Here are some photos of Chris Hemsworth at Good Morning America yesterday. He must have flown into NYC just after the LA premiere of Thor 2 on Monday night. Is it okay if I’m not feeling him in these photos? He looks exhausted and his hair… it’s not good. I’m including the GMA interview below, but it’s nothing special.
On the other hand, Chris stopped by Jimmy Kimmel on Monday night and he ended up talking about his injured hand (he dislocated a finger!) and his new extreme diet. Apparently, Chris is already at work on Heart of the Sea, the true story of the events that inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick. Chris says: “A bunch of sailors in a whaling ship get struck by a whale, the ship sinks and they jump onto the small rafts and drift for 90 days. And basically they begin to die and eat each other … a romantic comedy. And we have to get rather skinny. So we’re on 500 or 600 calories a day.”
Yes, 600 calories. I could NOT. I don’t see how a big guy like Chris could do that either. He’s going to need to be hospitalized! Chris further explained the rules of his diet: “It ends up being a couple of small salads, a couple of small pieces of protein and that’s kind of it and you go to bed hungry. And then you have like a fasting period of 15 hours, like you stop eating completely, and then you have little meals through the day.” Jesus. Maybe at long last, we’ve discovered the reason why Chris has barely promote Thor 2: The Dark World. It’s because he simply doesn’t have enough energy. It’s because he’s starving himself for what sounds like a really boring, depressing story that no one is going to want to see.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
I never care too much about the Hemsworth brothers but they are handsome and fit. However, they could have just hired a skinnier actor to play the role.
Exactly! Just look at other actors who lost so much weight for a role, then the movie flopped, and the actor never regained his former hotness.
Let someone else play the role. It sounds like a horrible movie.
LOL, that was my first thought. Just hire some already skinny guys!
I’m assuming he’s trying to be a method actor? *sigh*
I dont think it’s that at all – it’s just he can’t go from being all 250 lbs of muscly Thor Mountain when he has to appear to have been basically starving for 90 days at sea. He says that it’s a cast of 15 dudes and they’re all on this diet right now.
“(…) he can’t go from being all 250 lbs of muscly Thor Mountain (…)”
I pictured you drooling while typing that. Wrong?
Not at all 🙂
Seriously, that shirtless ‘scene’ was such a cl*t-tease!
I love him at the THOR weight. He is looking lollipop head to me at this weight.
500 to 600 calories a day? I’m hungry just thinking about what that’s like.
I think I already ate 500 calories and its only 10:15am…
**looks at the nutritional info on the back of that baggie of chips she’s eating**
**starts laughing hysterically**
Aww, my poor cuteness! Let me kiss and make it ALL better.
He’s still hot, and looking forward to seeing Thor 2 with my mom (she has the biggest crush on him and her reaction when he’s on screen is adorable)
Only 500-600 calories a day? I would be so b-tchy.
Oh Chrissy boy I have something you can eat before you go to bed and it’s definitely less than 500 calories. 🙂
You might have to help hold his head up in the process…
His head’s supposed to be down for that, though,,.
No, darling. The tongue – yes. But. um, this area isnt a couch to crash on…
Lmao! Literally spit out my coffee
Grab the ears and hold them steady.
Lol! Touché V4Real, touché.
ha ha
Starving for that Oscar nom.
I’ve done low cal diets, but 600 cal a day for a young very large man is not good. He must get so bitchy.
Can’t the make up people make them look sufficiently malnourished without jeopardizing their health? Or is the chance of getting an Oscar worth the price of possibly having long term health problems?
Well the mystery of the missing wifey at the premiere may have a simple explanation. Apparently he walked the red carpet and then immediately left to fly out again. No movie or after party. Even for a famewhore that might have been too much.
It’s not so much the weight loss as the fact that he needs to be in Thor-shape again almost immediately after this film to start Avengers 2. Dangerous stuff.
Hee laughing at famewhore comment.
