Luke Hemsworth stars in Deadloch and talks about brother Chris Hemsworth

Luke Hemsworth only has a few scenes in the new season of Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney’s critically acclaimed crime comedy Deadloch. But in some ways, this is a job he’s been pursuing for 25 years.

“I called Kate McLennan in college when I was maybe 20,” Hemsworth says, speaking via Zoom in the expansive garden of his home in Byron Bay. “I wanted to do more comedy and [didn’t] “I know the first steps.”

This was long before the Kates (as they are now commonly known) became a sensation. Katering Show and brekky-TV satire Get Krackin. It also took years for the world to become aware of the Hemsworth concept. Luke has since found a home in action and science fiction, landing his first job in neighbors Around this time, however, younger brothers Chris and Liam were still in high school. There was no Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Hunger Games The books were waiting to be published, let alone adapted for the big screen.

“[McLennan] Basically, ‘Who is this guy? How did you get my number, bro?” Hemsworth jokes. He remembers giving him good advice: watch lots of comedies, just start performing. It was only when the Kates approached him that he broached the subject. Impassehe didn’t remember that.

“It would be so much better for my ego [if she did]” he says, laughing. “But you know, 20 years later, I pick his brain every day. It’s great to be the funny guy.”

Whether you’re watching the show or talking to him in real life, it seems like comedy comes naturally to Hemsworth. So it’s strange that his biggest performances are so serious. After moving to Los Angeles in the early 2010s, she got her big break playing stoic security chief Ashley Stubbs. western worldand has portrayed seasoned military men in most roles since. Next month Hemsworth will star alongside Daniel MacPherson and Russell Crowe in the gritty MMA sports action drama Monster.

But he’s clearly ready to delve into this macho persona. Inside Impasse‘S. Taking the murder mystery from Tasmania to the Top, the second season stars Hemsworth as a slimy celebrity crocodile wrestler who humiliates women and exploits people, while also taking every opportunity to talk himself out of it.

“My mother was a feminist; we were raised very hard with that sensitivity,” Hemsworth says. “My father spent his whole life protecting children. There’s a mischievous joy to the man who says all these terrible things.”

The actor drew on his own impressions of the “enormous and extravagant” characters he met as a child while living in Arnhem Land (where his father worked in child protection services) and later in the Kimberley, where he worked on a pearl farm. But he’s also happy to admit that Russell Crowe openly drove past him.

Interviewed by Kate Box’s calm detective Dulcie Collins about a case, TV personality Wade is “about to do a series where we drive back and forth in a fast car on a salty lake, just me and big Russ”. Apparently he also climbs K2 and Everest “NatGeo”, a show that looks suspiciously like Chris Hemsworth’s series Unlimited (featuring Luke).

Hemsworth clarifies: “I don’t remember if we made it or if the Kates wrote it, but it was definitely a dig at Chris.”

So which man is likely to take the joke better?

“They’re both pretty upset about anything I say about them. They both have no sense of humour,” he says with a cheeky grin.

Hemsworth goes on to explain that he’s actually “really devastated” that he couldn’t get the planning work to show up. A Journey to RememberLast year’s National Geographic documentary filmed Chris and his dad’s motorcycle trip to their old home in the NT.

“I’m not going to talk about it, though,” he says of the doco, who deals with Alzheimer’s disease, which his father was recently diagnosed with. “[Dad] I will be sad and then I will be in everyone’s bad books.

This is a serious matter. Hemsworth describes the episode as “beautiful” and “absolutely heartbreaking.” But when I ask him if his father likes it to be talked about in the press, he immediately laughs: “No… he doesn’t remember anyway.”

‘Working here gives me a level of convenience as an actor… Americans don’t understand Australian humour.’

Luke Hemsworth

Hemsworth is enjoying returning home after his years in the US; Like his siblings, he now lives in Byron Bay. And he likes local jobs, like Impassewhen he can pick it up.

“I can’t think of another show that gets this hard with dark humor and such extreme levels of profanity,” he says, praising Kates’ script about abrasive cop Eddie Redcliffe, played by Madeleine Sami. “It’s like Shakespeare. It’s pretty overwhelming at first. For the first 5-10 minutes you have no idea what’s going on. Then your brain kicks in… and it becomes addictive. That’s how I feel when Mads is on screen… Mads and Kate.” [Box] they are just absolute symbols.

“There’s something about working here that makes it easier for me as an actor. Americans and Australians, we speak the same language but are very different culturally. Americans, as wonderful as they are, don’t understand Australian humour.”

Hemsworth is an ambassador for Central Coast Studios, a planned $260 million film and TV production site in Calga, NSW. He says some of his reasoning is selfish. He wants to do as much work as possible here and sleep in his own bed at night.

But the actor hopes it will also open up more opportunities for young and independent filmmakers who can’t always shoot on location or find time at other studios booked by bigger productions, as well as crew who can work more closely with their families.

But Hemsworth has an exciting international title in his sights. “I’m not officially part of it yet,” he says, “[but] “It’s a dark comedy, a take on the superhero genre, which is nice.”

This wouldn’t be his first superhero movie. He starred as an Asgardian actor playing Thor, his brother’s winking understudy. Thor: Ragnarok And Thor: Love and Thunder. Wasn’t there a place for him on the call sheet in the coming period? Avengers: Judgment Day?

“I tried!” he says, laughing. “[No room] humble for me.

Impasse is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

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