Yesterday, Tom Hiddleston was in Los Angeles, shilling for his Emmy nomination for The Night Manager. Do you ever wonder if Tom’s other Emmy-nominated British contemporaries are like, “Dude, you don’t have to try so hard”? I mean, Benedict Cumberbatch campaigned this hard… for his Oscar nomination. But not his Emmy for Sherlock. Bendy didn’t even show up to the Emmys the year that he won. Anyway, Hiddles did live-chats with Variety and the LA Times, but I can only find the Variety video & not the LAT video (well, I see one LAT video but it doesn’t have sound). Here’s the Variety video:
I’ve only watched about ten minutes of it, because that’s all I can take! No, he’s fine. I appreciate that Hiddles is not dropping f-bombs constantly, and I appreciate that he really does get so much pleasure from talking about the work. Here are the big headlines out of both discussions, including Tom’s reaction to RDJ’s Instagram shade/drag:
Why Loki was cut out of Age of Ultron: “It was a part of a dream sequence. It was a part of Thor’s nightmare. Thor has a dream where he meets Loki and Heimdall. It was a day long shoot for me, loved seeing Joss [Whedon] again and Chris [Hemsworth] and Idris [Elba]. As they were testing the film, the initial audiences were like ‘oh Loki is controlling Ultron!’, and Kevin Feige and all the guys at Marvel were like ‘um, no, he’s not’. So they just thought it was confusing. So they were like we have to get rid of it.”
When asked about his relationship with Robert Downey Jr.: “[Laughs] Robert and I are very close and I got to know him working on the Avengers in 2011. There’s a lot of mutual affection.”
On RDJ’s Instagram drag: “I feel like it’s an expression of mutual admiration. It’s great. He’s very sweet. And within the Marvel universe there’s a lot of that going on – a lot of throwing paper aeroplanes… I’ve just come from Australia where I was working with Mark [Ruffalo] and Chris [Hemsworth] and we had the best time.”
[From Cosmic Book News & The Daily Mirror]
Incidentally, RDJ trolled Hiddleston again, after RDJ posted the “I Heart Tony Stark” thing, he posted a photo of Tony Stark wearing an “I heart Loki” t-shirt. As for the rest of it… it’s fine. He’s Emmy-campaigning. He’s excited to be nominated for his first Emmy, he’s proud of The Night Manager and he really doesn’t want to believe that all of the Marvel guys are laughing about his Taylor Swift antics. Bless.
Tom Hiddleston played "Instagram filter or Marvel character?" with us on Snapchat. Check it out: 👻LosAngelesTimes pic.twitter.com/1ef0JsDIdk
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) August 12, 2016
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, Instagram.
He comes across as pretty naive and immature….
He is and this is probably why rdj is dragging him so hard. Also because he can. Tommy may block all the jokes the public is making at his expense now but he can not block RDJ. Makes me love RDJ’s self centered ass a bit. On the other hand, what is he is supposed to say now, he is not in a possition to call out the Marvel Godfather.
My impression from Tom is he is still,”I want to keep my private life private even though I am dating one of the most famous people out there”. He is naive. Jenelle (sp?) from Variety said we know you have been really busy and have only gotten home to England very briefly. He laughed uncomfortably like, oh yeah that was the day I pimped out my family for Tay.
…”oh yeah that was the day I pimped out my family for Tay.”
Bless you <3
I just snorted my tea out of my nose!
Lmao!
hahahahaha! win!
Immature? Really? In these interviews?
I’m getting very confused as to what maturity is supposed to look like these days. I mean, it seems like no one can do anything without getting ridiculed in some way or form. And let’s forget anything about accuracy, proportion or relevance. sheessh
+1
ditto
EXACTLY! Thank you, Cranberry!
+4
Seeing what they want to see?
@Cranberry, there seems to be a disconnect. On the one hand, these two interviews, neither of which contain anything cringe-worthy, are being cited as examples of thirst, naïveté, and immaturity while at the same time, petty, childish Instagram put downs are being encouraged and there is much criticism because they are not happening.
I sometimes think certain people make their minds up before they actually see the interviews. Nothing immature about them to me either.
+2
Because he’s in a public, very PR focused involvement with Taylor Swift, and still thinks he can keep his private life private and keep the focus on his work.
THATS the disconnect.
How so? He seems pretty on point to me. Just don’t see immature.
IKR?
Yeah i’m uncomfortable with the way general public sentiment is framing this now. The guy has a career he’s happy about and proud of… making fun of it or him is poor form. I don’t see RDJ as dragging him either. I see that latest from RDJ as respecting the boundary Tom wants maintained. To anyone else, Tom’s refusal to drop his boundaries (however disconnected it may seem to others) is called self respect. He’s got every right to that, no matter who he is dating.
I don’t think he is being naive at all. He knows the I heart ts shirt was cheesy. He is hoping that if he doesn’t make a big deal about it that we will all stop laughing about it. As for the interview I liked it as usual he gave well thought out answers to questions. I think he likes Taylor a lot and is choosing to go along with her famewhory ways. He will probably bore of that shit soon enough.
No one tries this hard for an Emmy.
The thirst is enormous.
Indeed.
Exactly. If he gets the blooming award, all it’ll do is sit on a mantle somewhere gathering dust.
In all honesty, I cannot recall any actor going this far for an Emmy.
In a way I am getting a very vague Ann Hathaway vibe with the award issue (just as she did for Les Mis Oscar)
Tom is ambitious. When did that become a negative?
But his coming to L.A. and doing a couple of days of interviews for his Emmy nom does not qualify as “thirsty.”
