There was Mark to pick up the airport, and the car that the assistant had already arranged was not needed.

The luggage and everything were handed over to the assistant and asked him to send him back to the villa, Zhou Fangyuan followed Mark into the car, and after getting in the car, he found that there were two people in the car.

Robert Downey Jr., and Chris Hemsworth, both of them are currently part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the superhero movies that have been filmed and are being filmed are based on the three of them.

Zhou Fangyuan and Robert Jr. are old friends, and he completed the casting work before the filming of the first "Iron Man" last year. Then I met Mark, Chris, he hadn't had much contact with it before, and when casting, it was also Marvel after the primary audition, sent a small video of all the shortlisted actors, and then decided the role remotely with Zhou Fangyuan through video conference.

Today is the first time Zhou Fangyuan and Chris have sat face to face.

"Hello, Zhou Fangyuan. ”

"Chris Hemsworth, it's a pleasure to meet you, I've heard Mark talk about you for a long time, but I haven't had a chance to meet you. ”

It can be seen that Chris is a little reserved.

It's no wonder that today's Zhou Fangyuan, big and small, is also one of the giants of Hollywood, not to mention anything else, the shares of Disney and Marvel in his hands, as well as the shares of MGM as a whole, are enough to make him one of the hottest figures in Hollywood, not to mention that he also controls Chris's future - the success of the movie is determined by the market, but whether to choose to let a certain actor play, Zhou Fangyuan is absolutely reasonable.

In fact, in the entire first phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, except for the actor Robert Downey Jr. of "Iron Man", other roles can be replaced. Even if Chris starred in Thor, if, that is, if, if he really accidentally annoyed Zhou Fangyuan, and Zhou Fangyuan happened to be a cautious person, it would be completely possible to directly pinch out the follow-up plot about Thor. Coupled with the actor's natural low status in front of capital, Chris doesn't dare to take a breath in the atmosphere, but when facing Zhou Fangyuan, it is inevitable that he will show a flattering smile.

You can't blame him, it's about his career and future after all, and it's always right to be careful.

After all, Hollywood has never lacked handsome and athletic actors, and Chris Hemsworth is just one of the tens of thousands of male gods.

The Australian actor who only entered Hollywood in 2009 has become a hot first-line actor before his 10th year, and he has also entered the top 20 in Forbes' 2017 global actor income rankings.

Without the help of "Marvel Dafa", can Chris still be the male god Chris? Maybe he can, but most likely he can't do it.

In 2008, Chris Hemsworth, who was already well-known in Australia, decided to go to the United States to develop, just like his predecessors Hugh Jackman, Cate Blanchett, and Russell Crow. To the surprise of many people, Chris, who has just come to Hollywood, participated in the first feature film of the A-level blockbuster, the rebooted version of "Star Trek". Of course, he could only play a supporting role that anyone could play at that time, even if the role was the protagonist's biological father. If it weren't for Mark Wahlberg's refusal to understand the lines of science fiction films, he might not even have a chance to leave the country for 10 minutes.

It was another Chris, and probably not many people knew that he was also named Chris.

After participating in A-level productions, he naturally got more opportunities, and he also got his hands on working with familiar faces such as Milla Jovovich and Sean Bean, and the scene would not be only 10 minutes. At the same time, he is also constantly auditioning, hoping to have a role of his own as the starring role, and Marvel Studios' Thor is one of them. It's a pity that he failed, when his first audition really failed, and his younger brother, Liam Hemsworth in the post-"Hunger Games" and "Independence Day 2", was instead shortlisted for the final top 5 candidates.

What happens to Chris who doesn't play Thor?

Many people will say: It's okay, as long as you are willing to persevere, you will definitely meet the right role. That's true, but how many new Hollywood people pop up every year? How many people disappear into the crowd? As the most developed place in the world for cinema, actors with ambitions and ideals all over the world want to be able to make a difference here, but what they can really do is only a few.

But Chris was lucky, while "The Avengers" was still filming, Chris finally got a breakthrough role, and he still wanted to play the real-life legend, the famous F1 driver James Hunter.

The biopic was not well received at first, as the racing-themed film had a mediocre performance and the two leading actors were not so well-known. Fortunately, with the dispatch of director Ron Howard, the great biopic god, although "Fast and Merry" still failed to sell well at the box office, the word-of-mouth made other genre films unreachable. Chris Hemsworth also made his name on the list of the best racing movies to date, the top 10 sports biopics in film history.

This is an important breakthrough, because the movie is actually a feature film, and the two leading actors are not just sitting on prop cars and posing and being handsome. They need to show the strong personalities of their respective characters, and the whole film of "The Amazing Romance" can be sublimated to the theme that opponents are more precious than friends under their personality conflicts. Chris brought the legend of James Hunter back to life, and in addition to the physical resemblance, he also played Hunter's proud personality and determination to win the game.

Once born and twice matured, Chris and Ron Howard collaborated again two years later to present "The Depths of the Ocean". Although it is not as explosive as "The Amazing Wind", in order to play a 19th-century sailor drifting on the sea, Chris who lost 15 pounds allowed the audience to see his efforts and progress.

Even if he or Joss Vuitton, the director of "Avengers", did not participate in the "Cabin in the Woods" project back then, the two did not get acquainted, and in the end, Joss Whedon did not remind him that he could actually be more qualified than those five candidates for the role of Thor, and he may also be a high-quality actor with full potential and rising in Hollywood. It's just that he still needs to accumulate a few works comparable to "Extreme Speed" in order to make up for the regret of not playing Thor.

