Apparently, if Chris Pratt had tried to pull that off, it might have worked.
Chris Hemsworth was asked about a man he felt intimidated by after discussing the experience of working with an equally intimidating woman.
It seems to have worked on Hemsworth.
Hemsworth co-stars with Cate Blanchett in Thor: Ragnarok and it sounds like he tried to impress her on set and play the part of the ‘leading man,” a facade which Blanchett apparently saw through immediately, and one that she gave him shit for.