Chris Hemsworth’s son proved that he took after his Hollywood action star dad in a recent video shared on Instagram.
Tristan Hemsworth, 10, whom Chris shares with his wife Elsa Pataky, was filmed practicing his boxing moves with none other than Saltburn’s Barry Keoghan, 32. In the clip shared on Chris’ Instagram stories, Tristan and Barry went head-to-head in the ring, with a coach on hand to keep things in check.
The unlikely contenders met in Los Angeles, in a gym owned by Australian pro boxer Johnny Fortune. Barry started most of the bout kneeling in the ring, bringing him more even to Tristan’s height. Sabrina Carpenter’s boyfriend looked sporty and casual, in black Adidas sweatpants and a white vest. As Barry kneeled down, Tristan quickly moved around him throwing jabs.
“If you’re beating up a guy who’s that size, he’s not good,” the coach joked, with Chris heard laughing behind the camera. Barry then stood up, and ran off screen when Tristan’s aim proved relentless.
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Instagram)Chris shared the video, and added: “Thanks @fortunegymboxing for keeping a watchful eye as my son went to work on @keoghan92,” along with a laughing emoji.
Barry reshared Chris’ post, and proved his sense of humour over the bout with a caption gushing over Tristan’s skills.
“This boy truly sits in his own league!! Inspiring!! Talented at feckin everythin!!” he wrote, along with praying hands and red heart emojis.
Alongside Tristan, Chris shares another daughter and son with Fast & Furious star Elsa. Their son, Sasha, is Tristan’s twin, while their daughter, India, 12, takes after her mum in both looks and their shared love of horse riding.
Barry has a son of his own, two-year-old Brando, whom he shares with his ex-girlfriend Alyson Kierans. Barry recently lashed out at fans for suggesting he was snubbing his son in favour of the Hollywood life, and leaving all parenting to London dentist Alyson.
Speaking to Louis Theroux on the latter’s podcast, Barry opened up about growing up in foster care and his mother's death from a drug addiction, and said that while he was shocked by accusations he wasn’t involved in his son’s life, he was ignoring hate from trolls.
"If I didn’t have tough skin or the strength to have, I wouldn’t be sitting here. Of course, (my childhood is) going to affect me being a father when I had no blueprint to take from. People just read that (as) laziness and go, ‘Oh, that’s no excuse to be an absent father’. I’m not an absent father,” he assured Louis.
The Dunkirk actor added that he was making a logical decision to keep his young son off his social media, adding that he was "just trying to make a living, trying to get a good body of work and create safety for my child.”
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