Tom Hiddleston is Loki

[JAK®]

I look at that piece of awesomeness and cant beleive that someone actually once likened it to a bicycle helmet.

I can see exactly why he said it was like a bicycle helmet. Keep in mind he wasn't saying it looked stupid or cheap, he was just making a comment about the construction.

 

[That-Guy]

That's it. I'm making a bicycle helmet that looks like that. Just to see the reactions.

 

[knowsbleed]

loki looks the best in this movie. everything about the actor and the design is great. i hope loki does take control of the hulk and is the villain in avengers. i want to see much more of loki.

I agree. Loki is the best looking part of this movie so far.

 

[irapogi]

Tom Hiddleston talks about his experiences of playing the movie's villain Loki. Interview under the cut!
Following Marvel Studios' highly anticipated panel Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con, we were able to chat with some of the stars of their forthcoming Thor movie. During a roundtable chat with Tom Hiddleston, the British actor opened up about playing the villainous Loki in the Kenneth Branagh-directed adaptation.

Q: What can you tell us about your take on Loki?

Tom Hiddleston: I hope that he is a villain that you love to hate, rather than a villain that you just hate. Well, I think throughout the course of the film I think you can understand his motivation. Loki isn't just an anarchist. He's not just someone who's out to burn the house down. I think his villainy, or what gives him credentials as a supervillain, is that he comes from a deep sense of betrayal. That he's been betrayed by his father, betrayed by his family. That he belongs nowhere. He's caught between two worlds and he's highly alone. And someone with an inclination towards mischief anyway, someone who likes pulling practical jokes, he's a prankster. That inclination is fed into the rejection and he becomes kind of a destructive force. So it's pretty fun.

Ken encouraged me to show his vulnerability. That actually he's Thor's younger brother and he wants his father's love just as much as the next man. I think I hope that's what roots the film as something very accessible is that actually it's about a father and two sons. And that those two sons want their father's approval and love. And Thor seems to get it without question. And Loki is out in the cold on his own. So I hope that that's something people can understand. And throughout the course of the film, I try to show that's all he wants. He wants to be accepted. That's where it comes from.

Q: We know Loki can be deceitful, but does he really love his brother Thor? There were moments in the sizzle reel shown at the panel that suggests he might.

Hiddleston: I like that Loki is such a good liar that you can't tell. I didn't want to do any winking at the audience to say like, this is when I'm lying. Um, I think in the film, I don't want to give too much away, but you find out that Loki has been responsible for a hell of a lot more than you first might have imagined. And that's all over the comics. You'll be following Thor through one adventure and you think there's one particular bad guy and then Stan Lee and Jack Kirby will pull Loki out from behind the curtain and you see him pulling the strings and you go, "Oh my God, it was Loki all along." Yeah, he is a shape-shifter, someone that is not to be trusted.

Q: Will Loki also be in the Avengers movie?

Hiddleston: (smiles) I'm not sure I'm allowed to say at this point.

Q: Did you know about the characters before taking on the project?

Hiddleston: As a child I used to play with Marvel Top Trumps. I don't know if you had them in the States, but it's basically like a deck of cards and sometimes you played this game as motorcycles or racing cars. I had the Marvel superheroes and the Marvel supervillains. So I knew. I had Thor and I had Loki and that was my contact to them.

Q: Fans just saw the whole cast of The Avengers onstage. How do you feel about that movie?

Hiddleston: I think it's astonishing. I think that [Marvel is an] imaginative organization. It's truly epic and ambitious. It's like bringing together a fleet of ocean liners and having them all sail together. I really think it's truly amazing. I was doing another television job in Sweden about three years ago. I had a day off and I went into a local town and I went to see Iron Man and I became an immediate fan. And in that moment never imagined that two years later I would be the next one along that was leaning towards the union of these heroes. I think it's epic.

Q: Can you talk about your stunts in Thor?

Hiddleston: I did a lot of training, actually. Ken asked for me to be very lean and very strong at the same time. And he wanted me to develop a fighting style that would be much closer to, I don't know if you've heard about the Brazilian martial art of Capoeira. If Thor was a big rock then Loki was like the wind. And he would just dance around this sturdy block of granite that was Thor. And so I developed a kind of fighting style that was much more balletic. I used to jump rope a lot. Ken said I don't want you to build muscle, because I could have. But he wanted to keep me really lean and really flexible so that he would swing the hammer and I would bend around it.

