Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky’s recent family travel plans didn’t go as smoothly as hoped.
Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar Arabia for a video shared via Instagram on Tuesday, June 2, Hemsworth, 42, and Pataky, 49, opened up about an airport mishap.
“I actually went to the airport once and I had my daughter’s passport instead of my son’s passport,” Hemsworth, who shares daughter India Rose, 14, and 12-year-old twin boys Sasha and Tristan with Pataky, said.
Pataky added, “He couldn’t fly.”
Attempting to salvage the situation, Hemsworth explained that he tried to convince security that the passport was the correct one so he could sneak his son on board without the required documents.
“They kind of look the same,” the Thor star joked as he recalled trying to convince airport authorities that one of his sons was pictured in the passport. Pataky chimed in, “They don’t.”
“I said, ‘This is her,’” the actor recalled, adding that the security agent remained unconvinced and responded, “That’s a boy.”
Hemsworth concluded, “So, yeah, that didn’t work.”
After starting a family with Pataky, whom he wed in 2010, the Home and Away alum has been candid about how fatherhood has changed his life.
Speaking to The Father Hood in 2019, Hemsworth said having kids made him think twice about the acting roles he takes on.
“It’s all about you before kids,” he told the outlet. “And then you have children and you still try to hang onto that, you say ‘I am who I am’. And then it goes out the window. A lot of my decisions now are based on how things are going to affect the family. What’s the location the film shoots in?”
He further explained, “If it’s some obscure, not so attractive place, do I want to drag the family there for four months? And then there’s the question of what the role’s going to do to me? Is it going to put my head in a space that’s pretty consuming? There are times [a role comes up] when I say, maybe not that one yet.”
Hemsworth has also emphasized the importance of making sure his kids get to enjoy their childhood before potentially following in the footsteps of their famous parents.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight in 2023 about his daughter India’s interest in acting after starring as Gorr’s daughter in the 2022 film, Thor: Love and Thunder, Hemsworth said he wanted her to delay her ambitions until she’s older.
“I want her to have a childhood, and I think so does she,” Hemsworth said. “There’s plenty of time, sweetie. Go to school, horse ride, have fun, be a kid.”
