--- title: Watch the New 'SNL' Promo Reveal Chris Hemsworth's True Purpose on Earth description: And the actor has never seen 'Dirty Dancing' canonical: https://time.com/3731885/new-chris-hemsworth-snl-promo/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-04T18:01:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T04:54:33.177Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch the New 'SNL' Promo Reveal Chris Hemsworth's True Purpose on Earth og:description: And the actor has never seen 'Dirty Dancing' og:url: https://time.com/3731885/new-chris-hemsworth-snl-promo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the New 'SNL' Promo Reveal Chris Hemsworth's True Purpose on Earth twitter:description: And the actor has never seen 'Dirty Dancing' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch the New _SNL_ Promo Reveal Chris Hemsworth's True Purpose on Earth by [Esther Zuckerman / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Esther Zuckerman / Entertainment Weekly Mar 4, 2015 6:01 PM CUT by [Esther Zuckerman / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Esther Zuckerman / Entertainment Weekly Mar 4, 2015 6:01 PM CUT In the promos for this weekend’s _Saturday Night Live_, Kate McKinnon reveals Chris Hemsworth’s true purpose on Earth. Naturally, he is “a normal guy engineered in the future and sent back in time to save us,” according to McKinnon. What else do we learn about Chris Hemsworth in the promos? He’s never seen _Dirty Dancing_, he’s a weather god, and he thinks people are “wrong” if they say that Liam is the hot one. Hemsworth hosts _SNL_ March 7 with Zac Brown Band. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/04/chris-hemsworth-was-engineered-save-us-all-snl-promos "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com "undefined")_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3731885/new-chris-hemsworth-snl-promo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3731885/new-chris-hemsworth-snl-promo/"},"headline":"Watch the New SNL Promo Reveal Chris Hemsworth's True Purpose on Earth","datePublished":"2015-03-04T18:01:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:54:33.177Z","description":"And the actor has never seen 'Dirty Dancing'","url":"https://time.com/3731885/new-chris-hemsworth-snl-promo/","keywords":["Television","SNL","Saturday Night Live"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Esther Zuckerman / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3731885/new-chris-hemsworth-snl-promo/","name":"Watch the New SNL Promo Reveal Chris Hemsworth's True Purpose on Earth"}}]}] ```