By India McCarty
Chris Hemsworth says leaving Hollywood was the “greatest decision” he and his wife made for their family.
“It was right around the time my boys were born, and it was just, we kind of were set up in LA and not enjoying it, you know? Like nothing was shooting there. We were filming kind of everywhere else,” he said during an episode of SMARTLESS.
Hemsworth added that he and wife Elsa Pataky didn’t enjoy “paparazzi and all the sort of the trappings” that came along with a life in Hollywood.
The couple ended up moving back to his native Australia onto a “big farm” with their children, daughter India, 13, and twin boys, Sasha and Tristan, 11.
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“You know, when you come back from work, you wanna go on a holiday? Like coming home for me is — it feels like a holiday. We have a big farm and horses and motorbikes and surf,” Hemsworth shared.
Pataky has also spoken about the couple’s decision to leave Los Angeles, saying, “When you’re in Los Angeles, work suffocates you. There, all the conversations, even the billboards you see on the street, have to do with the world of cinema and its industry. It can make you lose perspective.”
The family prefers the rural nature of their farm life in Australia, with Pataky telling PEOPLE, “It’s just being able to enjoy nature. When we go to a city, it’s hard for us as a family, because we live outside, basically. We are in contact with nature all the time.”
Hemsworth agreed, adding that living away from entertainment industry hubs can help him prioritize what’s really important.
“I can focus on the more important things. I can hang out with my kids, I can hang out with my wife, and we can go and have fun,” he said.
While Hemsworth might be a major movie star, to his kids, he’s just their dad.
“They don’t care. They don’t care at all,” he told PEOPLE while attending the premiere of his latest project, CRIME 101.
“I reckon when they first realized I was Thor, they thought it was really cool,” Hemsworth said, referring to his role in the Marvel universe. “And then they realized they couldn’t fly and they thought it was less cool.”
“Now they’re just like, ‘ah, Dad, whatever,’” he said, joking, “Teenagers.”
While many are drawn to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, Hemsworth and Pataky prefer a quiet life on their farm, spending time outside with their children.
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