Q. What was it like working with Anthony Hopkins?

Hiddleston: A deeply, deeply humble man. Still enjoying it as if it was his first day on the set. So generous, so warm, professional. I mean, I cannot say enough about him. And he kind of took me under his wing. He knew I was a Brit who'd done some stage work and he knew it was my first time in Hollywood. And he had me out for breakfast in his house in Malibu and said how it was going. He was tremendous, truly. You saw a little bit of the scene in the sizzle reel where Odin banishes Thor to Earth. There was one particular take right before lunch and Kenneth asked him for something. He said, "We got it already, we've got it, but I just want to try something." He said, "Allow your heart to break." At the end of that take the entire crew was in tears. Chris and I then went and had lunch together in his (Hopkins') dressing room and I was like, "Dude, how are we supposed to follow that?" And he said, "Give up, man. Go home." (laughs).

Thor opens May 6, 2011.

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that last bit sounds INSANE.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm glad they'll be making Loki a bit sympathetic. I worry that it might be too much of an emotional whirlwind for Loki to go from genuine love to utter hatred of Thor (and possibly Odin) in just a couple hours, but it's true to the complexity of the character's motivations in the comics. It just has a lot more room and time to develop in the comics, going all the way back to childhood.

 

[The Question]

Especially since there's about 2,000 years between his childhood and now. Not a small amount of ground to cover.

But yeah, I really dig that. I hope they play up on the fact that Loki's not even really a member of the Asgardian royal family or even Asgardian. I also wonder if they'll mention hid children and their banishment at all.

 

[Red Mask]

I wonder if the reason he doesn't bear more children with his Sigyn is because he's afraid they'll just be like his other offspring, Jormungandir, Fenrir, and Hela.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

If the comics are any indication, he simply doesn't like Sigyn anymore. Even while she was constantly tending to him during his imprisonment under the serpent, he just utterly despised everything about her. Probably because she genuinely loves him and he's overflowing with self-loathing.

 

[The Squirrel]

Loki isn't Asgardian?

 

[S.A.A.D.]

Loki isn't Asgardian?

He was originally from a different realm.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Well, technically he's Asgardian, he just isn't a god. He's a frost giant runt.

 

[The Question]

Well, technically he's Asgardian, he just isn't a god. He's a frost giant runt.

Nope. He's not Asgardian at all. He's not originally from Asgard at all, he's from Jottenheim. Separate realms part of the same cosmology.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The whole dimension (originally just one continent in the earlier comics) outside of Earth that the other nine realms are in is usually referred to as "Asgard." It just also happens to be the name of the city of the gods.

 

[The Question]

The whole dimension (originally just one continent in the earlier comics) outside of Earth that the other nine realms are in is usually referred to as "Asgard." It just also happens to be the name of the city of the gods.

I always just thought that was a shorthand used by Thor's human allies, since Asgard is the most important usually. I doubt any Frost Giants consider themselves Asgardians.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

True, but how would you differentiate them from, say, the giants of Greek mythology? I'd call them Asgardian giants because they're from the dimension of Asgard. Similarly, Surtur is an Asgardian fire demon, even though he's from Muspelheim. Hela is the Asgardian death goddess, even though her realm is in Niflheim and she's only half-Aesir herself. Et cetera.

 

[misjuevos]

i hope we dont see loki doing capoeira. i really liked how loki is physically no match for thor. so i hope its more of a magic based attack against thor than a physical one. in the trailer you see loki raise the spear i assume he is shooting a blast of energy.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Hiddleston mentioned that he'll have throwing knives and then trade up to Odin's spear Gungnir when he becomes king. I doubt we'll see much overt sorcery in the film, unfortunately.

 

[Michael Frost]

Actually, I've been thinking about that and I think we will.

Throwing daggers is something that requires, well duh, daggers. Unless he's carrying a big bag of daggers with him, what's keeping him from simply conjuring them out of thin air with magic and throwing them around?

 

[misjuevos]

he said they are infinite so probably just a spell

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Could just be movie magic, though. What made action heroes have infinite bullets in the '80s? I'd love for Loki to use some magic, don't get me wrong; but I'm not really holding my breath for it.

 

[Michael Frost]

He used magic in the first script draft. If the rumours are true, most of the Asgard gods shall remain pretty much with the same characterization than in the first draft.

 

[First Avenger]

Really hope he uses magic,as well as seeing Thor fly(unlikely at this point)

 

[misjuevos]

im sure odin will use magic at least.

 

[NickNitro]

I wont lie, that would be the one dissapointing part of the film if I dont see Loki doing any magic.

@ First Avenger Why is it unlikely he'll be flying? because you didnt see it in the trailer? Even though we saw the trailer guys it is a trailer...they need to keep some things under wraps they cant show us everything our little nerd hearts desire.

 

[Wynter]

I can see exactly why he said it was like a bicycle helmet. Keep in mind he wasn't saying it looked stupid or cheap, he was just making a comment about the construction.

There's a hole in the upper back part, and I hope we get to see him add Sif's hair to it as a trophy of sorts. t: