literally, you mentioned before, but four and a half hours outside of Catherine, southeast Arnhem Land, and just a different world. Like my most vivid memories and some of the most beautiful memories I've had from there. How old were you when you left there? I was, first time I was about four to six and then came back to Melbourne for a year and then went back up for another year and a half. Wow. So do you know your way around a farm then with cattle and stuff like that? Could you get by? Yeah, I mean, I was young, you know. I was just kind of exploring and doing, you know. Doesn't make you uncomfortable, though. No, no, no. I was around it all and was sort of fascinated by it. I don't think he gets uncomfortable with a lot, JB. Let's be honest. Yeah. He'd be surprised. Unlike me, yeah. You know, he's not skateboarding around Hollywood, you know, going on dishes. I know. I'm so soft. Why am I so soft? I'm a grown-up out back. But did you have, like, this is a dumb question, but in the middle of basically nowhere where you grew up, like, what was the impetus for it? Did you have a TV and you're like, oh, I want to see that from that person on that TV show? So the first time we lived there, we were in kind of shanty-looking shacks and then a tent at one point. Like, it was proper, like, out in the middle of nowhere on different cattle stations. And so no TV during that time. The second time, we had a TV, and then. And there was a truck that would come and deliver food and supplies to the community every, you know, month or so on. And he'd drop us off a couple of VHS tapes. And I remember watching, as a really young kid, Terminator 1 and a bunch of other random sort of things, which are great for kids at the age of five or six. Yeah, sure. And it wasn't that that inspired me, but that was kind of, I don't know, one of my earliest memories of what, you know, cinema was and that experience. And then I just loved watching movies, and not so much to be an actor. It was more of like, oh, I want to be Legolas in Lord of the Rings, and I want to go and, you know, swing a sword and be in that fantasy world. Right. And again, not escaping what I was in, you know, in my own world, but just the sheer adventure of it. And then by the time I was 18 and finishing high school, it just became a real obsession, like it does and like it needs to be, I guess. Right. And then I did the soap opera and then off to L.A. Wait, I want to get back to this. So the Whole Foods truck just drove right up to the community? And they just open up the back? There was a big shed in this community. There's a lot of separate communities throughout Arnhem Land. And they would do deliveries with, basically, they would do deliveries with, and they would do deliveries with, sort of, you know, bits and pieces that would go into this, what was the shop, which was literally just a big shed. I did a documentary, actually, with my dad. Yeah, incredible. We go back to that community, and there's the same shed there from 30-something years ago. Did it come back to you? Oh, my God, the huge, like, sort of nostalgia. And the detail to which, like, these places prompted, vivid memories was astounding. Yeah, probably surprised you, right? You didn't know it was going to come back? I thought it would have changed dramatically, and I went, oh, and I remember every little corner of the little streets we were living on, and I remember what games I was playing at what places and where I was hanging out. And there was this big freezer in the back of this shed where they kept all the cold food, which me and my mate, you should just go and sit in and, you know, eat the chocolate bars and so on, because it was so hot out there in the middle of the outback. But it was, yeah, a fascinating and beautiful place. And that's still, is that still home? Is that still main base for you, Australia? Australia, yeah, Byron Bay. We live, like, northern New South Wales now and moved back there 11, 12 years ago. It was kind of like my daughter is 13, my boys are 11, so it was right around the time my boys were born. And it was, it was just, we kind of, set up in L.A. and not enjoying it. You know, like, nothing was shooting there. We were filming kind of everywhere else. Well, you're traveling anyway, so you might as well, I mean, it's a lot longer, but you might as well live where you want to live. Is that the idea? Yeah, and then, you know, you come home and there's a paparazzi and all the sort of, the trappings of, you know, living in that sort of, that space. And moved back to Australia and it's been the greatest decision because it's such a, it's like, you know, going on a holiday, like, coming home for me feels like a holiday. We have a big farm and horses and motorbikes and surf. That's so cool. And that's how, I read that's how you guys, you and your brothers grew up too, just like no helmets, riding, like, no supervision, just like, crazy, right? Yeah, yeah. You