There are lots of new interviews and odds and ends with Tom Hiddleston’s many film promotions, so let’s get to it. More than a month ago, Tom gave an interview to Empire about Crimson Peak and whether he believes that ghosts are real. As it turns out, he not only believes in ghosts but he’s actually seen one! Maybe. He claimed he saw two old lady ghosts at the foot of his bed once and his story sort of scared the bejesus out of me. But when talking to MTV over the weekend, Tom made it sound like his ghostly experiences are more theoretical.
“My imagination wants to believe in ghosts. I certainly loved ghosts as a child. I’m sure there are people who could explain the physical impossibility of supernatural phenomena, but it’s more fun to believe in a world with ghosts — if only because it’s fun to believe in a world with ‘Ghostbusters.’”
My imagination does not want to believe in ghosts, although some spooky stuff has happened to me. I don’t want to talk about it!!
What else? Tom has been getting a lot of questions about Thor, Loki, Marvel and all of that. His answers are… interesting. Meaning, he sounds over the whole Loki thing but he still has a contract and he’s waiting to see if he gets a call about the third Thor film, I think. He was asked about Benedict Cumberbatch taking on Doctor Strange and Tom said: “I’m very happy about it and I gave him no tips. He needs no advice from me. I don’t know much about Doctor Strange but I’m sure he’ll be excellent.” He also theorized about what Loki has been doing in Asgard –there are some spoilers in the video below:
He also says he hasn’t spoken to anyone at Marvel in “two years.” What’s up with that? You’d think Marvel would have given a heads up at some point?
And here’s a fun video of Hiddles saying the words “cake,” “indulge,” and “pleasure” about a million times. Sexy cake-eating bastard.
And finally, here’s Hiddles talking to a lady and his whole vibe kind of changes. He also talks about love. As in, “I think falling in love is the same as it’s always been. It’s surprising, it’s shocking and it’s chaotic and it’s as beautiful as it’s always been. You can’t… the heart is uncontrollable, you can’t legislate who you fall in love with… I think real love is about acceptance and about truth and about vulnerability, it’s when you accept someone for who they are.” Honestly, this is my favorite of all the videos.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Oh, this is going to be a very very long thread… 😀
That last video is my favorite as well. Plus he stops her when she makes a crack about having to take selfies with people, and says basically he doesn’t have to but he CHOOSES to. That made me happy.
It was a nice insight. He doesn’t have to do it. Others don’t. He makes the choice to do it.
I really loved that part, too. He doesn’t have to do but sometimes he chooses to. He sounds so quiet and matter-of fact when he said that sentence.
Another reporter said almost the same about Tom taking time to talk with his fans.
I think i posted this article before but here it go again:
nowtoronto.com/movies/tiff-2015/tiff15-helen-mirren-goes-shoeless-on-king-west-and-tom-hiddl/
“Impressively, the high-cheekboned heartthrob took photos and the time to talk with just about everyone. One proud mother encouragingly screamed “whooo!” and “you go girls!’ at her daughters as they posed with the actor. How embarrassing, mom!
Yes, we have cake on the veranda. And in the meadow. As much cake as you want. Any kind of cake.
Tom just shot down the “ready to settle down checklist” version of love that is so prevalent in this world. Hurray! Very nice interview but if he keeps flirting with interviewers, we’re putting him on lockdown.
Busy week ahead with US television appearances, film premiere and then off to Monkey Island!
Such a contrast with the perverted version of ‘love’ espoused by creepy squirrel save-me eyes in the next post.
A contrast spanning oceans and continents in one single bound.
Wait, whose got squirrel eyes (besides me?)…
Lilacflowers–I keep telling myself not to go back there, but the close proximity of the posts just intensely highlights the VAST (you described it well) disparity between the sanity on display. It (and the squirrel eyes) are vaguely mesmerizing!
SS–It’s probably better that you don’t look, but one post up from this has she-who-must-overbreed pontificating on how wives must display their love for their husbands. And it’s an ugly, ugly thing.
@SecretSquirrel, I have dubbed Michelle Duggar “Squirrel” because she seems to have several living in her hair and she talks like a squirrel. But she is not like you. Squirrel is the anti-SecretSquirrel. Where SecretSquirrel is kind, witty, intelligent and righteous, Squirrel is just ick.
Holy crap on a pogo stick, yes. And I too noticed the proximity and burned rubber to click on this post. I choose sanity!
Sorry, at this point I cannot tolerate even looking at a Duggar. It does terrible damages to my chi.
Someone send me some cake? I am having that kind of day alas.
@MissJupitero, an assortment of cakes: red velvet, dark chocolate mousse cake, raspberry swirl with lemon buttercream, carrot cake, and coconut cake, are being delivered to you under a rain tarp. Because it is that kind of day
You are the best, Lilacflowers, and Colin is getting a massive tip from me.
They just gave me sole responsibility for the project from hell at work, and I want to cry.
Then you had best have some gelato with all that cake and a bottle of Asti to wash it down.
Bringing along a lemon meringue and a carrot cake later! Will need the calories to keep up with all the hot pics and adorable comments.
In all honesty though, he is 100% correct about love. It really is about being so comfortable and secure with someone that you can share everything and be confident that they will have your back, no matter what.
i love the cake comment – he is my perfect man, well except for the loove philosphy talk, i can do without that.
I liked that bit best!
He was dead serious in praising cakes. Sexy, slim, healthy, cake-eating bastard.
I love all of these clips. I think love is a lot more complex than what he is saying though– you *do* in fact choose who you fall in love with (though often such a choice isn’t all that conscious and it is usually an area where people are not self-aware until they have fallen down a few times). If you find that you are prone to falling for people who are really bad for you, well, this *is* something you can work on, understand better, and even change. Sorry, his sentiment is the sort of thing I expect to hear from a teenager. I am totally with him though about acceptance of truth and vulnerability
he can talk philosophy all he want with me 😉
@Miss Jupitero, I kind of half agree. I’ve been down the road where I chose to fall in love and one where it was much of a surprise. He’s speaking from his experience and I can kind of relate to the “unexpected” part of falling for someone.
And so can I! I understand where he is coming from. And I am not rejecting it out of hand.
