Top Hollywood actors, such as Chris Hemsworth, get nervous too.
Before Amazon MGM Studios presented his new movie Crime 101 at CinemaCon earlier this week, the actor revealed to E! News on the red carpet that he was “intimidated” to work with Halle Berry on the crime thriller.
“I’ve admired Halle’s work for many, many years. I was obviously very intimidated to sit opposite her within a scene and try and, you know, not just be in awe of what she was doing,” Hemsworth shared.
However, the Thor: Love and Thunder star noted that Berry was quick to ease his worries once they started filming the Bart Layton-directed feature.
“Certain people just bring out not just the best in you, but also sort of a comfort level where it feels like it’s a place to explore and it’s a place to examine different ideas and try different things. And that was the experience [with Berry],” Hemsworth added. “I loved every second of it.”
And it’s clear Berry felt the same way, as the Oscar winner also told E! News that Hemsworth was now “one of my new favorite people in the whole wide world.”
“[He’s] a stand-up guy,” the X-Men actress said. “I won’t go into it now but he stood up for me in a moment in our movie, and instantly I knew right then I’m gonna follow this guy, be a fan of this guy for the rest of his life because he stood up for a woman. He didn’t have to do it and he did it.”
The two actors were in Las Vegas on Tuesday with Layton to tease Crime 101 at CinemaCon. The film, based on author Don Winslow’s novella of the same name, follows detective Lou Lubesnick as he attempts to solve a string of jewel heists by tracking the perpetrator who follows a strict set of rules known as “Crime 101.” Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, Monica Barbaro, Corey Hawkins, Tate Donovan, Devon Bostick, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Nick Nolte round out the cast.