Here are some assorted photos of Chris Hemsworth – he covers the new issue of Men’s Health, and he attended the big London premiere of In the Heart of the Sea last night. That’s Charlotte Riley beside him – Charlotte recently gave birth to her husband Tom Hardy’s baby. Hardy was not at the premiere, unfortunately. Charlotte looked great – she lost the baby weight in a matter of weeks, it seems like. And yes, Chris looks nice too. I don’t know… I never really know what to say about Chris. I “get” that he’s attractive to many people, but he really doesn’t do much for me. Now, his little brother Liam? Any day and all day, especially when Liam is beardy.
As for Chris… I could have sworn that In the Heart of the Sea was originally supposed to be released last year or earlier this year, but here we go. This is the Moby Dick real-life story, and this is the film in which Chris had to undergo drastic weight loss to play a starving whaler. Chris spoke about his crazy diet with Men’s Health:
How he lost 33 lbs for the film: “We couldn’t go away for a month and get skinny, we had to do it while we were shooting. At one point, a day’s rations were a boiled egg, a couple of crackers and a celery stick. I reckon about 90% of our conversations were about our favourite foods and what we would eat when we finished the film. I was skinnier than ever before, but at least we were losing weight together – the bond we formed was incredible. It reminded me of being on a football team growing up, where you’d do anything for each other. You don’t often get that on set.”
Getting back his bulk for Thor: “To get back to looking like Thor is simple: I get in the gym and work out. I enjoy it. It keeps me fit and healthy. I’ve got to eat more calories – certain types and all clean – and it can get boring eating chicken breast and rice and so on. But at least you’re fed properly.”
How he feels about Thor: “I love playing him. I’m a fan. I’ve been on the phone to the Marvel guys going, ‘Where’s my script?’ I want it early so I can get it perfect.”
It seems like Chris probably lost more than 33 pounds at peak thinness for ITHOTS. I mean, he’s a big, tall guy who can really bulk up big-time to play Thor. And he got REALLY skinny for this role. As for the diet… that can’t have been healthy. An egg, a few crackers and a celery stick? That’s monstrous. If I was an actor, I would never, ever take a role where I had to slim down that much or go on that kind of diet. Ugh.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Men’s Health.
I believe the Geneva Convention bans starvation. But it’s ok if we pay actors to do it? BS. They could easily CGI these guys to look starved, like Benjamin Button’s body was engineered onto Pitt. Matty D I believe also talks about how he seriously endangered himself doing this sh*t. Men or women, it’s not right or ok to put actors through this.
They’re not being starved though. They starve themselves for their “art” *cough*awards*cough*. Nobody forced him to do this and he doesn’t need the money. And they really love talking about it, no?
God forgive me, I thought he was talking about the wife.
I know he’s speaking about it and how he did it for the “art,” but I can’t help but feel that this will give people (not so good) ideas. It’s like a glorification of an eating disorder.
I agree. Mad respect for Anne Hathaway who refused to tAlk about her weight loss regime for les miserables for the same reason
Wannabepartisan: I ermember her saying that, but also remember her saying she eat a bowl of oatmeal a day to get to that weight..
I was thinking the same .. It’s give idea for people
Honestly, when I was going through the worst of my ED I ate more than his “rations”. It would have been better if he had said “veggies and cardio”.
yeah, eating disorders among males are on the rise, and this kind of stuff doesn’t help.
I work with youth who have eating disorders. I have seen so many kids who are convinced that one bite of sugar or anything white = diabetes, eating bread = instant celiac or autoimmune disease, any animal product = heart disease and obesity, salt=high blood pressure and death, and carbs cause insulin cause obesity (thanks Gary Taubes….). Nope, not true. So I have young adults coming in with the same diet as Hemsworth, scared to death of eating, or that they can’t be singers, or models, or actors unless they starve themselves.
Some of my kids have brought in diets of celebrities from magazines as evidence that how they are eating is not so bad. It’s frustrating. EDs are the most deadly mental illness for women age 15-24, and sadly men are slowly catching up…
See, this surprises me. I know there are guys who develop eating disorders but I always figured that media has very little to do with that. Afterall, the idealised male body is not skinny Chris Hemsworth but rather buff Chris Hemsworth. Thin men are actually a mocked demo (see terms like “scrawny”) unlike skinny women who are in the ideal bracket.
