Starving Chris Hemsworth injures hand during martial art exercise
Thor star Chris Hemsworth is nursing a painful hand injury after dislocating his finger while trying to master Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
The actor was practising the martial art with a pal when he fell awkwardly.
Hemsworth recalls, "He was showing me a thing or two and I fell
back on it and it ended up at a right angle to my hand and the
knuckle was sitting, like, half an inch down under my hand.
"My friend grabbed it and put it back in but it is rather swollen
still."
And to make matters worse, Hemsworth is also starving himself for a
new role in a film about the true events that inspired author
Herman Melville to write Moby Dick.
He explains, "(It's about) a bunch of sailors in a whaling ship,
which gets struck by a whale, the ship sinks and they jump onto the
small rafts and drift for 90 days and begin to die and eat each
other.
"We have to get rather skinny, so we're on about five or six
hundred calories a day... You've never heard 15 guys, big burly
guys playing sailors, talking about their calorie count and what
they should and shouldn't eat.
"It ends up being a couple of small salads, a couple of small
pieces of protein and that's kind of it. You go to bed hungry and
then you have a fasting period of, like, 15 hours... and then you
have little meals through the day."