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Chris Hemsworth is opening up about booking roles outside of the MCU and unfavorable comments from Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino about actors in superhero movies.
“It’s so frustrating to hear that,” Hemsworth said. British GQ On Scorsese and Tarantino’s thoughts on actors in the MCU films. “There are two of my heroes that I wouldn’t work with. I guess they just aren’t my fans.”
Hemsworth was last seen as Thor in Thor: Love and Thunder opposite Natalie Portman. With the actor possibly delivering his final performance as the God of Thunder, he has pondered the future of his career.
He continued, “I’m grateful I was a part of something that kept people in movie theaters.” “Now, I don’t know if those films are at the expense of other films or not. I don’t like when we start checking each other out when there is so much fragility at work and in this space for the arts as it is.”
Hemsworth said Scorsese and Tarantino “are still my heroes” and adds, “In a heartbeat I’d jump to work with either of them. But I’m saying it more for the broader opinion on the subject. I don’t think either of us have the answer, but we’re trying.”
Tarantino recently called a “Hollywood marvel” making movie stars obsolete.
“You have all these actors who have become famous playing these characters,” Kill Bill Manager during an interview 2 bears, 1 cave Podcast. “But they’re not movie stars. Right? Captain America is the star. Or Thor is the star. I mean, I’m not the first person to say that. I think that’s been said a million times…but it’s like, you know, these characters with franchise that became a star.”
Scorsese has also been vocal against Marvel movies, saying he doesn’t see them or consider them cinema.
“Honestly, the closest thing I can think of to it being actors doing the best they can given the circumstances is theme parks,” he said. empire Magazine back in 2019. “It is not human cinema that tries to transfer emotional and psychological experiences to another human being.”
