He apologises a few times for repeating himself, but it’s obvious that the questions Hemsworth has been asking himself these past few months are at the front of his mind, and our conversation loops back to them again and again. It’s not a difficult task he’s familiar and self-effacing and very funny, but it’s his honesty – open and disarming – that endears him the most. Hemsworth is someone who wants to be liked. “It’s live, you have 90 seconds to be interesting, charming, sell the film and not say anything stupid or offensive. “I like doing this thing,” he says, gesturing between us, “where it’s an actual conversation with someone.” He finds television interviews hard. He arrives in black jeans and a blue jumper the exact same shade as his eyes, and orders an Italian take on steak tartare, two salads, some focaccia and an enormous Cotoletta Milanese to share. Hemsworth in person is as tall as he appears on screen, not quite as jacked, but still plainly, unpretentiously handsome. Despite the place being glass on all sides, like an exquisite fishbowl, we find a quiet corner upstairs where Hemsworth sits comfortably ensconced in the seclusion, facing the water. You know, just the simple ones: “Who am I? What am I doing? What’s my contribution? Is what I’m doing of value?”Įarlier in the day, we’re sitting inside Hemsworth’s favourite restaurant at Crown Sydney, the swanky harbourside hotel where he stayed while making the forthcoming Fury Road prequel Furiosa in 2022. “All of a sudden, there’s a lot of questions that I probably haven’t answered… I’ve been conveniently distracted and all of a sudden it’s like, ‘Oh, let’s look a little deeper.’” What were those questions? “Nothing overly dramatic,” Hemsworth says. Having time off these past months hasn’t always been a pleasant experience in that respect. “I find most of your problems are created through boredom, when you’re sitting around and you have nothing else to think about except, ‘Oh, what can I pick apart here, what else can I assess and criticise within myself?’” Hemsworth says. It’s also why he’s been working so furiously, notching up 22 films since the first Thor. Sitting with his thoughts is something Hemsworth has in the past actively tried to avoid it’s partly why he is so drawn to surfing, where the mind folds into the body and for a moment you are at one with the waves.
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