7:34 pm - 06/16/2012
He became a father to his first child, baby India, just a month ago. So one would imagine that Chris Hemsworth would be keen to show off his new offspring to the rest of his family as soon as possible. But sadly the star touched down in Sydney solo today, where he was greeted by his grandmother.
The 28-year-old is Down Under promoting his latest film, Snow White and the Huntsman. Sadly his absence from London means he will miss his first Father's Day with India and his wife Elsa Pataky. Despite his hectic schedule he looked refreshed, blonde hair pulled into a ponytail, showing off impressive biceps in a khaki T-shirt. He made a touching show of affection towards his elderly relative, holding an arm around her as they made their way through the airport. It's clear that though his work commitments keep him away from home, Chris's mind is focused on one thing at the moment. He told the Daily Telegraph: 'Despite everything that is going on with work, it all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.'
'She has taken up all of my attention in the best way. It is strange how normal it feels (being a dad), she is always with us and it is a lot of fun. She is the best.' Chris was seen with Elsa and their newborn baby India in London just yesterday. The Avengers Assemble star was seen cradling his little girl in one hand just five days after she was born. While Chris took care of India Elsa wowed onlookers with her amazing post-baby shape. She appeared to have shed all her pregnancy weight less than a week after bringing India into the world. Talking about their choice of name for the little girl, Hemsworth told E! News: 'It was just a name we liked, I always kind of liked Indie or Indiana for a boy and she liked India. 'We sort of went, "Oh well, whether it's a boy or girl, that will decide." It just seemed to fit.'
He added: 'I've wanted to have kids for a long time, and here it is, and I couldn't be happier.' Though he was born in Melbourne, Chris and his Hunger Games star brother Liam both spent much of their childhood in the Northern Territory, in a little Aboriginal community in the Outback, called Bulman. He has said of his upbringing: 'My earliest memories were on the cattle stations up in the Outback, and then we moved back to Melbourne and then back out there and then back again.' 'Certainly most of my childhood was in Melbourne but probably my most vivid memories were up there in Bulman with crocodiles and buffalo. Very different walks of life.'
CHRIS Hemsworth is sitting in a wooden-panelled banqueting hall, at Arundel Castle in southern England sipping a hot drink. And while he's supposed to be talking about his new movie Snow White and the Huntsman, he's got just one thing on his mind; his baby girl. India Rose was born in May to his wife of two years, Elsa Pataky, and Hemsworth, 28, is delighted with fatherhood. "I don't think you can ever be completely ready but I can proudly say I'm now an expert at assembling changing tables, strollers, prams and cots," he beams. "And I've read all the baby books I can get my hands on." He bonded with India by reading to her in the womb. "Oh yeah, I was reading The Hobbit to the bump. I did my best Tolkien narration voice," he says emphatically, with his trademark deep voice resonating. "I had no idea if the baby could understand but even if she didn't, my wife did!"
If fatherhood seems like it's coming naturally to Hemsworth, it is. He's well practised in childcare after spending several months looking after his manager's children so he could support himself when he first arrived in Hollywood. "When I moved to California in 2007, I lived in my manager's guesthouse for about a year and a half," he explains. "While I was there I would baby-sit for his three little kids. They were six, five and eight months old -- just babies really. Every weekend I'd look after them. I was the manny. That was how I paid my rent," he laughs. "I had a lot of fun. I used to play and draw with them, and hang out with them. My manager kept saying, 'We should be filming this. Forget the auditioning, this could be a great show -- a struggling actor babysits three kids. People would love it!' " His 'super-manny' skills may have to take a back seat for a while though, as movie-goers appear to have fallen in love with this blue-eyed charmer from Melbourne.
He started modestly, playing hunky high school dropout Kim Hyde in Home and Away. But his success as the hammer-swinging god in Thor and then in the subsequent Avengers movie means he can now put "part of one of the biggest film franchises the world has ever seen" on his CV. The movie has so far scooped more than a billion dollars at the global box office. "It's insane," he says of its success. "The numbers are huge but the fact that people, and kids especially, like it is really rewarding."
