{"id":444571,"date":"2026-02-25T10:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/444571\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:01:11","slug":"chris-hemsworth-says-leaving-the-us-to-return-to-australia-was-the-greatest-decision-hes-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/444571\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hemsworth says leaving the US to return to Australia was the \u2018greatest decision\u2019 he\u2019s made"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chris Hemsworth<\/a> has no regrets about leaving Los Angeles to return to his Australian hometown with his family.<\/p>\n

During Monday\u2019s episode of the Smartless podcast, the Avengers star<\/a> said that making the move across the globe was the \u201cgreatest decision\u201d he\u2019s made, reflecting on the downsides that came from living in the city of angels. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt 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?\u201d he said, referring to his twin boys, Sasha and Tristan, 11, whom he shares with his wife, Elsa Pataky<\/a>. The couple also shares a daughter named India Rose, 13. \u201cLike nothing was shooting there. We were filming kind of everywhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cAnd then\u2026 you\u2019d come home and paparazzi and all the sort of the trappings of, you know, living in that space.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hemsworth and Spanish model Pataky moved their family onto a \u201cbig farm\u201d in Australia. The Thor actor explained how different his current situation feels, especially with his children having more opportunities to be outside and in nature. <\/p>\n

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Chris Hemsworth explained that he chose to leave Los Angeles for Australia because he was seldom actually filming in the city (Getty)\"Hemsworth<\/p>\n

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Hemsworth and his wife, Elsa Pataky, now live on a \u2018big farm\u2019 in Australia with their twin boys, Sasha and Tristan (pictured), 11, and daughter India Rose, 13 (Getty)<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, when you come back from work, you wanna go on a holiday? Like coming home for me is \u2014 it feels like a holiday. We have a big farm and horses and motorbikes and surf,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

In 2014, the family moved to Byron Bay on the northern New South Wales coast. They originally purchased a $7 million estate, which was reconstructed into a mansion consisting of six bedrooms, a media room, gym, spa and game room. <\/p>\n

Hemsworth\u2019s two brothers, Liam and Luke Hemsworth, have also both purchased homes in Australia, which has only brought more attention to the region. <\/p>\n

The Crime 101 actor went on to note the similarities with his own upbringing alongside his brothers, explaining that the games they played outdoors first ignited his passion for acting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe lived about 20 minutes from, like, the main sort of suburban areas in Melbourne up in the hills,\u201d Hemsworth said. \u201cAnd the nearest neighbor was a kilometer or two away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just all bushland and rainforest sort of set up around us,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd so we would just [have] \u2026 adventures outdoors and playing different characters. And I think that\u2019s, to be honest, where the sort of intrigue or interest in that transportation into another.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hemsworth is one of the many actors who have opened up about leaving Los Angeles. Last month, Joe Manganiello and his fianc\u00e9e, Caitlin O\u2019Connor, spoke to Fox News Digital about why they made the move from the Golden State to Pennsylvania<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe crime in Los Angeles is at an all-time high,\u201d O\u2019Connor said. \u201cWe were thinking about it for a long time, and the right house happened to come up. We went to look at it in Pittsburgh, and it was perfect for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, L.A. is no longer the entertainment capital of the world,\u201d she continued, noting to the publication that auditions no longer take place in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the most part, everything is on Zoom. A lot of premieres happen in New York. There are studios being built in New Jersey, and things are moving overseas. Many projects are being filmed overseas, even by professionals who have worked in L.A. on set their whole lives. The industry has moved. It\u2019s no longer there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-444571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}