Chris Hemsworth admits filming Limitless ‘almost killed’ him’

Evening Standard

Chris Hemsworth has admitted that the first season of his hit National Geographic series Limitless “almost killed” him as he returned for the premiere of its second instalment in London.The Australian actor, best known for his role as Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hosted the premiere at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on Wednesday evening. He was joined on the red carpet by his wife Elsa Pataky, their sons Tristan and Sasha, his parents Leonie and Craig Hemsworth, and brother Liam Hemsworth with Gabriella Brooks.

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00:00Will you all again take on to this next step?

00:03I didn't initially.

00:05The first season almost killed me.

00:08Emotionally and physically.

00:10I don't know if that was by design or...

00:12You called us after it.

00:14Yeah.

00:15But I've got to say each time we play over came one of the challenges and it worked out.

00:21There was this sort of kick and, you know, elation, endorphins, all that,

00:25and this sort of achievement.

00:27But it was in the aftermath once the show had aired and I was, you know,

00:32at my kids' school and their friends were coming up talking about what they had received from the show

00:37and then their parents or grandparents and the sort of spectrum of different sort of age groups

00:43and demographics and so on and people from different areas and different countries

00:46all around the world who had received some sort of knowledge and new direction or path

00:52where they could pursue a better journey or better or excel in their own version,

00:57the best version of themselves.

00:59And so we discussed, well, if we were going to do a second season, what would we tackle?

01:05What new science is there?

01:06What we could be expanded upon that we had touched upon in the first one?

01:10The first season I was very much a guinea pig.

01:13I was thrown into the situations with very little knowledge about what I was doing.

01:18This was more sort of experiential journalism, I guess,

01:21and I had a bit more agency in it.

01:23The production and the creation of where we were going to head.

01:26And things were tied to my curiosity around the science with these different topics,

01:31but also they were personal to me in different ways and things that I wanted to investigate.

01:39And then throughout that, the second season, I kept asking the same question,

01:43what the hell am I doing?

01:45And I have...

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