Chris Hemsworth Considered Hot Even by Inmates in an All-Male Prison? [Details]

It surprised actor Chris Hemsworth that his fame as Norse God Thor precedes him. In a report from Us Weekly, Chris shared with ">Graham Norton on his show on Friday, December 4, that he got hit on quite a lot in prison.

Before you scour pages and pages of internet information, don't worry: the Aussie hunk did not get into any trouble. He did, however, learn that research comes with a price.

He told the TV host, "I was researching a film and we had to basically go in and research what the inside of a prison looked like and speak with prisoners who wanted to talk to us."

He thought that nobody would be able to recognize him, sharing with Graham that he honestly thought that would be the case. "No, they don't get 'Thor' in here, they're not going to watch movies. I don't know, I'd never been to prison. So, I assumed that," he said.

Unfortunately, as The Huffington Post noted, even inmates watch superhero films, and recognized him soon as he took off his hat to reveal his luscious "Thor" locks. He continued, "The moment I started walking through the cells ... I just started getting heckled. It's like...'Thor's here, man. ...Thor! Thor! Where's your hammer man?' And I'm trying to blend in and 'research,' and I'm just getting heckled left and right."

Some inmates actually hit on him, too. He recalled one of the prisoners heckling, "'Yo, come spend some time in my cell, baby!'"

While getting heckled in a prison is not exactly a picnic, this is not the first time that the actor dived deep for a role. For "In the Heart of the Sea," he admitted that he consumed as few as 500 calories a day to prepare for his role as a sailor on the verge of starvation.

For the film based on the real-life attack that inspired "Moby Dick," Chris had to go from 215 to 175 pounds, and by the end, he didn't look much like the great "Thor." He shared with The New York Daily News his experience, saying "This was physically and emotionally the hardest movie that I've been a part of. Losing the weight to this length, I just never want to do it again, but it had such an emotional effect on us ... in some small way, we felt like we were doing what these men went through justice."

"In the Heart of the Sea" will open in theaters on December 11.