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Chris Hemsworth is struggling with his body image—which is to say, his body has an amazing image, and he's kinda struggling with that. "It's helped me get a job, sure," he says, folding his gigantic Australian arms behind his head as if he might do a few stomach crunches. "But you hope it's not the only thing that helped." Hemsworth has good reason to worry. This summer he's appeared hyperbuff and sweat-slicked in The Avengers (reprising his role as Thor) and in Snow White and the Huntsman. To nail his Huntsman character—"a lost soul and a drunk"—he went quasi-Method, spinning around in circles before shooting his boozing scenes. That's when he discovered how much he likes a good twirl. "It really shakes everything up, and you feel a bit more alive," he says. "I actually started spinning in circles before the scenes where I didn't need to be drunk." He's witnessed stranger rituals: "I worked with a guy once who would chant, I'm beautiful and I have a secret, I'm beautiful and I have a secret." Please let it have been Mark Ruffalo.

T-shirt, $25 by A|X Armani Exchange. Khakis (throughout), $595 by Giorgio Armani. Sneakers, $50 by Converse. Bracelet by Miansai by Michael Saiger.