Here are some photos of Tom Hiddleston, Luke Evans and Sienna Miller at the San Sebastian Film Festival premiere of High Rise. Yesterday, I covered the pics from Hiddleston’s arrival in Spain, plus the photocall. Spain really agrees with him – the natural-light photos yesterday were possibly the best photos I’ve ever seen of Tom, and these pics are pretty lovely too. Fashion note: Sienna’s dress is Galvan. I’m kind of meh on it. Anyway, as always, we have new Hiddleston interviews. Tommy spoke to E! News about dropping trou for FEMINISM in Crimson Peak. For feminism! And science. Tom said:
“It’s so often in movies that women are more naked than men and that’s unfair. We wanted to sort of redress the balance. I didn’t have a problem with the nakedness because I felt that there’s always been a strain of sexuality in Gothic romance as much as there has been the fear of death and the threat of violence. It’s a very violent film and I felt like we needed to balance that. So if we’re going to bring up the violence we needed to bring up the sense of sexuality.”
Hiddlesbutt in Crimson Peak… that might actually get me to watch the movie. It’s nothing against Hiddles, I just can’t watch horror films. I get too scared! Seriously. Hiddles also told E! News that his favorite karaoke jam is Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” though “It’s a little high for me. Billy Joel is one of the great vocalists alive working today and I have quite a low baritone.” Also: Tom has a new interview in Interview Magazine. You can read the full piece here. Tom is chatty, as always, and he talked about one of his New Year’s resolutions:
His resolution: “One of my New Year’s resolutions, which I had not thought about all weekend until you asked me, was to interact more with people. That sounds quite technical, but literally face time. Not FaceTime, because that’s a thing now, but to be in the room with someone. To turn your phone off. To sit and have dinner and just be there with somebody. If you can run around the corner and say hello to someone do that instead of emailing. It’s always more rewarding; the connection is always more authentic. If you’ve got something to say and you can say it someone’s face, it’s so much better—healthier. I don’t know why that should be. Maybe that’s just a personal point of view.
The morality of the internet? “It’s a language we don’t understand in a way, the language of digital communication. People say the internet is like the Wild West in that it’s lawless and we haven’t worked out how to make it structured or moral… I fundamentally believe that in the moral balance of the human race, we right ourselves. If we feel like the ship’s keel is off, we find a way to steer ourselves through the storm repeatedly.”
Do you think his New Year’s resolution – to spend more actual face-to-face time with people – is one of the reasons why he’s been so quiet on Twitter this year? I think it might be. Plus, he was working a lot, of course. But it really felt like he made an effort to not engage so much on social media. Oh, and I kind of disagree that the human race will “right ourselves.”
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Loki is more on point about human race than Tom.
Loki is Voltaire to Tom’s Rousseau.
You win. This.
Thanks. Just felt the need to link 18th century French metaphysics into a discussion of Tom’s butt and his view of human nature. I suspect he would enjoy that although he might not enjoy being viewed as panglossian.
What a hero.
Thankfully, we don’t have full equality yet, so keep going, Hiddleyanna!
Yes, for science and basic human rights. Take it all of Tom. Again.
As a long-time lurker, and occasional participant on these threads, @t.fanty, I will say that it is so nice to see your return the last few days.
Yes, more t.fanty, please!
We need Eve too.
EVE!!!!!
Yes, more @Eve, @Sixer, @j.eyre, @EscapedConvent, @TommyAnnE, and, if I may risk using a term recently appropriated and abused by Canada’s disgusting privileged, the “old-stock” ladies of both Thornfield and the ever-welcoming @Lilacflowers’ veranda and meadow.
Sorry, Nutballs. But my blood is boiling right now.
I mean, “…I fundamentally believe that in the moral balance of human race, we right ourselves.”
Is he on crack? Hasn’t he been watching the news? Cecil the lion (cowardly killed by that dentist); the kids that drowned while their father was trying to escape a vicious, messy civil war; the man falling, while holding his child, after a “reporter” left her foot just so he would trip over; the little boy that was kicked by the very same “reporter”?
Seriously?
Humanity is rotten.
I thing Mr. Hiddleston is a decent man. But this super positive, CLUELESS way of seeing the world drives me crazy.
I still like him, but if I had to spend more than five minutes next to him, one of us would seriously get hurt (hint: it wouldn’t be me).
P.S.: Guys, I’m out. This is the last comment I’m posting this week (or weeks). I can’t anymore. I need some time to regroup after reading this sh*t.
*WAVES to all*
But then at the very least, he’d compliment you on a well-delivered right hook.
Come back, Eve, come back!
@Eve, put the knife back in your pocket, dear, and have a refreshing beverage. We can fetch the ball gag for Tom
@Eve, lol i feel totally the same way.
But, didn’t Richard Dawkins addressed this is in the Selfish Gene, in the end altruism is the reason the human race has evolved and survived. At the moment, the majority of the human race does care.
Eve, please come back and lurk long enough to hear me say, I FEEL YOU. I said something similar below, though not with the intensity that you expressed. TommyAnna is a clueless, poshie bubbleboy who’s never been on the receiving end of real evil and stays cloistered in his Hollywierd world where everyone caters to him and tells him he’s THE SHIT. He’s extremely sheltered in a very strange world of constant life-affirming applause and comparatively little criticism.
That being said, he seems like a genuinely kind person who wants to do the right thing and GOD DAMN he’s looking better than ever, so my electrified lady bits are giving him a pass. Somehow I can see his flaws and still hit it so hard we’d both fall through the floor. I’m weak, don’t hold it against me, dear.
T. Fanty, you are THE SHIT. You win the internet today.
I think you all need to take a deep breath.