Hemsworth is close to his family; his parents Craig and Leonie, his older brother Luke, 32, who all live in Australia, as well as younger brother Liam, 22, who's LA-based and who recently struck his own gold in the other big hit of 2012, The Hunger Games, as well as proposing to long-time girlfriend Miley Cyrus. He can't wait to see them when he's back this week for the Snow White premiere. "I'm more homesick now than I've ever been," he says. "For the first few years when I lived in the States, I was getting back to Australia regularly, but I haven't been back since last year -- and that was for only two days. Australia is comfortable because it so familiar. You can get used to a place like LA but it's never home."
India will grow up with some wide cultural influences. Pataky is Spanish and, as Hemsworth notes proudly, speaks five languages. But he's adamant his daughter will grow up knowing Aussie culture. "I know where to buy Vegemite in LA", he grins. "I get it at Wholefoods and I've heard there's an Aussie shop somewhere so I'm going to have to check it out." He even made sure he had a good supply of the nation's favourite spread during the Snow White shoot. In the film, a dark retelling of the fairytale, he plays a heartbroken drunken hunter enlisted by evil Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron), to track down Snow White (Kristen Stewart) after she escapes from the queen's castle.
Shot mainly in the UK, in spots such as the Lake District, he describes the shoot as physically gruelling. His character looks filthy throughout most of the movie -- and about as far from the superhero Thor as he could get. "They spent at least half an hour each day covering me in dirt and grime, so that at the end of the shoot when I finally walked on to the set all cleaned up everyone was shocked," he recalls. He particularly enjoyed working with his co-stars. "Kristen was just great -- apart from when she punched me in the face during a stunt," he laughs. "That's was really painful. We were shooting a big fight scene and if that fight had continued, I'd have been out. But I couldn't continue because it was such a big punch! My nose swelled up. But in between the work we had a lot of fun. For as big a film as it was, it felt like a little indie. We were out on remote locations, and most of the time it was just the cast and crew travelling around. It was very intimate and very rewarding."
His sense of adventure was born out of a childhood spent partly in the Outback, where his father Craig, who now works for the Australian Childhood Foundation (a charity for which Hemsworth is an ambassador), managed a cattle station before running a community centre. The five-year-old and his older brother, Luke, relied on their imagination. "We read a lot of books and only went to the movies occasionally. We owned two videotapes, Labyrinth and The NeverEnding Story, which we watched maybe a thousand times. We had no TV reception and never wore shoes because we were too hot. I had feet like leather because I was running around the place. It was great introduction to life." Could his amazing childhood have been the reason he became an actor? "Those are your most influential years, when your imagination really kicks off, so yeah, maybe not having a TV led me to having a better imagination, which led me to becoming an actor..." he pauses, "...which led me to making movies, which is based on something that's going to ruin your imagination, so a strange series of events!"
He admits the family often reflects on his and Liam's phenomenal success. "We sit there and go how did this happen? But I don't know, there's never a clear path of how we do things," he says, adding that his other brother Luke, who starred in Bikie Wars may also move to the US to pursue his acting career. "He started acting before we did and still does a bit. He'd love to come over and do it as well and at some stage maybe he will. It's a big novelty from where we used to live in the Outback and Melbourne to be all of a sudden all three of us at a premiere." But brothers will be brothers. When The Avengers box office crept past The Hunger Games, Chris couldn't resist mentally punching the air at beating Liam's already stratospheric movie numbers. "We're competitive in the best of ways as brothers are. With this kind of stuff we're happy to be working. We scratch our heads in wonder. It's so strange that a couple of weeks apart Liam and I are crossing the world on tours of movies of this scale. We feel incredibly lucky."
Hemsworth credits his start on Home and Away as part of the reason he's been able to keep his feet on the ground. "Home and Away was one of the toughest acting environments I've ever experienced and it was also my introduction to acting, so it was hugely beneficial," he says. "You go through so many scenes per day, so many character storylines, it really keeps you on your toes. Then you come on to a movie set where you have weeks of rehearsal and then all you do is one scene in a day or two days and, if anything, you're bored. (not if youre lilo tho) I do a scene a couple of times and I'm like 'We've got it haven't we?' and it's like, 'Oh no, we need to do a hundred more', so it was the best training ever."
