GLOBAL SUPERSTAR CHRIS HEMSWORTH PERFORMED THE DRUMS FOR THE FIRST TIME LIVE WITH GRAMMY AWARD WINNER ED SHEERAN IN FRONT OF AN ESTIMATED 70,000 FANS IN ROMANIA
25 August 2024 - 8:07AM
Business Wire
The Show-Stopping Surprise Performance Was
Filmed Tonight for the Upcoming Second Season of National
Geographic’s Disney+ Original Series LIMITLESS WITH CHRIS
HEMSWORTH
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Global superstar Chris Hemsworth joins
his friend, GRAMMY Award®-winning singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran,
performing the song “Thinking Out Loud” in front of approximately
70,000 fans in Bucharest, Romania on August 24, 2024. This
brain-boosting challenge was filmed for the second season of the
Disney+ Original series from National Geographic LIMITLESS WITH
CHRIS HEMSWORTH, coming 2025. (Photo: National Geographic/Evan
Paterakis)
WHO / WHAT: Learning to play
the drums from scratch, tonight Chris Hemsworth joined his friend,
GRAMMY Award®-winning singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, to perform the
song “Thinking Out Loud” for the first time in front of
approximately 70,000 fans in Bucharest, Romania. The brain-boosting
challenge was filmed for the second season of the Disney+ Original
series from National Geographic LIMITLESS WITH CHRIS
HEMSWORTH, coming 2025.
WHY: Throughout the new
season of LIMITLESS, Chris physically and mentally delves
into a series of universal issues that people across the world face
daily: pain, fear, cognitive impairment and social connection.
Guided by world-renowned experts, mentors and spiritual leaders, he
will travel to the ends of the Earth to uncover the latest
scientific thinking and unlock some of the world’s best-kept
secrets to living a better life.
For the second season of LIMITLESS, Tom Watt-Smith and
Jane Root serve as executive producers and Arif Nurmohamed serves
as co-executive producer for Nutopia. Creators Darren Aronofsky and
Ari Handel of Protozoa Pictures return to executive produce, and
Chris Hemsworth, Ben Grayson and Brandon Hill are executive
producers for Wild State. For National Geographic, Bengt Anderson
and Simon Raikes are executive producers, and Tom McDonald is
executive vice president of Global Factual and Unscripted Content.
The first season of LIMITLESS is now streaming on
Disney+.
WHEN: Aug. 24, 2024
WHERE: The National Arena in
Bucharest, Romania during Ed Sheeran’s latest worldwide tour, the
+–=÷x tour.
MANDATORY TUNE-IN: The
second season of the Disney+ Original series LIMITLESS WITH
CHRIS HEMSWORTH, from National Geographic, will premiere in
2025.
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