You are mad at him for having a little faith in mankind? So how do you handle those who actually have no faith in mankind and therefore took matters at their own hand? how do your emotion handle the people who actually participate in crime against humanity? Sometimes I think people put their anger on wrong place. If you didn’t like Tom and thinks he’s naive, that’s fine. It just seems silly to get so mad at him for saying what he believes. He didn’t do any crime and humanity is rotten not because of him. Unless you have a lot of anger to put on almost everyone on earth, otherwise, his view that didn’t amused you is very minor in the scheme of things.
@ Anon222 Quite, far too much over analysis – this is the heading of the paragraph in question “The morality of the internet”.
Eve! So good to see you! And yeah, I tend to feel the same way, but I do cut our boy some slack because I think he is genuinely kind and gracious and not putting any of that on.
But he does live in a bubble world of extreme privilege– none of this would bother me quite so much if inequality were not such an immense and growing problem and if the world were not becoming truly more horrifying by the minute. I want to believe he is not that thoughtless. This naivete can be charming in someone under a certain age, but he is now in his mid-thirties. Maybe he does know better, but this is an easy thing to say to the press?
Anon222, I don’t know why you are so worked up– nobody is suggesting that everything is his fault or proposing him as a candidate for the guillotine. He is in fact very naive in a way that only someone who is heavily sheltered can be, and there is nothing wrong in pointing that out.
Miss Jupitero, well said.
Sixer, T. Fanty and Eve, this thread demonstrates the balance you bring to TH threads. The tone of his post comments have changed since you left and some recent posters have left the threads complaining on other posts that they can’t offer a thoughtful critique of Tom without certain posters going after them and misreading their words and intentions. It gets exhausting and I understand why they don’t bother commenting anymore.
I like a world where the range of impressions can be expressed. So, while you’re here hanging in the neighborhood, just wanted to say how much you’re missed. I’ve always enjoyed your witty, thoughtful and uninvested observations and I find it easier to express a critical option when you’re around.
@Miss Jupitero. I’m not worked up, but if you think I am, then so be it.
Eve wrote this: “I thing Mr. Hiddleston is a decent man. But this super positive, CLUELESS way of seeing the world drives me crazy.” Eve said his view is driving her crazy. She seems pretty worked up too. You all are obviously very friendly to her, I’m not part of the gangs apparently, so I don’t expect any one to agree with me.
Not to get too personal on the matter, but having lived a fairly rough life myself (and my family coming from a war torn country), I find his optimism refreshing. I don’t feel any outrage over his view of humanity. I just don’t feel that cynical to. I just wish the media would report more good news as well as the bad. It gives a more balanced view of the world. I do think he lives in a bubble of privilege, but he’s witnessed with his own eyes a world that is less privileged (UNICEF trip), so I don’t find him completely clueless. Obviously, he won’t do what Pope Francis is doing where he meets with world leaders, then dines with the homeless, but I don’t take it so personally that the man claims to believe humanity is going for an upswing. The thing I do criticize him for is his wish washy efforts in charity. He’s in a position of privilege, yet selling autographs and his image to raise money is the laziest way to “do good”. And sadly, most people (the public) only care when their favorite celebrity points them to where their loose change should go to. I do think those in a position of privilege should be held to a higher level of scrutiny and standard because they have the means to effect change. Sure, his privilege is an accident of birth, but to me, with that comes greater responsibility in a way to “right ourselves” as the human race.
I think Tom is a distraction to whatever we all go through, but it is remarks like this that removes that veil of fantasy and you are reminded that it’s a privileged person speaking from a very ignorant place. I admire his optimism (once again, refreshing in a sea of negativity), but I also roll my eyes at his actual glossing over actual reality.
@jammypants, very, very well stated. And with all that is horrible in this world, and yes, there is so much that is absolutely horrific, I too need to have faith in the belief that there are those who will try to help those in need and that there are people who will try to oppose and stop those who are doing the horrible things and that there are those who will seek for justice – and some of those people do need to be optimistic that their efforts will help or they’ll just burn out.
@Anon222, welcome to the fray.
I think he was referencing Ballard’s take on dehumanising concept on technology not on life in general-there is a difference.But yes perhaps our dependence on technology does distort our reaction to world events and how we react to them
His bum’s at the top of his legs and therefore I am more than ok with all this doing it for the girls. I mean doing it for the girls in an entirely non-feminist way, however. More hen party. How dreadfully plebeian of me. LEGS.
(I also think communication on the interwebz will sort itself out eventually, but that’s serious and not LEG-related.)
Legs!
*ZZ Tops’ song “Legs”*
He’s got legs and he knows how to use them.
I’m sorry Sixer, but I’m not quite getting the point of your message. Did you say that you wanted to see more of the curls?
I want to see more unfurled.
In other words, keep working toward equality and go Full Monty. For the good of the humanity, of course.
His muscles on display in The Night Manager promo are distracting me from his legs. Sixer, you can go UP to the goods, I’ll go DOWN.
https://twitter.com/daisy_104/status/646547685051240448
*thinks rude thoughts*
Just love the way they edited “You up for it” shot of Female, look from Tom “Yeah”
Sixer, not to gloat (just kidding, I’m totally gloating) but the biscuits are in an unrivalled position as I work my way down to the abs. I’ll meet you in the middle dear; you’ll know me by the shit-eating grin I’m sporting.
So, was their way of dealing with Olivia Coleman’s pregnancy to just shoot her scenes in the dark?
THIS is what a feminist looks like. *Clapclapclap* What would we do without TommyAnnE?
And I agree with him about being with people. I think communicating online and via the web is inherently problematic. You don’t see body language. You have the illusion of intimacy but in fact you might be missing completely what is really going on. I think we connect more authentically when we are actually with someone or at least actually hearing their voice.
So very true. There’s immediacy and intimacy and warmth chatting with someone in person that is lacking when communicating through email, text, Facebook, or Skype. You can’t hug a text message. Even a letter captures more of the essence of a person
I agree and there is always a tendency for people to overreact on social media and misinterpret comments-there was once a twitter war on twitter which went on forever and ended up with racial comments/slurs etc which actual started because someone suggested a different way to cook a recipe.
You use to get the same problems with work email many people reply with out considering how it comes over to other people.
My Lord, Fanty! I know I gave up my Hiddles rights to Miss Jane. But I am seriously considering to torn Thornfield upside down to find and destroy the paperwork. He clearly wants to drop trou for me (Science and feminism- sorry Miss Jane, he still remembers our little code).
On a serious note, I loved his New Year’s resolution!
*ahem* That paperwork is tucked away with such security, getting at it makes Fort Knox look like a child’s puzzle.
As for your precious little code, he *also* used “the Wild West,” which is our code and I can promise you, you definitely don’t want to know for what.
You forgot you call me Agent MOL for a reason, non?!
As for the codes… I didn’t notice yours! Hmmm…What a clever dropping trou hero he is…
The “dropping trou” bit is obviously aimed at Fanty; she needs things spelled out for her, dontchaknow.
Yes, I do!
he is really desperate for our attention these days. Notice he said nothing to Escaped Convent. Poor Hiddles, realized she only had eyes for the ***** King.
I’m no dragonfly, but points Tom.
I get super scared at horror movies too!!! But I want to see this. I have a lot of respect for Guillermo and I think it looks beautifully done.
I get super scared too! Even if it is a thriller/suspense! I am just a big weenie, I can’t handle it
*Wishes she lived around the corner from Tom*
In all earnestness, he makes a lovely point. We should be more present in each other’s lives.
I live right next to LAX, mayhap he can swing by every time he lands?
I LOVE SCIENCE!
And wow, I am usually a Dragonfly only if dancing (snake hips!) is involved, but dang – he does look good here.
The Tomapalooza was well under way and then, the BBC decided to bring on the Tomapocalypse yesterday with The Night Manager clips. They’re trying to kill us all.
Sienna’s dress looks like an ill-fitting nightgown.
Brunch is served. I’m not even sure which country we’re in any more. That swimming pool bit from TNM has done me in.
she looks like a slapper :-p
Wait…..Where can I find these clips of The Night Manager?
The BBC has blocked full access to them by region (AMC, what about us?) but there are links to some of the stills on the last thread.
NUTBALLS linked to Torrilla’s compilation in #2, but here it is again.
https://twitter.com/daisy_104/status/646547685051240448
The entire reel is now up on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=172&v=WQuO0r5kfTM
I spy Luther and Gillian!! So, how many of these shows (besides Luther) do I need to keep an eye out for on Netflix, LadyBrits?
Thanks, guys! I’m not leering (okay, not juuuust leering). I’ve been talking this show up to my father (who I’m sure has no idea who Hiddleston is but who likes both Laurie and Le Carre) and my boyfriend (who indulges my crushes tolerantly but isn’t going to watch something starring him unless he’s interested in his own right).
lunchcoma, my parents will be watching The Night Manager too, which I’m confident will be their first exposure to The PuddleTom. Both ISTL and TNM are finally going to increase his exposure beyond superhero comic book fans to mainstream America and I’m happy to see it.
@lunchcoma, my boyfriend is a huge LeCarre fan and this is his favorite novel. He’s super-excited over this and HUGH LAURIE! His only point of reference for Tom is “the guy who stabbed Coulson” and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
@NUTBALLS and Lilacflowers: This is one of the reasons I think Tom made a great choice in deciding to do some TV, and in opting for this miniseries in particular. He gets to show off his acting in a role that’s quite different from others he’s played in the past, and he gets introduced to an entirely different audience.
I also suspect a different group of viewers might be meeting him in Crimson Peak. He’s done brooding dark-haired characters before, but del Toro sort of has a group of fans who go to is movies regardless who’s in them, and I suspect that movie will attract some people who aren’t necessarily huge fans of Marvel and who may not have seen his Shakespeare or indie work.
I love how we look for ways to justify our celebrity obsessions to our real partners. 🙂
I recently sat through an entire season of Direct TV’s Kingdom, which is all about MMA Fighters. My husband is into that stuff, so he was excited by the show. He was surprised that I wanted to watch it too, but seriously? 10 Episodes of Frank Grillo? Yes, please. Totally worth it. 🙂 I apologize for nothing.
This IS the best Tom has ever looked. Goodbye babyface, poodle curls, gotee, orange foundation, mile-high hair; Hello muscles, stubble and sculpted curls.
I had a similar New Years resolution two years ago… we are obviously meant for each other. Come have some Face Time with me, love. You’ll get more than words, I promise.
No, the human race doesn’t right itself. He’s been too sheltered in his posh bubble to feel how awful humans will be when they believe they can act with impunity. Without restraint and consequences, things are much more likely to go “High Rise”; just look at any society with a broken criminal justice system.
I think Tom once said he was naturally an optimist, and I think he was mainly referring to the internet not the wider world to be honest.
Does anyone else think he looks happier and less stressed out recently?
I don’t know what or who he’s been doing the past 9 months (besides me, of course), but he looks positively radiant. What a chance from his Evening Standard appearance last December.
Most likely he’s been working out with weights and eating well.
sorry wrong place
He’s gained some of that weight he lost for ISTL back, and I suspect he’s one who might find interviews and junkets more relaxing than playing Dr. Lang, Hank Williams, Sir Thomas Sharpe, and Jonathan Pine back to back. (Which isn’t a slight on his acting ability at all. I just get the feeling he can get rather intense about his roles, none of which have been very cheery lately, and isn’t as uncomfortable around the press as many actors.)