Seriously, you guys are just trolls. I should ignore you.
Literally anyone can get an Emmy. They have local Emmys. It’s not a huge award that one would actually campaign for.
@Felicity
Umm, yeah, they do campaign for Emmys. It’s a huge deal in this industry. And local Emmys ? What ?
Yeah for local news and college students can get nominated for college news. Google Regional Emmys.
Ok, I googled it.
First: The Primetime Emmy Awards is and always has been run by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) which stared in Los Angeles.
In 50s ATAS expanded to combine the NATAS, east coast and national regions. In 1977 they split but agreed to share ownership of the Emmy *statue and *trademark.
So while there are such a thing as regional emmys, they are given by NATAS only. The entertainment industry Emmys are only voted and awarded by ATAS. But all ‘Emmy statues’ look exactly the same with the ATAS/NATAS trademark on all of them.
This is normal promotion for an award nomination. The studio books it and he goes. He’s doing his job and when it comes to shilling his work, no one is better than Hiddles.
What’s thirsty is parading his teenage love affair with an arranged pap-documented international tour in which they pose for cameras and his pimps out his family. That’s THIRSTY.
Yes, and these same outlets are lining up as many of the other nominees as they can for similar interviews. He is doing his job and these two interviews were quite free of antics, other than Jenelle playing with her snapchat filters
I enjoy his interviews with Janelle. Reminds me why I started following him in the first place.
If this try hard twat wins the Emmy for his boring series over Courtney B. Vance, I will be so very disappointed.
+1000000
The LA Times interview doesn’t have sound for the first minute and a half.
He is a producer for TNM so he is promoting the entire series and the other people in it too.
I think people are trying to make the RDJ instagrams into something much more than they are. The Marvel actors do that stuff to one another on Instagram and Twitter all the time. Before Hayley Atwell gave up her Twitter account, she was the main instigator, teasing both the MCU actors and the Agents of SHIELD people.
@Sixer, Rik Mayall shout out in the Variety interview. Long right leg on full display for the entirety of the LA Times interview. Nothing hilarious in either, although the Variety one produced a silly Snapchat picture.
Any way, brunch is served. I’ll be sitting in front of the large fan trying to stay cool.
He was also a producer? Good to know.
Tom was an executive producer, so were Hugh Laurie, John Le Carre and his son.
RIP Rik. I still miss him.
What time in the interview? I can’t possibly listen to it all!
It’s about halfway through. He was just talking about comedians he loved to watch as a kid: Hugh Laurie, Rowan Atkinson, and Rik Mayall but he just says the name
Here is one of Rik’s poems. From The Young Ones:
Pollution, are you coming to my town?
Or am I coming to yours?
We’re on different buses, pollution
But we’re both using petrol.
Taken from us way to soon.
lilacflowers – you are being the sensible one today. 🙂
I watched bother this and the Variety interview (I like Jenelle Reilly) and enjoyed them both a lot better than some I have seen him do. No “second hand embarrassment”.
The one thing with Tom is that his commitment does not end when the camera stops rolling, he commits himself to promoting the project. I would rather have this sometimes overenthusiastic approach than the blase, bore “I’m too cool for this” attitude of some actors which I find a bit arrogant andinsulting.
I think he took the right approach to the RDJ instagram. He gave the impression that he thought if was fun and a joke and was not taking it seriously, which was the best (only?) approach.
Spidey, I thought they were both good interviews on his part. The LA Times interviewer herself came off as a bit awkward, I suspect she is a print journalist and not accustomed to asking questions on camera, but the interview itself was fine. Nothing cringe–worthy. And I have said several times that people are trying to make way too much out of the RDJ posts. They are colleagues, not a pair of sniping 12 year old girls. Movie industry, not music industry. We did learn that he doesn’t know if he’ll be able to attend the Emmys; Marvel is trying to adjust scheduling to make it happen, and that he’ll be filming Thor through November, and once again, there was a reference to mysterious plans for a stage project that he cannot announce yet. And he thinks Bryan Cranston will win his category.
Exactly. People are just reading too hard into some insta posts. Fact of that matter is we are just spectators looking in, making a lot of assumptions based off of things we -think- we know but in reality have no clue about. People are just reaching because they want there to be issues. Don’t get me wrong I love to gossip, its fun but sometimes people take gossip as though its pure fact. For all we know all these celebrities could be getting the last laugh at us. Even that stupid tank top Tom wore, I felt like that was more trolling us than anything else and now RDJ is in on it by trolling us more. They are all most likely just teasing and having a laugh at each others expense, just like everyday friends do.
agree
spot on!
Exactly. I appreciate the banter playing out publicly. It’s entertainment for the masses, which we are part of. Also like that Tom, and RDJ, both work for their fans. They could sit back and do the too cool for school thing but they don’t. They give all. Good on them.
“we are just spectators looking in, making a lot of assumptions . .”
+!
In too many ways gossip and social media have become more of a spectator ‘sport’. It’s entertaining when players are clever, have skill and can keep the ball (ridicule) in the court. But many have nether and use gossip-sport to just sneer at everything even when it’s not applicable. There’s no common reasoning applied just countless fouls and bad plays.
Who call a man “very sweet?”
… and brushes their thigh off and touches/pinches their nose (leaking body language tells) whilst doing so.
Someone who is a bit nervous?
Outer thigh brushing when seated = discomfort (emotional).
Nose pinching whilst speaking = not exactly being truthful with the words as spoken.
He was certainly discomfitted in that particular segment of an interview in which he, otherwise, showed no nervousness.
