A bone-chilling wind and a fine sheet of mist cascaded off the River Thames, but it wasn’t the bitter blasts of air that sent Chris Hemsworth tumbling to the ground. Late on a November afternoon, the brawny Australian actor threw himself down onto the courtyard of the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich over and over, filming scenes for what would eventually become the epic final battle in Marvel’s “Thor: The Dark World.” The film, due out Nov. 8, sees the God of Thunder facing off against a nemesis called Malekith, part of a race known as the Dark Elves, but actor Christopher Eccleston already had called it quits for the day. That left Thor, dressed in full armor, long red cape billowing out majestically behind him, to press on alone, with Hemsworth gamely absorbing imaginary blows for the cameras, again and again and again. “I’ve been doing that for the last four, five, six weeks,” Hemsworth said between takes. “Just rolling on the ground, on the rocks in Iceland, various locations around London. I’m like, ‘When am I going to win one of these fights?’ I’m on the receiving end of it all, and it ain’t fun.” Read more http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movi...ris-hemsworth-takes-an-imaginary-beatdown/#/0
