Tom Hiddleston is Loki

[Vartha]

heh keep in mind that paticular Loki IS a woman and not Loki in Sif's body

 

[ArmsHeldOut]

For those of you who might be wondering what Hiddleston looks like with straight [dyed] black hair, wonder no more.

I found this on the net a short while ago.

 

[Anubis Raptor]

Loki!^

 

[Webhead2006]

nice

 

[Aesop Rocks]

As soon as I read he'd have jet black long hair I thought of "Crawling" by Linkin Park.

 

[Sebastos]

^ Great song, LP.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I was trying to make an emo joke, but yeah, great song.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Wow! He is Loki!

 

[Keyser Soze]

Nice! Does the new pic come with a new interview or anything?

 

[ArmsHeldOut]

Nice! Does the new pic come with a new interview or anything?

It's not exactly new. I believe the interview was conducted in early January. (I was just doing a random Google image search for Hiddleston and came upon the pic that way.)

Here's the whole interview. (I think it's from some kind of Indian publication.)

Life's ‘Marvel'lous

PARVATHY NAYAR

British actor Tom Hiddleston is on the cusp of stardom, having bagged the coveted role of Loki in the Marvel Comics movie “Thor”, writes Parvathy Nayar

Photos: R. Ravindran

On a roll Tom Hiddleston

The chatter around British actor Tom Hiddleston has been getting steadily noisier. “One day, that lad is going to be a star, and deservedly so,” declared a theatre critic after watching Hiddleston's award-winning dual role in Cheek by Jowl's production of “Cymbeline” (2007).

That “one day” could well be tomorrow, with Hiddleston snagging the coveted role of arch-villain Loki in “Thor”, the Marvel Comics movie of 2010, directed by Kenneth Branagh. While it's a bad idea to tempt the gods — and especially, the capricious Norse gods — the chatter is now suggestive of a young actor on the cusp of stardom.

Of stardom and fame

“I don't feel famous,” laughs Hiddleston, in Chennai to attend his sister's wedding, and taking a break before the “Thor” shoot. Stardom was not what drew him to the profession — he explains later what actually did — but accepts that “fame is an essential corollary to actors being able to do the kind of work they want to do”.

What he has learnt from acting alongside stars such as Branagh, Ewan McGregor and Dame Judi Dench is “their continued energy, passion and seriousness about the work — and total lack of seriousness about themselves”.

The same could be said of Hiddleston, in turn, amusing and amused by the myths surrounding an actor. Born in 1981, Hiddleston probably always knew what he wanted to be, but sealed his commitment when he signed on for three years at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

This, despite already signing up with the prestigious actors agency, Hamilton Hodell, and having acted in projects such as an ITV production of “Nicholas Nickleby”, a BBC/HBO co-production called “Conspiracy”, starring Branagh, and the Winston Churchill biopic, “The Gathering Storm”, opposite Albert Finney and Vanessa Redgrave. All this, while still at Cambridge, where he read classics and graduated with an enviable double first.

He doesn't regret RADA, because “it was an immersion experience of rushing from a class in Restoration comedy to one on Irish accents, with some broadsword fighting practice in-between. When I left RADA as a 24-year-old, inevitably, most parts that came my way were roles of young men. But RADA was like Mary Poppins' carpet-bag, where they kept pulling out unexpected things and throwing them at you. It gave the experience of a career in miniature”.

After graduating from RADA in 2005, Hiddleston was cast in the independent film “Unrelated”, which was critically well-received. But, it was his work on stage that got really noticed. Critics singled him out, even when cast alongside such marquee names as Chiwetel Ejiofor and Ewan McGregor in Michael Grandage's production of “Othello”. Hiddleston competed against himself in 2008, earning two nominations for the Olivier Award for Best Newcomer (and won for “Cymbeline”). He also got several opportunities to work with Branagh, including the Tom Stoppard adaptation of Chekhov's “Ivanov”.

“What I love about theatre is that you get to tell the story from beginning to end, every night of the performance.” The endless repetitions do not result in the role becoming mechanical, rather, “you enter a meditative state, and let your subconscious work for you, so that a version that is deeper emerges from you. Like the great musicians, who talk of the music playing them rather than the other way round”.