BREAKING: Iron Man destroys Loki. Twice.
–TheRealPinky
The boy is thirsty, SUPER thirsty, more thirsty than Bendy ever was/is. Unlike Tay Tay, Tiddles has a sense of humour and can laugh at himself plus this is the norm for the Marvel cast – they like to poke each other on Social Media.
“The boy is thirsty, SUPER thirsty, more thirsty than Bendy ever was/is.”
oh yes, im a gossip veteran and i remember how people were upset about Cumberbatch. they had no idea what sweet little Loki would become.
I’ve defended his humblebragging in the past, but 8 minutes in, he shoots right past that into straight up bragging territory. So hard. Much try. He makes 3 out of 4 ubercrushes I’m embarrassed to admit to, though, of them all, he’s the most harmless. Other past shames include Ronan Keating, pre-cheating scandal (I was 12, OK?) and Gerard Butler, before he fell off the wagon and into that portapotty. Should it turn out Josh Groban is a sleaze, I might have to consider getting my docuhe-radar fixed.
@DahliaDee, “fell off the wagon and into a portapotty” made me laugh so hard, mainly because I can relate so much to crushed hopes where Gerard Butler is concerned.
You aren’t having much luck DahliaDee…I will officially resign from the Chris Pratt Appreciation Society if he says one word about endorsing Donald Trump. Yes, I know he likes guns and shoots things, but the Trump thing would be a deal breaker…fingers crossed…
DahliaDee and Dara,
Same here *ashamed to say I still watch some Gerard’s old movies with a sense of longing and disappointment!*
Dara and SilverUnicorn,
For feck’s sake, I OWN the Phantom of the Opera bloomin’ DVD!!! I even watched Dracula 2000 for him! And Timeline! Attila! Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (OK, that was as much for Angie as it was for him. Just goes to show women are a lot more reliable than men; that torch still burns brightly) !! P.S. I Love You!! Still I prevailed… *le sigh* If that wasn’t commitment, I don’t know what was! I didn’t even do that for Tommy. I mean, I barely made it through his first line in Deep Blue Sea and then noped out of that film.
P.S. *douche-radar
P.P.S. We should form the Gerard Butler shame club or something. I bet there’s more of us out there 🙁
@DahliaDee, I also OWN Phantom of the Opera. Technically it belongs to my mother since I gifted it to her for Christmas, but it was my money that bought it, so we share joint custody.
For our first shame club movie night, may I humbly suggest Reign of Fire? Butler at peak hotness, with a grungy-but-still-very-bangable Christian Bale as a nice counterpoint.
@Dara, seen it 🙂 I am NOT revisiting it.
Speaking of guilty viewings, I finally managed to sit through 50 Shades of S*ite, though I may have pulled a muscle from all the eyerolling. I mean it, my right eye is twitching like crazy 3 hours later, even after rewatching The Fall Series 2 finale for a bit of palate cleanser (because Dornan was actually good there and it gave me a chance to drool over the very lovely Gillian Anderson as DSI Stella Gibson again). This was my 5th attempt. Alcohol wasn’t even involved, on account of a nasty bout of stomach flu. Pity me!!
@DahliaDee, I believe you mean 50 Shades of Get this the F off my television now before I barf!
@Lilacflowers, I watched mainly because I couldn’t quite believe Dornan could be so bad after his brilliantly creepy turn in The Fall, and because I was pleasantly surprised by Dakota Johnson who carries whatever’s left of the movie and somehow manages to make one of the most mindnumbingly boring characters ever seem luminous, and also because I’m a masochist 🙂 No, but after I let all the rage go, I laughed my arse off at Dornan’s acting. Another adept of the Joey Tribbiani school of acting, where if one has to look distraught for a scene you can always try mentally dividing 232 by 13, as evidenced here: http://s4.favim.com/orig/150227/50-shades-of-grey-anastasia-steele-christian-grey-jamie-dornan-Favim.com-2516844.gif
@DahliaDee, he looks like he surprised himself with a burp! I left my television on HBO one night when I went downstairs to get the laundry. When I returned, it was on. I looked up at it occasionally as I was folding clothes and decided it was so bad that I couldn’t even consider it laughably bad.
And how can we mention Butler and Bale in Reign of Fire without bringing up McConaughey’s over the top Woody Harrelson impersonation?
@Lilacflowers: “And how can we mention Butler and Bale in Reign of Fire without bringing up McConaughey’s over the top Woody Harrelson impersonation?” Thank you, that’s whom he reminded me of. More like imperso-dili-ation though 🙂
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
When Mr Sixer says, “Morning, Great Gob Almighty, what’s got your goat today then?”
I hear, “Morning my lovely little sunbeam. You epitomise world peace and love.”
I feel LEGS is applying similar levels of cognitive dissonance.
Great Gob Almighty!
I call him Fatterbellygutbucket because he worries that his cheese addiction will make him fat.
Cheese addiction! Now, I’ll have to watch Wallace & Gromit at some point today.
I still do need cheering up. Dermatology appointment in a few minutes and that always freaks me out because of bad family history and the fact that, for me, SPF15 means “if you smear this crap on your face, it will give you only 15 minutes to run outside to your destination before the sun burns your face to a crisp.”
Good luck!
Wallace and Gromit doesn’t even come close to Mr Sixer’s cheese addiction. I actually hide cheese behind items he doesn’t eat in the fridge so he doesn’t know the stuff he can see isn’t all we have.
Visit went okay. No melanoma.
Mr. Sixer’s cheese addiction reminds me of a popular PSA that ran during our Saturday morning cartoons growing up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xRv9ZQOCPo
Lilac, glad to hear. Don’t ever move out to the desert Southwest. It’s skin cancer central out here.