I am just resistant to the “I can’t help it!” response, because I’ve worked with people who have suffered from abuse, and in such cases this idea that love is some uncontrollable force can do a lot of harm. This is the reason for my caution.
You can make your own fate. One doesn’t have to have a “checklist” to be a bit better at understanding why one is drawn this way rather than that way, and to make less destructive choices. (Too much adherence to a checklist is also a kind of choice and might involve not fully being able to trust, but that’s another story.)
I agree, Miss Jupitero. The whole “love at first sight” or falling in love with someone we hardly know has more to do with sexual attraction (which we don’t choose), not actual love, which involve acceptances, which implies we know that person well enough to overlook their faults and love them anyway.
I was surprised when I realized I loved the man who would become my husband because it wasn’t accompanied with all the butterflies and intense feelings I’d had previously. It was a quiet, calm realization that I was willing to bond myself to him for life, despite the things I would have liked to change. It would have been a boring story for a rom-com, but 10 years later, we’re still going strong and wouldn’t change a thing.
That’s my experience, too, Nutballs. Mr Sixer and I got together in a whirlwind of lust – and I think that’s the most common way in the UK too, as it doesn’t at all have the same dating culture as the US.
But once we had got together, it became clear very quickly that we could also be comfortable together. We had shared basic values. We admired things about each other. The other one’s foibles and character flaws weren’t things that we couldn’t tolerate in another person. And our skills and enthusiasms were complementary so that we were better as a double than as two singles. All those things were what turned lust into love, I think.
Mind you, it would be better if he wasn’t the House Cheese Thief, but you can’t have it all!
Sending Sixer an assortment of cheese of her very own that she can hide from the House Cheese Thief.
And let us all eat some cake in honor of lust growing into something good and substantial
@Miss Jupitero, I agree. There is a level of control that can be put in place when you meet someone and seeing if it’s wise to pursue things further or not. I do have a checklist, personally, but rarely are there very many ticks. The checklist I have is more “qualities I can’t gel with” rather than “perfect man to marry”. A bit like Cristina’s view on romance in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. I know what I don’t want through experience and with that experience, I can help how I interact with someone romantically or not (but everything else about Cristina is a nope! :P).
Thanks, Lilac! Could I get some Blue Shropshire in that parcel? It’s the Missing Cheese of the Week.
Sending Idris with blue shropshire to Sixer
Sixer, I love what you said about being better as a double than two singles. That’s what I came to see. I was willing to leave and cleave to Mr Nuts because he had good parts that were essential for me and his particular set of faults were ones I was willing to live with. I was better as a couple with him than I was as a single and being with him has made me a better person, I’m convinced.
PS: Mr Nuts eats 75% of the bananas so I know your pain!!
We cannot always choose whom our heart loves but we can choose whether or not we act upon it.
Apparently, we cannot choose who eats our bananas and cheese either.
But again, we can choose whether or not we act upon it! #CheeseTraps
I like that last interview because it doesn’t just rehash the same tired questions. Love his comments on the “checklist”
Yep, I never understood the checklist or saying you’d only date a certain type. Looking back at my exes they were all completely different in looks and personality
And he actually makes it into a conversation, turning her questions back to her for discussion.
I think love is a mix of both. I don’t agree with a looks checklist, but you have to know what are your deal breakers and personality traits like honesty, loyalty, communicative, kindness that you want. He has described a woman that he wants, that is a checklist.
But “checklist” also can and very often does mean the whole must accomplish by some invisible, imaginary time thing of “decide to settle down and find mate” as if there’s a store where you can just go and select someone and far too many people make such arrangements, hence the high divorce rate.
What you want and what you fall in love with aren’t always the same. Or women would never end up with bastards.
The definition of “checklist” can vary and I don’t think he is saying that you should burn a checklist. He was rather asking himself what will constitute real love.
Deal breakers to me are very different to a checklist.
I think of the checklist as relating to the more superficial things.
I feel like most people’s ‘checklist’ is really reflective of things they don’t want or know aren’t good for them. Say on someone’s checklist is self-sufficient or independent. That’s probably more a reflection that they know they get taken advantage of by people who are permanently underemployed. I think it’s about knowing what’s toxic for you in a relationship, and willingly deciding to look for the opposite.
I think everyone has a list, like Madly said above- there are personality traits you know you must have and then a list of “would also be nice if’s”. I smoke (a bit) and am agnostic, so these interviews have only checked off more things on my “would also be nice if” list that make him just about perfect! Now if we could just fix the issues of location, accessibility, and such movie star handsomeness that he has his pick of any gorgeous woman he wants, we’d be good to go lol.
I have always dated with the exception of one or two men, men with blue eyes. It just seems to be something I am attracted to. Not to say it is on a checklist, but it is preferable because that seems to be my go to.
I think people can harm themselves with their checklists– it turns into a perfectionistic moat which only keeps them from making commitments. I have had friends who were just insanely controlling, and it really can be self-defeating.
But I think if you have no idea what you value, what you want, you are not likely to end up in a good place. If you want to raise children, you’d better have some sort of a checklist or it just isn’t going to happen. For myself, I won’t tolerate dishonesty or unkindness. I am not interested in “perfect” (nobody is perfect), but poor character is not likely to change.
Andrea, my pattern has always been to be attracted to men who are truly brilliant in some way, who have some sort of deep passion for something which keeps them fired up, and who are able to make things– my big loves have included a letterpress printer, a poet, a robotics engineer and a maker of art bikes, and now an engineer/glassblower. I love the life of the mind. I am a consummate sapiosexual– if the conversation isn’t up there, I lose interest.
There’s nothing wrong with finding you’re attracted or look for certain things, the attraction however small I think has to be there at some level. The only time it’s an issue is when I’ve seen friends turn down guys they were interested in because they didn’t tick all the boxes and have ended up with dickish guys who did on a purely superficial level.
@MissJupitero, those “want to settle down and have children” checklists are the ones where I see the most trouble. People connect because they “want the same things” – ie: marriage, home, CHILDEN and they collect all that without any real connection between them or agreement ahead of time on how they plan to raise those children, what values they plan to instill, or, very importantly, how they proceed if something doesn’t go exactly as planned. I see couples fall apart over how to raise their kids and financial situations and the poor kids are stuck in the middle of it all when the parents supposedly “got together for all the right reasons” but never really knew one other.
