Quick question: is the current trend in men’s fashion for suits to be cut much too tight? Because that’s what I was wondering as I looked through this suit-tastic editorial at GQ. GQ did a photoshoot with Tom Hiddleston where he was seemingly modeling the latest trends in businesswear, and while he looks fine (he would have been a decent model), I’m really bothered by the way the suits are cut. The pants are consistently too tight in the hips and crotch and the jackets look like their buttons are about to burst. You can see the slideshow from the editorial here at GQ. I’m almost positive that this is the photoshoot in London from early September (same ill-fitting suit). Tom also gave an interview to GQ. Some highlights.
How he felt after completing Crimson Peak: “I need to see the sunshine and I need to swim in the ocean, and I need to be my blond self for a bit… I’m so up for a romantic comedy at this point.”
The directors he would love to work with: “That’s one of those things where I dare not even list it. Every year there’s another crop of directors who inspire you. It would be lovely to complete the Mexican trio, with Iñárritu and Cuarón. I think Cuarón and Iñárritu are the first people Guillermo showed Crimson Peak to. He really trusts them. And we were shooting Crimson Peak when Cuarón won for Gravity, and I remember he thanked Guillermo in his acceptance speech, and I found that really touching.
How he feels about Guillermo del Toro’s work: “The thing about Guillermo that is less remarked on is his sensitivity and his sincerity. He’s incredibly sincere as a filmmaker. If you think about The Devil’s Backbone, Pan’s Labyrinth, and Crimson Peak—and I do think that those three films fit together in his own mind and are very similar in their tone—there is a childlike innocence or open-heartedness. Guillermo is never glib or cynical or ironic. Everything is fully invested with meaning.
Whether he looks for earnestness in film projects: “Definitely, I would say so. I mean, that’s not to say I’m not game for a laugh. I’d really love to see if I could do a romantic comedy, because I think they’re really challenging and I think it would be really fun. But I think I am drawn to authenticity in people and in the work that I do. Everyone has a particular set of novels, films, or albums that you hang your identity on it for a bit. And I look back at what those films are, and I can see that they’re all really authentic performances: Daniel Day-Lewis in the Last of the Mohicans; Anthony Hopkins in The Remains of the Day; Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in Heat; Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I realize that if those are the films that shaped my imagination when I was younger, it’s inevitable that now that I’m an actor, that’s the type of work that I’m drawn to.
“Earnest” has always been a good descriptor for Tom, I’ve found. He often comes across as too pedantic and intellectual to really be truly silly. And yes, sometimes he’s cringe-worthy, like when he’s a dancing bear on the promotional trail or when he over-explains the impression he’s trying to do. What I’m trying to say is that I’m not sure Tom will be getting a romantic comedy anytime soon. Unless he wants to join my dream-cast for the entirely fictitious Richard Curtis film St. George’s Day, a Garry Marshall-type holiday-themed ensemble film that will include Idris Elba, Kiera Knightley, Colin Firth, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Archie Panjabi. Seriously, wouldn’t you see that movie?
Photos courtesy of GQ.
I am available for screen tests…
He looks good but that suit is cut much too tight, it’s almost farcical and takes away the elegance of a sharp suit.
That aside, I watched Crimson Peak and it is terrible. The script is just laughably bad; full of plot holes, lapses in logic and corny dialogue. Tom is ok and Chastain is a hilarious, entertaining ham and Mia just stands there like a ghost. Tonally it is all over the place; I don’t think it really fits a Gothic romance. The first half plays like a Jane Austen story and the second half is like a slasher flick in the English countryside. The ghosts are pretty much superfluous and the CGI is crap. They look more like computer game ghosts. Costumes and production design are top notch, but really let down by a horrid script. I suppose it is entertaining if one doesn’t take the story too seriously. The opening box office weekend is poor and I think it will really struggle to make money given that it has already opened in many overseas markets and already in wide release. More big films are opening into October-December and this would get lost in the shuffle.
Guillermo del Toro has been losing his touch for a while, and this latest outing is not a return to form.
Is it anything at all like Dracula that had Gary Oldman in it? If it is that brand of crap I am all in! Love me some ham and cheese.