@Bonzo, thanks. When I head out to those parts, I practically wrap myself head to toe in gauzy stuff. I lost an aunt to melanoma and because of my own cancer history, they’re especially vigilant.
All the phews for Lilac.
Bonzo – I’ve just emailed that video to Mr Sixer. He is yet to react!
@Sixer, he is probably stunned speechless. Or looking for a 10 gallon hat to indicate his levels of cheese cravings.
Sixer, I’m expecting him to don his best American accent and sing that every time he goes to the fridge!
Lilac, our neighbor lost her 11 year battle to melanoma last March leaving behind a husband and 5YO boy. Surprisingly, his dad often sends him to play without having applied sunblock. I make sure all the kids are protected before I let them loose to play.
@ lilacflowers. Good news, nice to know your crappy week is ending on a high.
He’s now in from work:
“If you think you can put me off melting Stilton into the gravy of the next steak casserole I cook, you are sorely mistaken.”
Lilac, if you have access to a Trader Joe’s (or if you don’t, go online), and get their spray sunblock 50+. It’s rated as number 1 by Consumer Reports as the best out there, that actually gives you that FULL reported protection. As one who lives in Los Angeles (and maintains chicken-belly pale skin – OK a *bit* of an exaggeration lol), I can tell you it *does* work well. I even apply it to the tops of my hands when I drive to stave off the dreaded “liver spots”; so far so good!
Congrats on the good exam news!
@Imquirious2, I spray that stuff every day on the tops of my feet, hands, and chest. I’m still “tan” (pasty white English-Irish tan) in those areas but it does seem to limit some of damage. I can’t use it on my face though. My dermatologist gave me some samples of stuff to try today. Of course, sun damage shows up decades later and I spent my childhood tagging along to the beach every summer day with my older sisters.
@Sixer, did you say steak casserole? With Stilton?
@Bonzo, oh that is so sad.
Lilac – yes! It’s actually very popular here. You make the gravy for the casserole (or pie filling) using beer and Stilton cheese. It’s actually very nice! Here’s a decent recipe using Guinness, for the Irish in you. 😉
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/user/731259/recipe/beef-guinness-and-stilton-pie
@ Sixer, I’ve taken the opportunity to copy that recipe – sounds great.
I have done a recipe from Delia Smith for steak kidney and mushroom pie which uses suet pastry. It is so easy to make and yummy
8 oz (225g) self-raising flour
4 oz (110g) shredde suet
cold water
salt and pepper for a savoury crust
Just seive the flour into a bowl, sprinkle in the suet and mix around with the hands. Sprinkle in some water (you need more that for short crust) and mis until it comes together in an elastic dough that leaves to bowl clean. Roll it out thickly to about 1/2 inch (1 cm) thick. Cut and cook as for your recipe or a little longer.
@Sixer, that looks fantastic. Now, if it weren’t too hot to eat anything but melting ice, I would make that right up this weekend. Sadly, it will have to wait until the the weather drops about 30 degrees.
“I feel LEGS is applying similar levels of cognitive dissonance.”
Yep!!
LOL. @Sixer you totally get it!
I think some non-American Hiddles fans don’t get why Hiddles wearing the I love TS shirt is a national joke. Taylor’s biggest fanbase is tweens and she SELLS herself as a Forever-13year old-who believes in fairies and forever-after Disney cartoon love to the Moms of these tweens. Most adults suspect her image is fake but they like her chaste role modeling to their tween girls because sex and sex appeal = evil! LMAO
So yes a 35 year old grown azzed man dating Miss forever-13 and proudly wearing a ‘I heart TS’ shirt like the millions of 9-12 year old girls is equal to a 6’5″, 300Ib linebacker (US football) wearing a frilly pink Tutu, white tights to do awkward ballet. Hilarious and can’t be unseen!
Yes he has lost respect from people who thought he was a “serious actor”, but it has increased his profile and they say all press is good press. So his career will be fine. The jokes shot at him on the other hand will continue…
I think, on this side of the Pond, it’s not so much a non-manly wearing of the t-shirt as a non-U wearing of the t-shirt. These poshies are ok to mock themselves but they are not ok to go low rent with it, you know?
Either way though, it was an hilarious image mis-step. Like you say, hardly career-ending but SUCH fertile ground for mockery!
“equal to a 6’5″, 300Ib linebacker wearing a frilly pink Tutu, and white tights”
It’s only a national joke among celebrity/tabloid/gossip outlets and social media of the same nature. It makes for good material for talk show hosts, but it can only be used once cause it’s just not that universal of a joke like a 300lb linebacker in pink tutu.
Taylor-fest maybe huge among those invested in celebrity/gossip and sm, but most the mainstream public that even know who she is don’t follow her life or give it much thought if they see it on Colbert. Some might remember, but most won’t unless constantly reminded, and even then they’ll probably be perplexed or mildly amused at most. As for THE national joke, nothing’s going to beat Trump imploding in 2016. Nothing. It’s the reality show of the century.
An apt way of putting it, Sixer. Applied cognitive dissonance IS world peace and love.
I think he handled it in the best way he can under the circumstances. Brushing it off as a fun jab from a snarky friend and not letting it focus too much on his much-mocked relationship.
As a mom to a 14 yr old girl who has 2 friends who she has disassociated with because they are sexting and having sex, I can appreciate the appeal of Taylor Swift over most of the hoochie mama singers.
Men tease each other all the time.
If someone would dump a girlfriend because she’s lame then that’s pathethic.
