The Hemsworth’s Sibling Rivalry Helped Liam Land Role in ‘Thor’
There’s nothing like sibling rivalry, especially if part of that consists in landing Hollywood box office movies.
Chris Hemsworth recently revealed to W Magazine that it was his friendly sibling rivalry with Liam Hemsworth that allowed him to land the role of Thor — after all, he almost lost out to him.
“I came into the audition with [Thor director] Kenneth Branagh and thought I nailed it and then never heard anything back,” he shared. “Months went by and then my brother, my little brother, Liam, was in Australia and sent a tape across and he got a call back, then another call back and then was down to the last kind of four or five people for it. I remember sitting in Vancouver, shooting Cabin in the Woods with Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon. Both of them were looking at the trades at this sort of top five guys for Thor and saying, ‘Why aren’t you in the mix here? What happened?’ I said, ‘I don’t know. I blew my audition I guess.’ None of those guys got it.”
Read more at W Magazine.