It’s become the biggest bromance in the nine realms.
Actors Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston — better known to millions of moviegoers as Thor and Loki in the “Thor” and “Avengers” films — have now portrayed battling brothers for three of the Marvel superhero movies. The latest, “Thor: The Dark World,” hits theaters Friday.
“We’ve known each other and played brothers for five years now and he feels like a real brother,” Hiddleston told the Daily News.
“Chris jokes that I’ve been adopted by the Hemsworth family,” which includes actor brothers Liam and Luke.
“I’m the runt of the litter or something,” said the 32-year-old Eton-educated Brit.
Since they’ve gone through three directors and 12 writers while making the films, Hiddleston and Hemsworth have become the go-to scholars on Marvel’s version of Norse mythology.
“Certainly we have this shorthand from this being the third film that we’ve shot together,” said Hemsworth.
“You don’t spend a chunk of your shooting time getting to know one another, you pick up where you left off and we’ve developed a friendship along the way,” the 30-year-old Aussie actor told the News.
Like Thor and Loki’s epics, the pair started out as rivals.
At 6-foot-2, Hiddleston is far from a runt — and the actor figured he had a good shot at nabbing the title role when he auditioned for 2011’s “Thor” — especially since he had worked with director Kenneth Branagh before.
After Hemsworth — an inch-and-a-half taller and with an uncanny resemblance to the hero first created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1962 — was cast, Hiddleston got the consolation prize, the role of the scheming Loki.
“We became very firm and fast friends when we first met,” Hiddleston said. “It had something to do with we were both similar age when we were cast, kicking around the business a while, and we recognized this massive opportunity.”
Hiddleston figured he’d be banished from Asgard once that movie wrapped. But Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige had schemes of his own for the villain of last year’s “Avengers.”
“I would say it was that fear of Thor fitting in with the more human heroes of the 'Avengers' that caused us to structure (the Marvel movies) the way we did,” he said. “Which is why Loki was the bad guy, so that Thor had some purpose.”
In “Thor: The Dark World,” the hammer-wielding superhero desperately needs his wayward brother’s help against a new evil, the dark elf Malekeith (played by Christopher Eccleston). Their scenes together play like a Hope and Crosby road comedy — with Hiddleston inspired by a 2011 road trip he took with a bickering Chris and Liam Hemsworth to an Anaheim, Calif., rodeo.
“I don’t know it was ever the plan to have Loki in this many films, but purely to do with everything Tom brought to the table,” Hemsworth said about his “brother from another mother.”
And with enemies like these, who needs friends?
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