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How do you release an action movie during a pandemic? The makers of Netflix's 'Extraction' find out

In an alternate universe, Chris Hemsworth would be in the middle of a far-flung publicity tour right now in support of the release of his new Netflix action film "Extraction," which is available for streaming Friday. Instead, on a recent afternoon, he found himself doing an interview over Zoom from his home in Australia, where he is in lockdown with his wife and three children, trying to find the silver lining in the situation.

"A week before we were about to leave, it was like, 'Maybe, maybe, maybe' - then all of the sudden it was like, 'No, we're not going anywhere,'" said the 36-year-old Hemsworth, who is no stranger to globe-trotting PR tours, having starred as the hammer-wielding superhero Thor in a series of Marvel Studios blockbusters. "But I wonder if we'll continue doing things this way in the future, because everyone gets to just do it from the comfort of their

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