Chris Hemsworth was stopped from boarding an international flight after he packed the wrong passport for one of his children.
Chris Hemsworth messed up with his son’s passport
The Avengers: Doomsday actor – who has daughter India, 13, and twin sons Sasha and Tristan, 11, with wife Elsa Pataky – tried to sneak one of the boys onto a plane by insisting documents bearing his sister’s image were actually his, but officials quickly spotted the error.
Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar Arabia in a clip shared to the magazine’s Instagram account, Chris admitted: “I actually went to the airport once and I had my daughter’s passport instead of my son’s passport… They kind of look the same.”
Elsa cut in: “They don’t.”
Chris continued: “I said, ‘Oh, yeah, this is her.’ And they were like, ‘That’s a boy. No.’ So, yeah, that didn’t work.”
Elsa noted they “couldn’t fly” because of the error.
The 42-year-old actor and his family relocated to his native Australia several years ago and he recently admitted he thinks it was a “great decision” to get out of Los Angeles.
During an appearance on the Smartless podcast, Chris shared: “It was right around the time my boys were born and we kind of were set up in L.A. and not enjoying it, you know? Like, nothing was shooting there. We were filming kind of everywhere else.
“You know when you come back from work, you wanna go on a holiday? Like, coming home for me, it feels like a holiday. We have a big farm and horses and motorbikes and surf.”
Chris admitted that his own upbringing inspired his decision to return to Australia.
He said: “We lived about 20 minutes from the main sort of suburban areas in Melbourne up in the hills. And the nearest neighbour was a kilometre or two away.”
Meanwhile, Chris recently confessed that his definition of success has evolved over time.
The actor has enjoyed huge success in Hollywood, starring in movies such as Star Trek, Snow White and the Huntsman, and the Thor franchise – but Chris admits that his attitude changed through the course of his career.
Speaking to the Guardian newspaper, Chris explained: “I used to think maybe if I was nominated for something I’d feel good about myself. Or maybe if I had the biggest film of all time, or launched another franchise, then I’d feel fulfilled. It’s absurd.
“My self-worth doesn’t rest upon all of those exterior things any more – though I still have to remind myself.”
Chris was actually far more “uncomfortable and goofy” than he was willing to admit when he was first cast as Thor.
Reflecting on his physical transformation for the role, Chris explained: “I felt like, ‘OK, cool, no one can f*** with me.’ Playing a god became a safety net. It fooled people into thinking I was that confident, that certain.”
