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Chris Hemsworth details the filming of the documentary series “Limitless”.
Filming the documentary series was an “extremely painful” experience for Chris Hemsworth.
IN “Limitless with Chris HemsworthThe “Thor” star explores the idea of prolonging health and intellect into later years as he progresses through a series of challenges, including walking the edge of a 900-meter skyscraper and swimming across an arctic fjord.
“They all had different challenges and different things that I found either terribly painful or confronted in different ways, but in the end it was an amazing experience,” Hemsworth, 39, told Page Six exclusively on Tuesday at the series premiere on New York.
“Ice swimming was probably the most exhausting and painful, but the episode about death and confronting mortality – which was dubbed the episode of acceptance – was intense and profound for many reasons.”
Perhaps one of the reasons the actor found the episode “intense” is the discovery that he has a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s disease.
Hemsworth has two copies of the APOE4 gene, which means he is “8 to 10 times more likely” to struggle with the disease, which is primarily characterized by mental deterioration.
But Hemsworth also had many lighter moments.
The Australian confessed that his ice bath in the Arctic had a Seinfeld side effect.
When Page Six brazenly asked if “excessive shrinkage” had occurred, he laughed and remarked, “Yes, of course, yes, yes. It’s natural.
Series creator Darren Aronofsky was also at the premiere and raved about working with Hemsworth.
“He’s so wonderful. He’s so open. He’s so generous. He’s so vulnerable on this show,” he marveled. “I didn’t really know what he was going to do. That’s what really knocked me out, how welcoming he was to the invasion of the Limitless crew into his life.
“There were challenges that really pushed him to the limit of his physical and mental limits, and he fully agreed with that.”