He looks better with some meat on his bones
I’m glad that he’s had a couple of roles that required him to be strong and muscular this year. I like him best with muscles. And stubble. Lord Dragonfly’s heard my prayers and answered them and I couldn’t be more pleased.
Well, I offer you #piggate to burst the sheltered posh bubble thing. Having said that, it is greatly to the Tomelette’s credit that he clearly avoided that particular aspect of his posh bubble like the plague.
Sixer, can you in a nutshell, explain #piggate to me? I can’t keep up with all the comments on the Royals posts.
I understand that #piggate involves allegations about initiation rituals for a society Cameron joined at university. Hazing rituals involving sexual contact with dead animals? Or something?
Our Prime Minister, being of the posh boy variety, is alleged to have joined a posh boy university club (like a fraternity, but you join lots, not just one) whose initiation rituals involved sticking one’s tallywhacker into the mouth of a dead pig to simulate fellatio. Photographic evidence of this exists, apparently – although, thank all that is holy, we have not been subjected to seeing it. Another ritual was to find a homeless person and burn a £50 note in front of them.
British upper classes are twisted dysfunctionals, rather than sheltered bubbleites, you know? Good thing that the Tomelette seems to have avoided most of these charming peer norms!
But, more importantly, what #piggate more obfuscates is the actual reasons Cameron is a twat and a threat to our national/economic/family security. We see your Trump, and raise you one dead Wilbur.
Ah. You saw the scare tweet after the election of St Corbyn of Westminster.
Quite.
We see your Trumpenproletariat and raise you – man, I can’t even pun it – our great, xenophobic, unwashed
(You may have seen it, but this is useful: http://theleveller.org/2015/09/british-really-laughing)
Wow, that’s rather disturbing, to say the least.
I still maintain that despite his parent’s divorce, TommyAnna’s led a charmed life and people who haven’t gone to the School of Hard Knocks have a much easier time being optimistic about how good life can be. He’s got what most guys (and gals) want — looks, money, fame, success — so he really hasn’t dealt with the everyday struggles that most of us have.
Perhaps we could arrange for Cameron and Trump and their likes to all move to the moon where they can carry on with their gross rituals and limit their harassment to one another while the rest of us can get on with cleaning up their mess
I’m no admirer of Cameron but I quote directly from the Daily Telegraph today :
“”Source is said to be an MP who claims to have seen the incriminating picture, but won’t be identified. Oakeshott (the biographer) defended the decision to publish an unverifiable story saying: “We ran it after some consideration because it’s colourful and it made us laugh”.
One person who won’t find the story that funny is Nancy Cameron. The PM’s daughter started secondary school a week or so ago.””
I don’t doubt that he got up to some stupid things at uni but at the moment the evidence is not forthcoming for this particular allegation.
I haven’t. First, I can’t believe that anyone would join a club named the Piers Gaveston and not have a clue what it’s going to entail, and second, it occurs to me that the one advantage we have over Americans in such moments is that at least we can comfortably put a name on our division of privilege. We can admit it’s there.
T.F. it has been denied by those who were members of the club that he was ever a member, although being a member of the Bullingdon Club is bad enough.
Fanty – “it occurs to me that the one advantage we have over Americans in such moments is that at least we can comfortably put a name on our division of privilege. We can admit it’s there”.
Absolutely.
i hope they do expose that photo, these stupid initiation rites and things at Schools and Uni;s and even the army need knocking on the head. its pathetic and totally animalistic in nature, worse even animals dont ask people to jump off bridges or torture people. I am still amazed Jon Hamm has got away with his past, and if David and his cronies got involved in their Bullingdon Club pathetic antics they need exposing. Because the current lot may think twice if they have politic ambitions.
That Leveller piece was an interesting read. I’m having to unclench my fists reading how they were so despising of the poor. That last paragraph was golden:
“David Cameron’s nasty little scandal speaks to a suspicion many people already have: that in British society, you don’t get to become Prime Minister because you’re talented or because you work hard. You don’t even get there just because you’re rich. You get there by traumatizing the homeless and skull-fucking a dead pig, and that ritual gives you power because you have demonstrated utter, pathetic submission to your fellow oligarchs.”
Trump does come off as less of a idiot in comparison. No wonder you’re so openminded in understanding not all Americans are as dumb as Duggers and Palins… Die Fremdscham goes in both directions.
But the problem with the photo, and the whole story is that it trivializes him. If one is laughing at something, one isn’t taking it seriously. And that’s when some real damage gets done. Look at how much hatred Trump is getting away with inciting, because people treat him like a joke.
Fanty – in this instance, I think it’s an intra-Conservative Party thing. Cameron has said he’d stand down before 2020. Presumably, Lord Ashcroft timed the release of this book in some kind of internal power struggle over what comes next. But yes. While we are sniggering over porcine puns (and whoever could help themselves from doing that?), we are forgetting the other, more significant revelations over who knew what and when about non doms. And we’re also ignoring the wholesale demolition of public services and all the rest of it. So, indeed, in a general electorate sense, it fails to damage the overall Tory brand at all. All grist to the Ashcroft mill.
I think so, but I think that the point holds. The entitlement in the fallout about this squabble over who gets to be PM is staggering. But a dead porker gives a beej, so who cares about any of that?
I’m fully with you there Sixer, I’m far more concerned about the truth of the non-dom allegations than I am about some stupid prank he may or may not have got up to at uni 25 years ago.
Sorry, but what are these non-dom allegations? I’m truly asking. I don’t get the jargon (American!)
