{"id":937690,"date":"2026-10-23T04:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T04:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937690\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T04:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T04:16:19","slug":"luke-hemsworth-reveals-bizarre-reason-he-was-fired-from-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937690\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Hemsworth reveals bizarre reason he was fired from TV show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exclusive: Breaking into Hollywood isn\u2019t easy, and Luke Hemsworth<\/a> has just shared the surprising detail that once saw him recast in America.<\/p>\n

The Terminal List star, 45, told nine.com.au that despite \u201cworking very hard\u201d to suppress his Aussie accent on screen, he was once fired from a TV pilot for not being American enough. <\/p>\n

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Luke Hemsworth is pictured Jules Landry in The Terminal List.\u00a0Suuplied: Marni Grossman\/Prime<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually lost a job I had already been hired on because I wasn\u2019t \u2018authentic New York\u2019 enough, I think it had to do with my accent,\u201d Hemsworth said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat was the only time [it happened], it was a pilot that I had been hired on. I tested on a Saturday, got the role on the Sunday, flew to the place on the Monday and then was replaced on the Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a crazy whirlwind, and not something I\u2019d wish upon anyone.\u201d <\/p>\n

Despite the devastating blow, he looked at the rejection as a learning opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat it did was it gave me the opportunity to go what\u2019s wrong, what is the problem,\u201d he continued. <\/p>\n

\u201cIs it my acting, is it something else, is it the accent? To this day, I still don\u2019t know what authentic New York means \u2026 did they want a cab driver?\u201d <\/p>\n

He confessed that certain American accents are harder to do for Aussie stars. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe southern accent, they\u2019re very soft on their R\u2019s which has the tendency to sound like an Australian accent in you\u2019re not careful.\u201d <\/p>\n

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The Terminal List star revealed he was once fired from an acting gig for not being \u2019New York\u201d enough. \u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

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Famous brothers Chris Hemsworth, Liam Hemsworth and Luke Hemsworth are pictured.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Hemsworth shows off his southern drawl in Season Two of The Terminal List, where he plays CIA agent Jules Landry alongside lead Chris Pratt. <\/p>\n

The Aussie and the rest of the cast underwent some intense training for the series from former Navy SEALs and Veterans. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe did a ton of close combat training. It\u2019s like dream come true as a boy, you get to pretend that you\u2019re the tip of the spear and the elitist of the elite\u2026 it\u2019s pretty epic,\u201d Hemsworth confessed. <\/p>\n

\u201cThese guys are so good at what they do, and they\u2019re also just great men. They\u2019re articulate, they\u2019re giving, they\u2019re incredibly creative.\u201d <\/p>\n

The series follows former Navy SEAL James Reece, played by Pratt, as he unravels deep-state military conspiracies that lead to his entire platoons death on a mission in Syria.<\/p>\n

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The Aussie and the rest of the cast underwent some intense training for the series from former Navy SEALs and Veterans. \u00a0Getty Images for TV Week<\/p>\n

Hemsworth plays the morally ambiguous Landry in the first season, reprising his role for season two. <\/p>\n

Although he\u2019s played the role of a highly-trained spy, he admitted he was not cut out for the real thing. <\/p>\n

\u201cEvery actor will say \u2018oh I do what the Navy SEALs do\u2019 and \u2018of course I could easily go to war and survive\u2019 \u2013 no you couldn\u2019t, they\u2019re a breed above everyone else.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Breaking into Hollywood isn\u2019t easy, and Luke Hemsworth has just shared the surprising detail that once saw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-937690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}