And I also am a sapiosexual. If he can’t hold my interest in a long meandering conversation about “deep thoughts” on whatever, I’m out of there.
I think falling in love is more about sexual attraction than real love, and yes, you can’t choose who you become attracted to. God knows, I’ve been attracted to men that I knew were BAD NEWS for me, but in hindsight would not have identified it as love, but rather lust or longing for a companion. With my husband, I chose to love — I made a decision to accept someone with their (un)known flaws and commit myself to walk closely through life to him. There wasn’t a checklist per se, but I knew what kind of character qualities were important to me and what toxic behaviors to avoid. He’s right that truthfulness, vulnerability and acceptance are key.
“I think falling in love is more about sexual attraction than real love”
They’re two totally different things. You can have one without the other, but ideally you would have both in the same person.
I think many people are convinced they’re in love when really they’re sexually attracted to someone who makes them feel good. It’s easy to mistake the intensity of feelings for love, when really they just haven’t disappointed you yet. It can take awhile in the early days of infatuation when we’re all on our best behavior.
At some point though, you get to know someone well enough to see their faults and the reality that each person has different needs to be met. So a decision as to whether or not you are willing to commit to them must be made. That’s the acid test of real love in my opinion.
Sexy cake-eating bastard.
HAHAHAHA
He’s firmly a member of the cake-eating party.
😛
I’m more in the melted dark chocolate camp, but I think I could accept a cake-eater, in this case.
Cake can be dipped in melted dark chocolate.
Lilac,
So can my nips.
Signed,
Nipsy McChocolate
Huh, Hiddles has his own link on the drop down menu. He’s arrived! 😉 Seriously, considering his TV schedule this week, it’s probably not a bad idea!
You just noticed that? It’s been there for a week!
Really? Could have sworn I checked several days ago and he had nothing. Well, I’m just pleased because it does make things easier.
I always love his voice but the last interview almost hypnotized me. It seems that he felt tired as he had been terribly busy in Toronto. Besides his comments on love and checklist, which sounds lovely and sincere, I also liked his answer to the question of life after death. What an optimist. Life as a one shot opportunity and he thinks it is nice and comforting because you can live your life to the fullest.
“Love- Giving someone the ability to destroy your heart, but trusting them enough not to” Anon
I found the life after death remarks fascinating especially for someone who does not court controversy and tries not to give too much away about himself. He almost sounds like an atheist which is very personal indeed.
Some people on my Twitter feed were pissed about his comments about life after death because they seemed to be him saying he does not believe in heaven. They were saddened because not only does did he admit in another interview he smoked (gasp!) but he is now an atheist! Their sweet perfect prince is a monster!!!
What a nice collection of interviews.
After watching the video I also thought about the possibility of him being an atheist, but who knows. Believing in a deity is one thing and believing in an afterlife is another. At least he doesn’t sound like a Christian there and I am fine with it. I just feel pleased as he is remarkably consistent in some ways.
What is wrong with sounding like a Christian?
@ madly, I didn’t say it is wrong. It’s just my observation. If he is a Christian, I am also fine with it. His religion doesn’t matter to me at all. As Leah C says some fans felt said because they thought he does not believe in heaven, I assumed that his Anglophone fans expected him to be at least sympathetic to Christianity. I suspected that he could be a Christian (whether the Anglican church or not) because I saw him sing Christmas carol and read passages from the Bible in some ceremonies. I apologize in advance if my assumption is based on my cultural ignorance.
Edit: I am pleased because he again sounds unabashedly optimistic.
There is nothing wrong with sounding like a Christian, just as much as there is nothing wrong with sounding like a atheist or an agnostic – which he may be. Also you can believe in a God without believing in an afterlife, surely.
I’ve had a hunch that he was an atheist based on veiled comments he’s made in the past. Based on what he says in this interview, he’s definitely not a Christian, if a Christian is someone who follows Jesus and believes what he and the Bible says about the afterlife.
Most religions subscribe to some sort of belief in life after death, don’t they? I’d say he’s probably an atheist, tho’ I suppose it’s possible to be an agnostic and not believe in an afterlife. Problem is, it’s hard to intellectually reconcile a belief in a Supreme Being who is all powerful, but unconcerned with how we behave. Hence, it’s easier to believe that there’s no Supreme Being we’re accountable to at all and avoid any judgement that might come down from IT.
The thing is, most people in Britain are either atheist or at least agnostic. It would surprise ME if he said he believed in God.
I really liked his reply. It is exactly what I would expect from someone who is thoughtful, science-based, and imaginative with plenty of “duende.”
I too would be surprised if he were conventionally religious. He has always struck me as the unaffiliated-but-spiritually-leaning type. He seems to think highly of atheistic philosophers, judging by how much he quotes Alain de Botton.
Nutballs, some schools of Buddhism see the existence of the self as an illusion and discourage focusing on afterlife. Taoists as well do not tend to believe in a individual personality that transcends death. Jewish thinking on the afterlife is also pretty complex– most Jews will tell you that the Jewish tradition doesn’t know or doesn’t encourage fixating on such things, but there are plenty of ideas to go around. As they say: two Jews, three afterlives. Christianity and Islam are the real salvation-focused standouts from what I can see.
those fans probably think he is a virgin too.
And, i put it out there, because i am diehard atheist. There is no god, no afterlife, no heaven, no hell, just energy fluctuations which get in and out of control and always did and always will. People can wrap their life up in comforting religions, i have no problem with that – life is hard. but at end of the day whether you worship a Christian god, one of many Egyptian ones, scientologist’s xanu or the sun that’s up to you but you don’t turn around and gooo oh he doesnt believe in an afterlife, i dont like him anymore. We have a right to non belief and be respected, if you believe and want respect in return.
Sixer, it makes the tradition of being a member of the Church of England, baptizing or having a church funeral even odder to me. I don’t get the point of doing anything religious if someone believes like an atheist. Seems more about following tradition and doing what’s expected than doing something that’s heartfelt, which to me is more authentic.
