As much as the Twilight series is an ode to abstinence, the cameras loved to linger on Taylor Lautner’s abs and Robert Pattinson’s cheekbones. So as the vampir-athon finally wraps up, who will replace Edward Cullen and Jacob Black in teenage girls’ affections and on their bedroom walls?
Step forward the aesthetically blessed Hemsworth brothers. Because 2013 is all about The Muscles from Melbourne (Chris) and his younger brother Liam.
Chris has already had such success with Thor and Snow White and the Huntsman that the world has forgotten he once played the ultimate bland boy, Kim Hyde, in Aussie soap Home and Away. But next year the 29-year-old will get a role that needs much more than his brawn, playing Formula 1 driver James Hunt in the biopic Rush. While Hunt the Shunt was perpetually papped with a cigarette in his mouth, a champagne bottle to his lips or a beautiful woman on his arm (often all three at once), Hemsworth — rather endearingly — is usually snapped with his baby daughter in his arms. After Rush, he will star in the second Thor film, The Dark World, followed by the brilliantly named Spielberg vehicle Robopocalypse.
His brother, meanwhile, 22-year-old fiancé of Miley Cyrus and a Neighbours graduate, will again fight for Katniss’s heart in the second Hunger Games film (seriously — how is she struggling to choose?), followed by Empire State with Emma Roberts and Paranoia with Harrison Ford. And don’t worry, there’s more Hemsworth magic to go around — older brother Luke once lit up the small screen in Neighbours.
From hammy soaps to the Hollywood superleague, the Hemsworths will be the blockbuster boys of 2013. And women across the world will give thanks.