I watched Dracula a loooong time ago so my memory is hazy, but I think that movie is far less tonally inconsistent than Crimson Peak and Gary Oldman is a more effective villain. It is also less hammy than the second half of Crimson Peak. Mia Wasikowska may however rival Keanu Reeves for wooden acting. 😀
People said that there is no chemistry between Tom and Mia, and that undermined the romance feel. Though, many commented that both Tom and Mia looked really beautiful.
Does Mia actually have chemistry with anyone? She always seems to be an island of her own, a pretty one at that.
@EN I wouldn’t say there’s no chemistry, it’s just not as strong as it should be. I think some of that can be pinned on the script, some of that on Moa not being a very passionate sort of actress. Does that make any sense? She’s kind of like Kristen Stewart. Very wooden, especially in big productions, but with the right film, like Sils Maria, she can be very nuanced in her acting. Moa was kind of miscast.
I definitely thought Tom and Jessica had a lot of chemistry
” The first half plays like a Jane Austen story and the second half is like a slasher flick in the English countryside. ”
Pride and Zombies – I can’t wait for this film. 😀
Or Cumberland Kitchen Knife Massacre. 😀
Now there’s a completely unnecessary movie right there. As if the Abe Lincoln film’s thud didn’t resonate enough.
I read that the script was re-written for Tom Hiddleston to make it more romantic/ warmer after Cumberbatch dropped out.
The original version was supposedly much colder and remote ( I am assuming with less of romance).
Do you think a colder version of this , without romance, would’ve been better? Or not?
That would have been Parade’s End with ghosts and it would have been worse. It would make no sense for Edith to marry him. The film’s problems don’t stem from Thomas having some charm and generating some compassion. The problems stem from the overall predictability and plot holes.
@EN
Yes I agree with Lilac. I didn’t mind the romance; in fact I understand amplifying that part to add an emotional/touching hook to Thomas Sharpe’s character arc and development. The plot holes, script contrivances and tonal issues are by and large unrelated to the romance.
I have read two earlier versions, and both make it very clear that Thomas Sharpe, while he has a change of heart at the very end and ultimately does not want to kill Edith, is very complicated, very much complicit, and not at all a nice guy. He does some very messed up things. They cut all of this out, and even cut some dialog that made it into the trailer about Sharpe’s excuses for what he did to the other women and to a child (he effectively says that there lives were not worth anything). If they made these changes to make the role more appealing to Tom or to fit him better, that doesn’t speak well of anybody.
I think it would have worked better– Sharpe is very charming in the beginning and her reasons for falling for him are clear enough. One of the things that doesn’t work though is why a smart girl such as Edith didn’t catch on that something is terribly wrong a lot more quickly– like, on the first day she arrived. The fact that she needs ghosts to point out the obvious is pretty sad.
> The film’s problems don’t stem from Thomas having some charm and generating some compassion
I picked up on people saying it is Austen + ghosts/ horror. If there wasn’t an Austen part at all, I was wondering if that would’ve made movie more streamlined and less confusing. I think in that case it would’ve had more appeal to men.
But then a lot of appeal to the women is the romantic part with dashing Tom. It seems it should’ve been two different movies.
@Miss Jupitero
Or how Edith after seeing a ghost in her bedroom, is all glammed up at a party minutes later and enjoying a romantic waltz with Thomas Sharpe on the dance floor. LOL I don’t think that’s the usual response of someone who just saw a ghost?
The warning from Edith’s mother is completely tacked on. I thought it would explore their relationship or that it would link back to the mother somehow, but that plot strand is introduced and then dumped pretty early.
And Thomas Sharpe has made a fortune from all the women but couldn’t fork out money to fix the roof?
I could go on, LOL.
@EN
I think you can still have Austen + ghosts, but the second half of the story would need to be far more tonally consistent. Ghosts alone are not a “tone” per se, you can have a harrowing ghost story which is still consistent with a more noble, restrained, reserved and atmospheric feel instead of changing gears into blood, gore and screams. Guillermo del Toro’s earlier efforts like Pan’s Labyrinth or The Devil’s Backbone are good examples. One of Crimson Peak’s problems is that its second half is very tonally jarring compared to its first; it comes across as neither here nor there.