It’s things like this that make me grateful for not being rich upper class. They’re (for the most part) just really awful, disgusting people and subsequently raise their children (sort of- well, nannies and schools do, anyway) the same way.
Sorry, I know that’s very classist of me.
Fanty – I really don’t disagree. The point does hold. This is my hope. The sainted bearded cardigan does actually invigorate policy-making from the bottom up at the upcoming Labour conference. And that it inspires enough grassroots involvement on one side that the other side follows suit. Democracy desperately needs renewing, on all sides.
Ab Fab – it’s a British thing. Rich people *officially* reside in tax havens (Monaco, for example) and don’t pay any UK taxes – while maintaining homes in the UK and remaining British. But this in effect disables them from holding political office. The writer of the book bitching at the Prime Minister was embroiled in a non dom scandal and the PM didn’t give him the job he thought his £8m donation to the PM’s party had bought.
Yes, that is a difference. The British see and admit that divide exists while Americans cannot see or admit it. We have a real estate trust fund baby running for president and positioning himself as self-made and people buy it. Another is 4th generation political elite, attended the American version of posh schools, complete with initiations into secret societies yet he and his brother pose as plain folks and people buy it
@ Ab Fab In 2010 Cameron (ex-Eton and Oxbridge) was appointed PM and appointed several of similar ilk to his cabinet. Ever since there has been a spotlight shone on the whole upper class thing, particularly as we are living through a period of austerity.
Isn’t this exactly what Bono does in Ireland?
(the tax thing, not pig fellatio)
all #piggate did was draw the attention from recent welfare cuts and world events-Cameron probably leaked it himself.
sounds like Tom needs some new next door neighbours for a chat and more….
Anyone in mind?
I still have hopes for him and Helen Bonham Carter-I think she would shake him up out of his innocent bubble and keep him naked and laughing till he settles down.
@icerose, I think he left innocent behind long, long ago.
never underestimate what an older women like Helen can do-it is all about life’s experience and how you process it.
The JArthy lives in his neighborhood. 😉
I assume that’s who Penny was alluding to with “new”
coughs
What Nutballs? Jarthy lives near him. Where was I when that was posted….hmmm…I guess he doesn’t have to “text” her like he did EO.
He can just run around the corner.
My point is, he can easily go see a lady friend by walking around the neighborhood and can keep things under the radar that way. Not even that stalker neighbor would have a clue as to what he’s got going on in his down time.
I won’t lie, I would pop a cork at the triumphant return of The JArthy. The tumblr meltdown would be epic and entertaining.
I agree with Tom, I also still have high hopes for humankind.
And to be honest, I think he was talking more in terms of the internet and inability to police it fairly and adequately rather than WORLD PEACE.
If all he’s showing are cheeks then he really isn’t doing much because woman tend to have to show it all. If he really was about that life he’d be going full McGregor and letting it all hang out. But I’ll give him a golf clap for his efforts.
Well didn’t GDT say we get to see Lokie’s pokie stick in CP? We will see.
Really? Well, now I’m intrigued.
Just for you jinni:
https://vine.co/v/erhLDt1lAWI
Thanks, neutral.
That would be a lovely gift for us ladies.
Sorry, but having seen Crimson Peak at screening I can tell you you do not see any more of TH than his bum. It is an excellent movie however and ima very scary.
@Diane, could you please tell us, without giving away too many details, whether we see Charlie Hunnam’s bum as well?
@lilacflowers sorry no lol
yes but maybe having seeung Ewan he does not want the comparison
I don’t know, the Coriolanus gown of humility gave a clue.
I saw it with the lights shining through it from 3 different angles- -not a bad size but i am waiting to see Luke Evans on the 9th of October and to hear Tom wax lyrically on his brand of feminism.
Best nude shoe ever was Russel Tovey who made an erection appear out of nowhere -no hands– and he was only two yards away from me if that
tbh, every smart celebrity stops overusing twitter after they get reasonably popular. they’re exposed all the time, it doesn’t take a genius to work out that if they want any privacy, social media isn’t the way to go.
When I need a good dose of feminism, I pop in Velvet Goldmine to watch Ewan shake it. But I’m open to new feminist theories of the Crimson Peak variety.
Ab, Ewan in Velvet Goldmine. And Pillow Book. Did he even have clothes in Pillow Book?
Excellent point, although so help me I think Velvet Goldmine is just a better movie than Pillow Book.
Yes, well, it has music and Christian Bale too
No one swings like Fassy in Shame. He could put an eye out with that schlong.
I think we need to see Tom’s to compare. He’s given us reason to believe it could be impressive (Cannes 2013). For science, of course.
*cough* dear NUTBALLS, have you not seen screen grabs from Unrelated? *cough*
Grace, they’re too dark!! With my aging eyes, I need brighter light.
God, I’m ashamed to say that I have actually looked that hard at the frames. Let’s hope Crimson Peak delivers Loki’s Pokey Stick as GdT has promised.
The movie does not…sorry. No other spoilers.. But go see it, its very good. I was not at all disappointed not to see frontal. Some things are left best to the imagination imao.
You mean GdT lied??? That bastard.
Poor NUTBALLS, don’t give up hope just yet. With so much rumour going aound one would assume he at least dropped trou for one of his movies? Or you could always go back to Unrelated gifs, freeze and look real HARD? Pun intended. *cough*
Grace, you know how to salve my disappointed heart. I was hoping that High Rise would deliver up Full Frontal Tom — I mean, doesn’t it seem appropriate considering the level of degenerate-ness that will be on display? *sigh*
Good thing I still have my very active imagination to fall back on.
oh yes-great movie s well
so many beautiful Tom looks-I wonder what he will wear on the Oct 7th-at the BFI -but I am by passing the red carpet but my daughter is looking forward to dressing up.Tom will bet there on the night so it is all go for a great evening
CP out in UK mid October according to website-what I really want now is I saw the Light followed by the Night Manager in January
i really want a ISTL brit preview date and sooon. i’m going to High Rise prem in London, i cant wait for that.
yes and they were really helpful at getting me in early to avoid the crowds as well-last year we were late and fighting through the crowd was awful
Suffering,tragedy etc but maintaining optimism and compassion etc are not restricted to different classes and it is how you deal with it that counts.
