00:00Furiosa. I was hogtied on my knees, hands were on my back. We shot for about four days and it was
00:06really, really stressful. Do you have it in you to make it epic?
00:11Hey, I'm Chris Hemsworth. Sometimes crazy things happen on set and they can often be stressful.
00:17I'm here to share some of those stories. This is my stress test.
00:30In rush, I would say trying to fit into the race car was pretty difficult.
00:39I'd just come off Thor 1 and was as heaviest as I'd ever been and had to lose a hell of a lot of
00:46weight just to be able to squeeze in there. So that meant endless amounts of cardio and training
00:53and the very minimal calories through the day. It was my first experience with sort of a dramatic
00:59weight loss after going from a dramatic increase. And so that was kind of, there was some sort of
01:06whiplash occurring there with my appetite for training and for food.
01:11All right. Thor Ragnarok. Some good stress in this as far as the creative opportunity we had
01:17ahead of us, myself and Taika Waititi. We wanted to do something drastically different to how we'd
01:22seen Thor in the past. That took a fair amount of leaping into the unknown and taking some risks and
01:28wondering if the audience was going to reject it or accept it. So it was a good kind of stress.
01:35The scene where we're in Valkyrie's apartment and it's Valkyrie, the Hulk, Thor, was a lot of
01:44improv back and forth. And improv can be really, really stressful, especially when someone gets
01:50the giggles and you start laughing and then it's just this kind of infectious, like you feel like a
01:55bunch of naughty kids at school. You're trying not to laugh and then you're trying to remember your
01:59lines and you're trying to improv and be creative and not screw it up. And then, you know, there's,
02:03you know, money being spent trying to capture this scene and we're throwing it out the door as we
02:07fumble our way through it. Yeah, it was, it was good stress.
02:11Furiosa. So the scene at the very end when I'm hogtied on my knees, hands while my back, it took
02:19about sort of 10 minutes to assemble and tie up all the sort of chains and kind of four days on my
02:23hands and knees. But it was quite an emotional scene too. So anytime I was kind of trying, you know,
02:28my body would want to move or complain about something, I was pulled into this direction of
02:32trying to figure out what it was we were trying to identify and say within this space in the scene.
02:38They just tie me back the other way. So, you know, and I'd stay there for four days just to reverse
02:42what they had done. No, I didn't know. Not really. It was some bear crawls, some yoga stretches,
02:50just kind of loosening up the joints and getting a bit of elasticity back in the places that were
02:56kind of forced to be stagnant and cramped for a few too many hours. And I had contact lenses on and
03:02it was in the desert and so sand and contact lenses are not so fun.
03:08It's limitless. The whole thing was pretty damn stressful, but I would say the most physically
03:12draining thing was the climbing the dam wall. It was 200 meters high, middle of winter. Climb is
03:19only available during summer months. My hands were frozen the first half of the climb because it was
03:25in shadow. Each time I grabbed each rock hold, it felt like I was tearing my fingernails out.
03:30The climb took me about an hour and my heart rate went from sort of 150 to 220 at times. I'm exhausted and as uncomfortable as I've ever been.
03:41I have no interest in never doing it again. Avengers Endgame. Stressful. While we shot this in Atlanta in the middle of summer and as you can see there I have a big pair of rubber sleeves on and a leather costume and it was disgustingly sweaty and uncomfortable. Just pure heat exhaustion.
04:04Western Australia? Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. In extraction one, the one-er. 15 to 20 minute sequence where it was, there were stitches in there, but a series of two to three minute long takes. We shot this in India. Hot, humid, all the sweat and the sort of soaked, drenched shirt I'm wearing there is real. We didn't need any sort of makeup there to add additional
04:34sweat. It was, it was that hot and it was a huge amount of choreography. So your mind's going and trying to sort of adapt and move and chaotic sort of busy part of town covered in fake sticky blood. A lot of scrapes and bumps and bruises and injuries that I, some of them I still manage now.
04:53Ghostbusters. This was one of the funnest films I've shot. There wasn't a whole lot of scripted dialogue for the character. The idea was we were going to come in and improv a lot.
05:04of it and I'd just come off Saturday Night Live. I'm back, bitches. Did you miss me, bitches? Paul Feig, the director, had seen that and said, I want you to, you know, you play with this scene, this character. Had four of the funniest, most comedically talented actresses in the room with me. And so I was equally excited but nervous to try and keep up with the, the professionals. Man, it was fun. Just trying again to keep it together between action and cut.
05:33And not break. And because each time we'd sort of improvise a line or someone would add something in, the whole thing would fall apart and we'd just get it.
05:40And there's little bits of kind of magic where it all kind of lines up and everyone's kind of just holding together.
05:46And I see that film that I have a sort of an immediate sort of shot of, you know, joyful sort of the adrenaline that reminded me of that experience.
05:54So those are my stories. Keep calm. I'm Chris Hemsworth.
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