Time & Perspective Quote by Liam Hemsworth

Hemsworth lands a tiny, perfect culture-clash joke by treating a squirrel like a celebrity cameo. The opening question, "How comedic are squirrels?", isn’t really about rodents; it’s about the way Americans (and American media) romanticize the ordinary. In the U.S., squirrels are background noise. In Australia, they’re absent enough to become mythic. That gap lets him frame a common animal as inherently funny, like it arrives pre-packaged with cartoon timing.

The second line does the real work: "We don't have squirrels in Australia". It’s a quick credentialing move that establishes him as the outsider, which gives permission to be amazed by something locals overlook. The humor comes from scale: he’s an A-list actor, but his most memorable first encounter with a squirrel is delivered with the gravity of a life event.

Then he spikes it with "at a meeting at Disney", a setting that’s almost too on-brand. Disney is the global factory for turning animals into personalities, sidekicks, and marketable quirks. So of course the first squirrel appears there - not in a park, not on a street, but in the headquarters of anthropomorphism. The subtext is sly: Hollywood’s ecosystem is so mediated that even wildlife feels like part of the pitch deck.

It also reads as a soft self-mock. Hemsworth is acknowledging the absurdity of his own context - meetings at Disney - while keeping the tone light. The charm is that he never asks you to admire his celebrity; he invites you to laugh at how it warps basic experiences, down to the moment a squirrel becomes a punchline.