Christopher Hemsworth (born 11 August 1983) is an Australian actor. He rose to prominence playing Kim Hyde in the Australian TV series Home and Away (2004–07) before beginning a film career in Hollywood by taking on parts in the science fiction film Star Trek (2009) and the thriller A Perfect Getaway (2009).
Hemsworth went on to star in the fantasy film Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), the war film Red Dawn (2012), the action thriller Blackhat (2015), the biographical thriller In the Heart of the Sea (2015), the comedy Ghostbusters (2016), and the Men in Black film series spin-off Men in Black: International (2019). His most critically acclaimed roles include the comedy horror The Cabin in the Woods (2012) and the biographical sports film Rush (2013), in which he portrayed James Hunt.
Emilia Clarke hits out at veteran actors who say green screen isn’t real acting
nme.comGame Of Thrones star, whose career has since her play roles in Star Wars franchise films and now the MCU Disney+ series Secret Invasion, has been subjected to using green screen in her work.“The stigma is that people don’t do any acting in these shows,” Clarke told the Los Angeles Times, referring to performing while standing in front of a green screen. “[But] then you’re like, ‘Well, then why are they asking all these great actors to do it, and why are they saying yes?’”The actress reasoned that if green screen acting wasn’t real acting then the acting greats – from Samuel L.
Jackson to Olivia Colman – wouldn’t sign on to productions that need it.Both those actors star alongside Clarke in Secret Invasion, as do Ben Mendelsohn, Don Cheadle and Kingsley Ben-Adir.
The cast alone was enough for Clarke to join the Marvel series.“The cast is ridiculous,” Clarke said. “I was like, ‘Where do I sign?’”Her comments come a couple of years after Anthony Hopkins criticised green screen acting in an interview with The New Yorker.
Hopkins was discussing his experience playing Odin in the Thor movies.“On ‘Thor,’ you have Chris Hemsworth – who looks like Thor – and a director like Kenneth Branagh, who is so certain of what he wants,” Hopkins said. “They put me in armour; they shoved a beard on me.
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