*Thanks to Disney and Marvel who covered all of my travel and expenses while on this event.
Most of the time in super hero movies people tend to be drawn to the good guy and most of the time I am like that too. However when it comes to Thor I am team LOKI all the way! Don’t get me wrong I love me some Chris Hemsworth who plays Thor, he is an amazing actor, but there is just something about Loki that draws me in. I feel this way even more, now after I have seen Thor: The Dark World!!! Tom Hiddleston, LOKI, is such an incredible actor and we got a chance to chat with him before the red carpet premiere of Thor: The Dark World which was held at the El Capitan in Hollywood.
I was so excited about interviewing Tom Hiddleston and he did not disappoint! He was handsome, intelligent, super sweet, and very polite. Even though he was short on time and had a red carpet to walk on, he took the time to answer each and everyone of our questions and wouldn’t leave until he did!
Below is a short snippet from the interview. Tom Hiddleston has the most intoxicating Brittish accent so be sure to image this as your reading along. And here is a little eye candy as well!
So as soon as Tom walks in the door he is SOO nice! Here is how he starts off the conversation:
Hello. How’s it going? I feel like I’m a president or something (WE ALL LAUGH AT THIS POINT!) which I really am not. Have you all seen the film? Well I play the bad guy, you probably know that, um, I feel like I should be sitting here with a white cat and stroking it”
How did you get in character to play a bad guy, and do you really like playing those kind of roles?
I love playing all kinds of roles and I hope it doesn’t sound too pretentious but I always feel like human nature is like a piano and there are 88 keys and there are some white keys and some black keys and each character is a different chord on the piano. And I love, basically I hope that in the course of my life I will have played all 88 keys in lots of different ways.
So I’ll have played heroes, and villains, and princes and kings and warriors and beggars and thieves and lovers and, um, fathers and wizards and [LAUGHS] all of those things. So–– so that’s it, for me that’s why I’m an actor, is I love studying people. And Loki’s just a particular kind of, actually I think he’s a minor chord with a couple of black notes in there, but I loved playing him and I suppose the first question, my answer to it is he’s the God of Mischief. Thor is the God of Thunder and Loki is the God of Mischief and his mischief is the thing that I love playing so much.
In the first Thor and in Avengers even I found myself really rooting for Loki, you know…
Thank you. Yay!! [LAUGHS] Those pesky Avengers. It really, it’s given me so much pleasure to hear you say that because when I was a kid, when I’d watch the bad guys the ones I loved were the ones who you sort of wanted to win or you could at least understand their motivations. And there is what I hope you’ll see is that he’s still vulnerable and that all of his, um, inclination to provoke chaos and sort of start fires and create conflict and enjoy all of that stuff, his delight in disorder is a mask of control.
And behind the mask is someone incredibly wounded and lost and “at sea,” and conflicted. And the duplicity of those things, the, uh, dichotomy of the two, the outer and the inner, that’s gold for an actor to–– to present a particular mask to the world, and yet create an internal which is, interesting, basically. And I hope, I know, I mean I hope you will but that’s what I tried to do. Let me know. [LAUGHS]
If someone visits your home and looked inside the refrigerator, what would they find?
Well I’ve been on the road for a bit so I was very conscientioius and, emptied the fridge of all perishable food, [CROWD LAUGHS] as my mum taught me before I went away, didn’t want to come home to like moldy bread and, you know…
So there’s nothing growing in there.
I hope not, yeah. I think there’s some, there’s probably some bottles of fizzy water [LAUGHS] and, maybe some old cheese in the back, but cheese is alright I think. But normally it’s–– it’s full of green vegetables, and butter and a few eggs, [LAUGHS] you know just sort of fridgey stuff, really.
In Marvel’s Avengers they team up a lot of superheroes and I was wondering if Loki teamed up with one of Marvel’s villains, who would it be and why?
If there was like a team of villains. Well the thing about getting a group of villains together is they don’t get anything done. [LAUGHS] Because they’re all acting out of self-interest. [IN VILLANOUS VOICE] “No, I want to take over the world!!” “No, but it’s mine!!” “No, but it,” and then it’s over, it’s finished. And then end of the film, it lasted two minutes. Who would Loki turn up with? I’d love to see in the comics he teams up with, with the Enchantress who is a sort of big, beautiful blonde, who is as untrustworthy and as skilled in the powers of magic as he is.
And they have a kind of quite an interesting dance that they do of recognizing that they’re basically the same, but that that’s why they shouldn’t be together. Who else? There are, I mean I love the bad guys, I love, I’d love to see him with Dr. Doom, who was one of Spiderman’s big villains, and there’s a villain called, Surtur, S-U-R-T-U-R, and he’s the fire demon who is, [LAUGHS] who’s a pretty crazy cat, you know I think that would be an interesting alliance.
But I feel like if Loki ever teams up he’s just using people, you know. In Avengers he teamed up with Phanos, so Phanos who’s the big guy you see at the end of the credits, that deal they made was that the Tessarak, the blue cube, that Loki could use it to take over the Earth and once he had the Earth in his clutches he would hand over the Tessarak to Phanos who would then do whatever he wanted to with the Universe.
So the stakes are pretty high. The good thing about Loki is he is genuinely dancing on this high wire tightrope between good and evil, between redemption and damnation, so you never know what he’s gonna do next. Yes, in the back.
Not giving too much away, what was your favorite part of the film?
Working with Chris Hemsworth. There are a couple of scenes where I feel like the two brothers, you just really get a sense of the particular chemistry of these two guys. And, I also know that my friendship with Chris is something that infused that relationship, because he and I, we met in 2009, we were both in our late ’20s, we’d been kicking around the business for the same amount of time.
We became very firm and fast friends. And we’ve had this amazing adventure together. And I think our friendship really infuses, the Thor/Loki relationship in this film and that’s probably my greatest pride. There’s a sort of a scene where it’s, they’re arguing over who gets to drive, which I feel is one of my favorites.
How long as it been since you’ve been interested in the comic books ’cause it seems like you know quite a bit about villains and the heroes and stuff like that?
Well, it’s funny, it’s like I know, I sort of know a lot but on quite a superficial level as, I guess. One of my favorite things as a kid was, there’s a game in England called “Top Trumps,” and you can have them, they’re basically, they come in different categories so you could have them for racing cars, or motocross bikes, or fighter jets and basically they’re all these things listed with their vital statistics. And you split the deck and you pick. Let’s say if you have a fighter jet you’d pick, “speed” and you’d steal a guy who’d had “speed” and if you had greater speed you’d win. And it’s a really simple game.
I had “Top Trumps” for Marvel’s Superheroes and Supervillains. So I didn’t read comics but I knew the vital statistics of every superhero and supervillain and that’s how I got to know them. Because it’s funny like, you know, Spiderman can beat The Hulk if you read out agility, but if you read out weight, The Hulk could beat Spiderman. So like Loki can beat Dr. Doom because his, if you read out intelligence, he’s more intelligent than Dr. Doom.
I don’t remember if that’s exactly accurate, but you know what I’m saying. And so that’s how I got to know all the characters. And I guess they were in my, they were swelling around in my consciousness, and of course since being cast in 2009 I know the Thor world very well now.
After the interview was over, Tom was so gracious enough to take a few group photos with all of us! (That’s the one pictured above). He was seriously one of the nicest people I have ever met. Thor: The Dark World is now open in theaters, so be sure to go and see it! It’s an amazing movie.
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