The way Chris Hemsworth tells it, he not only wasn’t the first choice to play The Mighty Thor; he wasn’t even the first Hemsworth to get a callback.

“[Liam and I] both auditioned for it, funny enough,” Hemsworth said during an interview last month at Comic-Con International: San Diego. “I had an audition, didn’t hear anything. The next minute I heard they were flying Liam over to meet Kenneth [Branagh, the director of "Thor"] and he was down to the last four guys, and I was like, ‘What?’”

Hemsworth laughs as he recounts what happens next. Liam met with Branagh, but for whatever reason, it didn’t work out for the younger Hemsworth sibling. But Chris said his little brother provided important advance legwork.

“And then I got another phone call [from Branagh] and was like, ‘S__, Liam. What worked, what didn’t? Tell me what he said! I got some advice, and …here we are.”

Here he is.
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I wasn’t entirely sold when it was first announced that Chris Hemsworth would be playing the hippie looking God we all know as Thor. I didn’t think it was a bad choice, but Hemsoworth still really hasn’t proven himself. Sure, he was solid in both Star Trek and A Perfect Getaway, but nothing in those films says he can handle playing the hammer-wielding God.

But when Hemsworth sat down during a roundtable interview I felt a little more confident that Branagh and company made the right decision. Hemsworth is a charming guy. Physically, he has the build required for the character. But more importantly, it’s obvious that he also has the likability to make Thor work.

Here’s what Hemsworth had to say:

How faithfully would you say they stuck to the language of the comic books?

Nay, we didn’t (laughs). In the comic books it’s much more Shakespearean the way they speak, we didn’t go down that path. They’re certainly well spoken and very formal, but it wasn’t Shakespearean.
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Natalie Portman and Kat Dennings clearly have some chemistry, something that was on full display during their interview with Splash Page editor Rick Marshall at this year’s Comic-Con. The two gleefully described their “Thor” characters of Jane Foster and Darcy “the gnome helper” (watch the video and you’ll see what we mean), but they also had plenty of thoughts to share on the God of Thunder himself.
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Some of these videos are repeats of the ones posted in a few of the articles, but I thought I’d post them together for you guys so you didn’t have to scroll around.

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