Exactly, I don’t know why people are trying to find shade in it,when there is none.
He IS super try-hard, insecure, immature and generally a mess. A sheep parading around in a well educated, sophisticated wolf’s clothing.
And we love him.
Ahem… no. You (and some others) love him.
I totally like to make fun of him and I’m just here to read all the smart, snarky comments!! 🙂
I don’t see how he’s immature. I wouldn’t call him generally a mess either, far from it, unless you mean his career is a mess right now. Still, he handles things pretty calm and collectedly. You know – mature. A sheep? Why, because he’s generally a nice guy? Doesn’t quite fit. And super try-hard? In the most superficial, greedy, toxic industry outside of politics. Ok, sure, add him to the list.
@Cranberry, you forgot fashion and cosmetics. Though one could argue that the three, along with plastic surgery, are so close as to be downright incestuous.
Lol sure Jan
He says there’s a lot of “throwing of paper airplanes…”
Swifty has a song that references paper airplanes…
It definitely means she’s pregnant
😅😅😅
He struggled to find the right words, he should have said ‘ribbing’ or ‘piss taking’ but to have said that would have inferred it was something he should be embarrassed about in some way and he can’t do that can he because he was being ‘authentic’ in his wearing of the T-shirt.
He was very guarded in that first interview I think, the second less so as he seems to have felt more at ease with the interviewer, but the nervous over exaggerated laugh was telling it knocked him off his train of thought for a moment.
As someone has noted his self soothing body language often leaks his discomfort.
Self soothing body language. Great observation.
Yeah, it was pretty apparent in that first interview that he was uncomfortable. He wanted to steer clear of any references to the universal piss-taking that he’s experienced the past two months.
Same with his nervous laugh (26:00 mark) at Janelle’s comment about seeing something about him being home in reference to TIDDLES visit to England in June.
I giggled at the 22:30 mark when he talks about pure acting and it ties in nicely with his recent quotes about the recent word salad authenticity of TIDDLES:
“The thing you’re supposed to believe in doesn’t exist so you have to commit your belief as an actor to your imagination. otherwise the audience won’t believe it.”
Committed =/= belief.
@ Bonzo: on point 😉
@Lilac: glad you’re OK.
It’s kind of nice that he’s taking the Emmys seriously. All the good writing is on television these days, and the Oscars are a dated hot mess.
And AMC arranged all the interviews for yesterday and today to promote its investment, but he is thirsty for doing his job.
I don’t see him being any extra. He is as he always has been. And like you, I don’t get how it’s thirsty to promote work you’re proud of.
@lilacflowers. I live in So Ca, the land of eternal sunshine. Skin cancer prevention is a way of life for us. I never leave the house without 45+ on and all of my cosmetics have 20+ My dr told me to even wear it when I’m driving because I developed spots on one side of my face from the sun coming thru the window. Anyway stay safe and so glad you’re ok!
@Beach Girl, thank you
He looks fabulous in that header shot. He really is getting his American look perfected. I’d need to see the shoes to confirm. No suede shoes for you, Tom!
When listening to TH speak, I wish english was not my native language. I could just sit back and enjoy the sound of his voice.
Does that make me shallow?
Depends on the shirt you are wearing while you are listening.
No, it doesn’t make you shallow.
But something tells me you think his words are hollow.
🙂
Hollow words. Like one of those chocolate Easter bunnies, promises of sweet pleasure through and through , but in reality filled with air and empty dreams.
I need to go slap my baps.
“and he really doesn’t want to believe that all of the Marvel guys are laughing about his Taylor Swift antics. Bless.”
I think many actors ‘need’ to live in that sort of denial. Let’s face it, if any of them would listen to all the negative chatter about them, the critics, the gossips, well… the number of full-time working actors would be exiguous, many would stop being in the business altogether.
Well given RDJ’s history, Pataky’s pap ( and past) history and Renner’s recent personal history, I have a feeling he may just survive all this.
Pataky is a non-entity anyway and never had a real career. Methinks that moving to Australia was Chris Hemsworth’s way to ensure his wife can now be ‘thirsty’ only on IG….
Renner is mocked anyway, regardless of his recent issues. RDJ’s never had TH’s image or reputation, he fell off the wagon in his teens…. (followed him since early days so I know that very well!).
Having said the above, I don’t think you got my comment in the right way… or maybe did it come across in the wrong way? I think that not only his career will survive but it will have a boost too. It’s only the uber fans being disappointed, tune in for a lot of job opportunities for Mr. Hiddleston. I always thought he wanted the ‘real’ fame, the ‘serious’ actor thing was just a beginning for him…. as with “being mocked by people”=”end of career”, pfft the Kardashians are mocked by the whole planet and they’re doing just fine.
Sorry, my reply probably came across the wrong way 😳 as I was really agreeing with you.
I think all this will have been forgotten by 90% of the public in a few months time. Especially if he stays in Oz until November. And does another Shakespeare in the next year or so.
@Spidey
“as I was really agreeing with you.
I think all this will have been forgotten by 90% of the public in a few months time.”
Oops sorry, maybe just a misunderstanding! 🙂
I’m of two minds about ‘forgotten’. Usually such enormous displays of fame seeking attitudes don’t go unnoticed but… he’s a white man and well educated, so if he churns out a few good performances I guess the whole affair will take second stage (whether he’s with or without her). If instead he doesn’t capitalise on his new found fame in the right way… well, the whole charade will be held against him, sort of ‘his career started falling off when he met, such and such’. Time will tell, as usual! 🙂
I do love that I love Loki shirt on RDJ. Hilarious 🙂
He has more sense to pick a fight with RDJ (I know who Marvel would keep if there was an issue and it’s not Tom) so spinning the comments in a positive way is about all he can do. I doubt he’s delusional enough to believe what he’s trying to sell but I can’t blame him for the attempt.
