Chris Hemsworth became 'bored' with his roles

"I felt stuck in what I had been doing," the Australian actor told Sunday Times Culture magazine.

"I'd run out of things to say creatively and Furiosa reinvigorated the artistic energy that was dormant.

"I felt spent at the end of a day, rather than ... It's a departure. I was bored of myself, yeah."

Chris Hemsworth stars in director George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. (AP PHOTO)

Hemsworth said while he was grateful for the opportunities he had been given, "it all started to feel familiar".

"I'd done film upon film that fell into a similar space and I wasn't stretching myself," he said.

"If you play a character again and again you owe it to the audience to bring something new and make it fresh for yourself too.

"We did so with Thor: Ragnarok but for Love and Thunder, for me, it got a bit jokey - too improv."

Hemsworth admitted he has felt "pigeonholed" by playing Thor.

"If I ever went back to (Thor) I'd wonder how we could change it again," he said.

"But there is a superhero curse in the sense you get pigeonholed, and I've felt a little hamstrung with what I could do, so desperately wanted something to scare the s*** out of me.

"And Furiosa did."

Hemsworth admitted comments by directors Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola against Marvel blockbusters "bothered" him.

"It felt harsh and it bothers me, especially from heroes," he said.

"It was an eye-roll for me, people bashing the superhero space.

"Those guys had films that didn't work too - we all have.

"When they talked about what was wrong with superheroes, I thought, cool, tell that to the billions who watch them."

Hemsworth said superheroes had not changed cinema-going - smartphones and social media had.

"Superhero films actually kept people in the cinemas during that transition and now people are coming back, so they deserve a little more appreciation," he said.