Thor's Chris Hemsworth Gained 20 Lbs. For HIs Starring Role In Thor

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The actor, 27, says non-stop food consumption was the key to his 20 lbs. weight gain. "I feel as if I've been busy, but all I've been doing is eating all day," Hemsworth tells Men's Health in its May issue. "Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting."
He continues: "I ask myself, 'Why am I eating this chicken? For protein. Why am I eating this broccoli? For vitamins and fiber. Why am I eating this Ho Ho?' "

And overeating wasn't the only lifestyle change for the Aussie actor as he prepared for the action flick, which is due in theaters May 6.
"It wasn't until Thor that I started lifting weights," he says. "It was all pretty new to me."
But Hemsworth took the training a bit too seriously. “[The filmmakers] kept saying ‘Yeah, get as big as you can, as big as you can.’ And then I came backright before Christmas, just before we started the movie, and had a final sort of camera test and put the costume on and within a couple of minutes, my hands
started going numb,” he recalled. “And everyone was like, ‘Yeah, that’s not cool.’ And I started getting pins and needles and you’d touch the skin and the
blood wouldn’t return to that area so quick. And I thought, ‘OK, it doesn’t fit.’ ”
The actor’s costume was then altered, and director Branagh instructed Hemsworth to “pull back” on his intense workouts a bit. But in the pieces of the film unveiled to the crowd on Monday, the actor still looked bulked up in a major way.
On Thursday, the actor is being honored as “Male Star of Tomorrow” at CinemaCon. Hemsworth admitted that, with all the hype leading up to the May 6 release, he’s a bit anxious.