Nutballs
Well, I agree with you there. I’m absolutely certain in my atheism and wouldn’t have a church wedding, funeral, or get my children christened, or anything like that. It seems both hypocritical and, if you don’t believe in the faith behind the ritual, to diminish the ritual in terms of your own life. But I’m not really that typical. I think, in Britain, many people feel um… culturally Christian not religiously Christian, if you see what I mean. So they like the church rituals that come with the various rites of passage. It *feels* as much British as it does Christian.
At the last count, about 10% of us go to church on regular basis. And, I’m afraid to say, a large segment of that 10% are only going because the local school with the best educational results is a church school, so they turn up to get their kids in.
This would be the most typical response of a Briton on being asked if they believe in God: “Um… I don’t know, probably not, but I think there must be SOMETHING.” Or if they believe Jesus was the son of God, same sort of thing, “Probably not, but I do believe he lived and was a good guy whose teachings were worth following.”
I do think Britain is a largely secular society. But I don’t think it’s particularly non-spiritual. I just think religion is not thought about that much and that there is general suspicion of people who wear religion as a public badge. We don’t seem to like that at all. We go all “Bloody God-botherers. Get right on my nerves.” Not sure why!
Sixer, and then some of us who identify as theists have a religious ceremony at a rustic barn inside a Massachusetts state park!
As to the believing in Jesus as a good guy with teachings worth following, your own CS Lewis had a compelling response to that:
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell… Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.”
Interesting statement from an atheist turned theist…
PS: There are parts of the US that only about 10% are churchgoers so we’re slowly catching up, for better or for worse. It’s cultural to attend church in the South, but not in the Northern Corners of New England or PacNW.
@Nutballs, I doubt if Tom had much say in where he was christened!! And he hasn’t done the wedding or funeral yet!
A lot of people in the Uk get married in church although they are not churhgoers – because the churches look nice in the photos!
@Jupitero: Duende? TH?
is he back to New York for Crimson Peak premier tonight/tomorrow ish?
and, some rumours about him being at Nashville prem for ISTL
Tom isnt spreading these movies out is he?? good grief. when he goes underground in a couple of weeks, i will be, buuuuut…. where are you?
“where are you?” Tom’s probably asking himself the same question.
IK, R?! We’re really gonna miss ’em when he disappears into the jungle. Except I’m counting on Brie Larson to keep us posted on their leafy exploits. She seems to have a healthy grasp on using social media, rather than it using her.
I guess we will see him two or three times in November as he has to promote ISTL. Possibly one or two TV and/or radio shows and singing at Grand Old Opry, 27 Nov. Sony Classics confirmed that there will be Nashville premiere this weekend but I am not sure whether Tom will be there.
I’m expecting we’ll see print interviews appearing in November and December. We know he’s been giving lots of interviews and there was that photoshoot in London with the aubergine suit that hasn’t turned up in any magazines yet.
But Tom himself will be off in the jungle.
I’d expect Lizzie to carry more weight in promotion if Tom is not around while he is promoting C/Peak. But, she seems to prefer shopping at markets and flirting with the fashion world that making appearances at the other film festivals. Rgardless of whether Tom is there or not, she needs to get out there and push. puuuuuush
Where is the Monkey Movie filming? Will he really be in a jungle, or mostly on a sound stage in LA?
Hawaii and Vietnam are the rumours
…and my bedroom
Atlanta. Hawaii. Vietnam.
And filming starts next week so he probably isn’t going home after this round of CP promotion.
In your dreams p’enny
I guess I am different than others on here because I didn’t care for the last interview as much. Different strokes I guess.
This promotional tour (tours?) is the gift that keeps on giving! Every interview is amazing and it’s all getting a bit too much for me to handle. Sexy cake-eating bastard indeed.
*Sigh* too bad he’s already claimed by @lilacflowers
If a-listers like him would only give us mere peasants a try we’d all jump onto the Hiddles bandwagon
No worries! Lilac *shares*!!
I’m not on board with the whole, you can’t control who you fall in love with. I think it’s more an excuse to fall in love with people who are unavailable or toxic to you. You choose to be friends with certain people. You can choose who you fall in love with. You can’t choose who you lust after, but lust is not love.
You can choose to avoid someone you fall in love with if they are unavailable or “toxic” but controlling whom you fall in love with in the first place is a bit harder.
Eh… I agree with Miss Jupitero up thread.
Sokay. 🙂
I’m sure I’m not the first to think of this- but watch that cake video again and every time he says “cake” replace it with another word (here, kitty, kitty) and it takes on a whole new and pleasurable meaning.
Naughty:)
That’s exactly what I was doing……was he really talking about “cake”.
It reminded me of that scene in Sex and the City where Charlotte asks them to say “color” instead of “sex” when her daughter was around and Samantha said “Well, I love to color, I’m really good at coloring, I could color all day every day and I’d use every crayon in my box” LOL
The last video was so sweet. This is the very reason I adore this man. He has so many sides, but this one is my favorite.
So tomorrow is the first of the TV appearances, right? Can someone post a schedule of what we can look for this week?
Here some TV appearances:
October 7: Guillermo del Toro on Jimmy Kimmel
October 14: Tom and Mia on The Today Show
October 14: Tom on The View
October 14: Tom on Steve Wright’s show on BBC Radio 2 (probably what he pretaped)
October 14: Tom on TDS @thedailyshow
October 16: Tom, Jessica, Mia and GdT on Colbert@thelateshowcbs
Poor Tom! Tomorrow is going to be a day for Red Bull!
Is he not doing the Tonight Show? 🙁
I’d like to see him doing a lip sync or one of the fun games
I was personally hoping for Guillermo and the cast to do the Charlie Rose show, it’s the perfect format for them as a group, and Guillermo has been a guest several times in the past. At least the Google Talks video should be up soon – they posted a 90 second teaser on YouTube yesterday.
He is going to need lots of cake.
He’ll need cake and quickies!!
“He also says he hasn’t spoken to anyone at Marvel in “two years.” What’s up with that? You’d think Marvel would have given a heads up at some point? ”
This can’t be right, because even though it got cut from the movie, he filmed a cameo for Avengers 2, and that was just last year. Maybe he means they haven’t talked about Thor 3, specifically? It just seems like a weird thing to say because he filmed a scene with Idris Elba and Chris Hemsworth, and you know that took some planning.
