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I'm shopping sunburned and sunburned again.
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And then skin peels off and you get sunburned again.
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Hey, what's going on everybody?
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From First We Feast, I'm Sean Evans and you're watching Hot Ones.
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It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.
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And today we're joined by Chris Hemsworth.
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He's an actor and lion-like figure in the action genre from the Thor and Avengers films to Rush, the Extraction franchise and many more.
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Coming May 24th, you can catch him in the much-anticipated George Miller-directed Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
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Chris Hemsworth, welcome to the show. Thank you very much.
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I've seen you challenge yourself in extreme ways, you know, from swimming in the Arctic to climbing a 100-ft rope that's suspended from a helicopter.
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How adventurous though are you as an eater? I like my food. I like my spice.
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But this is this is about as extreme as I think I've experienced. So.
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Well, are you ready to get started?
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This should be Limitless season 2. Am I right, this one? That's the one. Yeah. That's pretty simple.
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It's got a little little peppery. Mhm. Yeah.
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Approachable, nothing too crazy. Yeah.
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So, in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, you play the role of Dementus, a powerful warlord who you've described as a pretty horrible person.
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Maybe this is a silly question, but as an actor known for being a Norse god who always saves the day, did you find any sort of perverse joy in being the bad guy this time around?
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Yeah, look, there's a certain amount of restrictions, expectations when playing the hero, especially a superhero, that you have to abide by and and stay within.
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Um and so to to to play the villain is fun.
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It's it's it's kind of the shackles are off and you're allowed to be a little more unpredictable.
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You're allowed to, you know, there's there's not as many rules to follow.
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So, creatively it was it was it was a lot more fun, yeah.
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Did you have your most memorable driving experience on set?
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Like, what is it like to hop in these George Miller machinations and just cruise the Australian desert in a chariot bike? Yeah.
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It's uh like the real-life version of, you know, when you're a kid playing in the backyard smashing trucks and cars together, you know?
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The big monster truck vehicle that I was in was insane and loud and obnoxious and awesome.
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It was uh epic, to say the least, yeah. Yeah. Seeing double. All right. Let's try to play. There we go.
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I'll remember you said that.
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I'll remember you said that. Yeah.
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This is a it's going to bite me in the ass, isn't it? Literally. I'll enjoy it twice.
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When you shoot something like the 12-minute-long one-shot fight sequence in Extraction, Yeah.
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how much of that is rehearsed down to the smallest movement and then how much of it happens in the moment?
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No, with that stuff, it's like you you the the the necessity required uh in order for everyone to stay alive, it has to be rehearsed down to the the the last beat, you know?
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Um And you have all your stunt performers and so on go through uh all the the right versions, the wrong versions, the sort of experimentation period.
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They bust themselves to pieces and then I turn up and do my own stunts, but they've, you know, been narrowed into a pretty safe zone.
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Safer, you know, than it could be.
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Um it's still a bit of a leap of faith, but um a huge amount of prep required.
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Um and then it's sort of a orchestrated controlled chaos. A little bit. Nothing we can't handle. No, no, no. We're on top of it. Ask me some questions. All right, I got you.
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So, your Nat Geo series, Limitless, they kind of reminds me of Hot Ones in that there's this obvious hook, but the ambitions of the show go so much deeper.
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Is there a stress management tool that maybe you learned that could possibly be useful for us as we work our way through the wings of death here?
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I learned about box breathing.
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You know, 4 seconds in, 4 seconds hold, 4 seconds out, 4 seconds hold.
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But, I'm not sure when you're choking on a chili if that comes into play.
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Well, I guess we could just put it into practice and see what happens, yeah.
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Getting bigger over here.
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Are you ready to move on here to sauce number four? I am. I am. Los Calientes Barbacoa. All right. A little something. Mhm. A little something. A little something.
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Yeah, but should be kind of sweet. Oh, there it is. Yeah, a little smokey. Yeah.
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It's a creeper, that one. Mhm, yeah. Okay. Mhm. Yeah.
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But, still locked in focus.
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I maybe I'm going to start box breathing. Yeah.
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That in itself is a challenge.
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As someone who clearly enjoys an adventure, what are examples of things that you have to contractually agree not to do when you're heading a billion-dollar movie franchise?
