14 DAY TRIAL // After breaking a few hearts as Thor in the Marvel movies, Australian actor Chris Hemsworth is now undergoing a harsh 500-calories-a-day diet in order to play the role of a washed at sea sailor in “Heart of the Sea.”
Chris gained weight and muscle mass for Thor, but has to lose those extra pounds now, and more. In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel (see the video below), Chris Hemsworth reveals his starving sailor diet and explains how hard that has been for him until now.
Ron Howard's “Heart of the Sea” is a drama based on the 1820 true event that inspired Herman Melville's “Moby Dick.” The story revolves around “a bunch of sailors in a whaling ship [that] get struck by a whale, the ship sinks and they jump onto the small rafts and drift for 90 days. And basically they begin to die and eat each other… a romantic comedy,” Chris says during Jimmy Kimmel Live.
In order for him to look like a starving, stranded sailor, Chris needs to get really skinny. To achieve that, his calorie intake is of around 500 – 600 a day, so most of his food consists of small salads or small pieces of protein.
The worst part for Chris is not the fact that he eats small meals throughout the day, but the 15-hour fasting periods when “you stop eating completely.”
As most persons on a diet, he too cheats, and he admits to feeling guilty afterwards. “I had a cheat meal a couple of minutes ago so I'm in a good mood. [I had] a bit of pizza. Like 10 [slices]. But that's just once a week and then you feel really guilty,” Hemsworth confesses on the show.
The star, “that takes the biggest hammer that Home Depot sells,” as Jimmy Kimmel introduces him in the show, jokes about the fact that the cast of the movie “Heart of the Sea” includes 15 big guys discussing calories and cheat meals.
Chris Hemsworth is not the only actor undergoing extreme physical transformations for a movie role. Jude Law's “Dom Hemingway” diet and Matthew McMonaughey' 50 pound (22.6 kg) loss for “Dallas Buyers Club” have also made headlines just recently.
