![]() “One of the first questions I had from Peter Attia was, What does your life look like in 20 years … in 30? What does your death look like?” “Absolutely,” Hemsworth says, a smile creasing his face. Suddenly, he’s trying to reckon with being near the end of his days, and it’s evident why he’ll sweat, freeze, and starve. The show team hadn’t warned Hemsworth about this encounter they wanted his purely natural reaction. He’s then led toward an apparently older woman, sitting with her back to him-and the second he touches her shoulder he recognizes his wife, Elsa Pataky, under extensive aging makeup. ![]() He listens to people who are close to death and reflects on what matters. He wears an MIT-designed suit that adds weight and restricts movement, hearing, and vision, mimicking how he might feel in his late 80s. Listening to people whose deaths were imminent, he said, was a lesson “in many ways of health and wellness but, most importantly, in how to live a beautiful life.” Photograph by Craig Parry, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FOR DISNEY+įor a few moments at a time, Hemsworth experiences aspects of old age. Wearing an MIT-designed suit that replicates aging by limiting movement and dulling the senses, Hemsworth spent three days in a retirement community. ![]() ( Athletes are going faster, higher, and farther-thanks to technology and smarts) Hemsworth had been a hurdler in his school days and still surfs. A sports scientist and the only person to swim around Great Britain (some 1,790 miles), Edgley also helped him train for the movie Thor: Love and Thunder. “People know Chris as the actor, but not a lot of people know him as the athlete,” he says. To push that hard takes exceptional drive, says Ross Edgley, who coached Hemsworth’s fjord swim. Aronofsky-who managed a numbing dip himself-said it was “an amazing experience to … see Chris really pushing himself to the edge.” ![]() How active? In Norway, to study extreme temperature’s effects on the body, Limitless had Hemsworth swim and surf in a fjord’s 36-degree water. Nutopia executive producer Jane Root says it’s less a sci-fi vision of extending life and more about improving chances for a long “life that is fulfilled and happy and active.” Hemsworth undertakes complicated stunts, but there are takeaways for viewers at home. With production company Nutopia, the team set out to craft a series about longevity that was informative yet entertaining. Now, with an aging population and high-tech companies “trying to beat death and reaching for immortality in a lot of different ways,” Aronofsky says, it doesn’t seem as far-fetched. Nearly two decades ago, they worried the idea was implausible for audiences. Handel recalls a line that resonates today: “Death is a disease, it’s like any other. Limitless-which took more than two years to complete, given pandemic shutdowns and breaks for Hemsworth’s movies-stemmed from a 2006 film that producers Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel had written: The Fountain, about a man searching for everlasting youth. I always felt better, but doing a deep dive into the science-backed evidence of why I felt better was a completely new experience,” the actor tells me, from his Byron Bay, Australia, home. National Geographicīefore this project, Hemsworth had “always trained specifically for a movie,” where the goal might have been “to have abs this summer or whatever. Hemsworth explores the different ways humans can live better for longer by taking on physical challenges such as diving in ice or climbing skyscrapers.
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