He’ll be binge-eating like crazy, happy boy 🙂
Great career move!
The real life story is so freaking good though! I think this could be a sleeper hit if marketed the right way. I loved the book when it came out a few years ago.
I loved it, too. It’s a fascinating story and could be great on screen. I haven’t seen any of his Thor stuff, but I’d see this.
It’s so weird to see him and Chris Evans and realize their Thor/Captain America forms are not their natural forms–that they put on so much weight and work out so much to do it and they’re naturally tall, slightly lanky, sort of built guys. Not the “GOOD LAWD HAVE MERCY” they are in the movie.
Granted, I am far appreciative of their work. Far. Far. Appreciative.
What. I can’t see properly if I don’t eat every 3 hours.
I’d faint on 500 calories a day. No energy.
If he’s like most people then this extended crash/starvation diet will permanently alter his metabolism. Afterwards he’ll gain weight (fat, not muscle) much more easily than before, and keeping the pudge at bay will take a lot more effort than he’s used to (people who were always naturally thin can suddenly find that they’re naturally plump). Hope they’re all very careful… it can be quite dangerous to drop that much weight quickly… or slowly.
After a while you get used to the small amount of calories. So used to it that a regular amount of calories seems like too much to handle. And metabolism can’t be permanently affected; it’s always changing and adapting according to your habits. You will bloat up at first when you go back to eating normal. You will gain weight. But after consistently eating the same amount of “normal” calories you’re body will self-regulate, stabilize, and then normalize.
For the love of God CHems! I had that intake of calories just during breakfast! 🙂
This is why I don’t think Charlie Hunnam(who was a serious contender for Thor) could’ve handled that role. He said he hated getting in shape for Pacific Rim cause they made him stop eating cookies, lol.
Maybe that’s where Elsa went. He ate her. She looks like she might be more protein than fat.
I’m sure this conversation may have happened on this website at some point in time and I just wasn’t privy to it…but is there a story behind the monkey?
Nope. Just that if I put my *actual* pic up, the radiant vision of my beauty, no matter how teeny tiny, would blind you all for eternity. It’s for your own good, really. And yes, you’re welcome.
(alternative reason: I’m working the “1000 monkeys typing for 1000 years might come up with the works of Shakespeare” theory. If I post here enough, I might eventually say something meaningful).
@T.Fanty- All my witty replies have left the building. That’s why I’m your fan 😉
If he ate her, then it’s just a matter of hours before he dumps her. Ha!
I know, awful. I’ll see myself out now.
http://i.dlisted.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/emmyssidestepper.gif
yeah dude, you’re way better than that…
I just choked on the funny.
Between Thor and this weight losing role it will be interesting to see what his natural weight is… That is if he has time to live in it before the inevitable bulk up for another beefy role.
Is he maybe doing some version of 5/2, where you eat normally most days but fast and only eat about 500 calories 2-3 days a week?
He’s not naturally a huge guy, before Thor he was leaner than he is right now.
If you haven’t read “In the Heart of the Sea” by Nathanial Philbrick, please go read it. I know… it sounds uber dull and depressing, but it’s actually a completely riveting story. And beautifully told. Everyone in my family read it and we all LOVED it.
Also, that’s not much food.
Chris is developing one of these bodybuilder faces, and they are never a pretty sight. Basically shriveled skin on bones.
He’s so hot. And I love the tone of his voice (Aussie accents don’t really do it for me, but his voice is great).
I have days when I do long runs and I may burn 2,300 calories at a shot. Most of it is a wash, versus what I eat (which is a lot), and I probably end up with that many calories left to burn.
500 calories a day? I am a midget woman and I usually have to eat 1200 calories a day! I can’t even go under 600 when I fast.. That is ridiculous!
Am I wrong or he said in an interview that during the shooting of Rush he had to diet and his wife hated him? Maybe we solved the riddle about the missing-at-the-premiere wife….