You can challenge Tom’s statements and involvement but you cannot deny his beliefs especially as we have no idea what he does elsewhere else under wraps.And that comes down to many others give their current opinions on many issues on facebook etc
I also wonder if their is a measurement for Eton graduates to be seen as those who have experienced the hard knocks of life or those with less opportunities.My work taught me that tragedy and hardship hit all backgrounds and people handle it very differently.The gentrification attacks show the a pretty shabby behaviour by the working class but i have great sympathy with their attitude and lack of assistance from the government to help them keep what they see as their home environments but does their behaviour help anyone.
i am also interested to see what my daughter thinks of it as it is not her type of thing.
Here is the yesterday – Red Carpet ”High-Rise” (S.O.) – 2015:
youtube.com/watch?t=234&v=Yu3G3waNis8
There is to much Sienna M in this video.
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Another one – El Día de ” High Rise” ( the cast arriving, photocall, press conference)- 2015:
youtube.com/watch?v=OOa4RxWGMoE&feature=youtu.be
I’m just a tad disappointed that with all the premieres in the last few weeks there has been no opportunity for a Tuxedo Tom moment. Is BFI formal enough for him to finally break out the penguin suit?
I wouldn’t expect him in a tux unless it was an award show.
Or Cannes – I guess it’s really the only film fest where they go all out. Still a bummer – I wanted to see a tux and perhaps (she says in a small, hopeful voice) some velvet. Oh well. It does feel churlish of me to complain after the embarrassment of riches that September has brought. That BBC video clip did me in – was not expecting to see Pine in action quite this soon. I thought I had a few months yet to prepare myself.
Mmm….velvet.
Dara, I’m thinking that if we get any more sexy shots from TNM, you and I are going to be bumping Caius Martius down a notch and replacing him with Jonathan Pine.
“Must not watch video on loop…must not watch…”
Oh, Caius Martius… he’s coming back for an encore isn’t he? I might have to see it again just to refresh my memory before I go comparing him to Pine. Do I understand that new NT Live commentary thing right – it’s something you buy and then get to keep forever and ever? Be still my heart.
Pretty sure Pine will come out on top for me. I’m having a difficult time avoiding TNM gif’s as I tumble my way through Tumblr- the swimming segment is my kryptonite.
i expect him to be suited up in London-last year it was a velvet jacket but he looked amazing-first time I realised just how elegant he was
Yay! Checking in early for once! And brain can’t function just yet – I need to look at the pictures a bit longer. You guys understand, right?
Although, on second thought, I might need to actually read the article. What does Tom getting naked have anything to do with feminism? Is this some kind of public service?
It is one of the nobler public services.
From The Guardain interview with Reeece Shearsmith:
“………..Yes, I appear in Ben Wheatley’s next film, which is called High Rise. I think it’s in cinemas early next year. And is based on the JG Ballard novel. It’s very violent and very 70s and stars Tom Hiddleston. It was great to work on – very claustrophobic, set in this modern block of flats that descends into hell as the residents and their humanity breaks down. It’s Lord of the Flies in a tower block. It’s really good – they’re showing it at the London Film Festival on the 9th October if you want to see a preview. It’s very Ballard and it’s very Ben”
I need help with my list of actresses to be jealous of, Hiddles edition. He drops trou with?:
CP: M Wasikowska and possibly J Chastain?
HR: E Moss and S Miller AND S Gilroy?
ISTL: E Olsen and ??
TNM: E Dibicki and ???
I don’t think he gets down with Gilroy as no one’s mentioned it, just Miller and Moss. We’re not sure how many flings he’ll be getting nekkid with (in addition to Olsen) in ISTL. Anyone who attended TIFF care to confirm? Details would be appreciated.
As far as TNM, I believe that would be Aure Atika (Sophie) that he’s getting in on with. The only other one would be the Canadian chick, though they might not have included that bit in the TV version and possibly added a sex scene with Debicki. I need to see this yesterday. I’m probably the most excited to see this one.
CP: M Wasikowska and possibly J Chastain? N/A
HR: E Moss and S Miller AND S Gilroy? yes, yes, and no
ISTL: E Olsen and ?? yes and yes but no real sex scene though, just implications of it
TNM: E Dibicki and ??? no and yes? (in the book they don’t really have sex, just loads of sexual frustration. He has sex with Sophie and a Canadian).
I’m still mostly jealous of Rachel Weisz and Tilda Swinton, because they get to be themselves in addition to the sexy scenes, and of Birgitte Hjort Sorensen (because some of that Coriolanus action was hotter than many nude scenes, especially since it was night after night).
And Birgitte’s GOT character rocked
Williams was married twice and fathered a child with a third woman, so that’s at least three in ISTL
Mentioning Guillory – if a man made a comment about a lady’s bits as she did about the “Whole salmon on croute” I shudder to think what the reaction would have been in some places. 🙂
True. There would have been outrage. It was very unprofessional of her.
Ah, yes, raising more interest in the films had nothing to do with it . . . it was all nobility of purpose.
I do love Hiddles but I wish he would stop pontificating. I’ll gladly go see his butt but truthfully, the rest of him is just as attractive and I’d have gone to see the films without the butt.
