Chris Hemsworth doesn’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 – but Hemsworth won’t bulk up as much when he appears in his next Marvel movie.
Hemsworth, who recently starred in “Thor: Love and Thunder”,explained: “Each time I’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 … there’s muscle memory, and I used to say it sort of got easier each time. This was particularly hard.
“I think because the target weight we aimed for was quite a ways above where I’d been before.
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“We had 12 months when I was at home, just training and sort of, you know, puppeteering the body and manipulating and trying to like: ’Okay, we could try more swimming now or try more martial arts’.
“It was a really fun exploration, but I doknow that I wanna get that big again.”
The Hollywood star found his workout regime to be “exhausting”, and he’s keen to scale back his training.
Hemsworth told The Direct: “It was just exhausting. I don’t know, maybe I’m getting old, but things just started to hurt more.”
The actor previously confessed to over-training during his early years as Thor.
Hemsworth explained that his intense workout regime had a detrimental impact on his energy levels.
He shared: “For years I probably over-trained.
“People who do muscle-building often don’t realize it’s a sport that shouldn’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.”
Hemsworth adopts an athlete-like approach to his preparation. He finds the experience t”incredibly rewarding”.
He said: “The training across 10 years of doing it is a full-time job. That and then a 12-hour shooting day – it’s real grind. It’s incredibly rewarding, too – you have to look at it like a professional athlete.”