Excerpt from LA Times interview with Chris Hemsworth
“We had to develop a style of movement that was singular, really, to this character .. .We had a movement guy come in … a guy named Paradox Pollack, and we worked together a lot.”
Pollack helped Hemsworth view Mjolnir as something more than a heavy possession or even a treasured totem.
“I met him on ‘Star Trek,’” Hemsworth said of Pollack. “He was teaching all the people who were playing aliens how to move around. How do you get that job? He’s a fascinating guy. He’s got a circus background and acrobatics and he was a real help. He came in on this and he had read every ‘Thor’ comic book and he had a lot to show me about the hands and postures and these poses that evoke the comic book character and then how, as an actor, you could do some of those things to put it on the screen. He had this idea too of this electricity, this energy, that’s surrounding Thor. There’s an aura of thunder and lighting and energy around him, and if you start with that, then there’s a way you can move that kind of fits with that. And it affects the relation to everybody else, the way he interacts; if this exists and it extends to out here then you wouldn’t stand that close to a 9-foot monster. It was all very helpful to me.”
CHRIS HEMSWORTH
