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Chris Hemsworth | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #640

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Today's guest is an actor.
He's a producer.
He's a life explorer, if you will.
He has a new film out that's called Crime 101.
It's in theaters right now.
You can go check it out.
I had a good time getting to know this Australian gentleman.
Today's guest is Mr. Chris Hemsworth.
Australians, I feel like they're more risque with their lives.
Yeah, there is a lack of, well, it's risk-averse due to either the lack of fear
or the extra amount of stupidity at times.
Yeah.
It fluctuates.
It's a beautiful bravery, though, that they have, you know?
Yeah.
And even, like, when you travel, like, one thing I remember from just traveling
a lot was just seeing Australians everywhere.
Yeah.
They pop up in anything, you know?
Like, you turn on a tap in another country, like, you know, you're pouring a
beer and a couple of Australians just come out on surfboards, kind of a boogie
board.
As an Australian, that's always problematic.
It's like you go to a country to get away from Australia and have a different
cultural experience, and it's, oh, g'day, mate, shit.
Yeah, I know you, and the next minute you're all at the bar together doing what
you did back home.
Yeah.
Yeah, I could totally see that, man.
Yeah.
Where does that nature come from in Australians to go?
Is that like a, because, I mean, it's a serious thing that I think everyone
would say is that you go anywhere and there's Australians there.
I think it's, you know, we're quite isolated where we are, you know, and for
such a, we're a young country as far as the, you know, the white settlement
being there, you know, in the last sort of 200 and so years.
And there's been always a sense of adventure either across the country itself
or just the need to get out and explore.
Because again, it's not like, you know, if you're in Europe, you're, you know,
jumping from France to Italy, to London, and you can have, you know, different
cultural experiences within, you know, a two hour train ride.
Like for us, it's a big adventure, you know, pack a backpack and you're on
several flights and buses and trains and boats and whatever.
And so there is a, there is an adventurous spirit, but I think I, you know, all
the guys I grew up with, it was like finish high school and go backpacking
around the world.
So that's like a big thing where people are like, when they finish, they're
like, when they finish high school, it's like, I'm going to get out of here.
I'm going to go experience something.
Yeah.
Is it almost taboo if you don't in a way that you, if you don't have like a.
No, I think it just comes from not having figured out what you want to do next,
you know?
And, and I like, I had probably 50, 50 with my group of friends who knew what
they were doing.
They were going to, you know, a couple of them went into a trade and a couple
of them went to university.
And then a couple of them were like, I got no idea.
And maybe I'll find it in, uh, you know, Peru or wherever I'm going to go
backpacking and, and, and, and, you know, cross paths with folks that might
inspire something else in me.
But yeah.
Did you do something like that?
I know you grew up like partially in the outback and partially in Melbourne,
right?
Yeah.
I grew up in Melbourne, then lived in Northern territory in the Aboriginal
community, about four hours Southeast, uh, Catherine and like in the middle of
nowhere.
Um, and there was, that was my earliest, most vivid memories.
Um, but that.
Were there in the bush kind of?
Yeah.
Like there was, we were, there's an Aboriginal community, a bunch of Aboriginal
communities in the region we lived in.
And I mean, all out through all across Northern territory, but, um, where we
were the proximity, there was sort of three or four communities that my dad
worked.
Um, ran like a cattle station and then, um, ran like a community center.
And I went up there when I was five or six and then came back to Melbourne.
And then again, when I was, uh, like seven, eight, nine, you know, so a couple
of different times.
But as far as the backpacking thing, I started working when I was 18, I ended
up on a soap opera.
And then that kind of took me, you know, straight into the, what I'm doing now,
but I kind of miss that.
And I do look back and I, especially speaking to a lot of friends of mine that,
that had this sort of crazy adventure prior also to being famous and prior to
being recognized.
And you could just kind of get into a bunch of trouble and, and, and explore
the world and, and, you know, make all those mistakes and hopefully learn
something from them.
I feel like that period I do, there's a romanticism that I sort of, or a
nostalgia that I long for that I, that I wish I had done that prior to sort of,
you know, jumping into, into the working world.
Yeah. It's one thing that's a downside of celebrity or popularity is that, yeah,
you, there's things you can't kind of go do like in a, like, yeah.
Like sometimes I'll romanticize as well, like being like, Oh, I'd like to go
there, go there.
But then I'm like, it would be more uncomfortable now, or it would be some type
of way.
And, uh, did you do it after school?
Did you ever get a chance to travel?
Yeah. Yeah.
I had a girlfriend.
We went over there and that was like a seven country fight.
We went on.
Oh man, I fought in so many territories and different, like, oh man, I thought
I was like working with Napoleon or something over there.
It was a lot of, uh, oh yeah, I should get a medal for that.
And so should she, I'm going to say that.
What was, what was the, uh, the drama?
What was it coming from?
Just, I think you don't know how you are when it's like stressful out there,
when you're on trains and you're moving your bags all the time.
And we booked too many places to go see, like we should have done four days in
each spot.
And we tried to do like two days, nine spots instead of do like four spots,
five days.
