Chris Hemsworth was at the height of his Marvel fame when he and his wife Elsa Pataky decided leave L.A. and relocate with their twin sons to his home country of Australia.
“It was right around the time my boys were born, and it was just, we kind of were set up in L.A. and not enjoying it, you know?” Hemsworth said.
“Like nothing was shooting there. We were filming kind of everywhere else and then… you’d come home and paparazzi and all the sort of the trappings of, you know, living in that space.”
Years later, Hemsworth said leaving Los Angeles in 2014 was the “greatest decision” he had made. Now, their life includes horses, motorbikes, surfing, and lots of time spent outdoors.
“Coming home for me, it feels like a holiday,” Hemsworth said.
For Hemsworth and Pataky, Australia gave their children something hard to find in Hollywood: privacy.