Let’s start this Tommy Hiddleston post off right – with a heavy dose of Only Lovers Left Alive. I’m including the new one-sheet poster for the film, plus a bunch of images of Tommy and Tilda Swinton in character. Unfortunately the film won’t be released in America until April of next year. BOO! But most Europeans should get to see the film in the next few months, if you haven’t already. To tease the film, a wonderful, sexy, dancing scene was released several days ago. It was taken off YouTube (which makes me wonder if the scene was an official release), but I finally found the scene on another platform. Be careful: there are no Snake Hips in these scene, but there is some wonderful dancing by Tilda and Tommy, and it will cause some SQUEEs and some love-it-so-hard-there-are-tears.
Only Lovers Left Alive Clip – Trapped By A… by Flixgr
Right? I could easily watch two hours of just the two of them dancing together. Instead of Dancing With the Stars, just give me Dancing With Tommy and Tilda, and I will make that show a hit! Tommy teaching Tilda the Snake Hips. Tommy kissing Tilda’s arm. Tilda dancing by herself until Tommy has to join her. So much beauty!
In other Tommy news, Hello Magazine is doing an online poll for the “Most Attractive Man of 2013” and Tommy made the short list. Vote early and vote often! Also, you know how Tommy is in Coriolanus? The reviews are coming out and it looks like Tommy gets naked and takes a shower on stage. Yes, Virginia, there is partial nudity!!! It’s Tommy’s Christmas present to all of his Dragonflies.
PS… Tommy’s abs are better than I was expecting, but his pecs are worse than I expected.
Photos courtesy of ‘Only Lovers Left Alive.’
Nope. I’m over him. He’s no Ian Waite. I shall dance with Tilda instead.
Morning, lovely. I’m seeing a screening of Private Lives tonight, so any CB mancrush is going to be obliterated in Toby Stephens shaped cloud of hotness.
Have you seen any of the Coriolanus “reviews” yet? I can’t decide whether to laugh or cry.
“Have you seen any of the Coriolanus “reviews” yet? I can’t decide whether to laugh or cry.”
That bad huh?
Hello yersen!
I have been following a thread on Datalounge so am up to speed with Coriolanus Was Done Down By The Plebs Really Whatever Shakespeare Says And Quite Right Too If Puddletom Is Playing Him.
Even though Puddletom has been supplanted as my marshwiggle of choice, I want it to be good. We shall see next week!
Oh, enjoy the Toby.
Well, Miss Jup sent me a few that described TommyAnne’s Coriolanus as “charming” and “sassy” and complimented the fact that he makes Caius likable. The most legitimate review says that it’s consciously hip. I think they used the phrase “very Donmar.”
But hey, who cares about the actual text when Puddletom showers?!! (Even though Cumberkhan did it first)
There is an irony that Puddletom the disingenous-about-Eton actor is playing a revisionist Coriolanus, isn’t there?
But they suspend him upside down, he has a shower but keeps his trousers on, kisses a bloke and there are rose petals at the end.
I can’t say that it sounds like an interpretation I’d appreciate but I do think Josie Rourke knows what she’s about. Hopefully, what it is, is um… good but not to my taste?
I’m trying to be nice!
(The running time is 2h 30m INCLUDING the interval).
I recently saw the Donmar all-female JC, which I think was alsoO’Rourke, and the concept, which was excellent and provocative in theory, was superficial and gimmicky in execution.
And yes to the irony. I always thought Tom’s absolute lack of self-awareness would make him entirely wrong for Coriolanus.
I would have given my right arm to have seem Walken when he did it. Sixer, did you ever see Beautiful Toby in Thacker’s production? That was my first RSC experience!
I am all over that death scene. Upside down Tommy, bleeding out and twitching and gasping? I am all kinds of turned on. And that is probably the single most disturbing thing I will ever say. Ever.
I didn’t see Toby but I have seen you talk about it before and feel quite jealous! My first RSC was Thacker’s Merchant of Venice – so we are still bonded!
Well, perhaps he should do Richard III next?! (Although I do have Ricardian tendencies so perhaps I wouldn’t get snitty?)
PS: My darling brother has scored me tickets for Jude Law’s Henry.
I remember that production. It was the completely contemporary one. Who was Shylock again? I like Thacker. He does concept Shakespeare, but it’s really well thought-out.
I want to put Cumby in a hump and make him play Tricky Dick. He would own that role. Puddletom can settle for a (not) nice Bertram.
(Trying to ignore Janeite because I’m now very scared of her. 😉)
David Calder. He was excellent. My mother still raves about it today. The only Shakespeare I had seen before that was Regents Park Open Air, with the school. Actually, as contemporary as it was in the 1990s greed is good culture, it would make a great revival in the wake of the financial crisis.
Benny the Bitch would make a great Richard. Why oh why is he doing Hamlet?
