Though some may have recognized him from his feature film debut as George Kirk in the 2009 “Star Trek” reboot, Chris Hemsworth was a relative unknown when he landed the role of Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The first “Thor” movie brought in director Kenneth Branagh, seemingly in an effort to lend some Shakespearean gravitas to it. When we first meet Thor, he comes swaggering into a golden throne room, where he winks at his mother Frigga (Rene Russo) while his father Odin (Anthony Hopkins) looks on disapprovingly.It’s as if Hemsworth wanted to say, “Let’s not play this so seriously,” and was just biding his time…The post Chris Hemsworth’s Innate Comedy Chops Are What Got Thor the Rare Marvel Fourquel appeared first on /Film.
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