YAY, HIDDLES. Finally, Tom Hiddleston gave an interview to support the American release of Only Lovers Left Alive. Is Tommy still in Canada working with Jessica Chastain on Crimson Peak? I don’t know. I think so. This Village Voice interview with Tommy specifically mentions that he’s only called in from Canada, so I think he’s still up there. I wish there was more gossip about Canadian Tommy. I bet he’s banging Canadian women. Please, my queendom for a Tommy tip! Anyway, you can read the full Village Voice piece here, and here are some highlights:

Working with Guillermo del Toro: “He’s like a great Mexican bear,” he laughs. “I hug him every day, repeatedly.”

His inability to be cast as a modern character: “It’s crazy, because I was born in 1981 and I’m alive and well in 2014 — it’s not that I’m conscientiously not doing contemporary stuff. I think it’s really difficult to make a good romantic comedy. I’d love to play them; they just don’t tend to come my way at the moment. I’m taking it as a compliment one way or another, but it’s very much an ambition of mine to wear jeans.”

OLLA: “We were creating this kind of cocktail of Gothic romance. And once all those elements were there, we just shook it up and started shooting.”

On Jim Jarmusch: “He seems to have poured so much of himself into the screenplay,” says Hiddleston of his writer-director, who spent seven years pushing the project. Adam’s obsessions are Jarmusch’s obsessions: music, science, the secret biology of mushrooms. They share the same heroes — Bach, Tesla, Newton, Iggy, Hank (as in Williams) — each framed and hung on their own Wall of Fame. By channeling his personality into a fictional character that will, film format willing, outlive all of us, Jarmusch has created his own version of artistic immortality. Notes Hiddleston, “For Jim, I think that really is all that matters.”

Tommy on Tilda Swinton: She’s “enormous, enormous fun,” and equally game to chit-chat about the cinnamon bagels at the craft services table. Often, though, they talked about the future and what they wished they could live long enough to witness. “The world is changing at an astonishing rate. Will Detroit have a second wind? What cities will last and what will not? And how fast is it all going to come? What language will we all be speaking in 100 years time?” wonders Hiddleston. “There’s an interesting line in the film where Adam asks Eve, ‘Have the water wars started yet, or is it still about the oil?’ I won’t be around to see it, I’m afraid.”

If he was immortal: “If I lived forever, who knows what I would do? I would certainly get better at the piano. I would try to learn how to paint. I think I would try to read all the books I haven’t read. When I was a child, the house was full of books — the walls were lined with bookshelves — and I remember looking up at them once and thinking, ‘I wonder if I’ll ever be able to read all those books?’ and my mother said, ‘It’s all right; you’ve got loads of time.’ But actually we don’t have that much time — I know I won’t. There will be things I’ll miss out on.”

Life after Marvel: “Every six months for the last three or four years, I’ve been playing . This is the first year where I won’t make a Marvel film for three years.”

[From The Village Voice]

I am absolutely SHOCKED that Tommy didn’t find some way to mention Shakespeare. This is some kind of record. He didn’t quote Shakespeare to some passing ducks, nor did he perform a Shakespearean soliloquy over the phone, nor did he drop in something from Coriolanus. WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO TOMMY?

Seriously, though, I wouldn’t mind seeing him as a modern character in some cutesy British rom-com. I wouldn’t mind seeing him in jeans. Hm… jeans and a peacoat. Yes. With some scruff. That needs to happen.

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