> I think you can still have Austen + ghosts
Someone mentioned Withering Heights before as an example where it could work. Yes, I can see it now.
Yes Wuthering Heights is a good example. And the ghosts in that one have an even smaller role than that in Crimson Peak.
@Beth No2, I think the money went into the machine. But why didn’t Edith ever ask her husband where he was when she kept waking up alone in the middle of the night? Or tell him what her mother’s ghost had said about Crimson Peak when he first mentioned the name in the kitchen? And why didn’t she ask why the dog clearly hated Lucille?
Or why didn’t Daddy Dearest just tell Edith that her suitor was already married? Or that the siblings were the prime suspects in Mommy’s murder? Daddy liked that she was strong and smart but didn’t trust her to see that her suitor was bad news if she knew the truth.
My big question is if Edith was the only one that could see the ghosts or were the siblings rattling around that house with those things lurking around every corner. And if the ghosts were able to move things (like doors and doggie toys), why didn’t they just shove one of the Sharpes down the stairs to exact their revenge. I’ll suspend disbelief for a little while, but ask me to do it too many times and you’ve lost me.
So much potential gone to waste. I still don’t think fixing the story would have had any impact of box office though. The opening weekend box office was dismal. I don’t think Guillermo will get that kind of budget for a passion project ever again.
Since we’re talking spoilers, if Lucille had key to the trunk that held all the secrets why not destroy the trunk?
Oh God, @brownie – I didn’t even think of that one, but you’re so right!
Parade’s End was FANTASTIC. MTV AH was mind-numbingly stupid, but TH and JC still managed to be charming. Whatever they paid them to do that wasn’t enough.
The Night Manager saves all.
after all of Benny’s crying and bouncing in Hamlet it would have come over as as a Gothic Joe’s Boy’s with the luxury of a decent script and an age appreciate leads
@Beth No. 2, @browniecakes, @Dara, @Miss Jupitero
@KTE below has got it right. CP is a straight forward Gothic Romance and very good one at that IMO. If you keep looking for supposed “holes” in the plot, you’re going to ruin most any movie for yourself. Those so called holes that you claim don’t add up are intended to make the audience unsettled as well as much of the beautifully decrepit imagery, the hokey transitions, even Edith’s garish dresses. Many people think that their relationships and the dialog should have been more drawn out as though this were a modern romance story. In Gothic Romance the things like emotion, desire, fear, love, sex, are all under the surface of the characters. It’s more about atmosphere where the character’s inner desires and fears have manifest around them.
In other words don’t try to make sense out of every inconsistency, it’s not meant to make “rational” sense, and then you’re missing out of the experience of the movie. Every thing in CP on every layer even the truncated sex scene is meant to leave you in states of unfulfilled desire, tension, anxiety and generally unsettled.
*spoiler* Also remember that Edith is being poisoned and is still grieving so she’s not the same self assured GIRL she was in first part of the movie.
Ughhhh, YES! I was sooo disappointed with it. I was really looking forward to it too!
My dears, what you think of as an inconsistent tone is because it’s a GOTHIC ROMANCE. Tommy hasn’t been name-checking those novels all press tour for fun, they are actually a distinct genre of fiction with certain hallmarks, including some extreme violence, sex and sexual violence, the supernatural, and a rather hysterical tone. Crimson Peak fits into the genre perfectly.
There’s a reason why Edith says she’d rather be Mary Shelley than Jane Austen!!
“Costumes and production design are top notch, but really let down by a horrid script.”
Sign of the times, I’m afraid. Good review.
While I won’t disagree that the script could have been stronger and there were some plot holes, for me the ghosts and how they were rendered in the movie were the biggest letdown. They were so over the top and I hesitate to say unbelievable (since ghosts aren’t all that believable to many anyway) that they weren’t scary. More than a few people at the special early screening that I attended actually laughed at them. I did get startled once or twice by an unexpected appearance, but generally the gore in the movie was more disturbing than the horror (not that it was super gory, but the few scenes that were, really were). I was just surprised given all the obvious time and money spent on the indeed beautiful set and costumes, that the special effects didn’t really work for me. Also, why spoil the ending (or at least one aspect of it) in the first few minutes of the film?
