Ben Gordon, drummer of PARKWAY DRIVE, spoke to Australia’s “Today” about how he trained actor Chris Hemsworth to play drums in preparation for playing live on stage with Ed Sheeran, as captured in the upcoming docuseries “Limitless: Live Better Now”. The follow-up to Hemsworth‘s hit docuseries “Limitless” is set to premiere on August 15 on Disney+ and Hulu, and will also be available on National Geographic starting August 25.

Regarding how he ended up teaching Hemsworth to play drums, Gordon told “Today”:  ”Yeah, it was good fun, actually. I’ve been friends with Chris for about seven, eight years now. We met from a mutual friend when he moved to Byron, and we’ve been mates ever since. So when he got challenged by Ed Sheeran to learn the drums for ‘Limitless’, I guess I was the obvious choice to call because, I guess, I’m his only friend who’s a professional drummer. So he gave me a call and asked if I would help out. And initially I was just gonna help him out behind the scenes. But as it turned out, they filmed our sessions and they wanted us to be part of the episode.”

Asked if Hemsworth was any good and whether he has “chops” as a drummer, Gordon said: “No. I’ll have to qualify that answer. When he first came to me, he was really bad… I have a lot of admiration for him because the whole premise of the episode was him finding something that he wasn’t gifted at, which was quite hard ’cause he’s very talented in many areas, and diving into something that he finds uncomfortable. So, no one in the world is good at everything, even Chris Hemsworth, so he found something he’s not good at, which was the drums. He was a complete novice. He had no idea about it. He had no rhythm. But that was kind of the challenge and that’s what makes the episode fun… He’s got the physique. He just lacked the coordination and the rhythm, but he got there in the end.”