Chris Hemsworth Reveals What His Kids’ Friends Thought About Thor 4: “I Cringe and Laugh Equally At It”

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GQ has published a new feature about Chris Hemsworth, and in one portion, the 39-year-old actor reveals that some of his biggest critics are actually little kids—namely, his kids’ own eight-year-old friends. “It’s a bunch of eight-year-olds critiquing my film. ‘We thought this one had too much humour, the action was cool but the VFX weren’t as good,’” Hemsworth said about Thor: Love Thunder, a movie that he, while fun to make, now describes as being too silly: “I cringe and laugh equally at it.” Elsewhere in the interview, Hemsworth mentions that he is thinking a lot about being a director, although he was told by Ben Affleck that the job is “exhausting.”

From a GQ feature:

Everyone’s a critic these days. Even Hemsworth’s kids’ friends were in on it with his most recent Marvel offering, Thor: Love and Thunder. They didn’t hold back. “It’s a bunch of eight-year-olds critiquing my film. ‘We thought this one had too much humour, the action was cool but the VFX weren’t as good,’” he recalls. “I cringe and laugh equally at it.” Released in 2022, Love and Thunder was a hit at the box office but received mixed reviews from the (grown-up) critics. “I think we just had too much fun. It just became too silly,” reflects Hemsworth. He pauses. “It’s always hard being in the centre of it and having any real perspective… I love the process, it’s always a ride. But you just don’t know how people are going to respond.”

So he has started seeking out new challenges. Directing, maybe. “I think about it a lot, and more recently, than I ever have.” He has spoken to a friend of a friend about it – the friend is Matt Damon, the friend-of-the-friend is Ben Affleck – who shared that acting in a movie you are also directing can be exhausting. “Ben said it’s really tricky,” Hemsworth says. “It’s much easier just to sit behind the camera than to try and do both.” He still wants to act in a romantic drama. (He got close recently with an A Star Is Born–esque feature, until he realised it would require him to sing about 20 covers of some of the most iconic songs of all time. “That scares the hell out of me to the point of submission.”)

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