Chris Hemsworth Recalls Experiencing Every Airport Dad’s Worst Nightmare When Traveling with His Kids

Becca LongmireWed, June 3, 2026 at 9:35 AM UTC

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Chris Hemsworth spoke about a huge mistake he previously made as an airport dad during a recent interview with Harper's Bazaar Arabia

“I actually went to the airport once, and I had my daughter's passport instead of my son's passport," he told the outlet, while speaking alongside his wife Elsa Pataky

The Marvel star quipped, "That didn't work," so he couldn't fly

Chris Hemsworth once made a classic airport mistake.

While speaking to Harper's Bazaar Arabia in an interview shared on Instagram on Tuesday, June 2, Hemsworth, 42, was asked multiple vacation-related rapid-fire questions alongside his wife Elsa Pataky, 49.

When asked who was most likely to forget their passports, the couple both pointed at one another, before the Thor actor admitted, “I actually went to the airport once, and I had my daughter's passport instead of my son's passport.”

“They kind of look the same,” he added, before model and actress Pataky insisted, “They don't.”

Hemsworth said he'd told airport staff, “This is her,” but they automatically realized his mistake.

“They were like, ‘That's a boy',” the Extraction star recalled, admitting, “So, that didn't work.”

Hemsworth and Pataky, who tied the knot in 2010, share three children together: daughter India Rose, 14, and twin sons Sasha and Tristan, 12.

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The couple opened up about the secret to their years-long romance while speaking to PEOPLE back in February.

Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky with their kids
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"There's an honesty, the north star of truth, that you're going to get with Elsa. I can show something to a bunch of other people, and they might be like, ‘Oh, great work,' but Elsa will tell me if it sucks," Hemsworth said.

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"I'll tell him, 'That's actually not funny. It doesn't work,' " Pataky added at the time.

This honesty, which Hemsworth described as a "critical sort of assessment," is key, because his wife "knows who I am, and we know what each other can do."

Hemsworth added, "Elsa's honesty is my barometer for whether something works. I take that with the films I do, the commercials, whatever. It's like everyone else can tell me one thing, but I know that I'm going to get the absolute truth from her."

"And it's sometimes dressed up in gentleness from time to time, so that it doesn't shatter my soul, which I appreciate," the star quipped.

Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky
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Hemsworth and Pataky first met in 2010, and they wed that same year in Australia over Christmas.

While the couple is in the spotlight for their respective careers, they have been candid about wanting to give their kids a normal upbringing.

"I want them to have a great appreciation for everything," the Marvel actor previously told PEOPLE back in 2017. "I grew up with very little money, but my parents were my absolute heroes. They were respectful, kind human beings and operated in a way that was constantly inspiring and nurturing and kind."

And Hemsworth hopes to instill those same values in his kids.

“As a kid, we had very little money, and my parents saved up all year to just pay for a two-week camping vacation,” he said at the time.

"Financially, we're in a different position, but I want to make sure they know these things don't come easy. You have to work for it, and you can't take it for granted. Success is more about the values we have and the type of people we are, rather than the material objects that we might obtain,” the actor continued.

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