Chris Hemsworth was "running out of money" just before reaching "Thor," he says.

Just before becoming the Norse god of thunder, Chris Hemsworth said he wondered why he had started playing and that he had even reached a point where he "ran out of money" .

The 35-year-old Australian actor told Variety that he had started playing for his love of film and television, but also because he and his family had "not had anything to do with it." ;money".

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He stated at the exit that he was motivated by the desire to help his parents financially.

"Initially I wanted to pay for their house," said the actor "Men in Black: International". "It was my kind of thing."

However, he added that the pressure on his goal could have hurt his chances in the hearing room by making him more tense.

"I almost put too much pressure on myself," he said. "If I had not taken the initiative to take care of my family, I would have been more relaxed."

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Although Hemsworth played a recurring role in the Australian soap opera "Home and Away" from 2004 to 2007, he struggled to get bigger roles in Los Angeles.

He still remembers the roles he missed, including the 2009 hit "G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra "- which featured Channing Tatum – and the Gambit role in Wolverine's" X-Men "movies – played by Taylor Kitsch, reported Variety.

This commercial photo published by Walt Disney Studios and Marvel shows Chris Hemsworth in a scene from "Thor: The Dark World".
(THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 2013)

"At the time, I was upset," said Hemsworth. "I was running out of money. But if I had played one or the other of these characters, I would not have been able to play Thor.

Even after taking the role of Thor, however, Hemsworth was still struggling to fear a redesign, low public participation and the possibility of sequels. But, he told Variety, he finally felt at home among the "Avengers".

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Hemsworth first embodied the Asgardian hero in "Thor" in 2011, taking over the role in six other Marvel films, but he told Variety that he felt "trapped" by Thor's characterization in the first films until his humorous and carefree transformation into the director Taika. "Thor: Ragnarok" of Waititi in 2017.

"I felt as if I had been cataloged by whoever was writing these scripts," Hemsworth said. "Did I feel that the creators were stuck where they could take the character and was it all he had to offer?" I felt that there was so much more we could do. "

However, the transformation of his muscular Asgardian character into a defeated character in "Avengers: Endgame" has "energized" the actor by giving him the impression of being able to use Thor's hammer again, he said. .

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"I would always like to do more, to be honest," said Hemsworth. "And I do not know what the plan is. I have the impression that we have opened a character so different. I feel more energetic for the opportunity to go there. "

"But I will use it in other places and with other characters if it's the end here," he added.

Stephen Sorace of Fox News contributed to this report.