Published November 18, 2022
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Chris Hemsworth plunged into Arctic waters, hung a thousand feet over a canyon while climbing up a rope, fasted for 4 days, and gotten ready for his own ultimate death– all in the pursuit of living longer.
In Limitless With Chris Hemsworth, a six-part National Geographic documentary streaming on Disney+, the star does not simply depend on a body sharpened throughout a years of playing Thor in motion pictures. He challenges mind in addition to body in a mission to establish routines that may extend life. His, and ours.
Experts direct him. A few of their ideas sound familiar– consume less, work out more– however others, less so: Accept truth. Harness tension. ( What wild baboons can teach us about aging)
Before this task, Hemsworth had actually “constantly trained particularly for a film,” where the objective may have been “to have abs this summertime or whatever. And it was more shallow. I constantly felt much better, however doing a deep dive into the science-backed proof of why I felt much better was an entirely brand-new experience,” the star informs me, from his Byron Bay, Australia, house.
Limitless— which took more than 2 years to finish, provided pandemic shutdowns and breaks for Hemsworth’s films– came from a 2006 movie that manufacturers Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel had actually composed: The Fountain, about a guy looking for long lasting youth. Handel remembers a line that resonates today: “Death is an illness, it’s like any other. And there’s a remedy. A treatment– and I will discover it.”
Nearly twenty years back, they stressed the concept was implausible for audiences. Now, with an aging population and modern business “attempting to beat death and grabbing immortality in a great deal of various methods,” Aronofsky states, it does not appear as improbable.
With production business Nutopia, the group set out to craft a series about durability that was useful yet amusing. Hemsworth carries out complex stunts, however there are takeaways for audiences in the house. Nutopia executive manufacturer Jane Root states it’s less a sci-fi vision of extending life and more about enhancing opportunities for a long “life that is satisfied and pleased and active.”
How active? In Norway, to study severe temperature level’s results on the body, Limitless had Hemsworth swim and browse in a fjord’s 36- degree water. Aronofsky– who handled a numbing dip himself– stated it was “an incredible experience to … see Chris truly pressing himself to the edge.”
To press that tough takes remarkable drive, states Ross Edgley, who coached Hemsworth’s fjord swim. A sports researcher and the only individual to swim around Great Britain (some 1,790 miles), Edgley likewise assisted him train for the film Thor: Love and Thunder. ” People understand Chris as the star, however not a great deal of