He does have more sense cause he and RDJ are friends, and it’s obvious RDJ is just playing with him like friends do. Hence why RDJ posted the I heart Loki pic. Actually Tom tends to speak in this fashion a lot. He’s known for being very gracious and very wordy but not retaliatory. If he’s spinning any salad it’s to side step bringing up Taylor and the real-pho-ship.
I think he is just over his head….
Agree 100%.
“Wow. Well, uh, you know it’s interesting. We all live in a world where every phone has a camera and there’s nothing new really about the spotlight on me. I think, you know, the spotlight that’s what happens when you’re a public figure. Um, what have I learnt about it? I’ve learnt to… I don’t quite know, maybe it’s too soon to tell. But, um, let me give you a proper response.
I’ve learnt that there are many sides to a story, and that, um, that sometimes there are a lot of stories out there that are false. And the hardest thing is to try not let those falsehoods affect your own life” – Tom Hiddleston 8/12/2016 (or 12/8/2016 UK)
So much to parse, so many “uh/ums” (for him and us) but “just over his head” may be part of it. “… maybe it’s too soon to tell” may be the most truthful or least mendacious and/or ingenuous of it all.
And it’s not people with camera phones he has to worry about, it’s his girlfriend calling the paps for every staged stroll.
He thought he could turn it into comment on people using phones to take photos of celebs before realising he wasn’t answering the question, stalled for time to think but his all too careful answer shows how much he actually cares about the negative media. Adding it’s hard not to let it affect you affirms it. I would guess it has affected him and is possibly the reason Taylor did not return to LA the day he did and perhaps he is also thinking of Taylor being affected by Kimyegate, he has been a close witness to her going through it.
I was considering Lizzie Olsen’s nonchalant answer about the gossip on her life when asked directly about Tom, that they will write what they want. I get the impression Taylor is the same most of the time but recently she was hit very hard and now seems to have gone on a charm offensive. I think he dislikes that spotlight but he can’t complain as he knows it would sound disingenuous, he has only had some light ridicule, as they go forward there will be all kinds of opportunities for stories, vague truths & complete BS, especially when they are miles apart, it really is too soon to say how he will cope with it as it continues.
I think he still believes anything Swift tells him. If she says she doesn’t arrange shots with paparazzi, he will believe it. If she says, Kanye is the devil, he will believe it. Can we discuss that yet another song was confirmed as written for an ex. Taylor Lautner confirmed Back to Dec. is about him.
So, he loves playing savior to the wounded teen.They are now sulking together pretending to be baffled about why people are talking about them. Tom, it’s because you made it public. I have never seen one picture of Cumberbatch’s and his wife’s courtship. Not one.she is not known, but he is a huge star.Learn something, Tom
I just can’t believe he wasn’t quick-witted enough to return fire with a second Instagram post humorously constructed as a paper airplane back to RDJ. If that’s the environment/culture (and I believe it is) then he’s not playing or doesn’t have the wit to pull it off.
He should’ve come to CB for some hasty advice on witty responses. Now he’s left saying lots of words about “mutual affection” when one pithy Instagram post could’ve closed it dead.
Now RDJ is two up and TH is out of the game.
Perhaps that was the case, or he just thought silence is golden. Sometimes it is best to not respond or things just carry on.
I think in this situation, a humorous response would have been better than silence. I think he is uncomfortable having his TIDDLES antics brought up again, especially during Emmy campaign season.
Perhaps he is suffering jet lag and just wants to focus on the job he flew over to do and leave other distracting stuff out of it. If he has any issues with RDJ, he can pick up a telephone and call him. Like a grown-up. I realize that won’t make the gossip gods happy but not everyone has to descend to the level of a Kardashian, no matter who they’re dating.
“saying lots of words about “mutual affection” when one pithy Instagram post could’ve closed it dead.”
Lots of words and phrases like “mutual affection” is typical Tom speak. He’s not the type to “hit back” even in the spirit of fun and games. Maybe he’s being careful too, but I agree with @lilac that he’s busy with Emmy interviews and flying back and forth to OZ. I’m sure he will respond with something sweetly formal or flowery like, “Thank You Tony Stark for your most kind welcome . . blah, blah”. He’ll probably make a little joke but it will be pretty safe. Retaliatory “hit backs” are not his strength.
“and he really doesn’t want to believe that all of the Marvel guys are laughing about his Taylor Swift antics. Bless.” LOL XD
my thought exactly, poor little lamb XD
I listened to the whole Variety interview. Interesting points: Tom may not be present Emmy night. He IS going back to AU to work on Ragnarok soon. He will be working on Ragnarok in AU until November. Until November! Marvel is working on letting him come back for the Emmys.
So Tiddlesbanging, over or we can work through this?
But you and I know that if he does return for the Emmys there are those who will say he is just a thirsty famewhore, won’t he? 🙄
Not necessarily, unless he brings Tay as a date which would be self-defeating anyway.
No over this relationship gave him plenty of PR he will get hold on as long as he can, when he finish this promo Emmy he will join her and then to Australia
Made worse by the fact that he’s going to lose big time to Bryan Cranston. Not only is Cranston insanely popular, he deserves to win!
Also People v. OJ will take the rest. Calm down Loki, geez.
