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"Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" star Chris Hemsworth speech at his Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiling ceremony at 6819 Hollywood Boulevard in front of Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, USA, on Thursday, May 23, 2024. This video is available for editorial use in all media and worldwide. To ensure compliance and proper licensing of this video, please contact us. ©MaximoTV
"Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" star Chris Hemsworth speech at his Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiling ceremony at 6819 Hollywood Boulevard in front of Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, USA, on Thursday, May 23, 2024. This video is available for editorial use in all media and worldwide. To ensure compliance and proper licensing of this video, please contact us. ©MaximoTV
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00:00 [ Applause ]
00:02 >> The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has proudly been
00:05 hosting the Walk of Fame for more than 60 years for millions
00:10 of people around the world.
00:11 And it is my pleasure to welcome you
00:14 to the Star Ceremony for Chris Hemsworth.
00:18 [ Applause ]
00:23 I'd now like to introduce Walk of Famer and Hall of Famer,
00:28 I Heart Radio music personality, Ellen Kay.
00:33 She will be our MC.
00:35 [ Applause ]
00:41 >> All right, this is the best, loudest,
00:42 rowdiest crowd we've ever had for Chris Hemsworth.
00:46 [ Applause ]
00:47 And you saw Elsa Pataky and Robert Downey Jr.
00:53 [ Applause ]
00:57 Now, the Hollywood Walk of Fame recognizes achievement
00:59 in the categories of motion pictures, radio, live theater,
01:03 live performance, sports entertainment,
01:05 recording and television.
01:07 And today, in the category of motion pictures,
01:09 we honor Chris Hemsworth with star number 2,781
01:14 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
01:16 And you are here to witness it.
01:18 >> On behalf of the City of Los Angeles
01:21 and our council member, Hugo Soto-Martinez,
01:24 who represents this area, we'd like to present you
01:27 with a plaque from the city.
01:30 [ Applause ]
01:48 On behalf of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce,
01:52 I now declare today Chris Hemsworth Day in Hollywood.
01:58 [ Applause ]
02:01 Take it away, Chris.
02:02 >> Thank you, mate.
02:04 Thank you very much.
02:06 Thank you.
02:07 Firstly, thank you, George and Robert,
02:11 two icons of the industry, two of my heroes.
02:15 Having not just been able to meet them in person,
02:20 but to spend time with them, to work with them,
02:22 was an absolute honor.
02:23 And I learned so much from both of you,
02:25 the sense of humility and encouragement
02:28 they both gave me.
02:30 What I learned about discipline and respect
02:34 and enjoying yourself on the set and including everyone
02:37 who's part of the process
02:38 and understanding that it's a team effort,
02:40 that's something I'll never forget.
02:42 And I'm eternally grateful, guys.
02:45 Thank you so much.
02:46 [ Applause ]
02:49 >> Thank you very much to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
02:51 and the Walk of Fame Selection Committee for this honor.
02:54 This is-- it did the dream come true.
02:57 It's kind of amazing and hard to articulate.
03:01 To Warner Brothers, Pam Abbey, Mike DeLuca, Josh Goldstein,
03:04 the entire Warner Brothers publicity and marketing team,
03:08 we've just been on the Furiosa press tour
03:10 for the last three weeks, and it's been incredible.
03:12 And again, George speaks to this a lot, but the team effort,
03:16 the collective spirit that's involved is second to none,
03:20 and I'm honored to be a part of the group and the team
03:23 at Warner Brothers.
03:24 And yeah, thank you.
03:26 And the Furiosa team, Anya Taylor-Joy,
03:30 obviously George Miller, Doug Mitchell,
03:33 the entire cast and crew who made that film.
03:35 It was an incredible experience.
03:36 So thank you, guys, and thanks for being here today.
03:39 [ Applause ]
03:43 I, like many actors, on my way to an audition
03:47 would drive through this section here in Hollywood Boulevard
03:50 and see the billboards of films that I wished I was a part of
03:54 or films that were inspiring me, the stars on the sidewalk here,
03:58 and sort of ask myself or wonder, wow, you know,
04:01 one day or what if or what would that be like
04:04 and what would that represent?
04:06 How would I feel when that happened if ever I was
04:10 to make it anywhere close to it?
04:13 And again, it's kind of a dream state sort of quality to it.
04:18 I feel like I'm about to wake up in some way,
04:22 and this is not real.
04:23 It's all something I've imagined.
