Natalie Portman says Chris Hemsworth would hide behind a tree at school pick-up to avoid being recognised

On a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Natalie Portman revealed that her Thor: Love and Thunder co-star would stand out while picking his kids up from school.

The actress said that her husband, Benjamin Millepied, 45, and their two kids, son Aleph (11) and daughter Amalia (5), stayed with him in Australia while she filmed the fourth Thor film and her children attended the same school as Chris Hemsworth kids.

Thirty-eight-year-old Chris has three children with his forty-five-year-old wife Elsa Pataky: 10-year-old daughter India and eight-year-old twin sons Tristan and Sasha.

“It was really cool and it was nice for them to have other kids who were new,” Natalie, 41, told guest host Sean Hayes.

Natalie went on to explain that due to Chris Hemsworth‘s popularity in his home country and his physical size – Chris is 1.9m tall – he was always recognised.

“One day, we ended up at school pick-up at the same time and I just felt so bad for him,” she said, “because I’m small and can kind of camouflage with the mums. And then he comes in, he’s like a Greek god walking through.”

“He’s really famous everywhere but especially in Australia, he’s so, so well-known,” continued Natalie.

“So to see him kind of by the tree, hiding… it felt like some weird sitcom of the superheroes at school pick-up.”

In a recent interview with Extra, Christ said his dad superpower was being “fun”.

“I think I’m creative. They’re all very active kids with big, vivid imaginations and so am I,” he said. “We get outside and explore and play whatever we want. It’s what it’s about.”

He also mentioned that the kids love playing with the iconic Thor hammer at home. “It kind of varies in its location from the toy box to the mantlepiece,” he said. “It quickly gets taken off there and ends up in the bathroom.”

Chris also spoke to The Fatherhood about the importance of being present for his kids.

“It’s so easy to be distracted. I feel like when you look around these days every second person’s got their head in their phone. Your own kids are saying: ‘Dad look at this’, and you’re like ‘Yeah, that’s cool’,” he says, pretending to wave his with his kid away with his head bent over an imaginary phone.

“I’m guilty of it too at times, but lately I’m making a real effort to just put the thing away. We turn around and complain all the time that they don’t sit still, but what kind of example are we setting? We’re all guinea pigs in the generation of the iPhone and I think we’ve all got to start paying attention to what the ripple effect is.

“Now, I choose an hour or two of the day where I need to look at it, but not be 24 hours a day on call and just be with them. Because you think they’re not paying attention but they do, you have a close look – they look up and they say, oh you’re busy again, it must be work. And that breaks my heart.

“My dream would be for them to talk about me as a parent one day and say that he was always there, he played with us, he was present, he listened, he paid attention.”