I bet that’s the real issue. Is Marvel willing to disrupt their shooting schedule when Tom’s expected to lose to Cranston or Vance?
Despite all the nominations, I won’t surprised if TNM goes away empty-handed, at least in the major categories. They’ll have a hard time beating Game of Thrones, People vs. OJ , House of Cards and Mr Robot.
I actually have money on him winning it (real money). I don’t think he should – Cranston for me – but this is a strong contender for the traditional ‘Emmys’ shock-win/so-and-so (Cranston/Vance) was robbed’ category. It generates copy for the Emmys (and being Brit helps) – The ATAS have form on this. If accompanied by Taylor it will generate even more copy.
Do we know yet which episode he submitted for consideration (must check Gold Derby) – that can have a big impact? Were I him, I would have submitted Ep1 or Ep6… he was very weak in the others, outshone by his co-stars.
/Update: TH is bottom of the pack on average odds of 80/1. However, glad to see Hugh Laurie is third fave in his category coming in at around 10/1 – I wouldn’t object to his win (may put some real money there too).
@Dippit
Are there 12 step meetings for your . . affliction?
😉
@Cranberry – no affliction, just small wagers. I’ve been around horse racing all my life so know to maintain a ‘never bet what you can’t afford to lose’ attitude.
I do a couple of bets for each The Emmys, GGs, BAFTAs, and Oscars. Reading Gold Derby makes it fun, and as informed as these things can be.
Can I just say…
… what is it with all the love for People vs OJ? I watched it and enjoyed it but surely it was just a good quality TV version of a biopic? There was nothing particularly outstanding about it. Nicely done but nothing special. Mind you, production values aside, I wouldn’t have TNM in a nominations list either, considering all the excellent tellyboxing that went on last year.
Dippit – several older members of my family raced greyhounds, so I’m the same with enjoying a little bet. My favourite is the goal handicap bit on the Saturday football betting slip! Don’t they have weird laws about sports betting stateside?
@Sixer, the love for People vs OJ is a mystery to me as well. I didn’t enjoy it. I found myself doing other things while watching it.
@Dippit
No worries, just giving a little piss – did I use that right? Sounds like an interesting info source. Is it all online?
@sixer, I didn’t watch it cause of the low production values. I’m sure the performances where all good, but like you said it looked like “quality TV version biopic”. Plus, I remember the whole thing. It was reported on constantly; You couldn’t get away from it. I think it’s popular right now because the sensationalism of the subject matter and the Kardashian connection. It fits right squarely into our gossip media, reality TV culture, and it has the hot button, social justice issues that are painfully relevant right now.
@lilac
Glad you got some good news whitey. (joke) Hope you can stay cool this weekend. Those mist sprayer hoses you hang from awnings or from trees are pretty cool.
How do you lose “big time” in this sort of thing?
You not only don’t get the award, but they come to your house and take away one of the awards you’ve won in the past.
Oh I see, So that Olivier he got for Cassio back in the day will be confiscated too? 🙂
Well it *is* a vote, but we’ll never see the tally. It’s hard to disagree that he’s not a front runner – Vance or Cranston, I can’t decide, have this locked up.
@spidey, it will. It’s a brutal system. 🙂
But will others on the list from TNM lose big time if they lose, or just lose?
@Spidey, does his mum still have that one? I fear the Evening Standard award may be in danger.
@lilacflowers, knowing mum she has probably hidden it well.
Astonishingly, as someone who’s only here for the TayTo laughs, I didn’t really find anything too cringe-making in that interview. And I don’t really understand why him being uber-enthusiastic about TNM Emmy nominations, what with him being both a key part and exec producer of it, is a reason to eye-roll at him and call him thirsty? Surely that’s just being gratefully professional?
Obviously, there are countless valid reasons to roll around in delighted, eye-rolling mirth at him and his ‘private’ antics, but this, not so much.
@Guesto, exactly. AMC booked these interviews. He flew 16 hours to do them and at some point, he’ll fly 16 hours back. He is behaving like a professional and an adult, showing gratitude for the opportunity and the professional accolades received, and trying to keep the conversations on topic, as the network expects him to do. He is doing his job. AMC is also not paying for him to engage with a petty Instagram feud with RDJ, which he probably doesn’t want either, yet he is getting dragged for not engaging in a silly, childish feud.
Now, he is wearing the gray shoes and the same clothes he wore on the plane. That is reason to laugh.
I agree. It’s the old Tom- professional and hard working, promoting his projects the way he’s always done. It gave me some hope that he’s back on track. Now if we can just get through the next few days without his messy personal life overshadowing his hard work I will breathe a sigh of relief. Fingers crossed I’m reading too much into that IG follow….
cancel – wrong drunken place.
I tend to agree re: these two particular interviews… BUT, I think this now appears as though not only will his “fake” and “derision worthy” (‘relationship’) new rep be hard to shake off, but that his “thirst” has been consolidated in peoples’ consciousness and that’ll now follow him too.
I think his own body language when the RDJ thing was touched upon indicated he has an inner awareness of this too.
@bonzo – Oh he so knows why he’s the become an object of ridicule.
To suggest otherwise would be (for his fans) to deny everything intelligent about him. 😉
I presume you meant Dippit. 🙂
I’ll happily take the mistake as a compliment :); although allow that you may not Bonzo given the way I witter on.
Oops. Sorry, Bonzo. I was of course responding to Dippit.
