Chris Hemsworth Plays With His Hair A Lot

Chris Hemsworth spent his whole OUT Magazine photo shoot using his hands as a surrogate for yours and Jennifer Anistoning the s**t out of his hair. He’s promoting Avengers Assemble, although Snow White & The Huntsman isn’t far behind. Perhaps he’ll learn how to pose in the meantime. Hemsworth’s Anistoning through his shoot, below. And from his interview we get this gem: ‘My mum always used to say to me that, out of her three boys, ‘Chris, you were the girl’…I’d speak to her about far more things than [my brothers] would and far more things than she needed to hear about, too. I was a chatty kid.’

On whether his large size as Thor may result in typecasting: ‘Being that size, you are very quickly stereotyped. Clearly, you can’t be talented if you’re that bulky. He’s going to be a meathead, you know? You do wonder if you’ll be restricted and not allowed to do anything else. But what it gives you far outweighs those negatives. Kenneth Branagh, Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, this was not your average blockbuster superhero thing.’
On listening to Charming Potato: ‘Channing [Tatum] made a good point about audiences these days having ADHD. You can’t keep away for too long. Stars are pumped out. We live in a different age. The movie is a lot bigger than the star. There are plenty of guys you can throw into action roles, but you have to capitalize on it.’
On whether he and wife Elsa Pataky planned their baby: ‘Er, yes and no. I have to be elusive about that.’
On his fame, a decade in the making after working on Australian soap Home & Away: ‘I’d love to say it’s all about hard work, and, yes, that’s a component, but I know so many actors who are hard workers who it’s just not happening for. I’m not about to complain… All this was mostly luck.’
On Home & Away, specifically, which also boasts Russell Crowe, Heath Ledger, Melissa George, Guy Pearce, Isla Fisher, and True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten as former cast members: ‘I had done a lot of nothing [but] I was able to make mistakes, and no one gave a s**t about me. You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you’re new. You get the positives from an Australian soap without the negatives.’
On whether he’s coasting on his looks: ‘It’s so easy to sound fake sincere when you talk about looks or whatever, but I never thought, Oh yeah, great, I look like this, therefore I ought to get that. We all have the same insecurities.’
On little brother Liam Hemsworth of The Hunger Games (who’s also the boyfriend of Miley Cyrus): ‘I’m reminded, now that my little brother’s working a lot, how much more interesting he is…So I give him a punch when I see him.’
Side notes from the interviewer: As Chris speaks in a North London photo studio… it’s apparent, five minutes into talking to him, that he’s possibly the straightest man alive. From his boot-cut, distressed denim and his deep voice to his shoulder-length hair, he has a butch construction-worker vibe even with a ponytail… His ego is in direct in verse to his musculature. He is a man’s man with enough sensitivity to appeal to the girls and gays.