That being said, overall I enjoyed the movie for what it was despite the plot holes. I might even see it again as I didn’t pay the first time. Alas, pretty much any horror movie forces you to put aside logic and what a reasonable person would do if in a similar position (e.g. don’t go off with strangers, don’t go off exploring by yourself, etc.). I enjoyed the acting, especially by JC and TW, and I didn’t MW to be wooden. However, it would have been interesting to see how TW would have played Thomas Sharpe as originally scripted (if it’s true that the character was darker and more of an agent in the evil deeds in the earlier iterations). While it may have made a more interesting story, but this kinder/gentler version of Thomas makes more sense as being able to win over Edith than a charming cad would.
I had to postpone my intended First night visit but while the media reviews have been reasonably positive, the box office has been poor. A shame.
Reviews were better in the UK 5/6 from the Telegraph and Guardian.Trouble is the Variety reviewer who always seems to miss vital nuances tends to get copied and pasted across the USA and then internationally .It is kind of sad how many of the reviews are so unoriginal.
Tom and Jessica Chastain in a Rob Reiner directed rom-com? I’d be first in line. Estelle would have to have the most memorable line, however.
I just want to see him in something funny for a change because I think he’d have good comedic timing. People are saying his deadpan humor in HR is good.
We’ll get a peek at his comedic abilities when Josh Horowitz from MTV posts his Tom & Jess video at noon today.
I dunno. Loki’d still sticks in my mind as his attempt at comedy, and it was not inspiring.
Well, I would prefer something not written by Josh Horowitz or the MTV people.
I cant watch that. it looks really bad.
It was the main thing that turned me off to Tom. I’ve warmed up since then– he had better not blow it.
My fear is that a comedy would turn him back into Tom the Dancing Bear.
It’s MTV. Everything is cringeworthy. It’s aimed at teenagers. He did comedy in Suburban Shootout, although he was the straight man to Ruth Wilson and the only character with ethics.
A smart, small independent British comedy would be perfect and not a standard Hollywood formula rom com.
Or a Shakespeare comedy updated.
I am not ashamed to say that the MTV thing made me smile and I even giggled a couple of times.
I like silly.
He was pretty funny in High Rise and I Saw the Light (well the funny parts at least).
I think Tom would excel at complex characters because he himself is a complex character (and wants to explore it) regardless of what he choses to show to his fans.
This is why his Loki is so believable. He can be so sincere because he believes in it at the moment and the next time he is, you know, Loki.
The MTV thing was cringemaking.
I just saw the MTV romp and like somebody said on IMDb, yeah, they went loco en la cabeza.
What I want to know is who Mia had to sell to get out of it.
My favorite British dandy!!
Sure why not? Who says he has to be the main love interest? Or it could be a more alternative love story. He could work well as a support character. I don’t know, I don’t see why not?
Does this press tour never end?
This is from several days ago, he will be in the jungle any time now. But if it makes you feel better he probably thinks the same thing.
His publicist needs to dial it down a bit.
all his interviews now will be click-baited and twisted for months to come and there is nothing his publicist can do about it.
@ p’enny, and I would guess the studios had more of a say in where Tom has appeared lately, rather than Luke.
Yes, the studio books the talk show circuit.
Cringeworthy is a mild term. Ridiculous is closer to the truth, I think. That impromptu concert in Memphis should be forgotten and soon. Yikes – it was bad. Don’t keep trying so hard to convince people you can pull it off. Apparently EO was dancing with Marc A. during TH’s performance- that’s right up there in super creepy.
@Twilly, it was Nashville but I get your point. I didn’t think it was all that bad, but to each their own.
Marc A. danced with another of his very young, attractive starlets too, it wasn’t just EO. Still creepy since the girl is probably half his age, and they seemed to be the only ones dancing – everyone else was just standing around gawping at Tom.
I took my high school aged son suit shopping over the weekend. The salesperson tried really really hard to talk us into a tighter suit, saying that it is the new Fall fashion. I went the other way and bought a suit one size larger for few more months of growth room!