Now he has so many successful movies under his belt, including Star Trek and to come the remake of Red Dawn and Rush -- a bio-pic about Formula One driver James Hunt, directed by Ron Howard -- does he ever feel the pressure to make each movie as good as the last one? "I always think of Muhammad Ali," he says. "I used to box as a kid a little bit and I'd watch the way he was so self-motivated. He psyches himself into it but now he says he was scared out of his mind every time he would step into the ring and it's the same with this. Whether it's an audition or stepping on to a set, there is a huge amount of fear and that voice can get pretty loud at times. I quiet that voice with more positive, constructive things and instead of looking at adrenalin as a negative, I get excited. It's the toughest thing -- but I have to reframe it because you can only perform your best when you're free of all of that."
He's also taken advice from the best: "I've listened to Anthony Hopkins (his Thor co-star) and Nicole Kidman and they've said the same thing, 'Each job you think to yourself, maybe next time they'll think I can't do this'. This is not self pity by the way, it's what keeps you humble and you need a good amount of that." He's certainly a man with focus and Hollywood has always been his dream. "Before Home and Away my goal was to get to America. Then reality set in and I realised I needed to work at what I was doing. There's a naivety, or deep part of you that thinks this is going to be easy, but it's incredibly unglamorous hard work and really, when have you made it? So many people are given the opportunity and you never hear from them again. That's the thing, you can't look too far ahead. For me I'm enjoying the journey, the rest is out of my control.
"But you know what, if it all fails I know I could be a great manny."
i still can't tell anything about her baby body besides her legs? have there been any pics of her not layered up, up top? no shade meant, idc if she hasn't lost any of it, but its weird to me that everyone keeps saying she got her body back when you can't see her body idk. also he has fantastic taste in books and childhood movies imo
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chris hemsworth sees his grandma, + an article
He became a father to his first child, baby India, just a month ago. So one would imagine that Chris Hemsworth would be keen to show off his new offspring to the rest of his family as soon as possible. But sadly the star touched down in Sydney solo today, where he was greeted by his grandmother.
The 28-year-old is Down Under promoting his latest film, Snow White and the Huntsman. Sadly his absence from London means he will miss his first Father's Day with India and his wife Elsa Pataky. Despite his hectic schedule he looked refreshed, blonde hair pulled into a ponytail, showing off impressive biceps in a khaki T-shirt. He made a touching show of affection towards his elderly relative, holding an arm around her as they made their way through the airport. It's clear that though his work commitments keep him away from home, Chris's mind is focused on one thing at the moment. He told the Daily Telegraph: 'Despite everything that is going on with work, it all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.'
'She has taken up all of my attention in the best way. It is strange how normal it feels (being a dad), she is always with us and it is a lot of fun. She is the best.' Chris was seen with Elsa and their newborn baby India in London just yesterday. The Avengers Assemble star was seen cradling his little girl in one hand just five days after she was born. While Chris took care of India Elsa wowed onlookers with her amazing post-baby shape. She appeared to have shed all her pregnancy weight less than a week after bringing India into the world. Talking about their choice of name for the little girl, Hemsworth told E! News: 'It was just a name we liked, I always kind of liked Indie or Indiana for a boy and she liked India. 'We sort of went, "Oh well, whether it's a boy or girl, that will decide." It just seemed to fit.'
He added: 'I've wanted to have kids for a long time, and here it is, and I couldn't be happier.' Though he was born in Melbourne, Chris and his Hunger Games star brother Liam both spent much of their childhood in the Northern Territory, in a little Aboriginal community in the Outback, called Bulman. He has said of his upbringing: 'My earliest memories were on the cattle stations up in the Outback, and then we moved back to Melbourne and then back out there and then back again.' 'Certainly most of my childhood was in Melbourne but probably my most vivid memories were up there in Bulman with crocodiles and buffalo. Very different walks of life.'
