Chris Hemsworth Tells Us The One Part Of Making Marvel Movies He Finds ‘Exhausting,’ And I Can See Why
Being part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe certainly looks like hard work. Playing a superhero requires constant hours in the gym. It means doing a lot of physically exhausting work on set. It means wearing a potentially uncomfortable superhero costume. However, for Chris Hemsworth, it turns out that the hardest part of the job isn’t all the physical exertion, it’s when you do the audio recording of all the physical exertion.
Playing Thor requires more than a few grunts, groans, screams and shouts. And because a lot of those noises are needed for off-camera scenes, or because an actor is running around or getting punched in the face, the audio recording for them is usually done after the fact. This ADR is referred to in the industry as “efforts” when an actor comes in to record all the various noises their character makes while they are exerting effort. CinemaBlend caught up with Chris Hemsworth on the red carpet at SDCC and he told us efforts were the most exhausting part because of the way they destroy his voice.
Playing Thor requires more than a few grunts, groans, screams and shouts. And because a lot of those noises are needed for off-camera scenes, or because an actor is running around or getting punched in the face, the audio recording for them is usually done after the fact. This ADR is referred to in the industry as “efforts” when an actor comes in to record all the various noises their character makes while they are exerting effort. CinemaBlend caught up with Chris Hemsworth on the red carpet at SDCC and he told us efforts were the most exhausting part because of the way they destroy his voice.
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00:00The efforts are exhausting, but when I do efforts and I sit there, for those who don't
00:09know, efforts is basically all the sound effects for fight scenes and punches and car crushes
00:15and whatever.
00:16You do like an hour of ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, and your throat is destroyed.
00:22And I've done 10 or 12 years of it, and each time I do it again for another movie, I'm
00:25like, can't you just call the last film, because it's the same sounds, I don't care what character
00:29it is, he gets punched with the same kind of ugh noise.
00:34They all say no.
00:35Even the same Marvel films.
00:36I'm like, Thor 3, Thor 4, I'm like, we did this last film, and they're like, no, we want
00:40our own.
00:41And so, it's exhausting.
00:42I always do it at the end of a session, because if you do it at the beginning, you can't speak
00:45for a few hours.