Sod Shakespeare for Puddletom. He can be Francis Crawford of Lymond. Have you read it yet?
Don’t be scared, T.fanty. I’m really quite harmless.
I want to be generous since the only comments I’ve heard are from Twitter fans and on DL, but mixd in were some observations which struck me as even-handed, not biased.
It does sound like they are making a lot of cuts and shooting for a noble but misunderstood Coriolanus. The fan who described it as heartwarming and funny must have been smoking something.
Sixer, I would love it if we could stay in touch via Twitter or something. I started a blog! It’s always oovly to see you here.
Toby Stephens?! Where? When?! I’m in love with that man.
I have been following the reviews and tweets and they are mixed. So far we are only getting audience reviews but press night is not until the 17th.Fans are obviously flipping out over the shower scene etc but that is just fan behaviour and happens pretty much across the board with actors twitter,
There have been some great reviews from fans who are also theatre fans, one or two bad ones from traditionalists and those who have an axe to grind with the director etc, And then there are the partisan reviews of those supporting other cast members. The scarcity of the set design seems to bother some people but I cut my teeth on minimalist theatre productions so I will be interested to see how it works. The other criticisms relate to the interpretations of the plebs/leadership issues in the first act. But interpretations are what make Shakespeare interesting. Coriolanus is a treasure trove of political debate and the Bard being the Bard never really makes it clear which side he supports. Tom was always bring out the multi dimensional side of Caius; it is what makes him so interesting as an actor,From what I have read they have not cut the pleb insults. The acting across the board has been praised by actor fans and audience alike although some of it is of course partisan
As for Date Lounge that sight is so partisan I would never take discussion on there seriously. So I will wait for the press reviews and then make up my own mind in the night
Totally with you, Sixer. I’m sure though that the Hiddlestoners will “vote often.”
Oh gosh he is dreamy. But so…small! I want to know what he looked like when he put on 30 lbs of muscle to audition for the role of Thor!
I would too. I honestly doubt it was that much, I;’d say the 20lbs was more in weight than bulk but it would be really interesting to see him bulked up even a little.
You would need literally two of him, at his OLLA size, to make one Hemsworth 🙂
In one of the Wallender seasons he was noticeably heftier and I think that was the Thor weight. He looked perfect. I don’t mean *swoon*, I mean for his height, the extra muscle esp in the shoulders/chest made him look much less the (not bean pole, but super slim, right?) he usually looks and it gave him more of a presence. With the muscle on he was more my type, ha, okay just a little swoon.
Yes he was. I think this was the same season he was featured more during Wallander too. And his hair is displayed in ALL it gloriousness too!!!! Auburn/ginger curls galore.
I’ve only ever seen some still photos and a few clips from Wallender but yeah, he looked positively luscious then. That hair=massive aphrodisiac.
Please. That hotness wasn’t the hair. That was because bitchy, pouty little purse-lipped and eye-rolling Magnus was AWESOME.
B!tchy Magnus holds a higher place in my fantasies than Loki. I have a thing for a combo eye roll-foot stamp-sigh-sassy turns
Sounds like Magnus really needed a good spanking.
But that was the beauty of Magnus, janeite -you never knew if you would be the spanker or the spankee. I like a hint of mystery with my sass.
@j.eyre, really now? Color me intrigued. I will have to seek out the eps with Magnus then. A little giving and receiving is always a good thing. Variety and whatnot.
I would watch the hell out of a Magnus/Wallander sitcom, just for the record.
Yessss Magnus, all gingery, curly haired, muscle perfection. Loved it.
He lost weight for OLLA after discussion with the director. It was picked up on by fans who met him at the time .But I so much prefer lean and taut to bulked up any way.
I need to see this movie, I like those 2 together.
It does look inteesting. I’m digging the wild hair on Tom but the boy needs to lift a weight or two.
He purposely slimmed down (even more than usual) for this role. You can see in the pics of him training for Coriolanus that his pecs were building up again.
Tilda’s skin is flawless. I mean how old is she!!! She looks ageless
I’m not a huge fan of Hiddleston but Tom and Tilda…. now there is a HOT hot hot couple. Seriously, if they got together, they’d easily beat all the competition for celebdom’s most smouldering couple.
+1
Agreed!
I love this scene but I just loved them together in the film. It uses the age difference and really makes it work in a romantic subtle sexy way. Its my all time favourite film of this year of the ones I have seen
I really like this clip, I prefer this to the 90’s boyband dancing even if it is hilarious.
Tilda is such a goddess.
I go to bed every night dreaming of dancing with Tom like this.
Actually I usually dream of spiders or falling off cliffs or being naked at the mall, but when I wake up I think about Tom dancing like this.
And spiders 🙁
Always loved Tilda but was always too scared to see We Need to Talk About Kevin. Film looked waaaaay creepy (even though all reviews said she was so good in it!)
