Thor actor Chris Hemsworth has said he wants to take a break to spend more time with his family after discovering he is more likely to develop a serious health condition. The 39-year-old is on the face of it a perfectly healthy specimen - but while filming the Disney+ docu-series Limitless made a sobering discovery.
The episodes see him meet with a death doula, walk out on a platform from the top of a skyscraper and face the most stressful test for New South Wales Fire and Rescue academy recruits. Hemsworth continued: “Then, I was asked by the death doula, ‘What would make a good death? What would your death look like? Who would you have around in those last moments?’ and I realised, it’s everything I have now.
After blood samples were taken prior to the show, the actor was told he is between eight and 10 times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s than the general population. He was informed this was due to him being among only two to three percent of people globally who have two copies of the gene APOE4.