I’m glad I’m not the only one who had that experience. My 13 year old needed a suit for an upcoming family wedding and they were trying to get him in one that was so tight I don’t think he could even sit down comfortably. When I said I wanted one that was a little too big and then have it tailored so that he could wear it for at least a year, they looked at me like I was crazy. Then, when we went to alterations, they wanted to alter the legs – not just the hem but the legs – to make them tight. Ick.
His face looks really good in the photos. Those suits are so silly.
They remind me of that age-old phenomena, the college kid who has to go to some formal event, and the only dark suit he has is the one his mother bought him for his confirmation. “It still fits, right?” No, it doesn’t, and I can’t believe people BUY suits with that fit now.
I think it is a combination of the skinny suit trend plus they brought model sample size suits to the photo-shoot and Tom is a bit more toned overall than the average model so the suits are a size too small.
I’m on board with the Richard Curtis St. George’s Day but it must also include MacKenzie Crook and Bill Nighy.
We’re settling in here in the jungle. Mark is trying to tame a small monkey to entertain us. Get your beverage orders in.
the sun is amazing, and the sea is twinkling and the monkey keeps humping my leg. Why me???
Stop feeding the monkey and he’ll leave your leg alone.
You think the suits are not fitted to them in advance?
I guess I just always assumed that the suits were donated by the designers and then fitted before the shoot.
People in a photo shoot rarely get to keep all the items, if any, and they aren’t fitted in advance
@EN – it probably depends on the focus of the story. If the story is about the actor, either for a cover or a main feature, then yes – to a point. The editorial staff would probably work harder to find something that is flattering and they would have had many dozens of options on hand to try and may have had something tailored in advance.
If it is the clothes that are the story and the actor is just modeling them, then they were probably working with standard designer samples which would not have been tailored. There were still probably plenty of looks that didn’t make the cut, these were just the ones that worked best.
St George’s Day also needs a cameo from Miriam Margolyes. All she has to do is walk through a park, stop, look up, and say, “Get out of that tree at once, young man!”
Miriam would be perfection in such a part, she has that lovely haughty voice.
It is the fashion and it really looks stupid. Italian suits have always been more body fitting but the current fashion is really looking ridiculous.
I would love him in a comedy, period, romantic or not, just something where he has fun. I think he has great timing and could do humor really well.
My husband had a client who dresses like that and he stopped at our house once. I had to bite the inside of my mouth to stop from laughing. It was mostly surprise, because Delawareans are pretty conservative dressers and I’m not used to it, but I wanted to blurt out “your pants are so tiny!”
He resembles Fred Astaire somewhat.
We’ve mentioned here before that he’d make a great Astaire if ever there was need for someone to play him.
Wow, yes. he would be a fabulous Fred Astaire. That elegant figure. Perfect. As for Crimson Peak, my god what a let-down. It was like I watched the story board for a film. The costumes were gorgeous, and all of that acting talent went unused. Sigh.
I’d love to see a Thin Man remake. Yeah, I know there was another actor on deck to play Nick Charles but that project got put on the shelf a few years ago. Besides, no one said I had to be rational while playing imaginary casting director.
Or something by Noel Coward.
Hiddles is good at comedy and Kenneth Branagh said he is a great comedian. As Richard Curtis retired, I want to see him in an anti rom-com comedy directed by the Coens. In my dream project, he will break every cliche of a British boyfriend and manage to be an interesting human being in the end. I don’t mind if the couple break up and keeping friendly relationship with each other. Carey Mulligan or Andrea Riseborough would be lovely.
Not a fan of too tight suits. But I am grateful that he wore suits that are not blue. In the two photos where we don’t need to see his pants, he looks great.
…”Kiera Knightley, Colin Firth, Chiwetel Ejiofor “…
They already worked together in Love actually. What I would like to see is Tom H. in a movie with JJ Feild playing siblings.
And they can do it again along with, as Lilacflowers mentioned, Bill Nighy.
I wouldn’t mind seeing him in a comedy (British comedy that is) but not a Rom-Com.
Him and Feild’s could be twins in this fictitious movie.
I don’t know… I have the impression that Richard Curtis like to work with some of the actors he worked previously, but it needs to be the “right” characters. It would be too much of a coincidence that he brought half of the Love actually cast to work together. Unless, they do a sequel…
Curtis has worked with Tom previously. Curtis worked on War Horse.
