However, it was his embodiment of the Norse God Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) that catapulted him to fame. Chris Hemsworth loved ditching the CGI world of Marvel for the gritty action 'oner' in Extraction 2. We will see Hemsworth’s Tyler Rake gracing the screen for a suicide rescue mission again but not anytime soon as the script is in development and the movie is yet to enter the pre-production phase.

So, at home these past months, with Hollywood more than 7,000 miles away, that’s what Hemsworth has been doing. Continually tapping into the inner child within myself that loved playing dress-up in the back yard with his brothers… I didn’t want to sit behind a desk and do the same thing every day, and punch in, punch out. Since November he has been parked up at home, alternating between surfing, taking his kids to school, and taking his kids surfing, until he just couldn’t surf any more and had to sit quietly with his thoughts.

But the pay wasn’t great, “only about five, six bucks an hour,” he says, and he could never afford a board of his own. He saw Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – “really cool” – but hasn’t seen Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Something he wants to do, that he is really trying his best to do, is live his life as if everything were for the last time. Growing up, the Hemsworth brothers spent many afternoons at their grandparents’ house while their parents worked. I like doing this thing,” he says, gesturing between us, “where it’s an actual conversation with someone.

Hemsworth learned that he has two copies of the gene ApoE4, one from his mother and one from his father, making him between eight and 10 times more likely to develop the disease than those without both copies of the gene.

On the way, Cox asks us to text through some ideas so that his airbrush artist can prepare the paints. Teaming up with Haddish’s character, a unique lone wolf with her methods, they form an improbable partnership to crack the case of their lifetimes. For three years – and over 100 episodes of the Australian soap opera Home and Away, where Hemsworth cut his teeth as an actor and which was filmed just a few beaches away – it was his entire world. Extraction 2 is due to land on Netflix on June 16, and the first trailer for the Chris Hemsworth movie is available. While he was able to save the boy, the ending seemed to be the end of Rake's life, though a trailer from last year's TUDUM event made it clear that he was going to fight another day in the sequel.

Netflix's Chief Action Officer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has some advice for Extraction 2 star Chris Hemsworth.

It’s always hard being in the centre of it and having any real perspective… I love the process, it’s always a ride.