All of which is to say, I’m tired of gratuitous nudity from both genders.
The most erotic cinema scene I’ve witnessed so far is the one between Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in “Notorious” when she’s cooking dinner for him and their love affair has just started before he ropes her into marrying Claude Rains to spy on him for the CIA . . . and the camera revolves around and around them as they wrap their arms around each other . . . and the dinner burns in the oven. So intense, so beautiful, so powerful – it was all projected with barely an ounce of skin showing . . .
My feeling is that these days the nudity is letting actors off the hook from having to project passion.
Oh my other fave romantic/erotic scene: Marlon Brando breaking into Eva Marie Saint’s grimy Lower East Side apartment and shaking her and calling out, “You love me, Edie, you love me, you know you love me!”
So sue me.
Yes. And film-makers should do more of this kind of scene. Enough with the unnecessary nude scenes.
Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr-From Here To Eternity -beach scene
And we have the link for his Graham Norton appearance next Friday:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06g0rkh
Bloody hell, he’s never been on Graham Norton before – I wonder what pictures Graham is going to show him. Obviously nudity will be discussed, that much is for sure. 😉
Also Kenneth Branagh is going to be there. Just like old times for them.
Aack! Hiddles and Branagh on GN? And of course I just cancelled BBC America because all they show is Star Trek, Gordon Ramsey and for some bizarre reason The Shining.
With DeNiro and AnnE Hathaway on the same show.
best news I’ve heard all day.
I think they’re taping this Saturday, so we should get reactions this weekend, hopefully.
i have been waiting for GN but could not find the date he was on and yes to Brannagh as well.There is also a satellite broad cast with Judy Dench and KB’company coming up.. I am taking my daughter and boyfriend to see both Cumberbatch and Coriolanus-neither are Shakespeare fans so it will be interesting to see which they like.
And he’s back on Twitter today to promote the NTLive broadcast of Coriolanus and there’s video of him and Josie discussing the play.
Enjoying all this bounty before he disappears into the monkey movie a month from now, not to be heard from again for 3-4 months
Haha! Monkey movie – @Lilacflowers, you have a way with words. But hopefully he will resurface for High Rise. We will be waiting on veranda, no?
It has been a bounty. 13 posts this month alone and three of those days we had a two-a-day! I’m feeling spoiled, though the shortage of long-form interviews being published is not lost on me.
Links to the Coriolanus interviews:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=28&v=3Cy9ylzwhrU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWjtqaHZm_8
my daughter tried to down load it but you have to have a particular app you phone but she is going to try on my kindle
The human race will only fail to right ourselves if we fail to deal with the environment before it’s too late.
Other than that? He’s right. The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice. We’ll always have setbacks and cul-de-sacs, but in the long term, we always move forward. It’s painful to be in the middle of that, but for most of us, it’s not nearly as painful as it was for most people living even as little as a hundred years ago.
I agree. It’s easy, heaven knows, to pick out examples of shitty human behavior. But if you look at human history, compare what we consider acceptable behavior today (you’ll notice that with all those examples of shitty behavior, they were immediately called out as shitty!) with what was acceptable behavior a hundred or two hundred years ago. Not all places on the planet are evolving at the same rate, and sometimes it’s two steps forward, one step back. But over the long view, humanity IS improving. it’s just not where we want it to be right NOW. That doesn’t mean it isn’t better than it was, or that it won’t be better than it is.
Late to the party, sorry! Hope there’s some beverages left!
But really, I just came on here to say how lovely *Sharon Stone* looks in those pictures but —–yikes. Just yikes.
Yikes is right. I don’t think Sienna/Sharon had a stylist/hair/makeup team with her on this trip – I swear I’ve seen her in both the dresses she wore before. And she really should have checked the weather forecast- there were rainstorms the day she was there – not the time to go with dresses that are backless and almost frontless. Ugh. I suppose appropriate undergarments are too much to hope for from a boho poster child.
Nipsy McNightgown doesn’t bother with brassieres, dear Dara.
Double yikes – Daily Mail has a few photos of her leaving the San Sebastian hotel. I don’t think they show what’s on her feet – looks like ancient Gucci fur-lined slippers, falling off her feet. If she wasn’t a celeb, she’d be kicked out of that very glamorous hotel for stinking up the joint.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3247384/Make-free-Sienna-Miller-far-cry-glamorous-red-carpet-self-leaves-hotel-slouchy-jumper-grey-tracksuit-bottoms-film-festival.html
@BostonGreenEyes, Plenty of beverages left for you, my dear. And some chocolate chip cookies still warm from the oven.
@Dara, at one point, she was wearing a pullover sweater with the picnic tablecloth dress
My mind must be playing tricks on me – I just did a quick scroll through old Sienna photos and couldn’t find either dress – and the tablecloth dress is Spring16 Victoria Beckham, so it must be hot off the runway. I usually find her style to be as messy as her personal life – not my taste at all. The press tour she did for American Sniper was about as good as she’s ever looked imo, and even then there were some big misses for me.
Thank you, Lilac! You have simply outdone yourself with this spread! You must be positively exhausted, what with your hubby here, there and everywhere!
@Boston Green Eyes, not even sure which country we’re in at the moment but it doesn’t matter.
wrong spot…
He’s just so old-school and nice, but maybe – just a little bit – naive with those rose-tinted glasses on. I think he’s been quiet on Twitter because he got sick of the negativity.
I really like this review of High-Rise. Drew McWeeney discusses Ballard’s background and how it impacted his writing; Ben Wheatley’s directorial choices; and Tom’s possible reasoning for choosing his recent roles.
http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captured/review-tom-hiddleston-brings-rumpled-dignity-to-madness-in-brutal-high-rise
the reviews have been mixed but mainly positive – some of the critics seem to focus on class issues which is really not what the book was about-looking forward to seeing Evans as well
I think he is lovely and such a talented actor, I really like him.
