Chris Hemsworth may seem like an immortal god, but he’s just as human as the rest of us.
Human enough, in fact, to be well settled in with a wife and kids. The beloved actor’s actually been married for a while now — sorry, literally anyone with eyes, he’s taken — and he and his wife have welcomed several children into their family over the years. Apparently, the little Hemsworth additions have, like the rest of us, seen their daddy in Thor: Love and Thunder, and — also like the rest of us — they weren’t overly impressed. Hemsworth recently shared his kiddos’ reactions to his latest Marvel flick, and it’s only making the star’s fanbase love him more.
Chris Hemsworth’s kids
In total, Hemsworth shares three little ones with his wife, fellow actor Elsa Pataky. In the least surprising news of the day, Pataky is just as stunning as her husband, and the Spanish star’s kids truly won the genetic lottery as a result. While she’s nowhere nearly as well known as her hubby — whose success is inarguably tied to the MCU — Pataky is still well known in plenty of circles, thanks to her work on projects like Snakes on a Plane and the Fast & Furious franchise.
Pataky and Hemsworth met and married just ahead of his biggest break, which arrived in the form of the first Thor movie. They dated for around a year, starting in early 2010, and were wed before 2011 rolled around. They’ve been happily married ever since, and their family grew by three between 2012 and 2014.
The first of their children, India Rose, was born in May 2012, and was followed two years later — in March of 2014 — by her twin little brothers, Sasha and Tristan. The trio is just heading into their preteen years, as Hemsworth continues to dazzle audiences with a near-endless stream of mega-popular releases. As of 2023, India is just over 11 years old, and her little brothers are inching up on their first decade.
Their thoughts on Thor: Love and Thunder
An interview with GQ gave fans a bare, brief insight into Hemsworth’s family, and instantly sparked interest in the actor’s young children. This is largely due to a hilarious series of quotes, in which Hemsworth admits that his kids were just as unimpressed by Thor: Love and Thunder as the rest of us. While viewers like me — who tend to treat our favorites with a gentle hand — were less critical of the fourth Thor film, it was thoroughly lambasted by a bulk of viewers and critics alike, earning the flick an unimpressive (but not truly embarrassing) 63 percent Tomatometer score. While that does make it the worst-received Thor flick thus far — even losing out to Thor: The Dark World — the film largely failed due to high audience expectations. After the massive success that was Thor: Ragnarok, audiences simply expected lightning to strike twice, and the resulting tantrum when it failed to do so saw Love and Thunder receive far more flak than it deserved.
But you’re not here to learn about my thoughts on the fourth Thor movie. You’re here to see what Hemsworth’s kids had to say about it, and — brace yourselves — they didn’t hold back. Despite the fact that Hemsworth’s oldest, India Rose, appeared in the film as Gorr’s daughter Love, it seems the little Hemsworth kids joined forces with their tiny friends to take daddy down a notch.
Hemsworth, half joking and half embarrassed, reportedly told GQ that, when his children and their friends went to see the film, they didn’t hesitate to let him in on their thoughts.
“It’s a bunch of eight-year-olds critiquing my film,” he told the publication. “‘We thought this one had too much humor, the action was cool but the VFX weren’t as good,'” he remembers them saying, before adding “I cringe and laugh equally at it.”
Kids are known to be brutal, and it seems the Hemsworth brood is no exception. Thankfully, they seem to be bigger fans of some of Hemsworth’s other work, and they’re certainly not alone in their thoughts on Love and Thunder.