After bulking up to play Thor, Chris Hemsworth is slimming down and withering away.
The 30-year-old has undertaken a starvation diet to become as “scrawny” as possible for his new film “Heart Of The Sea,” which depicts the true events that inspired Herman Melville to write “Moby Dick.”
Speaking on Jimmy Kimmel, Hemsworth said: “A bunch of sailors in a whaling ship 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.”
Adding humorously: “[It’s] a romantic comedy.”
Hemsworth then explained that the actors have to get “rather skinny” and are eating just 500 or 600 calories a day.
“It’s funny, you’ve never heard 15 big, burly guys playing sailors talk about their calorie-count, what they should and shouldn’t eat, what their cheat meal is going to be.”
But Hemsworth said he obviously isn’t enjoying the new diet regime.
“I mean, you can consume 600 calories in a milkshake. So it ends up being a couple of small salads, a couple of small pieces of protein and that’s kind of it and you go to bed hungry.
“And then you have like a fasting period of 15 hours, like you stop eating completely, and then you have little meals through the day.”
Kimmel said Hemsworth’s new skinny look should be replicated for his next action movie.
“You should be skinny for the next Thor movie. A really scrawny and starved Thor.”
This article originally appeared on News.com.au.