Hiddleston is currently doing his prep for Loki, from reading all the comics featuring his character to researching Norse myths. Once he actually begins to shoot, he will not refer to this research — “I fill myself up before the performance, and then disgorge it all.”

Conversation turns to what else he has consumed recently, an eclectic mix of Charlie Kaufman's “Synecdoche in New York”, where he loved the idea that “you are all the people you have ever loved”; Yasujiro Ozu's seminal 1953 film “Tokyo Story”; and in the same breath, “‘Avatar', which knocked my socks off. Not since ‘Jurassic Park' have I been this visually awed by a film”.

Talking movies leads to what drew him to acting in the first place — not the prospect of stardom but the collective experience of being in a theatre, and recognising oneself in what was happening on the stage or screen. As Hiddleston still remembers: “When I left the theatre, the humanity in those stories made me feel less alone.”

 

[Keyser Soze]

Interesting interview.

 

[Anubis Raptor]

For those of you who might be wondering what Hiddleston looks like with straight [dyed] black hair, wonder no more.

I found this on the net a short while ago.

TH has that rare look. He has that subtle pretty boy charm but has the esque of an evil king or ruler a kin to Julius Caesar. He looks like he's from the the Roman Empire era.

 

[Webhead2006]

yea nice interview and if that is really how tom looks he should be just fine for loki. hopefully we will have first look at loki soon.

 

[ArmsHeldOut]

yea nice interview and if that is really how tom looks he should be just fine for loki. hopefully we will have first look at loki soon.

Not sure what you mean. The picture above wasn't doctored.

 

[Anubis Raptor]

There is an interview further above...

 

[Webhead2006]

i just meant i cant wait to see how he looks full on in loki costume lol.

 

[ArmsHeldOut]

i just meant i cant wait to see how he looks full on in loki costume lol.

I figured that's what you meant, but I wanted to ask anyway.

 

[Rock Sexton]

For those of you who might be wondering what Hiddleston looks like with straight [dyed] black hair, wonder no more.

I found this on the net a short while ago.

Honestly, with that face dude looks every bit as mischievous as a Loki should.

 

[Webhead2006]

no problem arms

 

[Bren]

I'm not too clued up on the Thor mythos, but for some reason every time I see a decent pit of Loki, I really wouldn't mind him with black eyes. Even if just when he magically cuts loose.

Not canon, will be shot down, just an opinion.

 

[Keyser Soze]

I'm not too clued up on the Thor mythos, but for some reason every time I see a decent pit of Loki, I really wouldn't mind him with black eyes. Even if just when he magically cuts loose.

Not canon, will be shot down, just an opinion.

Kinda like the effect Maryanne had on the residents of Bon Temps in True Blood?

 

[spider-neil]

I'm not too clued up on the Thor mythos, but for some reason every time I see a decent pit of Loki, I really wouldn't mind him with black eyes. Even if just when he magically cuts loose.

Not canon, will be shot down, just an opinion.

the best loki myth is when he shaves sif's head bald (she used to have blond her) thor threatens loki to fix the situation, he goes to the dwarfs and they make her hair spun from gold (in marvel the gold hair turns black) its then that the dwarfs make mjolnir. techincally thor's greatest weapon is the direct result of loki's mischieve. loki should remind him of this to see thor's reaction.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm not too clued up on the Thor mythos, but for some reason every time I see a decent pit of Loki, I really wouldn't mind him with black eyes. Even if just when he magically cuts loose.

Not canon, will be shot down, just an opinion.

What, like his eyes go solid black when he's using his powers? I wouldn't mind that. It's not canon, but I still wouldn't mind it. That would look cool.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

No way! The only eyes I want to change is Hemidall's!

 

[Bren]

I just like the 'demonic' touch it would bring, considering Loki is NOT your run-of-the-mill asgardian.

What I like of Loki is that, while Thor gets a wild hair up the nose quite regularly, I get the impression Loki remains cool and calm(er).

So he scares me even more when he really gets the hell-in with whatever (Odin forgiving Thor, Thor himself etc). and the eyes would just highlight the differences.

But obviously this would have to be set up somewhere less important, otherwise it's all "so why did his eyes go black at the end there" from movie-goers...

Regardless, I really like the look of Hiddleston as Loki, think he's going to do great!