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Oh, well, I mean, it's there's always a just on the waiver and you don't do this, don't do that, don't do that.
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And you you you you need to you still kind of do secretly, but I've had a few moments I've had a few moments where I've been doing those things and going, "Wow, this could cost me or the studio or someone a a of money if I was to get injured right now."
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And so whilst I was shooting Extraction I was down in the south of France surfing some pretty big waves and um yeah, a couple of times I was kind of underwater, you know, and being rolled in by sort of big 15-ft surf and thinking, "Ah, maybe I shouldn't be here right now.
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This is This could have halted the production uh for for the entirety of it because I'd be dead.
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Well, thankfully you can still eat hot wings.
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Are you ready to move on to the halfway mark? do this, yeah.
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So, sure we have now's revenge. Okay.
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I feel like we're going to stop pouring this on and dipping it in.
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I'm feeling I'll I'll do it if you're ready. Yeah, yeah. We're halfway there.
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And it feels like We'll start popping bottles. I love it.
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We'll start popping bottles, man.
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Have you used one before?
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Have you used one before?
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Has anyone ever popped bottles before in the show?
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We uh Oh, it's getting a little hot. We are in Vegas. All right. Okay. Yeah.
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Yeah, it's not bad, though. Right. This is a good one. I like that. Now's revenge. Now's revenge. Jesus. Yeah. All right.
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So, a lot of actors who have been on this show have explained to me the value of doing soap operas early on in their career including your countryman Margot Robbie.
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How, if at all, did putting together almost 200 episodes of Home and Away prepare you for what was to come in Hollywood?
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For me the the technicality was the greatest thing, how to hit your mark, how to learn lines on the fly, how to just be comfortable in this setting with cameras and lights and things you pointing in your direction, you know?
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Um and but then you kind of there's not some I wouldn't say bad habits, but there's a certain sort of default position you get into and it's a comfort zone which I had to kind of get out of my system when I first started doing film. Let's just pop bottles.
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All right, let's pop bottles.
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How heavy you going to go?
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I'm going to kind of follow your lead.
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I'm just doing a few Oh, this is Oh, see, it's a dangerous game that dangerous game we're playing over here. Uh why do we do this? Oh, there we go. kind of your idea.
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Do you do the the the version?
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Do you ever rub it in your eye by accident? Oh, I Mhm.
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Any hot sauce mistake you can make.
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This is a step up, by the way. Oh, that's a real jump.
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That's not like a gentle introduction.
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We went from pepper to chili now, but Yeah.
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We can't reach for the milk yet, all right? All right, yeah.
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We're in a standoff, and I'll hold my ground as long as you hold your ground.
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Yeah, just as long as you can. Yeah. Yeah, go for it. Go for it.
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Uh When you're watching Can we have a glass of milk? Yeah, let's do it.
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It's too soon, don't you think? Too soon? All right, I'm off. I'm off. I'm off. Go.
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I'm always curious how people who act in films actually consume them.
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Like, how would you describe yourself as a moviegoer?
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Uh I think a lot more growing up, you know?
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Um I used to love the moviegoing experience, but uh I don't know, once you kind of seen behind the curtain, you you can't help but sit there and kind of go, "Oh, yeah, I know they did this. I know that person.
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I know I drink with that person."
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And You know, when I watched Fury Road, I remember coming out of that film, I was completely immersed in the experience.
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For the first time in years, I forgot that I I I I knew what was going on.
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I wasn't sitting there going, "Oh, how did they do that shot? How did they do this?"
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I was absolutely 100% absorbed in the experience, and so um I've forgotten the question cuz it's gone down my tongue a little. Yeah. Is that the answer? It works for me. It works. mean?
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Like I'm I'm marinating in this whole experience just like you, you know?
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I'm not a superhero marinating in the old Oñema habanero sherry.
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It's a challenge over here. Let's have another one. Wow. Yeah?
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You want to You want to pop the bottle on it?
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Yeah, let's pop the bottle on it. Hell yeah.
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We're pushing the envelope, aren't we?
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Do we just bite it first or we do No, we don't. No, we don't. All right. Okay. Ready? Yep. Okay. Kind of nice up front. Yeah. Almost kind of ketchupy. Yeah.
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But sometimes hot sauce is tricky, you know? Yeah.
