It is one thing to have a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s and another is already suffering from the disease, this is how he clarified it Australian actor Chris Hemsworth who confessed – in the most recent interview granted to the magazine Vanity Fair— that having announced this discovery in his genes, in November 2022, made him feel dismayed by how the media distorted it: “As much as I said ‘this is not a death sentence’, the news became that I have dementia and “I am rethinking life, retirement, and so on,” he said.
Therefore, from homehe clarified that he does not yet have the disease and also that “I have not stopped acting.”
He realized this predisposition when he participated in the docuseries Limitless (Unlimited) from Nat Geo “in which he underwent genetic testing that revealed that he carried two copies of the APOE4 gene. The surprising news, which is not a diagnosis, but a risk marker that one of my daughters happens to share“It coincided with a period of rest that I had already planned,” he said in the interview.
The actor also clarified that there have not been many films he has made in recent months, after Thor: love and thunder, because he has also been recovering at home from a back injury. “A part of my brain tells me: ‘Hey, you’ve taken too much time off and now you’ve missed the boat.’ The more rational part tells me: ‘You have also rejected many things, like big action movies without a solid script.”
There he adds that he also wants stillness and that great directors (he mentions Christopher Nolan Kathryn Bigelow, Greta Gerwig, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg) take him out of the field of action and have other opportunities.
For now is about to release Furiosa, from the Mad Max saga, his next film alongside Anya Taylor-Joy, which premieres in Colombia on May 23.
Return to Thor?
In the conversation he also accepts, with a tone of disappointment, that in the latest Thor movie: “I got carried away by improvisation and madness and became a parody of myself. “I couldn’t get it right.”
On returning to the role alone He stated that after that fiasco he owes the public another Thor. When? That is neither known nor talked about, for now.
About his friends avengers He said that they saw each other again at Chris Evans’ wedding with Alba Baptista, where they met again even after the accident. Jeremy Renner that almost took his life.
“If there is something that we all agree on recognizing as essential, it is resilience. Seeing Renner embody it literally, and in the context of what was basically a Portuguese-American wedding, was mind-blowing. He was fully recovered and ready to celebrate. So yes, miracles do happen,” said Robert Downey Jr.
Finally He concluded that sharing something personal, like his health, and having it so distorted made him feel bad, “As much as I said ‘this is not a death sentence’, the news became that I have dementia and I am rethinking life, retirement and so on (…) I read a very funny comment at the end of one of those articles that said: ‘I hope Chris forgets that he has retired and comes back.’
For now the withdrawal is not real and in theaters it will be seen in Furiousthis month.
