Chris Hemsworth had short brown hair, a clean-shaven face, and a Starfleet-slick American accent. Marvel Studios let him read for Thor but passed. Soon after, he went to Vancouver to shoot the horror movie Cabin in the Woods. Director Drew Goddard and producer Joss Whedon, who had encouraged him to pursue Thor, saw trade-magazine articles about the top contenders for the role and couldn’t help but notice that Chris wasn’t among them. “Why aren’t you in the mix here?” they asked. “What happened?” “I don’t know,” he told them. “I blew my audition, I guess.” Spurred on by Goddard and Whedon, and
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