Chris Hemsworth acknowledges that, without Kristen Stewart, there was "no point" in doing the Huntsman sequel.
When the scandal on Kirsten Stewart's and the Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders' affair broke out, they were both kicked off the set. And so it happened that, for the sequel, The Huntsman: Winter's War, Chris Hemsworth reprised his role as the Huntsman, but his Snow White, Stewart was no longer a part of it.
That movie, according to Hemsworth, then bombed in the box office. When he was doing an interview for his role in a new movie Men In Black: International, he shared his thoughts on his 2016 sequel for his 2012 hit movie, Snow White and the Huntsman.
He remembered thinking the sequel was going to be a "not-as-dark version." He described the feeling as being like he was in a "different movie."
While the Snow White and the Huntsman had made $400 million in the movie box office, the second iteration did not even come up to the halfway point of that first success. In the sequel, The Huntsman: Winter's War, Stewart was replaced by Emily Blunt and Jessica Chastain. Cedric Nicolas-Troyan had taken over as director.
Hemsworth believes that the "dysfunctional vision" for the second movie could have played a role in its failure. Winter's War grossed $164.9 million, but then, it had worked with a budget of $115 million. He does not discount though the possibility that the success of the first movie was mere happenstance, or what he called "right place, right time."
It is remembered that Hemsworth's Snow White and the Huntsman movie had been released in the same year as Stewart's last Twilight movie, Breaking Dawn Part 2. The affair between Rupert and Stewart subsequently destroyed each their relationships, Rupert's with his wife, and Stewart's with her then beau, Robert Pattinson. The scandal rocked the showbiz industry.
But the 35-year-old actor had gone on to bigger things, after Huntsman. He recently spoke of having watched his recent Marvel hit Avengers: Endgame. He shared that he had seen the film with the other stars of the movie, Robert Downey, Jr., Scarlett Johansson, and Chris Evans, along with the hordes that flocked the theater premieres in Los Angeles.
However, he had watched a second time, upon arriving home in Australia because his children had pleaded with him to watch it. The father of three gave in and admitted his kids "loved it." In an interview, the Thor actor shared his experience filming Avengers: Endgame.
He revealed that to achieve the "transformation" into Thor in the last Marvel Avengers movie, he had to spend three hours in the hair and makeup department. He also shared how "exhausting" it was to wear the silicone prosthetic for the "shirt-off scene" not to mention the weights which were placed on his "hands and ankles" to achieve the right movements for his character.
The Australian actor also talked about how people would come up to him and cuddle him as if he were a "big bear," even "rubbing" his belly as though he were pregnant. He said he got a "lot of affection," but also got "sick" of the whole thing, when people would just come up to him and "grab" his belly.
As for his upcoming Men In Black project, the director F. Gary Gray believes he is the right pick for the role, saying Hemsworth was his "first choice."
In the upcoming Men In Black: International, Hemsworth plays the role of one of the new agents in this series that starred Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith, in the earlier iterations. The other agent's role will be taken on by Tessa Thompson.
The movie opens June 14.