know? Not because my parents didn't care, it was just because we were. No, right, I didn't mean that. Jesus, Sean. Jesus, Sean. No, no. But it was, we lived about 20 minutes from, like, the main sort of suburban areas of Melbourne up in the hills and the nearest neighbour was, you know, a kilometre or two away and it was just all bushland and rainforest sort of set up around us. And so we would just spend, you know, outdoors adventures and playing different characters and I think that's, to be honest, where the sort of intrigue or interest into, you know, transportation into another. The, like, imagination. So then what, how do you go from that from, and you have this sort of interest, and what was the first audition? Like, what was the first thing you go, like, I'm going to go read for that? Well, I had a, I did a, like a, every Wednesday night I used to drive an hour and a half into the city, into Melbourne, to do this acting course. It was like a two-hour, you know, session where they'd record everything you did and you'd have a little VHS tape and you'd go home and watch it and you'd go, wow, it doesn't look. It wasn't anything like I thought it would and so it was kind of a shock to the system and trial by fire and a pretty good sort of wake up and, but you learn quick, you know, and as opposed to just doing acting classes and not ever being confronted with what you're actually putting on screen. You learn a lot from watching yourself. I do, about what, you know, oh, shit, don't do that again. A hundred percent, yeah, yeah, yeah. And all your little sort of tells or habits or things you're repeating, you're like, oh, wow, I thought I was kind of in a completely different space and I'm doing it again. I'm doing exactly the same thing I did before. Right, right, right. But I got an agent and then my first audition was, I think the first job I got was, I think it was called The Saddle Club. It was a Canadian-Australian show about. Sean, you used to run the door at The Saddle Club, didn't you? Run the door. I still do. I still do just for some extra money. We take those easy, cheap shots. Feel free to jump in any time you think of one. It was a show based around horses and, you know, horse club and I came in as a vet at the age of 18, you know, as a doogie house of the vet world. That's funny. Sean would let the bears in too, as well. Sure. So he was a vet of sorts, I guess, in that way. Veteran, yeah. Wait, which brother got the first job? My older brother, Luke. He worked on Neighbours actually for a while. As a steroid-selling football player. That's funny. So that was quite a role. And then, in the intro, I read that one job that, because you said you wanted to quit. Like Jason was saying, it always happens that way. When you're like, I can't do this anymore. And then something in the universe goes, wait a minute, you have to. And what was that? Was that Cabin in the Woods? Yeah, it was. It was. And it's funny. Is it the universe or is it this sort of you just surrender to, to the process and you remove some of the desperation that may be coming out? Yeah, you kind of hit fuck it. You fuck it, yeah. And people can tell. Yeah. And it's kind of, it's that sexy indifference, guys. Yeah. Right? Yeah. No, what is that? What is that expression? Oh, so here's what it is. It is true. It's a bumper sticker. It's amazing. We've all know what that means. When you're exhausted or you come in and you're hungover or what, and all of a sudden. Yeah. It's like your body just doesn't have the strength to light your, you know, your being up with adrenaline. And you're just kind of sick just in a pocket. And you're not thirsty. You're not looking. You're not desperate. You're just like, this is me. This is the way it is. Take it or leave it. And there's something about that. People are like, I like that. Which it comes through the like excessive sort of preparation too. And that was what I learned. Like I was then would try and replicate that, by like not caring, which of course I did care. So it was like, well, how can I get to the point where I can let go? And then it was just about over preparation. And where there was no stone unturned. Then you felt like, well, I've done everything I could. Anytime I walk into a room and audition and feel like, oh, you could have learned these lines a bit better. Or you should have done this. And then that kind of voice takes off and does all sorts of shitty things. You were falling into the trap. I used to fall in this trap of trying to pretend like I didn't care. Sure. So acting. acting twice in an audition. it was like the most idiotic most exhausting bullshit thing like i'm already sweating you know trying to pretend like i i'm not gonna sweat yeah um wait so just the sidebar i was gonna say is the day that cabin in the woods came out was also the same day my movie three stooges came out but i think you guys beat us anyway moving on sean i