And so you're just constantly on the go and you just, I would be sneaking off
and just drinking wine by myself.
And like, and then one night I took, I went off to the grocery by myself and
somebody had like a hit of LSD or something.
It was like probably a pretty, you know, nouveau grocery, I guess.
And, uh, because I mean, it wasn't on the shelves, but it was available in the
parking lot, you know, which I consider an extension of the grocery.
Um, but yeah, so then I came back there and I was like, I thought it would like
boost my spirits.
And then it was just a long, that was horrible.
And that time we were like in a camping sort of environment where there were
outhouses and stuff.
And so in what country that was outside of Venice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, but it was great, but it was just like, that was just a lot, you know, too
much in.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But yeah, like going on that, doing something like that now, it would just feel
like, yeah, it would feel tougher.
And I'm sure.
Yeah.
It's like, you know, you're Chris Hemsworth now.
So it's like, there's, you know, that name is bigger than you.
And so it's like, it's interesting.
Cause I sort of at a point in my life where, I don't know if you find this, but
every few
years you're kind of, you know, what was the goal at one point is quickly
becomes the norm
and then you're onto something else.
And then it's the sort of reassess of like what my purpose is around or the why
as to doing
this thing.
And I'm chasing it for one reason, then it's for something else.
And, and I'm at that sort of point where I'd love to sort of step away and on
one hand
and, and, and, you know, do a little sort of soul searching and dig a little
deeper and
sort of, um, get a little more solitude and time for yourself.
But I think, what would that look like?
You know, it's like, yeah, the idea that's romantic.
That feels like, yeah, it's not quite in the reality.
It's hard to like say, well, would I be okay in that?
Yeah.
Like I'm like, I'm backpacking at 42 and not, not that I'm, I got three kids.
And then that's not my kind of, yeah, your backpack will be full, full of all
three of them.
So, but it was, uh, but more just the kind of, how do you, the, the way you see
the world
through when, when you are famous and recognized versus when you're not, you
know, different
things, people interact differently to you, you know, for, for, for, for good
and bad, but
also the opportunities that sort of present themselves and the places you can
kind of inhabit,
um, become a little limited, you know, in that sense.
But you know, that's what it is.
Yeah.
The world's your oyster, but it's like, you know, it's, uh,
You have this, this opportunity, but there's a restriction that there is such a
restriction
to your, um, how much you can really involve yourself in it.
You know, it's all, it's all, it becomes very observational.
Yeah.
You go to like 10 different countries and it's like, God, that must be amazing.
It's like, yeah, from the hotel room, you know, you're looking out and then,
you know, if
you're, there's posters and so on around, around the streets of your face
everywhere, then it's
even more difficult, but it's, um, yeah, I, I, I, and not to say I can't, you
can't navigate
your way around it at times.
Right.
And we're not complaining, but no, it's an interesting look and that's, it's a
good thought.
Yeah.
You can only, it's, it becomes very observational.
Yeah.
Which, which look, Hey, is, is not a, not a negative either at times.
It's sort of, um.
It's what it is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's, I think of like popularity and stuff like that.
It's just interesting to be part of an experiment, like, okay, this is what it's
like.
Yeah.
Like, okay, there's good parts.
There's bad parts.
I don't think of it as me really as much as like, okay, I'm in this setting.
Yeah.
And this is the experience.
And it's also, it's like the, the, the sort of polarity of things like every,
every time
you, you solve one problem, life has a way of, of presenting another challenge
and not even
a problem.
It's, it's like the, the, the, in order to be able to evolve and growth, you
know, the adversity
that's shifted your way.
And, and I think that's the sort of the misconception, I suppose, is, is the
assuming that this, that,
and the other will, I'll be void of those problems, you know, and so what, what
comes
with huge benefit, you know, in, in, in, you know, being like your recognizable
personality
and so on and fame and all that is incredible.
And it comes with its own things as does, as does in any industry.
I remember talking to my mom about this years ago, she was a high school
teacher.
And I was like, ah, man, it's really tricky at work.
You know, I got the cast and the producer and, and you know, then that does the
film work
in this.
And she said, yeah, it's, I could kind of, you know, line those things up
parallel to my
experience, you know, and the students might be my audience and the, the
principals, the producer
and so on.
And it's like, that's life.
That's the experience.
And I think I've gotten much better at sort of not, um, you know, egoically
thinking that
mine, my experience is somehow separate, different or unique.
It's like whatever industry, whatever demographic, wherever you're born, you
kind of life has a
way of throwing you the same sort of, um, options, I guess, to appreciate
things in, in, in
its truest form rather than sort of, you know, goal seeking or accumulating or,
or whatever.
Yeah.
The game doesn't really change.
It's like, you don't think of like, oh, these problems are different.
It's just like, okay, now there's new things and that's just life.
There's not really like, yeah, I don't think that popularity or celebrity is an
escape from
no.
Um, and I think if you've sort of things, if you're re if you're realistic,
yeah, for sure.
And, and there's certainly, you know, there's a sort of, we, we've seen
countless times
again and again, the sort of, um, I guess the, no, not even the purity, but
they sort
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