Chris Hemsworth: If Elsa Pataky ‘gets angry enough, she’ll drop the English facade’
April 27, 2018
Was anyone else a little bit surprised that Elsa Pataky didn’t attend the gigantic LA premiere of Avengers: Infinity War? She’s usually front and center for all of Chris’s promotional tours. But I guess things have changed since the Hemsworth-Pataky family moved to Australia, which Chris has always said he did as a way to avoid the media intrusion (an intrusion his wife seemed to welcome with open arms). So, Elsa stayed home. But she’s there in spirit, because Chris ended up talking about Elsa a lot when he stopped by The Ellen Show. I didn’t realize that Elsa was teaching their kids Spanish! That’s really cool.
Chris Hemsworth might need to take a few Spanish lessons — just to find out why wife Elsa Pataky is angry! The 34-year-old actor revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that he’s at a severe disadvantage in his household because he doesn’t speak Spanish. Even his young children — daughter India Rose, who turns 6 next month, and twin sons Tristan and Sasha, 4 — are “fluent” in his wife’s native language while Hemsworth can utter “one sentence.”
“I would think it would be easy to learn because your wife speaks Spanish, and she would help you,” DeGeneres said. Hemsworth replied, “You’d think.”
So when Pataky is scolding their kids in Spanish, Hemsworth has to “pretend” that he knows exactly what’s going on.
“My wife will be telling them off and I’ll be standing there like, ‘That’s right!’ ” he said, revealing that he usually ends up muttering to Pataky, ” ‘What does that mean?’ ”
The Thor star also said he knows he’s in trouble when Pataky turns to Spanish while speaking to him.
“When I hear the Spanish directed at me, it’s usually unfortunate, controversial, aggressive situations,” he admitted. “So I’m just thinking, ‘What is she saying right now?’ and ‘What’s my comeback to this?’ When we’re fighting, basically — which is never! If she gets angry enough she’ll drop the English façade.”
Hemsworth’s family has spent time in Australia with his buddy Matt Damon and his four children, although the Downsizing star has had some bad luck Down Under. After previously revealing on DeGeneres’ show that his daughter Stella was stung by a jellyfish — a sting which Hemsworth admitted was “one of the worst I’ve ever seen” — Damon returned to give the country another chance. However, he had another unwanted wildlife encounter.
“We pull up to the café. He gets out of the car. He takes one step and takes a six-foot jump backwards and goes, ‘Oh my God, oh my God! ‘” Hemsworth recalled. “Huge big snake and he stood straight on him.” Hemsworth decided, “I’m like, ‘You know what, you’re the problem!’ It’s not Australia.”
No, I kind of think it *is* Australia. That’s why Aussie men are so big and strong: they’ve had to fight off all of nature’s predators since birth. Australia is Peak Survival of the Fittest, Peak Evolution, Peak OMG-Everything-Is-Going-To-Kill-Me-In-This-Country. As for what he says about Elsa and speaking Spanish… I like that she’s taught their kids to be bilingual. But is it weird that he barely knows any Spanish? He makes it sound like he hasn’t picked up ANYTHING.
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