actually watched 10 minutes of that like not four days ago thank you what the three stooges yeah yeah no you didn't on the big screen you gave it you gave it a full 10 minutes a full 10 here on the tv and then we lost power or something like that and so i couldn't see any more but sure it literally crashed the power at your house justin you you made it a full 10 minutes before you you know bart layton or you yeah yeah yeah i'm a huge fan of his film uh american animals yeah and um yeah i i just uh i started pursuing him like some crazy fan after that and uh he sat down and had lunch with me and humored me for a bit uh but yeah i cannot wait to see this uh he's he's incredible this was i think the sort of the best experience i've ever had in the set and i've had some yeah amazing times and and it kind of reminded me to be honest of like furiosa with george miller felt like this and and rush many years ago um yeah and it's it's a thing where there's just this beautiful um he is just such a such a craftsman such a master attention to detail is is beyond anyone i've ever seen those shots are incredible it's shot the cinematography stunning and he wrote the script so there's this you know deeper sort of understanding of of of every element to it but then it's just this kind collaborative humble human being which you don't get the two i was just gonna say that kind yeah kind leadership right ron howard on rush bart on this uh it just it it ends up yielding that great input from this entire team yeah if somebody at the top is not a monster yeah you should look into that yeah i'm reading and reading i just take note yeah because i've a lot of stories from your sets from a lot of i get a lot of anonymous emails a lot of it's true yeah a lot of it's true i'm working on it yeah a real groucher me groucherton is your nickname jk everybody loves jk um wait so so a couple like things i didn't know okay are we back off the sidebar or we we're into no no this is back on i don't know if we have enough time for this segment things you don't know no but look you got i love oh the places you'll go oh yeah so you right so right so when i first of all talk about your tattoos i want to then i'll get into that so you've got tattoos which i never i didn't know you've had this many tattoos so tell us tell us the tattoos you have uh are there a bunch of random kind of um start with the back tat starts the back to the holly and the hawk that's no no no the one on the tailback oh the barbed wire the one that says just breathe oh my god that's hilarious my tattoos so i have a dr seuss tattoo my daughter was it ways to read that book to her a lot and um and my mom read it to me uh oh the places we go you'll go and um she just would draw that little character and loved it and so i got that tattoo and then isn't that great and then a few years later i was like i'm kind of sick of it so i started getting it taken off and i did like one laser session and then she came home and said oh my god i love that tattoo and then she came home and she goes it's rubbing off what happened to it it's rubbing off and i was like oh did you do you still i thought i don't know i thought you were sick of it she's no i love it i love it so it's now kind of half faded you know but it's still there and i've got another um it's a bunch of my arm actually the little drawings that she did that i was sitting with a tattoo artist um one night and it was like 10 o'clock and he's designing all these different things and all this sort of sacred geometry and trippy looking stuff and my daughter walked out and goes dad i can't sleep you're very sorry and she sits down and starts squiggling and um and drew the three little images here which one of them is just and the guy next to us goes that's the wheel of dharma it's the eight steps to enlightenment so it's this she's doing that oh really and then the five-pointed star and you know it's so he looked at me and goes i think they're way cooler than anything we're designing and so took a photo of that and that's that and then um that's so cool a bunch of other sort of and your avengers friends which is cool i made it i made disparaging remarks about people with uh pod with um tattoos on a podcast in the uk you know that guy roma she's hilarious do you know that dude over in london anyway i made it i made i made a sweeping generalization kind of as a bit and i got a bunch of hate from it what was it what i was like i said that i said there's a direct correspondence between the more tattoos you have by the way i don't even believe this the more tattoos you have the less interest the more more tattoos you have the more boring you are as long as it was boring people freaked out and i'm like i'm just fucking around it's like i don't have a scientific opinion on this i'm just fucking around sounds like someone who would who would like a few tattoos would you like a couple i would like a couple actually i