Also, based on stuff other Marvel actors have said, I get the feeling when these guys get to some downtime, Marvel tries to leave them alone.
I think he probably meant at Marvel HQ because isn’t it the case that there were arguments between Whedon and Feige about Avengers 2 and the scenes with Loki amongst others?
He’d still have to talk to producers, and that cameo shoot was fully integrated into the production schedule in London, it wasn’t a one off shot at a separate location, like when Chris Evans did a cameo in Thor 2. I can believe he hasn’t actually been into the office at Marvel Studios in LA in a couple years, but I simply can’t believe he hasn’t spoken to anyone at Marvel in all that time, because he *appeared in a Marvel movie.* Personally, I think he’s trying to distance himself from Marvel, but everywhere I’ve seen this quote reported has side-eyed it. It’s one thing to say, “I don’t know what’s going on,” and something else to say, “I haven’t talked to anyone in two years,” when you were on set with them last year and everyone knows it.
Whedon himself has explained that he called Tom and asked if he could get free for one day on a weekend. Everything after that point could have been handled by “people.” His phone conversation with Feige could have been limited to cutting the scene without any further Thor 3 discussion. They don’t have a Thor 3 script finished, no firm statement on a director, and Marvel is in the midst of major changes
@ Lilacflowers
I fully believe he hasn’t discussed Thor 3 in two years, because like you said, they don’t even have a script (that we know of), and Marvel has more pressing issues to deal with. But he didn’t say, “I haven’t talked about Thor 3,” he said, “I haven’t talked to anyone at Marvel.” That I don’t believe.
ETA: He also got paid for that cameo, which involves a lot more than a phone call from the director. I just think in going so hard on distancing himself from Marvel, he’s saying some kind of dumb stuff.
i think he is getting quoted out of context a lot with the Marvel Loki stuff, old quotes getting thrown into new articles, or click bait sites messing stuff up. There is a lot of conflicting reports, he admited he spoke to Kevin about the editing out of the scene in avengers this year. He’s had his hands untied over AoU now, he can talk. But, I think the press are still mixing up old sound-bites. It wouildnt be the first time Digital Press got it wrong.
Yes, they’re all quoting that Collider interview from TIFF. He’s since admitted that he spoke to Kevin Feige about Age of Ultron.
Basically, he was keeping Marvel’s secrets a little too hard, and inadvertantly contradicted stuff we’d already been told. Someone must have set him straight about what he’s allowed to say now, as he has changed tack, but the old interview is being recycled for click-bait.
Can I get a bit literary again? :
From: ‘Captain Corelli’s Mandolin’ by Louis de Bernieres
“When you fall in love it is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.
Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.”
I rather like that passage.
O nice! Good quotes!
Well, you can’t quite argue with anything he says about love, can you? But at least his interviews are starting to sound a bit less like an eager puppy showing off how much he learned in school . . .
Sorry, the cake interview is the best one.
I totally relate.
“Tom Hiddleston, Cake Lover”, LOLOLOL
I had to go back and watch. Made me burst in laughter! 😀
He’s also adorable here https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=5&v=-bWCuTAMrbs
That makes me happy. Bring on the monkey movie!
Just read the review of “Crimson Peak” in Variety, and I saw the trailers last week and I’m sorry to say the trailers pretty much confirm the Variety review – it looks so totally OTT that people in the theater giggled. I think CP with ISTL is going to make two bad films in a row in which Hiddles is good but to no avail given the scripts. Hopefully, “High Rise” and “The Night Manager” will put good performances by him inside decent scripts and films. He’s done a shitload of work on these films and I’d really, really like to see him finally do a serious role with a director who knows what he’s doing, with a good script, and move into something beyond Tumblr heartthrob cult symbol. He’s got the goods upstairs, I really don’t think they’ve been put to the right use yet outside Coriolanus and Henry IV/Henry V in “The Hollow Crown”. I’ll be heading off to CP Friday night, for sure, but the trailers did make my heart sink a bit. Yeah, the sex scenes will be fun but . . . Jesus, Tom, you gotta really nail it on all sides one of these days!
I’ve watched every clip and trailer for CP that exists multiple times because it is really visually delicious, and just read the Variety review and other reviews.
I want to be generous, but I think it is almost a given that the set design is going to be the true shining star of CP. I will feel sad for GDT if it gets panned. This film meant a lot to him.
Interestingly, none of the reviews I have read so far have had much to say about Tom’s performance, positive or negative. I am sure that will change.
Although ISTL kind of bombed out, I take comfort that everyone talked about Tom’s excellent performance. High Rise doesn’t sound perfect, but I’ve heard only positive things about Tom’s role, and it sounds like a film I will really want to see. I agree with you about really nailing a role, but I think what all of this has shown me is that there are so many things that impact on a film’s success over which the actor has no control. It is a very precarious profession.
He received pretty favorable reviews for his performance in both ISTL and High-Rise. In the last few days, country-western sites have started picking up on ISTL, posting set photos and such, so it may actually do well in those markets despite poor reviews for the film overall. The great fear of whether he could do the accent and performance seems to have been stilled so points to him for that.
I kind of don’t care what Variety thinks. They tend to dislike films I end up loving.
I made the mistake of reading that spoiler-filled (wtf!) Variety review and have now decided to go into review lockdown until I see the film. It sounded like they saw a completely different movie than everyone else.
I’ve managed to avoid so many spoilers. I refuse to read the leaked old script. I’m even avoiding reading reviews until I see it. I really enjoyed High-Rise because there was nothing to expect or be spoiled by. I want the same excitement for Crimson Peak.
I envy you jammypants. But I think I will forget many details when I finally come to see HR next year. I usually don’t care spoliers, but CP, being a horror film (as well as Gothic Romance) , I don’t want to know too much.
Avoid The Hollywood Reporter review too. Spoilers aplenty.
Eh. They are just reviews. I think I will really love this film.
I’m with the guy that said how the negative reviews (and he specifically cited Variety, among others) were being written made him all the more excited to see the movie.
