Most of the time, Disney+ is synonymous with family programming. We can already find season 3 of the hit series there HPIor even the latest live-action Disney adaptation with Peter Pan & Wendy, which was not unanimous. But one of the strengths of the platform is also its rich catalog of Marvel fiction, including the latest series centered on the character of Nick Fury, Secret Invasion. And among the big faces of the Marvel franchise, it’s impossible to ignore that of Chris Hemsworth, aka Thor. But apparently, the Australian actor has more than one string to his bow since he regularly collaborates with National Geographic. In 2022, he was already setting out to discover the planet in Without limits where, over the course of six episodes, he met scientists who helped him test his limits and those of the human body. In July, on the occasion of Shark Week, National Geographic’s historic week dedicated to programs on different species of sharks, Chris Hemsworth put on his explorer’s jersey to unravel the mysteries surrounding these large animals, both feared and admired.
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Jaws : when Chris Hemsworth meets the woman who inspired the film
While sharks suffer the contradiction of being both species threatened by humans and global warming, while being the source of the frightening myth of the big bad shark that attacks, they give rise to an ocean of mystery that has always fascinated . Commissioned by National Geographic, in this short documentary, Chris Hemsworth returns to his native Australian land and navigates its Oceanic waters to understand how it is possible to live in harmony with the different species that live on the continent. Although he is much better an actor than a documentarian, Chris Hemsworth still meets numerous specialists and even makes a first observation alongside Mick Fanning, three-time world surfing champion, attacked in the middle of an event in 2015, whose images have goes around the world. If the actor also goes to meet scientists whose methods are quite questionable, a fascinating intervention still sheds light on the subject. That of Valerie Taylor, an ecologist specializing in the study of sharks, with whom Chris Hemsworth even had a diving session.
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Who is Valerie Taylor, to whom we owe Jaws ?
Valerie Taylor has dedicated her life to the study of sharks. The now 87-year-old is considered one of the world’s most important documentarians and photographers of these species, similar to Jane Goodall with primates. She and her husband, Ron, were the first to film great white sharks without the protection of a cage, in 1967. With the physique of a model and excessive courage, the scientist fascinates and is even one of the inspirations of Peter Benchley when he wrote the novel Jaws. In the process, Valerie and Ron filmed a documentary entitled Blue Water, White Death (Eau Bleue, Mort Blanche) who eventually convinced Steven Spielberg to hire them to shoot the shark scenes for Sea teeth. The circle is complete !
