Chris Hemsworth thinks his career could be "killing" him after getting into acting to help his parents. / (min cost $ 0 ) or signup to continue reading The 40-year-old actor has opened up on how he pursued a career on the big screen after seeing his mother and father struggled with money when he was younger, and he wanted to help them get "out of debt". Speaking in new Disney+ docuseries 'Limitless', he explained: "If I'm totally honest, I did acting to get my parents out of debt.
"It could be killing me. When I first started acting, my parents had very little money. "Talking to my dad about when he's going to be able to pay the bank off and him saying, 'Never, we'll die having to pay it off', that really bothered me from a young age.
" He still suffers from "stress" and "anxiety" to this day when he finds himself taking on "too many projects" due to that same mentality. He added: "What gives me huge anxiety and evokes stress is when I'm trying to take care of too many things, too many projects. "I still have these thoughts of like, it's all going to go away if I don't say yes to these things.
"I can still feel stress eating away at me, and I don't want it to rule my life." The Thor star has discovered through testing on his Limitless docuseries that his chances of developing the degenerative condition are eight to 10 times higher than average because he has two copies of the APOE4 gene. He is taking steps to look after the health of his brain with his grandfather Martin dying.