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Jul. 12th, 2012 08:19 amI recently got around to listening to Kenneth Branagh's Thor commentary, so here's Thor's appreciation coming from the director himself:
about the casting:
Let's talk a little bit [...] about Chris Hemsworth, the casting of Chris Hemsworth. [...] When we understood that we needed this character to change, there would be an acting range required, that he couldn't just be muscle, he couldn't just be brute strength, we were then lucky enough and smart enough, in some way, one of us was, not me, to understand we should get Chris back in if he was prepared to do so. [...] He walked in and took the part by the scruff of the neck, and one realised that we'd be luckier than a lucky thing to have him. [...] He knows how to hold the screen, he knows how to be in front of the camera, not just to do. And so, I feel very very lucky that this movie has him at its heart, because he carries it off. And he's able to carry the movie, no mean feat.
about the shirtless scene:
This work, evidenced in Chris Hemsworth's torso, was the product of his six, nine months of very intensive work in the gym, and I thought that I might risk saying that I'd had his head pasted onto my body here for this sequence, but I fear that you wouldn't believe me, so I guess I'm just going to have to tell you that it was him. And I remember a few days before we shot this saying rather embarrassedly, "Hey Chirs, I want to do this shot, it seems important to me that we reveal Thor in this way. Do you mind taking your shirt off?" To which he replied, "Do I mind? I've been doing this for nine months, mate. Of course I'm gonna take my shirt off." I'm glad he did, because it's produced gasps in early screenings, and we needed Thor to look like a god. Chris Hemsworth does.
about the pet shop scene:
I wish I could tell you I'd given Chris Hemsworth a great reading of that line "I want a horse", which makes me laugh almost every time. I didn't, he did. He came at the part with such a natural sense of humour that it was great to see him get value out of that fish-out-of-water moment, and a very good reaction from the pet shop keeper.
about Thor's meltdown when Mjolnir refuses to respond to him:
And one of the things I love about Chris Hemsworth's performance is just the look coming up. The sense, as he sees the symbol of home, of that hurt and of that youthfulness in his look, that great oak tree of a man is now almost a, sort of, bottom-lip-quivering kid. He's had to really understand that he's not going home. It's very touching, I think [...]
I really really wish Kenneth was directing Thor 2 :sigh:
about the casting:
Let's talk a little bit [...] about Chris Hemsworth, the casting of Chris Hemsworth. [...] When we understood that we needed this character to change, there would be an acting range required, that he couldn't just be muscle, he couldn't just be brute strength, we were then lucky enough and smart enough, in some way, one of us was, not me, to understand we should get Chris back in if he was prepared to do so. [...] He walked in and took the part by the scruff of the neck, and one realised that we'd be luckier than a lucky thing to have him. [...] He knows how to hold the screen, he knows how to be in front of the camera, not just to do. And so, I feel very very lucky that this movie has him at its heart, because he carries it off. And he's able to carry the movie, no mean feat.
about the shirtless scene:
This work, evidenced in Chris Hemsworth's torso, was the product of his six, nine months of very intensive work in the gym, and I thought that I might risk saying that I'd had his head pasted onto my body here for this sequence, but I fear that you wouldn't believe me, so I guess I'm just going to have to tell you that it was him. And I remember a few days before we shot this saying rather embarrassedly, "Hey Chirs, I want to do this shot, it seems important to me that we reveal Thor in this way. Do you mind taking your shirt off?" To which he replied, "Do I mind? I've been doing this for nine months, mate. Of course I'm gonna take my shirt off." I'm glad he did, because it's produced gasps in early screenings, and we needed Thor to look like a god. Chris Hemsworth does.
about the pet shop scene:
I wish I could tell you I'd given Chris Hemsworth a great reading of that line "I want a horse", which makes me laugh almost every time. I didn't, he did. He came at the part with such a natural sense of humour that it was great to see him get value out of that fish-out-of-water moment, and a very good reaction from the pet shop keeper.
about Thor's meltdown when Mjolnir refuses to respond to him:
And one of the things I love about Chris Hemsworth's performance is just the look coming up. The sense, as he sees the symbol of home, of that hurt and of that youthfulness in his look, that great oak tree of a man is now almost a, sort of, bottom-lip-quivering kid. He's had to really understand that he's not going home. It's very touching, I think [...]
I really really wish Kenneth was directing Thor 2 :sigh:
