Chris Hemsworth Has addressed claims that he is leaving Hollywood.
thor I was talking to Star Vanity Fair For the May cover of the magazine When he discussed the rumors that he would retire from acting after it was revealed that Her genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s revealed,
Two years ago, the actor was subjected to genetic testing during a National Geographic documentary, Asim, where they discovered they had two copies of the APOE4 gene. Carrying the gene does not mean that Hemsworth was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, but rather that he is at risk for it.
She told the outlet the headlines were not true, saying, “It made me really angry because it felt like I was vulnerable about something personal and I shared it.” “No matter how much I said: ‘This is not a death sentence,’ the story became that I have dementia and I’m rethinking life and retiring and so on.”
Despite inaccurate reports that he was quitting acting, Hemsworth acknowledged that there were some funny comments from fans in response to the headlines.
He recalled, “I read a very funny comment at the bottom of an article: ‘I hope Chris will forget he’s retiring and come back.’
At the same time that news was spreading about his genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s, Hemsworth was also taking a break from acting because he was “tired, and I wanted to be home with my family,” he revealed. Entertainment Weekly In June 2023.
“It was interesting, because those two headlines added together, that I was taking time off because of a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s,” he told the outlet at the time. “That experience and that show [Limitless] I was told: ‘Oh wow, none of us are invincible.’ It kind of shakes you into that moment.”
“It was positive in that sense, but it was made a little more dramatic, like I was potentially retiring because of this thing. Which is not the case at all,” Hemsworth said.
Earlier, Hemsworth spoke out Vanity Fair In 2022, Where he talked more about what it’s like to receive such a sudden diagnosis.
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“They took all my blood work and did a lot of tests and the plan was to tell me all the results on camera and then talk about how you can improve on this and that,” he said at the time.
“And Peter Attia, who is the longevity doctor in that episode, and oversees a lot of the show’s work, called [show creator] darren [Aronofsky] And added: ‘I don’t want to tell her this on camera. We need to have an off-side conversation and see if he wants the same on the show.
“It was very shocking because she called me and she told me.”
Hemsworth explained that he certainly did not expect to receive such “profound” news as the show was originally intended to be a “fun” way of exploring “longevity”.
However, he added: “It was a really good catalyst to dive into what I needed to do on the prevention front or on the management front.
“There was an intensity to navigating it. “Most of us prefer to avoid talking about death in the hope that we will somehow escape it.”