thought you should get your kids i don't have one all i have are just my kids here on the inside of my arm uh that's it but i feel like i want like a thousand more i feel like most i have a million friends who are covered in tattoos that would mean that i have to get a thousand more tattoos i feel like i have a million i hate all my friends the problem is i get i get sick of them and so i'm into them for a few weeks that's what i'm worried about i want to just get them all removed and but you're not sick of the ones from your kids though yeah the kids ones that have a bit of something to it but i've got some other ones that like the weird sort of psychodramatry one which looks like the illuminati kind of vibe to it and i love all those little tiny drawing ones you know like like i think like what you're showing on your arm like just like yeah like little doodles yeah that's what i yeah i love that yeah i want some of those yeah i i love you know they're but then you get a lot do you have any of the ones they see people like uh like on their arm it's like stay alert and i'm like do you have to look at it to remind yourself and if you're looking at it you're not alert just breathe any quotes or any i wanted jbi i always threatened that if the leafs win the stanley cup i'm gonna get my whole back of wendell clark who's been retired for years but my hockey idol holding the stanley cup on my back i think i'm safe for now for a while yeah we're we're struggling along with you here in los angeles you don't have any right you don't have any no i've always wanted one i was like let's do one let's design i'll design one for you and then you design one for me john if you had to put if you had to get a tattoo of a snack food on your body what would it be oh you have to a guns to your head one snack food on the body yeah it would have to probably can't be hot dog can it be can it be a twinkie what about no it'd probably be a snickers bar a snickers bar and where would you put that uh what about right on my neck just right on your tummy right across your tummy because that's where it ends up because that's what people will snicker yeah yeah we'll be right back all right back to the show so chris in crime 101 this is i mean we always talk about this on this podcast but like when people from australia or the uk have to do these american accents and they're so good and they're so believable and then you speak in your regular australia it's just like i don't know what happens it's like what how do you do that i could never do an australian accent that's the hardest one try right now no i couldn't do it guns to your head i got the only i can say one word chest is cheest that's all i know that sounds more kiwi chist that sounds like kiwi sounds like more new zealand yeah oh it does we'd say chest oh you would say chest say aluminium sean aluminium aluminium i can do a british one i can't do it but let's hear that guy let's hear that i mean i'll visit from that guy it's we i think i mean most of our television and film growing up is american so there's a bit of you know we have an ear for it i guess but i've also screwed it up many times as well and you know no how often how often will you go back in will you ask like you'll see an early cut of something and you'll ask the director hey could i go in and read you that line or that line more now like i didn't even know i had the option in the past and i you know i see some review talking about you know not so favorably and then um the worst was a scottish accent i did for something and and someone said it's the worst glaswegian accent we've heard since the fat bastard in austin powers which is one of the greatest all-time i was like great job yeah i love these guys on the sidelines throwing bombs like they can do it yeah i know i think you're brilliant at it and um what about um and then you met didn't you meet elsa your wife through a dialect coach we did yeah yep yep it was uh like what for what was she going for um the dialect coach or elsa yeah i mean no but i meant like why like why were you there at the same time oh no we just we were both training separately with her and she said oh i think you'd like a you know someone else i'm working with and and i said oh what's her name and looked her up and thought oh she looks lovely sure give me a phone number yeah really that was that simple and then we uh now we went out for dinner and then and then i went shot a movie and we came back at dinner and then went off shot shot another movie and so it's like we weren't together but we'd sort of been in contact for kind of eight months and then Got together very quickly. Kids in marriage and all that fun stuff. But that's nice, though. That's kind of a nice slow burn, though. Like, you kind of, like, ease into it a little bit. A couple of dinners here and there. Yeah, a bit of distance. Kind of long distance. Was that a novel idea to you, Will? Just a couple of