04:26 But to be here in reality, I feel a wonderful,
04:30 profound sense of gratitude.
04:32 That's a feeling I keep coming back to because I'm well aware
04:36 of the many, many people that have been involved
04:38 in this journey, the many, many people, my family, my friends,
04:43 my team, who have encouraged me, have kept me passionate,
04:49 kept me on the right track, picked me up when I fell,
04:53 but been there as people of support
04:56 and that support network.
04:57 And I share this with all of them, from Kevin Feige
05:01 and the team at Marvel who really sort
05:03 of launched my career.
05:05 I am indebted to you guys and you, Kevin,
05:10 forever as the cinema audience that has been encapsulated
05:15 by the films you've presented, all of them.
05:17 And so to be a part of that is a dream.
05:20 I have my agent, Brian Lord, my publicist, Robin Baum,
05:24 my entire team at CIA, my lawyers, all my family,
05:29 friends, you know, a lot of these guys here.
05:31 I slept on various couches.
05:35 I borrowed money from, I still owe money to a few of them.
05:39 Guys I went to school with that I'm still working with,
05:42 Luke Zocchi, Aaron Grist, Luca Mateo, Evan.
05:48 You know, one of my oldest friends, Josh McDonald,
05:54 who's here today, who I, when I was, probably,
05:58 we went to primary school together.
05:59 And when we were six years old, right up until when we were,
06:03 the end of high school, 18, we would be reciting movies
06:06 and lines from movies and doing it just for the pure passion
06:11 and joy of it and not knowing or thinking I was going
06:14 to be an actor one day, but just because we love storytelling.
06:17 We love to be a part of that process
06:18 and we'd have little tape recorders
06:20 and we'd play the background music
06:22 and soundtracks to different things.
06:24 And just this morning, Josh was in my room and quoting movies
06:28 and going, "Do you know this one?
06:29 Do you know this one?"
06:31 And so to be here now and to have this dream be reality,
06:35 to be a much larger kid than I was then,
06:38 but still be doing the same thing, which is living
06:41 out my passion and my dream, is, again, hard to put into words.
06:47 It has a very surreal quality to it.
06:50 But again, I'm beyond grateful for it.
06:54 I think a lot of the reason that I believed
06:58 in myself doing this was the belief that my friends
07:01 and family had for me and specifically my parents
07:05 who raised me with the belief
07:09 that if you choose something you're passionate about,
07:12 if you lean to that thing that you love with your heart
07:15 and soul, then the purpose and the meaning is laid out in front
07:19 of you and to give things value by committing to it.
07:23 And we don't say rising into love, we say falling into love.
07:26 So fall into it.
07:27 There's a leap of faith that occurs and there's a risk
07:30 in that, but if you have people around you to catch you
07:33 and support you, then it's a far easier risk to take.
07:36 And I'm so thankful for my parents' encouragement along
07:40 the way and the confidence they gave myself and my brothers
07:46 to pursue something that we were passionate about
07:50 that ignited curiosity and creativity and just
07:55 to keep your head down and keep pushing forward.
07:57 So thank you guys.
07:58 I want to say thank you to my beautiful wife who has been here
08:03 for my entire career basically by my side,
08:07 endlessly encouraging and supportive
08:10 and it doesn't get lost upon me that she put aside her own dreams
08:15 in order to support mine and again forever in your debt
08:22 and the fact that nothing that I do, any of these moments,
08:26 these special occasions, all these events,
08:28 none of it's as special without you by my side.
08:31 [ Applause ]
08:33 And I love you.
08:36 And then my kids who-- my kids are endlessly inspiring
08:40 for so many reasons.
08:42 They're an abundance of joy and passion.
08:47 They inspire me to increase my VO2 max and my strength
08:50 and conditioning just to wrangle them and keep up with them.
08:54 But their ability to live in the moment and to dive
08:58 into life head first and to have fun and be joyous
09:02 and playful is a constant reminder that that's what life's
09:06 about and it's a constant inspiration.
09:08 So I love you guys.
09:10 And lastly, to the fans, to the audience, to you guys who show up
09:18 and buy the tickets and allow all of us in this space
09:23 to continue to live out this crazy dream
09:25 and you've made it a reality.
09:27 Again, I wouldn't be here without you all.
09:30 I love you so much.
09:32 Thank you for the support.
09:35 Love you all.
09:36 Cheers.
09:37 [ Applause ]
09:49 (applause)
09:51 (air whooshing)