I just wanna say…..I watched the entire season of “Turn” on netflix because JJ Feild was so damn sexy in it. God.
+1
Yum the combo of Tom and JJ Field would get me to the cinema in a shot. They are very similar. I always wonder if JJ misses out on roles over Tom
I never thought I’d say this but those clothes are way too tight. I hope those suits are made out of material that gives because he is about to burst out of them pants. I can see every muscle in that boy’s legs. Those cheekbones and eyes of his slay me though.
I never thought there’d be a suit pants version of jeggings; apparently I was wrong.
…with chalk stripes that highlight how much the pants do not fit.
Dude needs a real pair of shoes, his face is all prissy, like he’s holding back on a crap.
He’s probably in agony with the tight trousers.
Good god, you have to have really small testicles to fit the high cut crotch style.
It’s an anatomical fact, no shade on Tom.
It is just miserable for some men.
I miss the baggy Italian silk suits from the LA Law era, lol. Seriously.
I love the suits in the kingsmen movie with Colin firth’s swagger I was swooning. It’s a really violent movie not my thing but the suits are magnificent.
I don’t like this 2 sizes too small look, it looks as if it’s quite uncomfortable.
Yeah I’d like to see Tom in a romantic comedy.
Lol, that is how I felt too. I am not sure what the plot was, something pretty silly I think. I was just watching Colin in his suits.
Can’t remember the plot myself, only the posh british style and the swagger. But what style and what swagger! And those adorable dogs…
You know the movie that came out last year- “This is Where I Leave You” – it was a dramedy about siblings who have to come together because their father died- Tina Fey, Jason Bateman, etc. Great cast; terrible, predicable movie full of stereotypes (uptight sister, youngest brother is reckless and jobless, oldest son had to be the responsible one blah blah). I see something along those lines, but a better script, set in London starring Tom (his wife is a real bitch played by Rebecca Hall), Eddie Redmayne (brings his new boyfriend with him, some young up and comer) and Kate Winslet (her husband played by Fassbender) and they find out the dad had another kid they didn’t’ know about, played by Daniel Radcliffe. Emma Thompson plays their mother and Maggie Smith does a cameo as Grandmama. I would watch the shit out of that.
Get writing the script kid. 🙂
@phoebe please get writing that screenplay I need to see that film. Every actor you picked was a great choice.
Sounds amazing. Get writing woman! However, not sure you’d get Kate Winslet and Rebecca Hall in the same movie…..
You know I might just! I’m sure it will end up being more like fanfiction than an actual screenplay (as I have no idea how to write one of those). But, hey, if that Twilight lady can write that drivel, I can do it too, right!
Can Laura Linney fit in the cast? Maybe she can be the crazy neighbor, with a bunch of cats, who is cranky but with a heart of gold?
I was attempting to exclude too many Love Actually cast members, which is difficult to do! But maybe she could be the mother of the Daniel Radcliffe character who shows up to try to get her/his share of the inheritance.
This movie also takes place in the NOW, which is another thing Tom should look for in his next film. NO more olden times roles- I suppose Avengers was technically modern times but didn’t feel like it. I want to see him as a normal dude with normal dude problems.
I’m sorry, I couldn’t read anything because SKINNY TIE. Skinny tie+tight suit= The Knack. Now I want to hear My Sharona.
re: “St. George’s Day” — I would totally see it 🙂
I’m waiting for a (mature) romance starring Alan Rickman and Helen Mirren. Someone needs to make that happen.
I am good with anything starring Alan Rickman. Love him. He would make a good Dracula too, if we are talking gothic romance.
I’ll cut your heart out with a spoon!
I would love to see him reunited with his Truly, Madly, Deeply co-star Juliet Stevenson
I’d love a dvd of Truly, Madly, Deeply. Somebody make it happen, please!!!! Why aren’t it and Big Night, another great, available?
I LOVE good romantic comedies and wish that the genre hadn’t been destroyed by so many brainless, vapid, horrible romcoms over the past 10 – 15 years.
