{"id":373162,"date":"2026-07-24T05:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=373162"},"modified":"2026-07-24T05:08:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:08:38","slug":"the-reacher-actor-is-very-clear-on-why-he-lost-the-chance-to-be-thor-it-certainly-wasnt-because-of-a-lack-of-muscles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-reacher-actor-is-very-clear-on-why-he-lost-the-chance-to-be-thor-it-certainly-wasnt-because-of-a-lack-of-muscles\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Reacher\u2019 actor is very clear on why he lost the chance to be Thor. It certainly wasn\u2019t because of a lack of muscles."},"content":{"rendered":"

Those of us who are older probably remember Tom Cruise<\/a>, still trying to clean up his image in action movies of every kind, stepping into the shoes of Jack Reacher for two films. Nobody ended up very happy because, basically, he was the complete opposite of the character from the novels, a hulking mass of muscle who looks intimidating at a glance. However, Alan Ritchson took over the role on Amazon Prime Video<\/a>, and you can’t fault the result: 3 seasons and counting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Punching his way through life<\/h2>\n\n

Now the actor has said that he almost got a role that would have changed his life: Thor in the Marvel movies. However, his audition didn\u2019t go as he expected and Chris Hemsworth ended up, as we know, getting the role. \u201cIt was worse than a \u2018Is that it?\u2019 moment because I got terrible feedback\u201d<\/strong><\/em>. Actors\u2019 worst enemy: having their ego beaten down with hammer blows.<\/p>\n\n

At least, as he remembers it, they didn\u2019t tear him apart: \u201cIt was constructive in the sense that the casting director thought it was a sure thing if I simply \u2018knew what I was doing,\u2019 as he told me. I wasn\u2019t prepared that day. It\u2019s not going to happen again, and sometimes we need that<\/strong>\u201c<\/em>. Sadness and life lesson, two in one.<\/p>\n\n

Ritchson, now a media star, puts it plainly: \u201cAre you going to trip over your ego? I could have said anything, but I thought \u2018I\u2019m not going to let that happen again\u2019. I stepped away from the business to learn how to act and I\u2019m better, and my work is better.<\/strong> I\u2019m grateful for that hard day\u201d<\/em>. So much so that now he may get another shot: he\u2019s one of the names most often mentioned to play Batman, and he has confirmed that he and James Gunn talk quite a bit. Holy bat-muscles! Could it be true?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those of us who are older probably remember Tom Cruise, still trying to clean up his image in action movies of every kind, stepping into the shoes of Jack Reacher for two films. Nobody ended up very happy because, basically, he was the complete opposite of the character from the novels, a hulking mass of … Continue reading “The \u2018Reacher\u2019 actor is very clear on why he lost the chance to be Thor. It certainly wasn\u2019t because of a lack of muscles.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9263,"featured_media":373161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-373162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373163,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373162\/revisions\/373163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373162"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=373162"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=373162"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=373162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}