Chris Hemsworth
Returning to his roots in the Australian outback
Chris Hemsworth is currently very happy in his homeland.
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Chris Hemsworth grew up between Melbourne and the outback. Now the “Thor” star traveled to his roots in the Australian outback.
Marvel star Chris Hemsworth (40) is currently returning to his roots: The “Thor” actor visited the place in his native Australia to which he owes some of his “earliest and most beautiful memories”. The actor shared impressions of his trip into the past on his official Instagram page.
“When I was younger, my family and I lived in a remote community in the Northern Territory,” the Marvel star wrote. 35 years later he was “lucky enough to go back there”. “I couldn’t be more grateful to the residents of Gulin Gulin for giving us such a warm and friendly welcome,” he wrote on Instagram. He sent his hosts “a lot of love and appreciation” along the way.
Chris Hemsworth shared several pictures from his trip. So he posted a photo in which he is standing among Aborigines. The Hollywood star contrasted this with a picture from his childhood in which he is also the only white person. The residents of Gulin Gulin had apparently prepared well for Hemsworth’s visit. They made him the iconic “Thor” hammers out of sticks and ice. Hemsworth was also seen in a children’s picture as the Norse Marvel god. Next to his image was written: “Welcome home.”
Childhood between Melbourne and the outback
Chris Hemsworth was born on August 11, 1983 in the Australian city of Melbourne. With his brothers Luke (43) and Liam (34), who are also actors, he grew up not only in the metropolis, but also in the outback.
“My earliest memories are of the cattle stations in the outback,” Hemsworth said in an interview back in 2011. “Then we moved back to Melbourne and then back there and back again,” he recalled at the time. Although he spent most of his childhood in Melbourne, his “most vivid memories” come from episodes in the hinterland, with “crocodiles and buffalo”.
Like many Australian colleagues, Hemsworth started his acting career in the soap opera “Neighbours” before moving to the competing series “Home and Away”. He later went to the USA, where he became a star with “Thor” in 2011.