Chris Hemsworth needed to play a task in a movie challenge directed by Kevin Costner. However, the Thor actor quickly found he had misplaced the half to Costner himself.
“There was a movie, a script that I’d read and loved and was like, ‘I want to get that,’ and then someone said, ‘Kevin Costner has that [role],’” Hemsworth stated in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. “I’d love [to have] him as a director. I was like, ‘Goddamnit!’ [I spent] an hour the other day trying to convince him, and he was like, ‘I’m doing it, kid.’ Didn’t work. I didn’t get the part.”
Hemsworth didn’t reveal what the movie was about and described the film as “abstract and interesting” and famous it was “a small story about a man and a woman.”
“It’s better seen in his wheelhouse for sure, as far as the kind of Western environment. There’s horses involved, he’s a horse wrangler, and my wife read it and loves horses,” Hemsworth stated. “We have 10 or 11 horses back home and so she’s like, ‘You’ve got to do this.’”
ET interviewed Costner at CinemaCon final week and requested him about Hemsworth’s curiosity within the movie he was directing.
“It’s a love story, but as long as I’m still young enough to play it, I’ll play it. Chris will have to wait his turn,” Costner stated. “[Hemsworth] ’s so handsome, and he’s so good. He’s going to have to go find his [own] love story. [But] I’m glad he likes this one. If I reach a moment where I [don’t] think I could do that, I would [reach out]. He’s certainly one of our great leading men right now.”