I was going to do the NT Live with audio commentary thing tonight, but it turns out you need the app, which you need iOS 8 to use. My iphone is too old for it. Really annoyed. I’m going to cross my fingers for someone putting online in a format I can actually download later. Wish I hadn’t bothered paying for a cinema ticket now!
If you haven’t already seen it you will be delighted. If you have, you will still be delighted!
It was my fourth time! Yes, it *is* still delightful – I think it’s had a slight re-edit from the Live version, there seemed to be fewer shots featuring the back of someone’s head.
Great, I’m glad you enjoyed it again.
I loved Coriolanus and find any excuse to re watch it-but the Donmar is or was one of my favourite stomping grounds-very intimate,brilliant acting and innovative work and it has visiting actors like Gatiss,Ean McGregor and Tom Hughs etc who are always worth watching and they make little fuss about it.The space also reminds me of one of the spaces at my drama college so it is a win win for me
Apparently, Tom’s character in Skull Island is a “former soldier.”
http://www.gamesradar.com/tom-hiddleston-was-blown-away-jordan-vogt-roberts-kong-skull-island/?tag=grsocial-20
It’s Jonathan Pine! 😀
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I agree with Tom. Humans do eventually right the ship. There is a reason why slavery is inacceptable, why women can vote, why gays can legally get married. And the list goes on and on. There are always going to be horrible people and horrible things that happen. But history ha shown that eventually enough people stand up and say enough and we make progress towards something better.
Amen! Ditto.
I, too, believe in the inherent goodness and resilience of the human race and share his optimistic view. And I am no one’s definition of “posh.” Optimism, in my view, isn’t limited by social or economic strata.
to true
Full Collider interview is up:
collider.com/tom-hiddleston-talks-high-rise-i-saw-the-light-and-future-projects/
I can’t find a good copy of the November Total Film article that Torilla posted about the making of CP (I had to download each page and increase the font to a readable size), but it is really good. GdT has some new and interesting things to say about the sex scenes in the film. Dara, you may find spoilers…
Tom’s “Born to be King” article in the same issue is good too, but I gleaned a lot more new info from the “Making of” piece with GdT & Chastain.
I suspect the Born to be King article was slightly cobbled together from existing interviews, or from a round-table session, because the quotes were all really familiar, and they padded it out a lot with descriptions of his past work.
Thank you for the warning @Nutty! I’ve been trying to save links to the CP promo stuff for perusal later (after I see the film). So far so good, but the film is really getting a major promo push and it’s getting harder and harder to avoid – I think I saw the trailer about 4 times in one night during various tv programs.
John Goodman joins the cast of Skull Island. There are details about the storyline in the article, too.
https://deadline.com/2015/09/john-goodman-kong-skull-island-movie-1201550234/
Twitter responses (actual reviews are embargoed until 13 October) to tonight’s surprise #FantasticFest screening of Crimson Peak at Alamo Austin have been AWESOME and OVERWHELMED. Then again, it could just be the beer. Evidently all attendees received a Mondo Poster Crimson Peak design etched pint glass well-filled with Crimson Peak Ale from Firehouse Draft–the brew is bright red, of course.
Could I be any more jealous? Probably not. One guy actually tweeted “now I get all those Tom Hiddleston pages on Tumblr.”!
That sounds awesome!
I wonder if there will be the return of JA durung the BIFf high rise premiere. Clint mansell wrote the score for this movie and JA is working closely with him.
New pic of Tom in so Sudan looking at Unicefs rapid response work for refugees. Pics apparently are from March right before filming TNM.
Link caused comment to get tossed, but pics are on official site of photojournalist Siegfried Modola. Lord Dragonfly is definitely bringing his Pine game in the two shots posted.
Thanks for the photographer’s name, TB. There are some amazingly beautiful and some deeply moving photographs on his site.
interesting that he kept it so silent this time
Perfectly timed for promoting three movies, it seems. I expect there to be more than a random couple of pictures to be released in the coming weeks.
Tom participated in a Unicef mission last March but kept it under the wire.Pictures on Torilla.
From someone who was at the Graham Norton taping:
@wonderkid_100
Tom Hiddleston just yodelled, mega fan girled over Robert De Niro and done some epic impressions just meters away from me 😍 #GrahamNorton
And more:
@EmilyBMorgan
@twhiddleston you were utterly adorable on #grahamnorton this evening! Beautiful singing 🙂 can’t wait for the films to come out!
Welp, judging by twitter responses both CP and High Rise just CRUSHED it at Fantastic Fest!
So many great reviews for High Rise!
nerdist.com/fantastic-fest-review-high-rise/
Clearly it found its target audience at Fantastic Fest, but I think TIFF was also something of an anomaly on the negative front–less flexible reviewers, film hoi polloi gulping down too many films in too short a time.
So many great reviews for High Rise!
nerdist.com/fantastic-fest-review-high-rise/
Clearly it found its target audience at Fantastic Fest, but I think TIFF was also something of an anomaly on the negative front–less flexible reviewers, film hoi polloi gulping down too many films in too short a time.
Yes, great reviews.
Now about Tom[s others movies, here is news pics from a ISTL and Tom and MIa Press conference in Rome:
– twitter.com/ilary_who/status/648462905084669952
– eonline.com/news/699754/exclusive-first-look-tom-hiddleston-s-costumes-in-i-saw-the-light-are-beyond-amazing?cmpid=sn-000000-twitterfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=twitterfeed&utm_campaign=twitterfeed_celebrities_topstories
– twitter.com/ilary_who/status/648449349354131456