Actor Chris Hemsworth may be best known
for playing "Thor,"
but in his new movie, "Rush," he had to shed
that superhero physique to fit into a race car.
Hemsworth plays James Hunt, a star in the '70s world
of Formula One racing,
whose rivalry with fellow driver Niki Lauda
extends beyond the track.
- You complained and your team of boys
leaned on the authorities, now we've had to rebuild the car
and it's become a monster.
At least it's a legal monster.
So you've had to resort to cheating.
You're driving an illegal car and call me the cheat?
It's pathetic.
Rules are rules.
Yes. And rats are rats, thank you.
I really enjoyed this movie, Chris, and you know what?
Sometimes I was rooting for you, and sometimes I was not.
Is that what was interesting about the role,
that there was not an obvious good guy, bad guy?
- Yeah, there was at the very beginning of shooting;
I said that to Ron. I think we all asked the same question
about where our allegiance's supposed to lie here
and who's the good guy and who's the villain,
who's the bad guy.
That was what made it interesting.
The true story of these guys was on and off the track,
they're incredibly contrasting and contradicting
and pushed each other to heights
I think they wouldn't have got to otherwise.
- Of course, Niki Lauda is still alive
but your character, James Hunt, passed away.
Did that make it more challenging
to try to understand where he was coming from?
- Yeah, yeah, in some ways, yeah.
It would have been great to obviously have him here
and I would have loved to have met the guy.
But it's meant sort of from a distance,
I could do my research
and look at many interviews and biographies
and what have you and create my version of things.
- Watch out!
- This is how you check your emails.
- Ok, this was not
what I expected from a hacker movie!
Chris Hemsworth, good morning.
- This is the way we check our emails these days.
- You've introduced the butt-kicking hacker
into our society.
- A new version of that, yeah.
- The movie's called "Blackhat," which is a term
in the hacker world. What does it mean?
- There's a black hat hacker and a white hat hacker and
the black hats tend to exist on the criminal side of things,
in the illegal activity. And the white hacks tend to
be a part of the defense for most of those individuals.
- And in this movie you kind of are like a
converted black hat, right?
A black hat that turned white hat?
- Yeah, he exists on sort of both sides
and his moral compass is a little skewed at times.
He's pulled out of prison by the government
and offered a deal to reduce sentence
to catch an individual who's causing
all sorts of chaos around the world.
- We talk to a lot of actors on this show.
We hear all about transformations they make for roles,
so maybe they gain weight, maybe they lose weight,
maybe they learn a skill like singing or piano.
You're a new one on me:
you had to learn to type.
It was typing, yeah.
I had the hunt and peck style of typing
which is pretty aggressive and unappealing,
but then had to develop more fluid movements
on the keyboard and then understanding code
and writing code. And it was like being back in
math, computer science class in school which I wasn't
overly skilled at.
Chris Hemsworth, an Aussie star we know from movies
like "Thor" and "The Avengers" is reprising his role
as Eric, the Huntsman.
While that accent was a bit distracting,
I managed to plow through
and I started by asking him what it was like
taking on the character again.
- The one time we're caught up in a net together,
this was a long, long time ago.
- Are you no the hero of every story you tell?
- Well, that's because I'm very brave.
- This time around, it was much lighter in tone.
There was a great sense of adventure.
The first film he was a very depressed, dark
sort of character, whereas in this we see him as full
of hope and love.
- It tells the story of queen sisters
Ravenna and Freya as they battle for total control,
while huntsman Eric and his love Sara fight for freedom.
Emily, Jessica, Charlize, did they make it hard on you?
Just being in the girls club or how did that all work?
I think there were times when I felt bullied,
but they'll tell you the opposite I'm sure.
No, it was great. It was like having 3 sisters.
They all have such a great sense of humor.
It's kinda one of the funner sets I've been on.
On "Men in Black: International,"
the popular franchise
is returning this time with Chris and Tessa starring as
agents on a mission to protect the world.
And they are tackling MIB's biggest threat yet,
a mole in the organization. Take a look.
- Should we call it in?
- God, no! The paperwork is a nightmare.
- I haven't seen that before.
- Come on.
- Now I'm pissed off.
- They're so funny, and I think a lot of people
are wondering if this is a prequel?
Will we see Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith?
And how does this fit into the whole "Men in Black" world?
- That was the appeal for us, was to not
do a remake or reboot.
It was just an expansion of what had been done
so wonderfully before. And as you said, it's a global feel
to the film. We went to Italy, London, Morocco,
Sahara desert, Paris and back to New York.
And the Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith characters
still exist within
the "Men in Black" universe.
- Yeah.
- So you're kinda coexisting.
- We're work colleagues.