Put it down to my having a day off and lunchtime drinking. 😉
Just read an interesting comment re an article from Wired mag about digital relationships. Maybe the IG follow is a way of having a digital pap walk without a live one? Wouldn’t that be wonderful? Would it have the same meaning or commitment? Of course she still needs to follow back. Think I’m grabbing at straws here….
followed back she did
I so read this in yoda’s voice 😂😂😂
Me too lol
From today’s interview. WhAt has he learned about celebrity this summer:
His response: “We all live in a world where every phone has a camera” and “there’s nothing new about the spotlight for me.” He said it’s almost “too soon to tell” what he’s learned. He said “there are many sides to a story. Sometimes there are a lot of stories out there which are false. The hardest thing is to try to not let those falsehoods affect your own life
I think HE thinks it’s real. Which supports my earlier theory.
A real fake PRomance! Yes! That will allow me to sleep at night and not sound like a lying douche whenever I open my mouth.
I think he’s found an “authenticity” in it he can “commit to”, much the same as any other role.
That is a different thing to it being or his thinking of/knowing it to be “real” in the real sense of real.
Ugh. And he almost had me back after the Variety interview yesterday. I’m going back to my “contracted a brain eating bacteria in the swamps of Vietnam” theory from a few weeks ago.
Same here. There were some hints about his private life from all interviewers and it seems they all got some instructions to not touch those waters but of course that area is very tempting 😉 I´ve got that feeling he´s not very comfortable lately and some of his answers were saying a lot without telling anything actually, just words, words, words, long sentences….
@ Sue, “were saying a lot without telling anything actually,” which is actually the best way to deal with questions that you don’t want to answer. Ask any politician.
For the most part, the recent interviewers are also film or television reporters, not gossip reporters. While many seem to believe the two are one and the same, and for some media outlets they are, for the bigger film and television and newspaper outlets they are not and the interviewers are far more interested in the work than the personal life because asking about the art and the work behind it is their job. Asking about the personal life is not their job.
As for Tom, he has made it a point in the past that he is not going to discuss his personal life with any great openness and he does not seem to have changed that. Pap shots (be they pre-arranged or not) are not the same as answering questions. He also has to be experiencing some extreme jet lag, which can make people a bit less sharp and a bit more cranky.
When I go to Twitter his interviews are completely overshadowed by retweets re the IG follow. Was it planned this way? The follows back and forth at the same time as Emmy promo interviews to drive more traffic? Wow.
Posting on two threads here…
What? Calculating? These two innocent babes in the woods.
“I didn’t know it was going to be on the bucket list until it happened,” Hiddleston quipped in the Envelope’s video studio earlier this week. “I’m just happy it happened. I’m happy that that’s something that has come into my life in a way that I didn’t expect. Sometimes the universe hands you something on a plate that you didn’t expect and, for me, it was the Rear of the Year award.” – Tom Hiddleston
So many puns, so little time… he least expected Rear of the Year when he should’ve probably (had his PR not persuaded him otherwise) have least expected to appear be Arse of the Year.
I thought for a second he was talking about the love of his life and their absolutely not fake relationship. I should have guessed he’d never speak so openly about Taylor. Somethings should remain sacred.
shocked to know it’s not about the love of the century…boring
Jet headed west
Today’s interviews: one blue suit, blue shirt, no tie. One black suit, white shirt, and a tie for a total of seven different articles of clothing!
And does Dominic Patten always talk so fast and so aggressively?
I’m pretty much sure RDJ is trolling Hiddles for reals. It’s not a mutual admiration society. Hiddles seems like kind of a simp doesn’t he?
More than pretty sure RDJ does Not troll friends and colleagues. That would make him kind of a simp wouldn’t it? After all, RDJ and Hiddles have history together that words alone can not express. One can only witness the love fest that is: Tony Stark hearts Loki.
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@Cranberry, it would also make others less willing to work with him. All he has done in recent years is Marvel or Sherlock Holmes. He needs to be nice to people if he wants to work outside those franchises. Studios will only tolerate so much.
What is a simp?
@Sixer: It’s American slang for “simpleton” On another note, I’ve spent my career as an investigative reporter in various media: TV, print & radio. I cringe at the way the “entertainment press” tip-toes around celebs, lobs softball questions and allow themselves to stick to canned questions. As for Hiddleston, he becomes more inauthentic with each passing day. He ought to just stick to the work. Also, since Hugh Laurie and Olivia Colman are also nominated for Emmys and HL is also a producer are they doing any press in advance of the Emmys? IMO, both of them were better than TommyAnne in TNM.
Thanks, Evie. I won’t be using that term!
@Evie, Olivia has done some recent interviews on TNM. It is up to the studio who they make available for the press.
Evie, I just figured that’s what she meant. I wasn’t aware it’s being used regularly.
Hugh and Olivia have promoted promoted TNM. As for the Emmys, Hugh already has a few, plus some kids and other projects he working on. He’s already established in US, so of course he’s going to have the young buck do all the Emmy footwork.
The “entertainment press” is part of the entertainment industry. They work together. They’re not real journalist, and Hiddleswift real or fake is not “real news”.
So she has flown out to meet him…hooray.
I am hoping for a cryptic picture on her IG of a large diamond ring, but with no comment.
Tiddles continues lets hope they up their game, gym crab walks and jogging pics won’t cut it for me anymore.
They need to go large and tell the internet they give zero f*cks.
or her brother is back in town. Maybe Austin didn’t have garden duty. Time will tell.
since when being professional is thirsty ?
when it is someone you want to throw shade at.
All actors are thirsty, surely thats the primary requirement.
Toms earnest demeanour is not percieved as cool, I find it refreshing though.
Having said that, I reserve the right to indulge in good natured piss taking, tiddles is fun and I’m loving it.
Good natured is fine.