So he was lucky, because he finally succeeded, defeated those five competitors in the original time and space, and became the Thor of the Marvel Universe.

In fact, what many people don't know is that Chris Hemsworth in the early years was a person with some three-minute heat, he once aspired to countless careers, but he didn't have the ability and patience to do it. Until one day, like many actors, he watched a movie and found that he was the material for acting. Slightly different, he thinks it makes it easy to play the professions he aspires to. Only this time, he was very wrong.

Maybe in "Star Trek", he really doesn't have to bother to become an astronaut in a future spaceship. But when he got the important role of Thor, the situation was different. First of all, he is the leading actor, all eyes will be on him, and he can't have a trace of slackness. Then there is the setting of this character, not only is he tall, but he is also a strong and powerful "god". At that time, Chris's height was quite compatible, but his overall figure was not strong, and there was a certain gap between him and Thor.

Superheroes are very beautiful on the screen, in fact, the characters themselves have to have unusual experiences, and the actors have to put in time and sweat behind the scenes. Hugh "Wolverine" Jackman is an absolute example, and Chris Hemsworth, who is also an Australian, should naturally look up to his predecessors. Then he began to train at least six days a week, cramming chicken breasts, steaks, sandwiches and vegetables into his mouth, and people saw a Thor, the god of thunder who could make countless fans fall for him.

In this life, he also came over like this.

So, is it just a matter of getting to that shape and sticking to it? For a fitness person, yes. For an actor, just ask the man named Christian Bale, and he will tell you very clearly, no. Because Thor is not just a movie, this character is also an important character throughout Marvel's more than a dozen movie plans. So when Chris who played him was going to take on other movies, it was quite painful. In the primordial air, when he was going to play the good film "Fast and Merry", the role of Thor was still going on in "The Avengers". So he could only lose weight in a short period of time, and then gain weight after playing the legendary racing driver, because "Avengers" was followed by "Thor 2".

And that's not the most painful thing, in order to be able to work with Ron Howard again and play the navigator with irregular meals in "The Depths of the Ocean", he gave up and lost at least 15 pounds. That's not all, during the filming, he also needs to control his daily calorie intake, like other leading actors, and basically can only eat apples and vegetables to maintain his body shape. The actor must transform himself into the same as the character in order to convince the audience. This requires the actor to let the character's soul replace his own soul and also "sell" his body. No wonder Thor can't go to fight the Avengers' civil war. In order to be able to turn back into Thor, Comrade Chris hired a personal fitness trainer and developed a set of "the best fitness classes in the world". He's really like a hero, fighting non-stop.

In the end, he did not disappoint, and he finally made a surprise return in "Thor 3", although the final result of this "best fitness class in the world" was far less than that of the Hulk.

Therefore, don't underestimate any successful actor. Don't look at those actors who only have one or two films in a year or two, they seem to only need to pretend in front of the camera, in fact, outside the camera, they also have to do the work of familiarizing themselves with the script, figuring out the role, etc., if they don't meet the image of the role, they also need makeup, or gain or lose weight to meet the requirements.

There is no shortage of handsome men in Hollywood, with perfect figures, in fact, there is no shortage of such people in the entertainment industry of any country, after all, stars or something are too dazzling, and the temptation for ordinary people is too great. But it's not so difficult to find someone who looks outstanding, but it's not so easy to find someone who is fully committed to the performance and willing to sacrifice for the role. Chris Hemsworth can become Brother Hammer, which is inseparable from the good of "Marvel Dafa", and even more inseparable from his own "awareness" of the profession of actor.

As he said in an interview with reporters, he is ready to sacrifice everything except his family.

One of the more talked-about things is that when filming "Thor", the last kiss scene was filmed, and the heroine Natalie Portman happened to be absent, and the director found many beautiful stand-ins, all of them young and beautiful like flowers, waiting for Thor's choice. So Brother Hammer chose his wife, who was 7 years older than him outside the set, that is, the policewoman Elena in the "Fast and Furious" series, Elsa Pataky. It just so happened that she was about the same size as Natalie, so she was on top.

Of course, that's what happened in the original time and space, and the original time and space's "Thor" started filming in 2010 and was only released in 2011. Now Zhou Fangyuan has accelerated this speed, so Chris actually asked the director team to go to Australia to take a special photo. In fact, when he mentioned Chris, the director team still wondered, there are many people in Hollywood who call Chris, but everyone has never heard of Chris Hemsworth.

It's not just Chris Hemsworth, this year, the three Chris brothers are still messing around in Australia. Hollywood is still the absolute center of world cinema today, and there is only a reason for others to look this way, how can there be a reason for Hollywood to look outside? But Zhou Fangyuan knows that Chris's Thor is successful, of course, changing to other actors may not be successful, but since Chris's version has proven itself, why do you want to find someone else? If Chris has not debuted now, it is naturally difficult to find, and it is reasonable to change people.

But now that Chris has debuted, all that's left is to spend more time and energy.

Chris himself is fully aware of this, he is just a newcomer and has no status, so many people in the crew don't take him very seriously. So naturally, a lot of gossip will fall into his ears, of course, the person who said these words may be intended to tell him, "Don't be arrogant, if it weren't for someone above who is optimistic about you, how can it be your turn to play Thor", but for Chris, this "high-level" is undoubtedly the biggest Bole in his life.

Of course, he remembered it by heart.

So after meeting Zhou Fangyuan, not only because of the unequal status between the two sides, but also because of Zhou Fangyuan's help to his career, he also subconsciously became respectful.

Of course, even without these relationships, with Chris's character, he is still a very good person to get along with.