dates before you start? Hey, man. Hey, so what else? So you took her out to dinner a couple of times, did you? So, Chris, your kids are now at the age where they can see how badass dad is and they can appreciate kind of, like, what a set is like and that that might be a fun sort of atypical work environment. Are any of them getting kind of the bug to do what you do? Any interest there? Yeah, they do. My daughter was in Love and Thunder, the last Thor film. Yeah? And she played Christian Bale's daughter. And then she's. Did she dig it? Yeah, but she was like. I asked her to, you know, I said, look, I can. Do you want to do this role? And she goes, oh, yeah, cool. What do I have to do? And I said, I'll just read these lines. She goes, no, I don't want to read the lines. And I was like, well, I'm going to record something to send to Kevin Feige. She's like, no, I'm not doing it. And I was like, okay, well, you can't do it. She goes, no, but I want to do it. I'm like, yeah, but you've got to. This is like an audition. She won't read. So she finally did it. They were like, great. Loved it. And then she did Avengers. And this is three, four years later. And by this point, she's so much more jaded about it all. She kind of is like, doesn't. Hates the whole scene and everything. But, you know, tells me she enjoys acting. We do one take, wide take, mostly sort of in my direction. And she gets up and goes, okay, are we done? I said, no, are you serious? And she goes, how much longer? And I'm like, we're here all week and you've done like one wide shot. And every single time we'd go back to the tent or the trailer and they'd call us in. She'd be like, oh, God. And I was like, India, you begged me to do this. You wanted to do it. And then her brother's like, we'll do it. We'll do it. You're such a sook, India. And so they probably have more of. My boys probably have more of a, like, I don't know. They like the kind of. They're a bit more of a showman kind of, you know, they like that spice. How were the Russos on her? Did the Russos take care of her? Or was Joe just hammering her with notes? Just heaps of notes. Backstory and incessant on sort of the study and the prep she'd done. No, not at all. They were fantastic. And Chris, do your kids. I read that they critique your movies. Do they actually write them or do they just tell you? No, they'll just blatantly tell me. I mean, that. They're tough. Kids are tough. But that whole generation, they're like, yeah, visual effects weren't as good in that one, Dad. Or the reactions. I don't ever remember commenting on any of that. My kids never like watching anything that's, like, five years old. That's sick and stuff. My kids came and saw our. My brother. Is this thing on? And Abel, my 15-year-old, goes, a lot better than that one movie you did with the talking dogs. I go, hey, dude. Yeah. Did your braces get paid for? How are you doing in the house you're living in? Yeah. Yeah. Pretty comfy. Exactly. Pretty comfy right now? Do your kids give it up, Chris? Well, like, if you do something great, will they go, you know what, Dad, that was awesome? They must. You get to do. No, no. They're really supportive. They're, um. They remember the first time, when they were sort of realising what it was that I did, and the first time my son, I took him to the cinema to watch, to see Thor, and he was just running up and down the aisle, and I was like, just got to sit down. And he's jumping up and down the chairs, and I was just like, you know, just trying to sit him down and hold him down. And then I was like, fuck, this is my movie. I'm fucking on the screen. You know, I'm a bit worried about someone's going to yell at us, but I thought. And in the end, he was, like, having so much fun. He's sweating. He's sweating. And he's like, right, let's go. And then, so he left halfway through, and he ran up and down the hallway. He's like that. He's terrible as a pig. But he became obsessed with it, and had a little hammer that he'd run around with and smash things. Oh, really? I mean. That's cool. I mean, that is. God, I get it. My 15-year-old wishes you were his dad, too. It's unbelievable. It's a long, long line of kids who. But it's changing. Like, the 11, 13-year-old time when, you know, there's a whole new vernacular and all this sort of new language, they seem to roll with, and everything's got, like, a sarcastic sort of twist to it now because of all the YouTube shit and so on. And I'll say something, and they've got, like, ugh, cringe. