Chris Hemsworth feels ‘stuck' playing Thor
CHRIS Hemsworth got ‘bored' of himself and suggested playing Thor has stopped him from being “stretched”.
The 40-year-old actor was delighted to land the role of warlord Dementus in his new movie ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga' because it left him feeling invigorated, having spent so long feeling he was “stuck”.
Admitting it is his favourite role in over 10 years, Chris told Sunday Times Culture magazine: “I felt stuck in what I had been doing. I'd run out of things to say creatively and Furiosa reinvigorated the artistic energy that was dormant. I felt spent at the end of a day, rather than... It's a departure.
“I was bored of myself, yeah. I was not bored of the opportunities I'd been given, but it all started to feel familiar.
“I'd done film upon film that fell into a similar space and I wasn't stretching myself. If you play a character again and again you owe it to the audience to bring something new and make it fresh for yourself too.
“We did so with ‘Thor: Ragnarok'. But for ‘Love and Thunder', for me it got a bit jokey. Too improv.”
Chris admitted he has felt “pigeonholed” by playing Thor.
He said: “If I ever went back to [‘Thor'] I'd wonder how we could change it again. But there is a superhero curse in the sense you get pigeonholed, and I've felt a little hamstrung with what I could do, so desperately wanted something to scare me. And ‘Furiosa' did.”