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And this one I think is a trickster.
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Lose you and then You have that false sense of security.
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It's got like a peppery kick, doesn't it? Yeah. It does. Well, then.
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Yeah, really like a really a compliment to the last one, you know?
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Just a different kind of pepper violence. compliment, yeah.
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They're all getting along in there, aren't they? They really are. each other. It's like a fish fight. Uh-huh. Like a war zone.
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Do you have a go-to deflection when you're at a convention and a fan approaches you and it asks you like a minute super deep cut comic book question that you have absolutely no idea how to answer?
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Um No, I've been pretty open about kind of having read some comics but not others.
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I do this thing sometimes when I'm not real good with names.
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I know everyone's going to know now if they say this, but someone will come up and go, "Chris, good to see you."
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And I'll have my wife with me.
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I go I go, "Hey, and she'll go, "Hi, I'm Elsa. This is John."
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I go, "John, this is Sorry, man. Something like that." I go I can do that.
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Yeah, I was going to say I wasn't sure if you were like telling the story and yeah, explaining or if you're just actually reacting to this. Hey, good to see you. Sorry.
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And then you wait for someone else to step in. That's smart.
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I might steal that from you. It's good, yeah. It's not too bad.
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I mean, it's it's not fun, but right? Yeah.
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Now, this next one is no fun.
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This is the bomb beyond insanity.
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Yeah, do we really want to pour it on this pop bottles again? Yeah.
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I'm going to pour it in the other sauce. How's that sound? Oh, dangerous. Is your mouth watering? Yeah. And my lips are on fire. Yeah.
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Should we have some milk? If you're down.
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If you don't want to, I don't want to.
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If you don't Yeah, I'm good if you're I'm good if you're good. Up to you.
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I'm not touching that milk until you touch it. Yeah, yeah.
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Well, if you're good, I'm good.
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You know, no need for to reach for the milk. Yeah.
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It just doesn't go either, does it? No.
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Like Speaking of compound injuries, you know what I mean? Like, that's the show.
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You have a cumulative effect here.
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I don't know how I'm going to rest of my press interviews I've got to do for the day.
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I might be done for the day. Oh my gosh, yeah. This might be it. This might take us out. This one, really? Yeah.
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You know, I've been around the block a couple always get to the end?
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Oh, you've been here before.
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Yeah, we're going to get to the end.
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Now, this one will be immediate broth.
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As soon as it hit my mouth.
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I don't want to play anymore.
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I don't want to do this anymore.
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I'd nickel for every time I heard that. we have to do milk now. Yeah. All right, let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's break the damn. Oh my god. Look. Yeah. Mhm. Oh. That's awful. That's so bad. I know.
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And you the milk doesn't even really help that much. Now I'm nervous. Now I get it. I get it.
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No, constantly doing one stop. No, I get it. I get it.
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But as intense as it is right now, this is intense as it will be. You know what I mean? No. It'll fade. Oh, no. No, I'm I'm scared. Yeah. No, I get it. I get it. We're so brazen before.
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How do I do this shoving the board?
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Remember early on when you're like, "I'm bored." You know what I mean? I'm not bored anymore. Yeah.
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It always comes back, the show. Oh my god.
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See, cold surfing one of the few things that holds my attention completely and in its entirety. No, I'm really nervous.
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If I were to ask you, what's the greatest wave you've ever surfed?
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Is there a memory that crystallizes in your brain?
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Well, uh right right Oh, man. Okay. Okay. Mhm. Mhm. Um uh Fiji. Cloudbreak.
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I went with um Kelly Slater once. It's a Cloudbreak, Fiji.
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And uh I was going to be there. Here we go.
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We have this magic trick.
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This is our medic over here. Oh. And that is help. Okay. Yeah, okay. Mhm. Mhm.
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He takes me on the cliff and huge set and he goes, "Ah, don't worry.
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That's the last big set dropping off." Cool.
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I paddle out and straight away a 12-ft set comes through. Washed everyone out.
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Comes up, he looks at me, he goes, "I swear it's dropping off. It's the last big set."
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And uh 10 minutes later, another one, even bigger.
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My board's like tombstoning and I'm like on the reef going I'm trying to climb my leg rope to get the top.