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. I'm fucking cool, bro. I'm not. I'm one of the cooler dads, right? And it's like. It's all fading in the distance. He's dishonest. I love that, you know, this, Avengers Doomsday, I was at Anthony Russo's house, and we saw the trailer. We were the first people to see the trailer. Yeah. It was incredible. That's cool. This will be the. I don't know if you know this. This will be the 10th time you've played Thor, which is really cool. It's wild, isn't it? I know. Wow. It's wild. I mean, that's really, really, really cool. Yeah. Oh, really? There's more? Yeah. Oh, that's great. Yeah. But it's just been the. It's been so much fun. And what I've really enjoyed is, unlike, I think, a lot of what the other characters, the scripts were given, they have had to be pretty consistent, whereas working with Taika on his films versus Kenneth Branagh with those films, and then from, you know, with the Russos, all had quite a different sort of tonal opinion, but also let me kind of try different things, because I was getting, same with my tattoos, I'd be getting really bored of the same thing and having a real need to kind of just throw it in different directions. And I was talking to Kevin about it, and he said, "Oh, it's cool, because the audience now "expect dramatic turns with the character, "and whatever we do next, "that we've got some ideas to do something "pretty unique again, and hopefully be. " Yeah, I was going to say, you must have ideas. You guys all must have ideas about where your characters might go, because now you guys, I guess for a long time now, you guys have been going. There aren't comic books to write these scripts off of. You guys have gone past those, and so. Yeah. Do you guys, is there. But there's also an obligation, though, JB, within, isn't there like a, not an obligation, but like, because the fans are so, they know these characters so well, so you've got to handle it kind of with care. Like, you take chances. Yeah. But you've also got to make sure that they don't get pissed off. No, for sure, because you still can pull from, there's so many different stories within the comic books, and you pull from ideas and certain directions. And each, even within the different comic book artists, writers, they had sort of slightly different takes as well, so there's variations. But you do have to be careful, because when we made Ragnarok, it was quite a twist, you know, and we took his time. Yeah, such a great movie. So good. And it was so fun, and there was a huge kind of like appreciation for the shift. And then Love and Thunder was kind of like a Monty Python sketch, and we sort of took the piss, probably a little bit, but. A little much. And then there was some of that backlash, you know, that there was this sort of real kind of, why is he a goofball and why is it this? And, you know, violently offended, and we were like, oh, we're just, you know, having fun or trying to try something different. But it's cool that there's that partnership there, though, with the audience as well as the filmmakers. That doesn't really exist in other, I mean, maybe Star Wars, there's some of that as well. But that part is really cool. Star Wars, sorry. I mean, if you can stick around for a couple hours, because we're talking about Star Wars. Wait, what about, like, in the intro, I didn't know, this is total left turn, but when you were growing up, you repaired breast milk pumps? What? Yeah, I worked for Fisher & Paykel, this home, what do you call it, white goods kind of. Home goods? Yeah, fridges and so on. They also make dishwashers. Dishwashers, and they make breast pumps. They make the, I didn't know that. They would rent them to different pharmacies and chemists, and they would come back to us, and I'd have to repair them when the little belt, the motor belt would break. I'd also have to clean all the dried milk that was on them, so I'd have a toothbrush and some spray and wipe. And that was my first job. How about that? A lot of time to think about what else I would prefer to be doing. Yeah, for sure. And you're a big surfer, and you do snowboarding, and it's like. By the way, is there snow there in Australia right now? Opposite, it's summer now. But I was just in Courchevel, France last week with my family, snowboarding. Did you do some skiing? Yeah, I did a lot of skiing, snowboarding, and kids are all doing backflips. Did you, you must have played a lot of sports growing up. Yeah, I did the 110 hurdles. That was my event. It wasn't quite quick enough for the 100, but I was tall enough and agile enough for the hurdles, so it was a good combination. What about foot? Footy. Did you play any footy? AFL football, yep. AFL? Played for eight or nine years, and then when I was 17, I dislocated my shoulder and tore all the ligaments, and I'd been surfing a lot at the same time, and so I had eight weeks of sitting on the couch doing nothing, and I was like, I don't want to risk not surfing anymore, and then sort of gave that up. Must be a lot of dislocated shoulders in AFL football. Every injury I have now, like back, and things that start to play up, I swear were from like nine years of just getting belted on the football field. Like it's. Yeah. It's intense and your body would shatter if you got hit at that speed now. But running full pelt into each other, you know, I