Australian actor Chris Hemsworth has revealed how he wants to be remembered when he dies after discovering he is genetically predisposed to Alzheimer’s.
The movie star recently lost his grandfather Martin to Alzheimer’s at the age of 83, and spoke to British GQ magazine this week about how he wants to be remembered when it’s his time to go.
Hemsworth said he was touched to hear people talking fondly about Martin at his funeral, and hopes the same will happen for him when he dies.
“My uncle specifically said, “he’s remembered as a good bloke”. And if he knew, or if someone told him that’s how he would be remembered, how incredibly proud he would feel,” the Thor star explained.
“It made me think about my own life. And it wasn’t about career or anything. It was about being remembered as someone who was good and kind and contributed something of value.”
The 39-year-old actor, who referred to himself as an “unemployed” because he hasn’t worked in seven month, had revealed that a genetic testing showed a risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
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“Everything has more importance now, because of the realisation that this isn’t going to last forever,” Hemsworth later added
As for his career, the actor insisted that he doesn’t want to leave a ‘pile of rubbish’ movies behind, and will now only take on projects that he deems ‘worthy of his time’.
The Australian hunk admits that although Thor 4 was a huge commercial success, earning $760 million worldwide, some Marvel fans were turned off by the humor in director Taika Waititi’s script.
“I think we just had too much fun. It just became too silly,” the action star admitted.
“It’s always hard being in the center of it and having any real perspective…I love the process, it’s always a ride. But you just don’t know how people are going to respond.”
The former soap star who has played the Norse god in dozens of films said even his kids got in a few barbs.
“It’s a bunch of eight-year-olds critiquing my film. “We thought this one had too much humor, the action was cool but the VFX weren’t as good,”’ he recalled of their critique.
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“I cringe and laugh equally at it,” he said with good humor.
Chris is set to reprise his role at the strongman in Avengers: Secret War, and the actor says although he’s portrayed Thor many times, each performance different.
“I love the fact that I’ve been able to do something fairly different throughout the process. Thor 1 and 2 were their own thing, ‘Thor 3’ and 4 were a very different feel,” he explained.
“Even ‘Avengers,’ the Lebowski Thor, the ‘Infinity War’ Thor, [were different] due to different directors and I think mostly my own need to do something different.”
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts award winner also addressed criticism from some of his heroes, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino.
Scorsese, 80, wrote in an essay for The New York Times that: “Many of the elements that define cinema as I know it are there in Marvel pictures. What’s not there is revelation, mystery or genuine emotional danger. Nothing is at risk. The pictures are made to satisfy a specific set of demands, and they are designed as variations on a finite number of themes.”