“The Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy may dub it “the second-best horror movie of 1946,” but when he says “No previous rendition of this sort of sexually twisted, psychologically degenerative and spectrally haunted fright story has ever been served up with so much stylistic sauce,” I’ve already bought my ticket.”
Works for me. Actually, judging by the wide variation in reviews, from ‘sick and twisted’ to ‘great for a fourteen-year old’, I’m thinking this is very much going to be a ‘get out of it what you put in to it’ sort of movie. Lazy viewers won’t enjoy it if they sit back and wait for scares to jump out and shake them up.
Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t have a consensus yet, but six out of nine reviews posted there so far are fresh.
variety & guardian have gone along way this year to criticise good films because they want to be seen as experts in film.
@seesitasitis, instead of screaming ‘ i told you so’ why not go see the film, and read more than one review before jumping in saying it must be bad.
@P’enny – I’m just reporting what I saw, and in the theater where I saw the trailers, let me repeat: I saw the trailers. People giggled, and from what I saw, I couldn’t blame them. If your aim is to scare people, giggling is not the reaction you want. And I wasn’t screaming. I’m going to see it, but I was hoping for something along the lines of “The Haunting” (the fantastic original not the moronic remake) that make me afraid to go to sleep without the light on, only with the added fillip of Tom Hiddleston. As it is, from what I saw, it’s Tom Hiddleston that is going to keep me awake, which is fine, but it would be nice if it were both him AND the movie and from what I saw this is going to be lambasted as camp all the way down the line.
I WANT Hiddleston to do well. I’d like him to start getting better roles in better films. This may turn into a DVD cult fave, the way Only Lovers Left Alive did (a film I adore, btw), but that’s not the same as a quality role, in a quality film, with a quality script, which is what I’m really dying to see Hiddleston do.
@seesitasitis
it’s a gothic romance though not a horror film, LOL, GDT is screaming to high heaven about that. i think people who go see the film need to manage their expectations. He based the film on the Mysteries of Rodolpho, that is one creepy but, campish, book, which Jane Austen and others took the micky out it. I’m expecting period drama lushness, nothing more.
btw, i’m sorry, i came accross as rather agressive in my post…. oops/
We have to wait, but I guess CP will be ok to fine but not as great as some might have expexted from del Toro who had done a great job in his Spanish language films. Not exactly bad. RT around 60- 65% is my bet. But you know what, I don’t think highly of RT meter very much. I love what I love. High-rise is a dividing film and I haven’t seen it. But I expected that from the combination of Ballard and Wheatley.
It might not be the best career move for Tom to pick up projects like ISTL (too risky) or HR (not so meaty and not helpful in building HW career). As for CP, the role sounds like a supporting one, really, the smallest of the triangle, though we tend to forget the fact as he has been everywhere to promote the film. But I love his bold choices and I think I will end up loving most of his works, and critics and directors may feel curious about Tom’s next choice and performance.
70% at the moment.
I was listening to an interview with Paul Bettany yesterday (Nerdist podcast) and he was talking about how after a while, people forget all about the bad stuff you’ve made and only remember the good stuff.
He also said that he was in a meeting with a movie exec in Hollywood who litererally told him that his career was over – which he argued about, because how many actors in Hollywood have had careers that seemed to be over before making a comeback (or a McConnaisance!)? But he walked outside and sat on the kerb afterwards, and thought, ‘what if my career really is over?’, and then the phone rang, and it was Joss Whedon, who said ‘would you like to play a superhero in the next Avengers movie?’.
Every actor ends up with a few duds. As long as when you’re in something good, you’re really really good, then directors will keep giving you work. Tom’s been making ‘interesting’ choices because he doesn’t want to be pigeonholed, which directors always respect even if the films themselves don’t do terrifically well. If Crimson Peak doesn’t perform well, he won’t carry the blame for that. The vast majority of people who have seen I Saw The Light says he gives a fantastic performance in it and admire his commitment to the role, even though the film itself is not good. High Rise is a singular beast of a film that was never going to be a mainstream hit, and was always going to be devisive, but is exactly the sort of bold vision that directors tend to really appreciate, and admire, if only because most of them don’t have the chutzpah to get something like that made themselves. Tom being attached to that film helped to get it financed – that will not have gone unnoticed.
Martin Scorsese is on record as being a huge Joanna Hogg fan and absolutely loving Archipelago. I wouldn’t bet against him casting Tom in one of his projects.
Tom made a dud with Deep Blue Sea
he doesnt have an impecable record, even Thor 2 registered 2-3 stars for most of its reviews.
The Variety and The Hollywood Reporter reviews both contain major SPOILERS in them, which infuriated me. Reviewers should not do that. EVER. They also both seemed to be trying to be “too cool for school.” More and more reviews are coming out as the embargo is lifting and they seem rather positive. It’s rating on Rotten Tomatoes when from mid 60s to 70 over the course of a few hours as other reviews joined the Variety one. As of yesterday, the Friday night IMAX viewing had already sold out in several Boston area cinemas.
In film generally, the spoilers are becoming ridiculous, and now I tend to avoid reviews til after seeing films, which kind of defeats the object. Some of the worst offenders are actually the trailers themselves, which is particularly ridiculous- I know they are trying to whet the appetite of the potential audience but sometimes it hardly feels worth seeing the film at all given the trailer. Btw Lilacflowers, these soirees with Colin that I keep reading about seem quite sophisticated- is there any scran ( Scots- food) for uncultured people like me? Popcorn perhaps?
Not only does the Gruan give it 4 stars, Bradshaw compares Tom to Mark Rylance!! Ok, only in terms of voice, but Rylance is venerated as the greatest actor of his generation among theatre geeks, so that’s a huge compliment.
I think love is about watching him be naked in Crimson Peak.
Another great video interview. Yes, Tom–we’re ALL ready for your romantic comedy!
screencrush.com/crimson-peak-tom-hiddleston-interview/
And we already knew about the Beyonce. 😉
SPOILERS IN MY REVIEW DIRECTLY BELOW!!
