Even if you take away the magical hammer, it’s awfully hard to tone down Chris Hemsworth's superhero look.
“We tried to make him dirty and bloody and (added) stubble and a beard and just beat him up. But it seemed like the more dirt and blood we put on him, the more handsome he was. So we failed there,” says Sam Hargrave, director of ‘Extraction.’
Hemsworth, who’s played Marvel’s resident thunder god in three ‘Thor’ solo films and four ‘Avengers’ movies, stars as Tyler Rake, a black-market mercenary hired to rescue the kidnapped son (Rudhraksh Jaiswal) of an international crime lord. Rake ventures to Dhaka, Bangladesh, to extract the kid, and over the course of the mission, a closeness develops and Rake discovers a path of redemption.
Hemsworth acknowledges being a father of three himself gave his performance “a rawness and authenticity that is hard to fake. Every sort of perspective you have on anything in life changes when you have a child – it's no longer about you, it's about them. The idea of that not being the case or the loss of a child, I can't imagine anything worse.”
‘Extraction’ marks the directorial debut of Hargrave, who worked with Hemsworth as a stunt coordinator and second unit director on ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ and ‘Endgame.’ Hargrave was also Chris Evans’ Captain America stunt double in several Marvel projects.
