--- title: Chris Hemsworth Wet T-Shirt on Jimmy Fallon: Video description: Hemsworth may have lost, but we all won. canonical: https://time.com/3667013/chris-hemsworth-jimmy-fallon-wet-t-shirt/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-14T15:49:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:56.928Z og:title: Watch Chris Hemsworth and Jimmy Fallon Essentially Have a Wet T-Shirt Contest og:description: Hemsworth may have lost, but we all won. og:url: https://time.com/3667013/chris-hemsworth-jimmy-fallon-wet-t-shirt/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2582976e29a80959/698779e0cd6848434609917c/hemsworth.png?branch=production&width=713&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 713 og:image:height: 401 og:image:alt: hemsworth og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Chris Hemsworth and Jimmy Fallon Essentially Have a Wet T-Shirt Contest twitter:description: Hemsworth may have lost, but we all won. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2582976e29a80959/698779e0cd6848434609917c/hemsworth.png?branch=production&width=713&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Chris Hemsworth and Jimmy Fallon Essentially Have a Wet T-Shirt Contest > Sponsored content. 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When the _Blackhat_ actor stopped by _The Tonight Show_, Fallon challenged him to a card game called “Water War” and Hemsworth didn’t even blink when Fallon explained the premise: “We’ll play the card game war, but if you lose the hand, you get a pint of water in the face. The first to throw five glasses of water on their opponent wins, and gets to water cannon the loser.” Hemsworth gamely went with it, playing cards and throwing water at Fallon’s face. But then Hemsworth’s luck went south (clearly, Loki is to blame) and he lost three hands in row and Fallon dumped an entire pint of water into his lap. At that point, Hemsworth accepted Fallon’s invitation to swap decks of cards. The result? Thor lost the next round, too. That’s when Fallon hosed him down with a water cannon resulting in a wet shirt contest that could double as a _Magic Mike_ _III_ audition tape. 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