SO SORRY
From birthmoviesdeath.com
”
The true surprises in the film come not from the plot but from the emotions. Tom Hiddleston took over the role of Thomas Sharpe from Benedict Cumberbatch, and no greater accident has befallen del Toro in his casting yet. I don’t know what Cumberbatch’s Sharpe would have been like, but I can’t imagine it would have the wounded center Hiddleston brings effortlessly to the role. His aristocrat is warm and loving, which makes the eventual revelations about his true character all the more disturbing and odd. Hiddleston makes you fall in love with him as surely as Edith does, and in the end he breaks your heart as fully as he breaks hers. It’s a wonderful performance, pitched perfectly on a line between deep emotional realism and broad fantasy, a line that Hiddleston seems able to walk in his sleep”
My hope is that if all of his reviews are consistently like this, hey, directors are going to keep noticing.
Great review, but spoilers, dude!
Oops sorry. 🙁
I’m embarrassed now. Have tried to rectify with a warning above it.
Thanks! I averted my eyes quickly.
Ooooo, for all you costuming buffs, here is an interview with CP’s costume designer!
http://variety.com/2015/artisans/news/crimson-peak-costume-designer-kate-hawley-1201603363/
Tidbit:
“Del Toro loves symbolism, especially color-coding, she says, and that’s reflected in the costumes for “Crimson Peak.” The heroine, American heiress Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska), is often seen in gold, representing wealth — and also, she says, “a canary in a coal mine.” Her dresses and nightgowns are adorned with flowers, connoting fertility. Yet her garments also include elements of Victorian mourning jewelry, such as a belt made of her dead mother’s hair, the buckle a carving of her mother’s hands.”
Those hand buckles give me the creeps.
I have heard of Victorian mourning jewelry, but only pins, bracelets, and other small items. A whole belt? And yeah the hands…..
I’ve loved antique jewelry all my life and have a nice collection . . . except for the hair/mourning stuff, which I absolutely refuse to bear, touch, or wear.
Those costumes truly are fantastic. I am hoping that they get recognized come nomination time.
Even if I didn’t like the actors or the story, I will love the set and the costumes!
But I think I’ll be enjoying all of the bits and pieces. Can’t wait! Just got my Fandango email stating “Here’s what you’ve been waiting for!” with the IMAX tickets ready for purchase. Woot Woot!!
Let’s see, here’s the edited version since Tom is an actor (and thus stereotypes apply):
“Real love is about acceptance [that I’m going to be out of town on location having sex with people who aren’t my significant other], [some] truth [but possibly lots of fabrications about my whereabouts], and [pretend] vulnerability [when I get caught doing something bad and have to act my way back into my significant other’s good graces].”
Can y’all tell I’m a bitter girl who just endured a breakup? (Not with an actor though.)
Sorry Kate, but plenty more fish in the sea!
I’ll continue the editing:
You can’t control who you fall in love with (it’s not my fault that she’s got a boyfriend/engaged/married).
🙂
Allegedly! 🙂
Further editing – “Will you marry me (but only because I got you up the duff)?
Yikes! sorry Kate. There’s always Tom 😉
I don’t want Tom – see above reasons. Lol
(But he’s hot AF. Jesus.)
Sorry, Kate. Have some cake! Cake is always happy.
Village Voice gets it (plus gave it 4.5 out of 5 stars):
villagevoice.com/film/lush-and-mad-crimson-peak-just-wasn-t-made-for-times-like-ours-7767536
“And, like Edith waltzing with her husband-to-be, once we take Crimson Peak’s hand, we’re likely hooked.”
Interesting comparison of Mia to Lillian Gish. Plus noting how the movie would probably not have worked with the original cast–this reviewer clearly loved both Tom and Mia.
In the Village Voice review “del Toro’s faithful homage to a foolish genre” is the phrase I liked.
I’m interested in seeing what choices he makes next. There may be time between the monkey movie and Thor for another film of the quieter, more character/story driven variety. Preferably a smart British comedy. Marvel has got its film scheduling down to an art form at this point so there may be time at the end of next year for another film or even two or maybe some theater. Marvel has also said that Part I of the Infinity Wars will focus on some of the newer Avengers and the more familiar ones may not show up until Part II. If Thor “dies” in Ragnorak, it would make sense that he and his mischievous, adopted sibling aren’t revived until Part II. Which would allow Tom plenty of time to do something else. Like that romantic comedy he wants to do. With Wes Andersen. And the Coens. Collaborating.
With the new Coen Brother’s trailer dropping this week (SWINTON!!), I do hope we get to see him be funny. Tho’ I’m getting an impression that High Rise THE MOVIE may be funnier than High Rise THE BOOK. Perhaps there’s enough satire and dark humor to make up for everything going to hell in a handbasket?
P’enny you saw it right? Dara, did you say you’re going to see it? I recall you had similar hesitations about seeing HR as I did.
The clip of him and Sienna Guillory in the store is hilarious.
It was hilarious. And reviewers talking about the vicious humor, dark comedic elements, Tom’s deadpan humor led me to think the humor helps take the edge off of the violence and pessimism that’s woven throughout the story.
The movie was a trip. You’ll enjoy.
@nutballs i did see it, and the humour in High Rise is Amy Jump’s input and brilliantly so. The book is really funny, and its a lot darker. But,. the book has very little interaction between the main characters and it’s infuriatling structured. The film i think smooths it over and makes it more relatable.
~But, the humour is brit dark humour at times, and you catch more on more watches. i think those lucky people who have seen it twice are much more into the game than those on first watch.
Plus, it’s good to get a handle on british politics at the time – it’s anarchy against Thatcherism. anti-capalist in message. it’s about falling out of conformity into hell and enjoying it. 🙂 sort of.
i want him in some drama-thrillers next
Won’t TNM meet some of that?
no, that’s too glamourous, i mean more gritty, murder-mystery types. know ive seen cut a head open, he would be a great pathologist.
!!**$*# – I’m trapped at my desk at work and there no way I’ll get to hear this… Tom is subbing in for Guillermo who was scheduled to do a Times Talk at the NY Times. It starts in 10 minutes! For those that can watch, here’s the link…
http://www.timestalks.com/detail-event.php?event=guillermo_del_toro_
Well, i just tapped onto it, 50 minutes in. Very serious Thomas. Glasses. Blue suit.
never fear @lilac, it started late and it looks like the videos get posted to their website after the fact (phew). I’m trying not to disturb my fellow office-mates and have it on very low volume, but that means I’m only catching about every other sentence.
