Actor Chris Hemsworth has been lightning in a bottle for years playing Thor in the MCU. Handsome, charming, and comedic timing to boot, he has proven himself to be a triple threat. But In a recent interview with Australia's TODAY, the God of Thunder admits that he had his doubts about how long he would be playing the role.

While promoting his new film Thor: Love and Thunder, Hemsworth talked about his early days in the Marvel franchise, which didn't quite hit with fans until the third installment, Thor: Ragnarok.

"It was a lot of nostalgia in [Thor: Love and Thunder] for me, as it was with the last Avengers film. Ten, eleven years I've been doing it. The first time I played Thor was opposite Natalie Portman, and it was one of my first jobs, and I kept thinking I was going to get fired, or nothing was gonna work, or fans weren't going to accept my version of the character. And if she thought I was any good, or I deserved to be there, or what have you."

But thankfully, taking the character into a less serious realm under the quick witted guidance of director Taika Waititi, Thor has been rebranded as a lovable lug who is busy dealing with the burden of being a god. He continued,

"So ten years later to reunite - both of us, our lives have dramatically changed in many ways. Also, the characters have changed. I think Thor is in a very different place to where he was in the first film, and now we see Jane Foster come in, and has a whole bunch of superpowers and is a superhero herself. It made for some fun on-camera dynamics there."

Truer words, Chris.

Thor: Love and Thunder will fly into theaters on July 8.

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