Chris Hemsworth Dishes On 'Thor' Dream Scenes, Fights And More In AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
Teasing new Avengers: Age of Ultron details that foreshadow Thor: Ragnarok, Chris Hemsworth talks in detail about his Asgardian's return, his costume(s), and battle with the Vision among other things.
Later during the interview, Chris Hemsworth had elaborated on what brings Thor back to the team. "Yeah, I mean it was just giving him a solid reason to be there, you know?" he asked. "I think all of us. It seems like a pretty simple demand but yeah, it would be easy to fall into, 'Oh, they’re all just there because we’re all contracted and look cool if we’re standing in the same room.' I mean it was there from the beginning, too, but I just sort of kept saying to Joss, 'Okay, what do I bring to the table though, besides kind of Thor being one of his foot soldiers and the muscle in a bunch of fight scenes. What is his knowledge he can bring to it?' And trying to incorporate that he’s from another world because you forget that, too. All of a sudden you’re standing there in these conversations and you go, 'Well hang on, he’s from another planet, you know? What’s his thousands of years of existence? What information can that bring?' And so he calls upon some of Asgardian knowledge in this and is able to go into, say, another realm to pull out something that’s hugely useful. Some information that certainly benefits where they’re at at that point."
When asked if Avengers: Age of Ultron will see Thor do something he hasn't done before, Chris implies he's more human this time. "He’s loosened up a bit," he says. "I think we lost some of the, the humor and the naïveté and, you know, the fish out of water quality of Thor in the second one. There were things I loved about what we did in the second one tonally, but that sense of fun was... I would have liked it to be there a bit more. Joss felt the same way. [Thor]'s been on Earth, he's a little more human, a little more accessible. He's off Asgard now so he doesn't have to be as regal and kingly as he is in that world, which is nice. I enjoy that more. [Asgard is] sort of a box, which he gets to step out of. That stuff just looks out of place, whereas here you can have a gag with the guys and he can throw away lines and be at a party scene with them in civilian clothes, which is nice." He added, "There's a party scene where I was in a nice coat and jeans and the guys just kept joking, "When did Thor go shopping? Did he buy this online or did Jane do it? Or did he actually go shopping? You don't see him go shopping but the question is raised because he's not dressed in his Asgardian attire. He's more human in this film, definitely." About his Asgardian armor, the actor says it was tweaked a little since Thor: The Dark World. "It's more comfortable," he admitted. "Each time, you get a little more comfortable, a little more movement in it. I don't think there's any huge changes to it. I loved where it was in the second one. We sort of landed on something because it was a bit more streamlined and functional. It's pretty similar." He later reassured that, unlike the other Avengers, Thor doesn't get costume upgrades from Tony Stark.
It's been said that the Scarlet Witch brings out the inner demon in each Avenger, so Hemsworth was then asked how that will affect Thor and ultimately turn the team against each other. "No, I think it certainly creates a conflict," he replied. "It’s more kind of within their individual selves rather than the team so much. I think they’ll begin to have sort of their fears of held up in front of them, and for Thor, I think it’s a corruption of power. With all of them having this much power and trying to have the understanding that we’re in this sort of endless battle here and when this is going to end and how does it end? That scene is actually being rewritten at the moment, if you want to talk to Joss about it, so it’s hard to even say what it will be in Thor’s dream sequence but it kicks in motion his movement. That’s where he really starts to kind of move through the story. Once that dream occurs he goes, 'Oh, I can see what’s coming and my fear could be true' so yeah, it’s a ticking clock." Finally, Hemsworth was asked if Thor's power is amped up in Age of Ultron. "Yeah, I mean in this instance [with the Vision] you see it’s hand-to-hand combat because if someone of his equal strength or moreso than him, so he can afford to do that," says the actor. "Whereas with the people who were far less capable than him and not as strong, I said, 'You know, let’s make sure he’s picking up cars and throwing them and ripping things in half and spending a bit more time up in the air and using the elements as opposed to being stuck kind of in a hand-to-hand sort of fist fight with the bad guys.' So yeah, I think it keeps getting kind of amped up and then the stunts become more elaborate. Yeah, we see him fly a bit more."