St. George’s Day is a great concept and with the right film makers could be a wonderful romcom. I also think Tom Hiddleston could be a wonderful leading character in a rom com (and I admit that I may be biased because I’m married to a lovely, intellectual Brit). But come on, BILLY CRYSTAL was the lead in one of the great romcoms of all time, so with a great story, the right casting and chemistry, it can be done 🙂
The best rom-com of all time, in my opinion. With the best line ever delivered in cinema:
“I’ll have what she’s having.”
Yep
Holy Crap! I can’t believe it worked! Charlie Rose, Charlie Rose, Charlie Rose!
https://twitter.com/CharlieRoseShow/status/656602257031610372
What should I try next… Tom in my living room, Tom in my living room, Tom in my living…
Just hoping you don’t get Ray Lewis too.
And in the future, any time someone complains of Tom being too talkative, I’m going to play that Ray Lewis interview for them. The man kept talking and talking and talking and talking and saying very little and what was said was repeated frequently.
But Jessica, Mia, and Tom had a nice little segment.
I know!!! That almost one flew under the radar (at least I didn’t hear anything about it beforehand). And as an added benefit, no mention of Tom’s fan base or his “English countryside” (although it is a bit fun to watch him blush and fidget whenever the topic comes up).
@Maxine – I find myself giddy with anticipation, even if it means staying up way past my usual bedtime since it comes on at midnight in my area.
After this, he really does need to disappear into the jungle for a good long while, I’ve accomplished next to nothing in the last six weeks and I need an intermission before The Night Manager stuff starts appearing.
Dude, did you click your heels together to make that happen??
I hope we’ll see the whole thing on youtube tomorrow since it aired tonight.
Dude!! My skills in the dark arts must remain a mystery to the uninitiated. Suffice to say I am pledged to only use my powers in service of our Dragonfly Lord – long my he pontificate – and solely for the benefit of his loyal subjects.
That Charlie Rose interview makes me want to see him interviewed by Terry Gross. He’d get asked such good questions by her. I love her interviews.
Between Ray Lewis and Thomas and Lucille, the theme for that episode of Charlie must’ve been “accomplices to murder.’
On the subject of Tom in a comedy, I would love to see him in a Wes Anderson film. Something along the lines of Grand Budapest I think would really suit the knack for deadpan that was hinted at in High-Rise.
i really did not find Budapest funny so i hope not
Glad I’m not the only one icerose. I was very underwhelmed by that film.
I would too Sister Goldenhair. Tom in an Anderson or Coen brothers comedy would make me happy.
Grand Budapest was one of my favorite films last year.
Run don’t walk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnxdtgOFwZ0
Good mind to report that as abuse Miss J! It is so toe-curlingly embarrassing.
I am still amazed. This is so dreadfully bad it almost breaks on through to the other side and becomes good.
TommyAnnE desperately wants to explode the internet.
And I’m surprised at Jessica
I was afraid to watch it at first, figuring it would be an epic cringe-fest. Surprisingly, I giggled out loud in a few spots. On the cringeworthy-scale, I give it 3 out 5.
7 out of 5 for me!
The only part that was funny was the port-o-potty. The rest was just…..bizarre.
“I’m a cowboy! I’m a cowboy!”
I thought the gimp with the boombox was a nice touch.
MTV’s target audience includes 12-13 year olds and Josh Horowitz does court that teenage demographic. If this stuff showed up on Charlie Rose, then, yes, cringe-worthy. But the Rose interview was quite sedate and polite and dignified and appropriate while this likely has Horowitz’s audience equally amused.
I thought it was going to make me cringe, but actually it made me laugh a lot.
Tom has mentioned before that he likes the comedy of cringe – he’s a big fan of The Office, which I can’t bear to watch, and Sli G. He seems to enjoy being a clown.
I’m a big fan of cringe, but not when it has wink-wink-nudge-nudge. That’s why the original Office worked for me and the American one didnt.
That should be Ali G, but my phone hates me.
I like a people who are willing to be silly sometimes. I thought it was cute.
Yeah. There’s something very endearing about a guy who has a double first from Cambridge, can speak a couple of foreign languages well enough to piece together answers at press junkets (I’m not claiming he’s fluent), likes to quote poets and philosophers, and talks like he’s writing a university essay, and is also willing to clown around and make a fool of himself.
You’ve been very accurate describing him 🙂