got two concussions when I was like 14, 15. I remember going to Australia, going to Melbourne and seeing, going to an AFL match and just watching and just seeing like the pure athleticism of these guys. Running, kicking, catching, tackling, all of them just incredible athletes. It's amazing. I'm surprised. Yeah, it's wild. Hey, so I'm still just in awe of your just general manhood and exposure to elements and things like that. So down there in Australia, you got the snakes, you got the spiders, you got the sharks. When you're surfing, have you ever seen a dorsal fin? And when you were out back just running around with your motorcycles and pop guns and shit, did you ever see any of the snakes or spiders or things like that? Oh, yeah. Yeah. When I first moved to Byron Bay, there was a string of shark attacks, two deaths and then one guy survived in the space of two weeks. One out the front of my house and one 10 minutes south of me and five minutes north. And I was like, oh, where have I moved to? What have I done? This is crazy. And then so for the next. So you're still paddling out? Yeah, when there was other people in the water. So there was your chances were a little better. Your odds were a little better. But no, there was a period when there would just be choppers, helicopters going up and down the coastline and just like shark spotting and then they have a siren on because there was for whatever reason just this kind of feeding frenzy. Yeah, well, that's how they do it. So they fly above and then if they see one, there's a little siren from the helicopter? Yeah, or they tell the police and the police would come down with a big speaker and tell you to get out of the water and everyone would sort of sit there and be like, oh, I'm not getting out of the water. And as each guy starts paddling in, it's like, all right, fine, fine, we'll go in. Oh, right, right, right. And these aren't sand sharks. The only kind of shark they've got down there, are the big daddies, right? Yeah, they're bull sharks and great whites are the most predominant. No, thanks. What about the snakes? You saw snakes? Heaps of snakes, yeah, yeah. Heaps. Heaps of snakes. Heaps of snakes. King brown, like the other brown snakes, which is, you know, you've got kind of 15 minutes if you get the anti-venom in you before you. Yeah, and the brown spider is also like the most. The redback spider is. And then what's the brown spider? I don't know. I don't know. It's got a brown fin. He's physically pulling his shirt down your neck. Yeah, I got to hang up. I mean, we see a lot of snakes around our house, but also a lot of big pythons. And the pythons are really territorial and keep the bad ones away. And so you kind of, you want those ones around. Python is not bad? What are you. No, no, no. They're not venomous, but they're very territorial with the brown snakes and the red snakes. They're belly black snakes and the ones that are nasty. And so we don't mind having the pythons around. The pythons aren't looking to mess you up. They're not looking to attack. No, I mean, you can. My kids will go and grab them by the tail sometimes. No. No way. And how do they do their killing if they don't have the venom? Do they just, they're squeezers? Yeah, squeezers. Yeah, like mice and rats, and they'll just swallow. Squeezers. Squeezers. Wait, go back. Wait, you're making me. That day, I mean, the first time, he was asking me all these questions before they came out to Australia. Oh, that bitch. He won't even. And he literally, right, I was like, oh, you're fine, you're fine, you're fine. The first day, he drives down the street, gets out of a car and steps straight on a snake. I've been there 42 years and never stepped on a snake. And. Yeah, I mean, this guy's a dummy. He's a dummy. What did the angel do? The angel buy himself a pair of boots immediately after that? Right up to the hip. And a helmet, gloves. A pair of white boots. Oh, my God. Wait, Chris, go back to the water for a second. With the sharks, do you still go in the water? Sure, he does. Oh, yeah, I surf every day. I mean, people still surf. It's. Again, it's like all the statistics you hear. They get hit by lightning. Hit by lightning. Or driving a car is worse. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I heard one that more people die in America than shaking a vending machine trying to get chocolate or whatever and it collapsing on them. Now, I don't know if that's true, but it's. Sean's got a vending machine story. He almost got cut to ribbons with an exploding glass door there at Chin Chin when they were closed too early, right? I eat a lot of junk food, Chris. So, wait a minute. You know what I love about the Avengers crew? You guys all seem to be having a good time, don't they? Every time I see you guys. Of course. You and Robert and all the whole crew, you guys are all just yucking it up and it's kind of fun. It's a good group. It's a good group. And I think, you know, everyone had come into it expecting kind of nothing and it was right at the beginning of, I guess, a sort of superhero emergence and each time one of them worked, it was a win for the others and their individual films. But then when the Avengers worked, we're like, oh, we're going to make a second one and a third one and a fourth one. So, everyone's kind of pinching themselves that we're still here and it's still working. Yeah, it's pretty cool. And just a good group of people. It's such a fun people. You deserve it, pal. Thanks. You really do. Great films. Thanks so much. You do. Chris Hemsworth, what a pleasure. Thanks for chatting with us today, mister. Thank you. When is Crime 101? What's the release date? It's already out. It's already out. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It came out when? It's in cinemas. When did it come out, Sean? It came out, wait, I have it. February 13th or February 12th? Yeah, February 13th. February 13th. No, it feels great. It's a character-driven crime thriller, you know, and it has a beautiful sort of suspense a suspense with through the action but also through the dramatic scenes and the way Bart's crafted this movie. It's edgier seat, pulse-pounding from start to finish. It's a sick cast as well. I'll just say one of the greatest, Halle Berry, you, go ahead. Barry Keegan, Mark Ruffalo, Monica Barbaro, Nick Nolte. It's a phenomenal cast, but it's sort of a throwback to the heist films of the 70s, 80s, 90s, but has a contemporary feel to it. Yeah. Really cool. I'm seeing it this weekend. But I just have to say, now that I've seen it, and I'm a big fan of the movie, and of course you, that I won't reveal anything, but when that one character gets in the car, that's all I'll say. Well, that's kind of a reveal. I mean, that was really cool. No, I mean, well, you don't know where, you don't know when part of the movie I'm talking about. When one, that one character gets in the car. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, you told me that. Yeah, I was like, whoa, that's pretty cool. I was on the edge of my seat. I'm stoked to see that. Anyway, Chris, thanks so much. Thanks so much for being here. Thanks for having me, guys. Chris, thank you. Yeah, thank you, Chris. I'm sure Amanda would say hi if she was here, and maybe I'll make it to the next one. Please do, mate. I hope. Thanks, guys. All right, pal. Good to see you again. Yeah, good to see you. Bye, buddy. Thank you. Peace. Bye, pal. Bye-bye. Splendid. Just splendid. Really good. This is a great guy. This is a great guy. First of all, great guy. I don't know what you guys are talking about. I think he was great. He was great. I don't know. Big star. Big star. Huge star. Big star, and yet so grounded. As you know, you know him a little bit. I hung out with him for a couple days. What a good dude. Humble, kind. Oh, my God. Wait, what's 26 minus 11? Boy, that's definitely going to be something. It's somewhere around 15. Honestly, that actually came out. 15 years. So he's been playing Thor for 15 years. That's a lot. I want to go back to the math question. Because I'm so disturbed. Is this worthy of recording, Sean? You know we're on right now. Always tell. I'd say cut it, but I'd need the world to hear that. This is our life, guys. Welcome to it. Listener, this is, you know, it's free to you, but it costs us a great deal. I mean, it's free. And just, you know, time, patience. Yeah, he's, yeah, 15 years as Thor. And then doing all this other stuff in between. How about I threw you guys at the beginning when I said it was, um, Kirk's dad. Yeah, great job, Sean. I mean, it's sick. Sick. What a bird. I was like, fucking, who is this? Who could it be? This guy, he's unbelievable. On the breast pump information. Breast pump information. Right? No, that is, I'm, I'm, I'm, I gotta join my wife on some of these, some of these weekends. Yeah, by the way, I want to know what all that is. Um, hey guys, when you have, um, yeah. Oh, that's it. You're right into it, huh? Yeah. No more wrap up? Nope. Shawnee. No, I gotta go. Wait, Sean, do you have a performance tonight? No, it's our, our one night off. You're dark. Oh, good for you, JB. We're dark. Yeah, we're dark. And then, so what do you, then what do you end up doing tonight? Uh, where does Scotty get to night out? I'm not moving. I'm not moving. I'm so exhausted. That's fair to, that's fair to Scotty. Yeah. Um, what about this afternoon? Well, we might. Take him for ice cream. Yes, or no, but I, you know what I've been craving lately is sushi. And now when you guys eat sushi, do you put, and you know, they come up with a side of ginger. Yeah, and usually next to it, it's a little pinch mound of green mustard called. Well, no, I think a better way to say that is what did the sushi say to the bumblebee? What's up, bee? What's up, bee? Aye. Bye. What's up, bye. 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