I had the opposite reaction. Reading this made me hungry. Of course, I haven’t had breakfast yet, so I’m hungry anyway but nothing here made me want to starve myself. Yuck.
Amanda Seyfried and Julianne Moore have both talked about eating nothing but spinach (former) and always being hungry and living on granola bars (latter) constantly. I don’t think he was glamorising it because the positive point was about the bonding that resulted from talking about food all the time.
But he is not glorifying it, he said he prefers the healthier diet when bulking up, which could equally be seen by others as giving teenage boys ideas of trying to get their bodies to look like Thor by encouraging too much protein and inadequate fruits and vegetables.
IMO I prefer actors and models being honest about what it took for them to look like that. Otherwise we continue with the BS of showing pretty and slim people who claim that it’s natural from eating healthy and just running after their kids to loose the wait. To me THAT is what leads to teens and other women having unrealistic expectations and low self-esteem.
The anorexic girls know how to keep food away from their bodies and the bulimics know how to throw up. Your average teen is going to attempt to live on a few crackers and celery for half a day, call it stupid and go hang out with their friends at Baskin Robbins. The diet lies are the problem.
My son is about Chris’ size and, well, I can’t imagine him subsisting on an egg, crackers and a celery stick.
That says to me that he’s an incredibly BORING individual.
LOL i laugh cause i consider this guy just Cardboard filler, but then to go through these lengths for a movie that probably isn’t going to give him Marvel money, that won’t showcase his supposed “acting Talents” cause again this one has the charisma of a white sock, and that looks like a Bomb in the cgi making… Too funny tbh
“Cardboard filler” <- Thsnk you for putting into words my total indifference to this guy. 🙂
Just add water and in another couple of weeks he may have grown a vagina as this is sadly the diet of many teen girls and even grown women I know. Sad.
LOL. But surely starvation alone is insufficient to grow a vagina? Even a symbolic one?
I have never paid attention to Men’s Health as such but my god, this is no better than Cosmo. First of all, “Ditch 6kg in 12 weeks” seems doable. Hard but doable. Not the “Lose 10lbs over the weekend” crap women get from magazines. But then … “The diet that makes you immortal” and “Bulletproof you brain with beer”??? Lord help us all.
Chris seems like a nice enough guy and I do think he was well cast as Thor. But I just don’t the special appeal.
that’s only 2lb a week – normal rate of dieting.
It’s actually less, it’s 500g which is a little over 1lb. I find dieting hard in general so 6kg is a lot to me. But yes, it’s totally reasonable.
It was supposed to come out in March but got bumped to now. I can’t see why since it is not in the awards conversation at all. At best the reviews are completely “meh” and none of the trades liked it. Sounds like Thor wasted his time with the “suffering artist” stuff.
So unhealthy, foolish, and disrespectful to your body. Really nothing to be proud of. I was thinner when I smoked, but I’m not proud of smoking. I think these actors starving themselves for a role is just stupid.
So true! And on a completely vain tip, his skin must look like a country road map with all those inevitable stretch marks from starving to suddenly bulking up.
Probably so – many long term consequences are possible. 😝
But this is a film about them being marooned or shipwrecked. It’s for the film.
The only time I ate less than that was the first 3 months of pregnancy. I could never do this on purpose. I’d rip someone’s, everyone’s, head off!
……….and eat it?
He really looks like Liam on the cover photo. I actually double-checked to make sure.
He is a beautiful man. He subsided on very little food. It’s not good for the body, but it was his choice, it was a temporary thing and damn! he looks healthy now, so I don’t think it’s a big deal. Actors do this all the time. Look at what Tom Hanks did to himself for Cast Away, Matthew McConoughy did it for Dallas Buyers Club, heck! Renee Zellweiger did it for Bridget Jones. I pretty much chalk it up to part of the job.
Given the reviews that are coming in he might wonder why he bothered.
“At one point, a day’s rations were a boiled egg, a couple of crackers and a celery stick.”
Tom Hanks and Cast Away and Philadelphia: I think Hanks said all that drastic weight loss and gain contributed to him getting diabetes. I like moderate fasting but there are days my brain won’t function if I eat like a bird. I think this explains why people are crazy in HW: even not filming a shipwreck/survivor film, they can’t eat too much (especially the women) unless they’re working out like crazy.
I’ll be catching this film. Looks like a good production. He did that race car driving film with Ron Howard too.
How does your brain even work normally with that little food? How the heck do they memorize script and lines? I would just be dizzy all the time.