Chris Hemsworth says director Taika Waititi brought out the ‘immature, young adolescent side of Thor

Eight films and over a decade later, Hollywood star Chris Hemsworth says from being an “obvious” comic book superhero, Thor has evolved into a character that embodies a lot of his personality traits.

Since 2011’s origin story “Thor”, the Australian actor has appeared as the Marvel superhero in “The Avengers”, “Thor: The Dark World”, “Avengers: Age of Ultron”, “Thor: Ragnarok” , “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame” .

The 38-year-old actor believes the makers had to rely a lot on the set “rules and guidelines” while making initial few films, but that changed when filmmaker Taika Waititi came on board to direct “Ragnarok”.

“There’s obviously a familiarity, but he has changed so dramatically over the years as I have. And that’s what has been kind of fun as the character’s evolution and my opinions sort of melded in and crossed paths,” the actor said at a global press conference of “Thor: Love and Thunder”.

“The origin story is not the easiest but the obvious one and there’s a sort of set of rules and guidelines. After that the challenge is, how do you recreate the character? And that’s been the luxury, working with different directors and different cast and they all bring out something very different in you,” he added.

As Hemsworth returns as the God of Thunder in the upcoming standalone film, the actor said Waititi brought out the “immature, young adolescent” quality in the character which is close to what he is in real life.

“Since Taika got involved, he brought out the immature, young adolescent quality that I embody and so does Thor now, which he didn’t in the original films. It was exciting and fresh. It was about having fun.

“Him (Thor) embodying this place as a child, enjoying and being caught up in the wonder and the fascination was fun… I feel like the character has probably become more me over the years and I hope in a fun way,” he said.