CHRIS Hemsworth is sitting in a wooden-panelled banqueting hall, at Arundel Castle in southern England sipping a hot drink. And while he's supposed to be talking about his new movie Snow White and the Huntsman, he's got just one thing on his mind; his baby girl. India Rose was born in May to his wife of two years, Elsa Pataky, and Hemsworth, 28, is delighted with fatherhood. "I don't think you can ever be completely ready but I can proudly say I'm now an expert at assembling changing tables, strollers, prams and cots," he beams. "And I've read all the baby books I can get my hands on." He bonded with India by reading to her in the womb. "Oh yeah, I was reading The Hobbit to the bump. I did my best Tolkien narration voice," he says emphatically, with his trademark deep voice resonating. "I had no idea if the baby could understand but even if she didn't, my wife did!"
If fatherhood seems like it's coming naturally to Hemsworth, it is. He's well practised in childcare after spending several months looking after his manager's children so he could support himself when he first arrived in Hollywood. "When I moved to California in 2007, I lived in my manager's guesthouse for about a year and a half," he explains. "While I was there I would baby-sit for his three little kids. They were six, five and eight months old -- just babies really. Every weekend I'd look after them. I was the manny. That was how I paid my rent," he laughs. "I had a lot of fun. I used to play and draw with them, and hang out with them. My manager kept saying, 'We should be filming this. Forget the auditioning, this could be a great show -- a struggling actor babysits three kids. People would love it!' " His 'super-manny' skills may have to take a back seat for a while though, as movie-goers appear to have fallen in love with this blue-eyed charmer from Melbourne.
He started modestly, playing hunky high school dropout Kim Hyde in Home and Away. But his success as the hammer-swinging god in Thor and then in the subsequent Avengers movie means he can now put "part of one of the biggest film franchises the world has ever seen" on his CV. The movie has so far scooped more than a billion dollars at the global box office. "It's insane," he says of its success. "The numbers are huge but the fact that people, and kids especially, like it is really rewarding."
Hemsworth is close to his family; his parents Craig and Leonie, his older brother Luke, 32, who all live in Australia, as well as younger brother Liam, 22, who's LA-based and who recently struck his own gold in the other big hit of 2012, The Hunger Games, as well as proposing to long-time girlfriend Miley Cyrus. He can't wait to see them when he's back this week for the Snow White premiere. "I'm more homesick now than I've ever been," he says. "For the first few years when I lived in the States, I was getting back to Australia regularly, but I haven't been back since last year -- and that was for only two days. Australia is comfortable because it so familiar. You can get used to a place like LA but it's never home."
India will grow up with some wide cultural influences. Pataky is Spanish and, as Hemsworth notes proudly, speaks five languages. But he's adamant his daughter will grow up knowing Aussie culture. "I know where to buy Vegemite in LA", he grins. "I get it at Wholefoods and I've heard there's an Aussie shop somewhere so I'm going to have to check it out." He even made sure he had a good supply of the nation's favourite spread during the Snow White shoot. In the film, a dark retelling of the fairytale, he plays a heartbroken drunken hunter enlisted by evil Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron), to track down Snow White (Kristen Stewart) after she escapes from the queen's castle.
Shot mainly in the UK, in spots such as the Lake District, he describes the shoot as physically gruelling. His character looks filthy throughout most of the movie -- and about as far from the superhero Thor as he could get. "They spent at least half an hour each day covering me in dirt and grime, so that at the end of the shoot when I finally walked on to the set all cleaned up everyone was shocked," he recalls. He particularly enjoyed working with his co-stars. "Kristen was just great -- apart from when she punched me in the face during a stunt," he laughs. "That's was really painful. We were shooting a big fight scene and if that fight had continued, I'd have been out. But I couldn't continue because it was such a big punch! My nose swelled up. But in between the work we had a lot of fun. For as big a film as it was, it felt like a little indie. We were out on remote locations, and most of the time it was just the cast and crew travelling around. It was very intimate and very rewarding."
