He might have conquered supervillains and criminals on the big screen, but Chris Hemsworth has been stumped by a four-year-old girl.

During an appearance on The Ellen Degeneres Show this week, the famous father of three recalled a recent awkward interaction with his daughter India.

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According to Hemsworth, India is envious of her three-year-old twin brothers, Sasha and Tristan, due to their possession of a particular body part.

“She came to me the other day and she was like, ‘you know, papa, I want one of those things that Sasha and Tristan have’,” Hemsworth told Degeneres.

“I’m like, ‘what do you mean?’ She was like, ‘ya know, the things in between the legs that you have’.

“I was like, ‘Oh, um, well, you see … girls have breasts’.

“She goes, ‘I really want one’. I’m like, ‘A penis?’ And she’s like, ‘I want a penis!’”

“She’s four – I was like, ‘you know what, you can be whatever you want to be’. And she goes ‘Thanks, dad!’, runs off to the playground and that was it.”

“I’ll have to pick that conversation up in a few years time,” Hemsworth joked.

“There will be a pill for it in a few years, she’ll grow one.”