Chris Hemsworth won’t get as ripped for next Thor movie

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Australian actor Chris Hemsworth arrives for Marvel Studios โ€œThor: Love And Thunderโ€ world premiere at the El Capitan theatre in Los Angeles, June 23, 2022. (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)
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Chris Hemsworth doesnโ€™t plan to get as ripped for his next appearance as Thor.

The 39-year-old actor has starred as the God of Thunder since 2011 โ€“ but Chris wonโ€™t bulk up as much when he appears in his next Marvel movie.

Chris โ€“ who recently starred in โ€˜Thor: Love and Thunderโ€™ โ€“ explained: โ€œEach time Iโ€™ve played the character and put the muscle on and put the size on, and then lost it for something else and played another character โ€ฆ thereโ€™s muscle memory, and I used to say it sort of got easier each time. This was particularly hard.

โ€œI think because the target weight we aimed for was quite a ways above where Iโ€™d been before.

โ€œWe had 12 months when I was at home, just training and sort of, you know, puppeteering the body and manipulating and trying to like, โ€™Okay, we could try more swimming now or try more martial artsโ€™. It was a really fun exploration, but I donโ€™t know that I wanna get that big again.โ€

The Hollywood star found his workout regime to be โ€œexhaustingโ€, and heโ€™s now keen to scale back his training.

Chris told The Direct: โ€œIt was just exhausting. I donโ€™t know, maybe Iโ€™m getting old, but things just started to hurt more.โ€

The actor previously confessed to over-training during his early years as Thor.

Chris also explained that his intense workout regime actually had a detrimental impact on his energy levels.

He shared: โ€œFor years I probably over-trained.

โ€œPeople who do muscle-building often donโ€™t realise itโ€™s a sport that shouldnโ€™t be seven days a week, two hours a day. I was doing that in the previous Thors, and was coming up sorer, with less energy.โ€

Chris actually adopts an athlete-like approach to his preparation โ€“ but he ultimately finds the experience to be โ€œincredibly rewardingโ€.

He said: โ€œThe training across ten years of doing it is a full-time job. That and then a 12-hour shooting day โ€“ itโ€™s real grind. Itโ€™s incredibly rewarding, too โ€“ you have to look at it like a professional athlete.โ€


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