His sense of adventure was born out of a childhood spent partly in the Outback, where his father Craig, who now works for the Australian Childhood Foundation (a charity for which Hemsworth is an ambassador), managed a cattle station before running a community centre. The five-year-old and his older brother, Luke, relied on their imagination. "We read a lot of books and only went to the movies occasionally. We owned two videotapes, Labyrinth and The NeverEnding Story, which we watched maybe a thousand times. We had no TV reception and never wore shoes because we were too hot. I had feet like leather because I was running around the place. It was great introduction to life." Could his amazing childhood have been the reason he became an actor? "Those are your most influential years, when your imagination really kicks off, so yeah, maybe not having a TV led me to having a better imagination, which led me to becoming an actor..." he pauses, "...which led me to making movies, which is based on something that's going to ruin your imagination, so a strange series of events!"
He admits the family often reflects on his and Liam's phenomenal success. "We sit there and go how did this happen? But I don't know, there's never a clear path of how we do things," he says, adding that his other brother Luke, who starred in Bikie Wars may also move to the US to pursue his acting career. "He started acting before we did and still does a bit. He'd love to come over and do it as well and at some stage maybe he will. It's a big novelty from where we used to live in the Outback and Melbourne to be all of a sudden all three of us at a premiere." But brothers will be brothers. When The Avengers box office crept past The Hunger Games, Chris couldn't resist mentally punching the air at beating Liam's already stratospheric movie numbers. "We're competitive in the best of ways as brothers are. With this kind of stuff we're happy to be working. We scratch our heads in wonder. It's so strange that a couple of weeks apart Liam and I are crossing the world on tours of movies of this scale. We feel incredibly lucky."
Hemsworth credits his start on Home and Away as part of the reason he's been able to keep his feet on the ground. "Home and Away was one of the toughest acting environments I've ever experienced and it was also my introduction to acting, so it was hugely beneficial," he says. "You go through so many scenes per day, so many character storylines, it really keeps you on your toes. Then you come on to a movie set where you have weeks of rehearsal and then all you do is one scene in a day or two days and, if anything, you're bored. (not if youre lilo tho) I do a scene a couple of times and I'm like 'We've got it haven't we?' and it's like, 'Oh no, we need to do a hundred more', so it was the best training ever."
Now he has so many successful movies under his belt, including Star Trek and to come the remake of Red Dawn and Rush -- a bio-pic about Formula One driver James Hunt, directed by Ron Howard -- does he ever feel the pressure to make each movie as good as the last one? "I always think of Muhammad Ali," he says. "I used to box as a kid a little bit and I'd watch the way he was so self-motivated. He psyches himself into it but now he says he was scared out of his mind every time he would step into the ring and it's the same with this. Whether it's an audition or stepping on to a set, there is a huge amount of fear and that voice can get pretty loud at times. I quiet that voice with more positive, constructive things and instead of looking at adrenalin as a negative, I get excited. It's the toughest thing -- but I have to reframe it because you can only perform your best when you're free of all of that."
He's also taken advice from the best: "I've listened to Anthony Hopkins (his Thor co-star) and Nicole Kidman and they've said the same thing, 'Each job you think to yourself, maybe next time they'll think I can't do this'. This is not self pity by the way, it's what keeps you humble and you need a good amount of that." He's certainly a man with focus and Hollywood has always been his dream. "Before Home and Away my goal was to get to America. Then reality set in and I realised I needed to work at what I was doing. There's a naivety, or deep part of you that thinks this is going to be easy, but it's incredibly unglamorous hard work and really, when have you made it? So many people are given the opportunity and you never hear from them again. That's the thing, you can't look too far ahead. For me I'm enjoying the journey, the rest is out of my control.
"But you know what, if it all fails I know I could be a great manny."
i still can't tell anything about her baby body besides her legs? have there been any pics of her not layered up, up top? no shade meant, idc if she hasn't lost any of it, but its weird to me that everyone keeps saying she got her body back when you can't see her body idk. also he has fantastic taste in books and childhood movies imo
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important update: she has saved me a people magazine and a bunch of green grapes for when i see her tomorrow for a fathers day lunch, and is now giving me a play-by-play of the rangers game and some golf tournament that shes watching. i love grandparents, lmao.
Edited at 2012-06-17 12:56 am (UTC)