{"id":452269,"date":"2026-02-06T09:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/452269\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:41:07","slug":"chris-hemsworth-worried-how-alzheimers-chances-would-affect-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/452269\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hemsworth Worried How Alzheimer&#8217;s Chances Would Affect Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/chris-hemsworth\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chris-hemsworth\" data-tag=\"chris-hemsworth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Hemsworth<\/a> lets fans into his family\u2019s struggle with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, he\u2019s curious how the mental <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/health\/\" id=\"auto-tag_health\" data-tag=\"health\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">health<\/a> revelation will impact his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe actor, who explored his father Craig\u2019s diagnosis in the documentary A Road Trip to Remember, admitted he\u2019s worried audiences are \u201cno longer going to believe\u201d him as the leading man he\u2019s long been, since revealing his genetic predisposition for the brain disorder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI wondered if I was letting people too far in,\u201d Hemsworth told <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/feb\/03\/chris-hemsworth-interview-crime-101-thor-marvel-alzheimers\">The Guardian<\/a>. \u201cAre they no longer going to believe in the action star or the Marvel character? And do I want people to know my fears and insecurities to this level?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn the 2025 Disney+ documentary, the MCU star took his father Craig on a road trip to spots from their past, in attempt to support memory function through social connection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHemsworth added, \u201cIt was so deeply personal. It was a love letter to my father. It empowered him for a period, and stimulated memories that were being taken away from him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Chris-Hemsworth.png\" alt=\"Chris Hemsworth (R) and his father Craig (L) in 'Chris Hemsworth: A Roadtrip to Remember'\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"577\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tChris Hemsworth (R) and his father Craig (L) in \u2018Chris Hemsworth: A Roadtrip to Remember\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNational Geographic<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPreviously, in his 2022 National Geographic docuseries Limitless, Hemsworth revealed his grandfather had Alzheimer\u2019s and he is therefore ten times as likely to develop the condition himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Chris Hemsworth lets fans into his family\u2019s struggle with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, he\u2019s curious how the mental health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[6053,236,48401,128799,88,97],"class_list":{"0":"post-452269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-alzheimers","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-chris-hemsworth","11":"tag-chris-hemsworth-a-road-trip-to-remember","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}