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I come up and he's like, "Okay, I'm getting smaller. Go him." I went him.
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That was probably the biggest scariest surf I've been in.
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Nowhere near as terrifying as the next thing we're about to do.
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I can't wait to enjoy that tomorrow morning.
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I just calm after for all the cockiness I had at the start, wasn't it? It's a humbling show.
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You know, it really is at its heart.
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have stopped there if somebody got there. The journey. It's a journey. Here we go.
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My body's like, "Why are we doing this again?" I am bent over. Part two. What an experience. That's my god. It's not bad. It's just as bad. It's not as bad. Not fun, but not as bad. Not as bad.
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I was being sunburnt and sunburnt again.
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And then the skin peels off and you get sunburnt again.
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Do you remember where you were and how you celebrated back in 2016 when your beloved Western Bulldogs won the AFL Grand Final?
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Their first in over 60 years. Yeah.
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Yeah, it was Yeah, it was there I was there with my dad.
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And uh the last time they'd won was 1954 when he was born. Careful. Careful. Careful.
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And uh super emotional this story. It was 1954.
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That's the last time they'd won.
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So, that And uh Look at me. I'm locked in.
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And I was at the Grand Final. And it was epic.
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And every week up in in the finals leading up, everyone was like, "Wow, you know, the Bulldogs have gotten this far.
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They're not going to win."
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They're a seven seed, you know? That's incredible.
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And they were like, "We're not going to win, but you know, this is so great."
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And then right at the game, everyone he we got we got this far."
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And I said, "We're going to win. We're going to do it."
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And um I remember my dad crying and and I'm having tears cuz he's crying and and my brothers were there and and it was it was epic. It was great. It was so much fun. What are you doing?
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We're dropping Are we doing this? Why are we doing this? I don't care. Let's go. Well, come on. We've come this far.
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Is this the biggest worst one? Yeah. That's the show.
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It's just like it's like surfing with Kelly Slater, you know? That's right.
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One wave goes through, you think it's going to be the worst one, and then the next one comes, you know? Oh, man.
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But thankfully I'll put too much on. This is the last one. Oh, really? Love you. Love you back. Goodbye. Goodbye. Uh-oh. Oh.
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And just one more question before we roll credits.
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It almost seems preordained that you'd be an action star, you know, growing up obsessed with Schwarzenegger movies, practicing your Rambo-isms and Jean-Claude Van Damme flying kicks.
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I'm curious, from your unique vantage point, as someone who grew up a fan of the genre and is now a cornerstone of the genre, what in your opinion is the greatest action movie performance of all time? I'm never done thinking.
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The greatest action movie performance of all time One of my favorite films, Kickboxer. Bloodsport. Action.
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Now, you know, how you shoot action these days is Yeah, I don't know if it's more sophisticated, but there's been there's been growth, you know?
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And and um and you watch them now and they're kind of very, you know, everything's a lot of slow-mo and big holding kicks and so on.
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Um but Bloodsport, Kickboxer, probably two of my favorite. Yeah.
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Set it in stone and look at you, Chris Hemsworth, taking on the wings of death, living to tell the tale, and now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you.
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This camera, this camera, this camera.
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Let the people know what you have going on in your life.
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Yeah, I've got three kids, a couple of dogs.
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I'm Chris Hemsworth, and a film of mine is coming out called Furiosa.
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It's part of the Mad Max saga, the Mad Max franchise. Um, check it out.
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It's one of the greatest experiences I've ever had on a set, and it's one for the ages.
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I'm sure you're going to enjoy it. Don't miss it.
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It's as hot and exciting as all of this business. WOO! YEAH.
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EVERYONE I MENTIONED I WAS DOING IT WAS LIKE, "YES!"
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All that said to me, "Why have you not done Hot Ones?" Yeah, that's it.
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Well, what what do you think of the experience now that you go back to Oh, it's so much more interesting.
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Takes away from all the boring answers I'm giving about acting and stuff.
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It's like, it's way cooler. Thanks, man.
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Hey, what's going on, Hot Ones fans? This is Sean Evans.
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Have you ever been watching Hot Ones and wondered, "How would I do on that show?
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Would I make it only to sauce number four or five?
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Would I make it all the way to the end with no water or no milk?"
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Well, now is your chance to prove it.
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