'I'd Like To Do Some Of That': Chris Hemsworth Admits Being Captured By 'Rush' After Reading Script

It didn't take much for Chris Hemsworth to sign up for his latest movie Rush, in fact the Thor actor was all too eager to star as formula One driver James Hunt after being captured by the script.

Speaking to The Metro, the Australian actor admitted that he relished the idea of playing the British racer who enjoyed a colourful life before it was cut short in his mid-forties after suffering a heart attack.

Chris Hemsworth at the London premiere of Rush (WENN)

The actor said on the role: "There’s so much censorship in this business. You have to be careful what you say and what you do. As soon as I read this script [by Peter Morgan], I thought: 'I’d like to do some of that at certain times.'"

Admitting that his world is at complete odds with Hunt, the actor added: "It was unlike my world. Mine is much quieter than James’s was. But the script captured that world so well – the sexiness, the gallantry, the rivalry between he and Niki Lauda, and the psychology behind it in a sport in which four or five guys were dying a year."

It wasn't all glamour playing the sporting figure, however, as Chris previously revealed he was left with hunger pangs and mood swing after undergoing an intense diet to shift 30 lbs of muscle from his frame.

"It was pretty brutal," he told The Hollywood Reporter.

Going on to add: "I was moody and hungry all the time. I understood addiction for the first time, to be honest. I immediately knew what it is like to be truly at the mercy of something. Literally, food was the last thing I thought about before I went to bed and the first think I thought about when I woke up.

"I ate very little protein and carbohydrates. And then I’d just run to sweat it off."

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