On now! Pretty awesome.
Times Talk Madrid is one of my favorite interviews of his. I’m liking this one too.
I want to know what the pattern of the purple tie is.
I think it might be the same pattern as the High-Rise tie, just a different colorway.
http://www.barneys.com/alexander-mcqueen-leopard–skull-pattern-necktie-504046734.html?gclid=CJeo9v-ZwcgCFYpgfgodqOsIvQ
The suit tonight was a McQueen, so I’m wagering the tie is as well.
The photos from the Bergdorf event are especially yummy. That suit and tie were meant for evening light.
Ha! He looks so serious and geeky in his suit and glasses.
He is talking about his fans. And squirming…..
And when he talks about Hank Williams, he slips back and forth into a southern accent…. Hmm. Talking about Antony Hopkins. He really likes to do imitations when he is nervous I think.
He is talking about everything! xD
Tom looks amazing…. and his hands are beautiful
I think he is nervous because he is subbing GdT with such a short notice. I almost feel sorry for him sitting there with somewhat angry or at least disappointed audience. But as far as I can remember, he always impersonates Hopkins when he talks about Hannibal. Same with Hank Williams’ friends. Tom the parrot just can’t help it.
Oh, I do not blame him ONE BIT for being nervous. In addition to stepping in at the last minute, the next couple of days are going to be pretty grueling.
He was nervous but clearly not as nervous as he has been during other events. The hand fidgeting continues but not with the same speed as in other times when he was nervous and no grabbing of his ankle, which was quite frequent during the last TimesTalk in Madrid. He’s learning. And great job stepping in last minute.
The interviewer said he had to run so he must have something else he has to do tonight and he’s probably jet-lagged on top of it.
I don’t even remotely get angry or disappointed from that audience, Gingerly. When the camera shows audience members, they are involved in his dialogue and even modelling his body language and hand placement in some cases. That’s an invested audience.
From what I can see, he may need roller skates to get from one event/interview to the next over the next couple of days. I hope he has lots of cake.
He also said himself, when the interviewer brought it up, that it is just always how he has told a story.
@ TB, I didn’t observe the audience closely as I was enchanted by his voice and waving hands. Good to hear that they were just serious. When I found out that the ticket price was $40 and the change notice was given 30 minutes prior to the event I imagined that there must have been some audience who felt quite pissed. On the other hand, it was free, and really angry audience were likely to pass Tom’s talk. Anyway, he did a good job and showed how committed he is to everything.
Only Tom can combine Goya and Amy Winehouse in the same list.
Ugh, the first question isn’t a question but a request for a hug from a Hiddlestoner… I was cringing inside (he probably was too) but handled it with class.
He keeps making self-deprecating remarks about his loquaciousness. He’s self-aware in that aspect!
I wish he’d answer the question about dream roles…
They’re broadcasting it again so the rest of you can watch:
http://www.timestalks.com/detail-event.php?event=guillermo_del_toro_
I was cringing at that moment, but at least she didn’t ask to inhale his “yumminess.” The rest of the questions were just fine though. Thoughtful and interesting. And I laughed at the end when he started to talk about running and the host had to cut him off. I think he could have gone on for another hour with no difficulty!
His references to the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich (an icon of the German Romantic movement) were interesting.
Eh, she didn’t cut him off from talking about running (good thing, too, or Nutty would have been looking for the shank)– she just cut him off from answering another question as he said he was going to do.
Did appreciate that instead of just saying his fans were ‘mostly benign’ he mentioned how they support UNICEF in his name (rather impressively, actually.)
Yes, I have put my shanks away so the interviewer need not be looking over her shoulder…
Since some of the invested fans were put off by the “mostly benign” label he used on Norton, I thought that mentioning the UNICEF fundraising was a smart move on his part.
I thought the interviewer did an amazing job – she had a good knack for picking her moments to reel him back in when his ‘loquaciousness’ got the better of him, but she didn’t cut him off mid-thought. And she’d clearly done her research, even if he was a last-minute substitute.
Sigh – just when I’d resolved to let my affections diminish so I could get on with my life…the charming bastard has to show up – in a suit, tie and glasses no less – and be his usual thoughtful and insightful self. I skipped over the “hug” (thanks for the warning – that kind of stuff just irks me to no end, but whatever), and I actually found the rest of the questions to be very interesting. I’m sad to say it probably helped that he was a last-minute replacement and there were very few over the top Hiddlestoners actually in attendance. I hope Guillermo is ok – I was actually looking forward to hearing him speak about the film.
Dara–I was concerned as well, but he has tweeted since then so even if he is a bit under the weather things can’t be too bad. I’m going with the ever ubiquitous ‘scheduling conflict’.
Judging by later CP tweets, he had to run off to the windows at Bergdorf Goodman’s.
Those windows look really amazing.
@ P’enny, no, don’t despair. He’s not opening a shoe shop. Bergdorf’s in New York decorated its store windows as parts of the Crimson Peak set, with a great deal of detail, and the cast visited them tonight.
Oh, but the Bergdorf Shoe Salon is the shoe store of all shoe stores.
phew……
@Dara, yes, a truly sumptuous place.
but it’s still associated with shoes! nooo 🙁
lol well no one can use shoes as criticism anymore 😛
THE GUARDIAN HAS GIVEN CRIMSON PEAK 4 STARS….
can i just put that out there, the typical 2 Star paper, has given Crimson Peak 4 stars. reviewed by Peter Bradhsaw not that hack that interview Tom and previewed High Rise.
Take that Negative Variety Nancies reviewers!
I saw that this morning too and it made me very happy for some reason.
I saw that indiewire had a piece saying that the negative reviews are actually making some people want to see it… what they complain about is what is interesting to others.
We had a change of plans and now I’ll be seeing the late show tomorrow night on IMAX. Lots of chocolate covered espresso beans will be consumed since I’ll be up past my bedtime!
Peter Bradshaw has become a seriously easy critic to please within the past few years, so meh.