our next guest uh stars all the people have been looking forward to this uh movie uh
it's called thor thor oh yeah yeah yeah um i'm i'm thor well me too bring in the the powder
you crazy nut what where did you hear a thing i don't know where i heard that ladies and
gentlemen here's the star of the movie uh chris hemsworth everybody nice to meet you
nice to meet you too uh you're from australia uh uh and how did you work your way to the united
how did you get the thor uh if you're from australia thor is not uh australian originally
he's not no no it was uh i moved to the states about five years ago and uh about a year and a
half ago i had a series of auditions like any other and and got the part
wow you you know you you sound like you're from australia yeah you've got the accent yeah
you sound like are you are you from the same part of australia the the russell crowe is from because
it sounds similar uh no i i don't i actually grew up in the in the outback in northern territory
outback is not in the city it's in the uh it's hawaii about four and a half hours from
the nearest city actually we lived in uh an aboriginal community oh is that right cattle
station and how did you and your family find yourselves there my auntie and uncle worked on
the cattle station and then my parents went and worked with them and we used kids went up and
you know ran amuck and they were buffalo and and crocodiles and what have you and it was so so as
a kid that's where you and your brothers were raised wow back and forth from from melbourne
and northern territory but it must have been is it safe for kids running around out there in the wild
because i know there's there's like deadly stuff in australia there is yeah i mean there's i think
seven of the top deadliest snakes up there and uh every morning the the concrete step out the front
of the house the uh it would be the warmer spot that would heat up during the daytime and through
the night snakes would come in and sit on that to get some warmth so in the morning you had to
look carefully at the step and make sure there wasn't a a king brown or a red belly black snake
oh my god but but for a for a kid is that is that safe did you ever get bitten or i didn't no no we
we certainly had uh some close calls and some stick poking of the snake which we shouldn't
have been doing right um my uh my older brother actually chewed on a scorpion one time he was uh
chewing on something and my mum said what have you gotten a big old scorpion in his mouth and
he survived so i think it was uh how did it get in in his mouth just picked it up he's hungry i think
wow my goodness
uh and now you're in uh you're married and living in los angeles i'm worried about those
things and and what kind of things do you do there you surf do you you hike you well yeah you know
try and stay outdoors and stay active as much as i can and uh surf a lot been surfing for years we
actually another place we lived was phillip island in victoria and it was uh big uh there's a big
seal colony there and a lot of big sharks that uh that feed on the ceilings yeah now when you said
phillip island where where on the off the coast would that be uh coastal victoria about an hour
and a half out of melbourne and there's like a half mile bridge and it's in what body of water uh
victoria off the coast of victoria yeah is it near the indian ocean uh i guess so i don't know what's
uh yeah yeah i should look at a map see it's the indian ocean and you should have known that
i should have known that yeah um i'm there you know i need to i didn't turn up come on listen um
the philip islands water well that that surfing that's uh australian surfers they are the guys
that really changed the surfing when they went to hawaii you know 70s and so forth
that's a touchy subject too oh yeah yeah and and you were a kid we didn't learn to surf yeah yeah
we grew up down back and forth from the coast and then we lived in northern territory where
there wasn't any surf and it was back back in uh back in melbourne but it sounds ideal for
a kid to me you know it was great absolutely we traveled a lot you know and saw a lot of
a lot of australia and uh i think it taught me more about you know life and when did you
start acting uh when i finished high school you know i loved storytelling and loved films and
fantasy sort of books and things and i never thought consciously about getting into it and then
my older brother was doing it i thought this looks like fun i'll give it a go and yeah and then god
got lucky now has your older brother also come to the states and is acting no my younger brother's
here yeah my older brother's uh back home so the whole family really is involved in yeah yeah my
mom actually the audition for thor uh she read anthony hopkins lines and held the camera and
did a great performance and i said to anthony you know i should my mum did it a bit different yeah
and he said shut up now the story of thor he's the god of thunder yeah yeah and and
what what other responsibilities does he have he uh he's he's the prince of the nine realms and is
about to take on the throne and of asgard which is called otherworld and uh it's quite obnoxious
and and powerful and arrogant and controls the storms and has a big magic hammer and is
no he doesn't oh he does it
it ain't that big because um uh chris let's see a uh this is like a big
blockbuster of fantasy odyssey adventure it is yeah special effects kind of thing it is one of
marvel's uh their next big franchise and uh blend of sort of science fiction viking esque and then
it's earthbound as well and yeah big summer i i i i i want to talk uh that way
and if i talk that way they wouldn't consider me you know just
i respect you a lightweight pretty boy they would think of me as
um
let's see a clip here
what are we going to see here chris this clip is uh thor has
been banished to earth and uh he's had a big argument with his father and reignited an ancient
war and this clip he has actually been knocked out because he's now in human form and uh he's in
the hospital and uh doesn't appreciate also people don't know mortals don't know that he's thor they
don't know they have no idea i think he's mad and then he decides to let him know take a look here
now thor now cut that out thor and we're just trying to help for god's sakes wow that's exciting
and and you shot a lot of it in new mexico yeah it's beautiful there yeah oh look at that new
mexico opens uh may 6th here's thor ladies and gentlemen chris hemsworth nice meeting you thank
you good luck to you thank you very much on may 6th the summer's biggest 3d adventure begins
when thor the norse god of thunder is betrayed you are a vain greedy cruel boy i cast you out
he is banished to the most depressing place on earth
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