Saw it the other day. It was creepy. But also brilliant and uncomfortable and horrible. See it with a good girlfriend and a cupcake!
I am a fan of that movie too- beyond creepy but how good was Ezra Miller in it? I know it’s hard to think of reading the source material after seeing the movie, but the book it is based on is riveting.
I loved that book and was quite excited when I saw they were making the film. Tilda is good and Ezra gets close. But the John C Reilly casting was inspired.
John C. Reilly is fantastic. People just forget that because he’s done a bunch of crappy Will Ferrell comedies.
He is not only a good actor, as you pointed out, but I had no idea who could play this part. He’s a likeable person but he doesn’t listen to his wife and misplaces blame on her. So you get mad at him but you ultimately like him. It is a very delicate balance and was written beautifully. I didn’t know who could pull it off but the minute they announced Reilly, it was the perfect choice.
I saw some where that mention it will screen at Sundance in 2014.
Between this and the blood popsicle (plus Tom and Hilda and Jarmusch) a small part of me dies each day I have to wait to see it. April is a long way off…
The popsicles of blood are genius.
I have seen it and it’s great, quirky and funny also I like the way it’s shot. They both look great.
I so want to see this movie. Also, Tommy gets naked and takes a shower on stage. Squee.
Who says Santa doesn’t bring you stuff if you’re naughty?
Hey ICM, my favorite paintbrush
Hey, Jane darling. How are you?
I Choose Me,
He doesn’t get fully nude. It’s just a shirtless shower scene.
Boo. 🙁
The two right there on that couch….CANT THEY ADOPT ME??? 🙁
Well, that was hot. Very nice.
That OLLA clip was all kinds of wonderful. And the Coriolanus reviews (if one wants to call them that) that are coming out so far, are mostly of the fangirl type. I think official press night is on the 17th of December so maybe some genuine theatre critic reviews after that.
It is so freezing cold and snowy here that I have decided to live out of my blanket fort for the remainder of the winter. Tommy is going to join me and we are going to watch movies and order pizza and make out and stuff like that.
Aw, what’s wrong with his pecs? They’re perfect little handfuls. 🙂 I like that runner look though.
I can’t wait until this movie is released, I want to see if Tilda runs all over Tommy or if he really can keep up with her. I thought in some of the Cannes press it seemed like he was a bit out of his league between her and Jarmusch discussing the finer points of the film? Not that Tommy doesn’t seem like a very intelligent, well-spoken guy but Tilda is just a force of nature.
I remember when Tom was filming this movie a fan told him in an interview that he looked like he was losing weight. He replied it was for the movie. Jarmusch wanted that lean look.
He’s so skinny… but I’m enjoying looking at his muscular abs.
Also, I’m getting a Jared Leto vibe from his look in those photos.
I was thinking the same thing! How weird.
He has a total runner’s body. No upper body definition, but everything from the core down is super tight. Just throw a hundred push-ups a day into the regimen and that’ll fix the no pec/biceps problem right up.
I can’t take this post! I knew I shouldn’t have looked at it at work. Tom with long hair is such a pleasant surprise!
with that hair (wigs?) they look like two wishnick dolls, but the movie looks cool.
I can’t wait to see this movie.
He’s working my man-biscuit with that hair in that first poster.
Man-biscuit. Hee. And yeah, I like him best with long hair. Add a bit of facial scruff and cue the ‘moist lions.’
Dang, Tilda’s bone structure, those legs. Wow
Criss Angel wishes he looked like that poster of Tommy at the top of the page.
This! Yes!
+1. And +1 again.
Why does the release date for this keep changing?
Hi Mary-Rose, I think the US release date of April has been set for a little while now. But you’re in the UK, correct? I thought it was supposed to be released there sometime this month. Is that wrong?
Hey janeite. In the UK it was ment to be this month, then they changed it to February and now they’ve changed it again. Why do I have a feeling it might go to DVD?
Mary-Rose,
There is an official twitter account for OLLA. Most recent tweet from earlier today gives a confirmed UK release date of 21st February. Hope you see this!
Wow! Tilda looks exactly the same as when I first saw her back in the 90’s! I think they hired her because she is a very real vampire! 🙂
Tilda is an ageless goddess
Anyone know why Sundance for OLLA? Seems like a long time since Cannes & the Toronto Film Festival. Does it need distribution cash? Got my ticket to watch TH at UCLA’s theater for the not live broadcast of Coriolanus. I learned zero Shakespeare in school in Detroit, but since Henry V, TH is pulling me in. Hmmm, TH pulling me in….ahhh, off to my happy place.
THANKUTHANKUTHANKU, KAISER!!!
i was mistakenly under the impression this was going to come out this month & screamed in pain when i saw it comes out next April!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!! 😥
this is like food to my starving ass………bless you Kais, bless you. *pressing play again*