Chris Hemsworth Calendar 2023

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Learning to let go has been the work of a decade. “It’s the biggest obstacle and something I had a lot of trouble with early in my career,” he admits. When Hemsworth was that 19-year-old in Mona Vale just starting out, “there was so much pressure I put on myself, as to what I wanted to do and how good I wanted to be.” Now, his approach is roughly thus: “The only way to find the magic, or the really special moments, is just being okay with the fact that it might not work. And that doesn’t mean you don’t care, I care about it more than anything. But you need to surrender to the process and realise that, ‘Look, I’ve done my part and the outcome to this is beyond my control.’” Still, he bristles when I ask him about criticisms of Marvel by filmmakers including Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, who recently queried whether Marvel actors are really movie stars. (In a podcast interview last year, Tarantino said that the characters, not the actors, are the stars.) “That’s super depressing when I hear that,” Hemsworth says. “There goes two of my heroes I won’t work with. I guess they’re not a fan of me.” The way Hemsworth sees it, Marvel movies have served an important purpose. “I’m thankful that I have been a part of something that kept people in cinemas. Now, whether or not those films were to the detriment of other films, I don’t know,” he says. “I don’t love when we start scrutinising each other when there’s so much fragility in the business and in this space of the arts as it is… I say that less to the directors who made those comments, who are all, by the way, still my heroes, and in a heartbeat I would leap to work with any of them. But I say it more to the broader opinion around that topic.”

One of the most anticipated upcoming releases of Hemsworth is ‘Furiosa,’ an upcoming Australian post-apocalyptic action film, directed by George Miller. The movie serves as a spin-off and prequel to ‘ Mad Max: Fury Road‘ (2015) and it is the fifth installment in the ‘Mad Max’ franchise. Anya Taylor-Joy takes on the titular role of Imperator Furiosa, while Hemsworth stars as Immortan Joe, allegedly the antagonist. The movie is currently in post-production and is all set to release on May 24, 2024. 2. Transformers One (2024)

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Matt Villei is a News Writer for Collider. Having a deep appreciation for the games, films, and books he experienced growing up, Matt wanted to learn the inner workings of how these media pieces were made and how to make his own. He graduated from Hofstra University with a Film Studies degree and a Creative Writing minor with the hope of one day making something like the art he grew up enjoying. Hemsworth surfed most weekends with his brothers, fellow actors Luke and Liam, and his dad Craig. “It was all I thought about the entire week,” Hemsworth says. “I didn’t really have much of a social life during high school. I wasn’t really going out to parties. All I wanted to do was surf and watch movies. It kept me out of trouble, I think.” Netflix’s ‘Extraction,’ the successful action franchise led by Hemsworth, is set to expand with its third installment. The actor, along with director Sam Hargrave, revealed the exciting news during Netflix’s Tudum event, which followed the premiere of ‘Extraction 2’ on June 16, 2023. We will see Hemsworth’s Tyler Rake gracing the screen for a suicide rescue mission again but not anytime soon as the script is in development and the movie is yet to enter the pre-production phase. 5. Untitled Hulk Hogan Biopic (TBA) Image Credit: Jasin Boland/Netflix Lately, Hemsworth has been thinking more about time, and the passing of it. “Everything has more importance now,” he explains. “Because of the realisation that this isn’t going to last forever.” That includes work. “I don’t want to leave a pile of rubbish behind,” Hemsworth says. “And I’m aware that there’s a few misses there.” A prequel origin story of the Transformers franchise, ‘Transformers One’ is an upcoming animated movie set in Cybertron, home to the Autobots and the Decepticons. The film’s primary focus is the relationship between Megatron and Optimus Prime, who is voiced by Chris Hemsworth. Animation maestro Josh Cooley is the director, who previously worked on ‘Up’ and ‘ Toy Story 4.’ As the ‘Transformers’ film series gears up for the origin story, Hemsworth is at the forefront of it voicing the iconic protagonist. The movie is currently filming and is expected to hit the theatres on September13,2024. 3. Avengers: Secret Wars (2027)

The adventure has lasted now for more than two decades. Hemsworth has a milestone birthday in a few months. “I don’t think I wanna turn 40,” he admits. “I still feel like I’m 25 and I’ve got heaps of time. Now I’m like, ‘Oh, I could be halfway. More than halfway.’” Like Furiosa, slated for release next year, Miller’s prequel to his six-time Oscar-winning Mad Max: Fury Road. Hemsworth plays a bearded biker warlord called, spectacularly, Dementus. “I came into that film exhausted. I thought, ‘How am I going to get through this?’” Hemsworth admits. “Week one of rehearsals with [Miller], all of a sudden it was this reigniting of my creative energy.” It was, Hemsworth declares, “by far the best experience of my career, and something I feel the most proud of. It made me think, the work isn’t what’s exhausting, it’s what kind of work it is, and how invested I am in it and if it is challenging in the right ways.” He calls Miller “masterful”. “I’m on the hunt for more George Millers. Or more of George Miller,” Hemsworth grins. “If he’ll have me.” There’s a big overlap between actors and athletes,” suggests Miller. Both, he explains, require a combination of innate talent and intense practice. “The key to it is: in the moment of performance, having done all that hard work, you then need to be able to just abandon yourself to the moment. That’s what I see, not only in Chris’s work but in meeting him and understanding how he thinks about the world.”

Hemsworth grew up in the south-eastern corner of Australia, in Victoria, first in the city of Melbourne and then two hours outside it on Phillip Island, where the surf is legendary. (“I’ll tell you one thing: if you learn to surf down in the southern ocean, you’re definitely going to be a little bit more hardy than us east-coast guys,” Cox notes.) He thought about that a lot in January, when he received the news of his Avengers co-star Jeremy Renner, who was seriously injured in a snowplough accident. “We were all on our Avengers text chain, we were all chatting. And it was wild. None of us really knew how serious it was,” Hemsworth says. “I think anything like that, it’s an immediate realisation of ‘Wow, any of us can go at any minute…’” He trails off. It is a lot of time,” he agrees. A pause. “If I get there! The reality of ‘I’m not going to be here forever’ is sinking in.”