Tom Hiddleston is still shilling for I Saw the Light, which is how he ended up in Chicago this week. He ended up doing an interview with WGN News in Chicago, and the whole Tommy-on-local-media thing was sort of charmingly bizarre. It got even funnier when he decided to hijack the weather report, half-pretending to be Loki and talking about Thor dropping a hell of a lot of rain on poor Chicago. He actually says: “The god of thunder has brought he skill-set to bear on the local weather. There’s a huge storm front coming in, and all that means is Chris Hemsworth has taken his hammer and smashed it on the surface of the sky and it’s going to rain a hell of a lot. So good luck with that.” Here’s the video:
It’s cute. I like when celebrities hijack the weather report, except if I was in the middle of a bad storm, I probably wouldn’t think it was cute. I mean, as you can see from the beginning of the video, people were actually injured! I guess if someone had died, they wouldn’t have joked around with Tom.
Here’s the actual interview Tom did with this station. He’s a manspreader. It’s fine in this interview, but I bet it’s a pain in the ass to sit next to him on the subway. In his defense, he’s crazy-tall and his legs are really long. But that is some WIDE manspreading. I’m surprised he can get his legs that far apart considering his love of really tight pants.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
“Hopefully Thor’s hammer will not come down too hard on us this afternoon.” 🙂 🙂 🙂
You are so very bad. I like.
Oh, so many responses bubbling inside my head. Too bad I already used my one allowance for smut on this post…
That’s never stopped you before… *blows kisses*
Between the tight trousers, manspreading and The Hammer, my little brain is about to explode!
I’m on the T. I could use some smut. And it is raining. Where are you, Thor?
Maybe someone will let you have their smut ration Nutty. Do you have anything you can trade?
Oh Cranny…
Ain’t got the change of a nickel
Ain’t got no bounce in my shoes
Ain’t go no fancy to tickle
I ain’t got nothing but the blues
Nutballs, you are welcome to my smut ration today.
Hey, I was just quoting the nice meteorologist. I bet that guy has done his job in a mature and professional manner his whole career, then five minutes in the presence of Hiddles and this is what comes out. 😉
(*in my best Jimmy Fallon-Sara voice)
Ew! 😯
He hasn’t been on Fallon yet. Will that happen during TNM promo?
Tom hiddleston _ poster boy of celebitchy!
Honest to Betsy, if you were a casting director, you’d hire him just for the titanic shilling capacity, wouldn’t you? I bet he doesn’t even have a rider worth looking at. I might mock him (and he might deserve it) but he is value for money.
He shills like his life depends on it! I’ve been impressed with how enthusiastic he has remained on the ISTL press tour as a new round of bad reviews hits the interwebs. Some have been brutal. At least the reviews acknowledge that his performance is the best thing about it.
I thought the weather report was cute.
As far as that manspreading… he knows what his audience is looking at. Naughty Hiddles!
I had a daytime chat show on while working this morning and he got a pasting from their TV reviewer for TNM, too. Even I thought it was harsh! You have to admire his fortitude with the ISTL thing, dontcha?
Tom Hiddleston: hiring this man will halve your promotion budget. It’s not a bad USP, is it?
Re: manspreading. You will love this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CepUAqBW4AEvPxt.jpg:large
But, but… the snake needs to BREEEEATHE!
Not when the class war scissors are about, it doesn’t!
Prince Charles did a TV weather forecast once, you know.
I bet Chaz didn’t exude the cuteness that The PuddleTom did.
Off-topic, I just realized that Schweppenstette is Martin’s father. Missed the meaning in the hospital chat “You don’t understand me” “You don’t understand me either”, but the awkward meatball lunch certainly made it clear!
@Sicer, I am on the T (Boston’s excuse for public transit) and when I opened that link, the guy sitting nearly on top of me saw it and quickly got up and stood on the far end of the car.
I’m very comfortable now. Thank you
No way! Ha. I love that image so much I’m thinking of getting it printed onto a canvas messenger bag. Also, a Women’s Death Brigade just might be the Death Star replacement I have been looking for. I wonder if there’s a local chapter?!
Yes, way! I hope it taught him to keep them together AND stop checking out what’s on people’s phones.
A Women’s Death Brigade, an international association dedicated to making the world a less annoying place for women. Form your local chapter now and get this righteous canvas messenger bag.
I seriously need that on a messenger bag. Perfect for my weekend excursions on the T when I leave my lawyer persona at home. I think women in any city with a public transit system, even if they just have buses, would crave such a bag.
Sixer saw this today and thought about you and your love of accents:
http://www.chonday.com/Videos/lingsouth2
Sixer, I take that back… this is better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPfOL4wUuMU
@ Sixer some people have criticised Tom’s performance in TNM. I think it is partly a case of not realising that the idea is that he istrying to keep his true feelings towards Roper hidden. But perhaps that is just my take on it.
Nutballs – thankee! I loved them both. It’s cool that once someone explicitly illustrates specific accent variations to you, you can hear what you couldn’t hear before. I’m sure neurologists have an explanation, but I prefer to think of it as magic!
Lilac – I really think I will get the bag. I’m in London (probably on the tube) in a couple of weeks. I can debut it then. And am actively seeking local recruits for my Women’s Death Brigade!
Sixer, I had Mr. Balls in floods as he watched Employable Me last night. We both lost it when Brett read his letter to his colleagues. What a great way to help them and increase public awareness to the skills of the extraordinary that don’t fit into the usual mold.
Mr Sixer also bawled! I bawled for about 24 hours. Seriously! And it wasn’t even that they were doing him a favour, was it? He cracked software testing in one morning that would have taken all their other employees an entire week. And his piano playing. Just goes to show that the wider society has it the wrong way around. It’s not about what people can’t do. It’s about what they can do. Which is something so-called normal people take for granted. But only for themselves.
Because I love you gals and because Friday night is the night the Sixlets take over the television chez nous, I saw this and can treat you with it. The great British public’s reaction to the last episode of TNM as brought to you by Gogglebox. They all loved it (and LEGS). Scroll to 42:38:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oms1vZny56E
Haha, thank you Sixer. But I did get nervous all over again, even though I had seen it. 🙄
Ha Sixer, that was fun. I loved watching the ladies on the purple sofa!
In return, if feats of endurance interest any of you, I’d point you to The Barkley Marathons (#BM100). The 2016 race started a few hours ago and its the toughest trail race in the world, nicknamed “The Race The Eats Its Young”. Over 100 miles in the Tennessee wilderness, 60k feet/18k meters of vertical gain, 60 hour time limit, arbitrary rules, no trails or markers and only 14 have finished in 25 years. There’s a documentary on Netflix as well as Amazon. These are the badass athletes that you’ve never heard of and it’s a great documentary on the race.
Sixer, you’d LOVE the race director, Laz. He’s a southern hillbilly to the core and he is AWESOME.
That was fantastic!
Most praise Tom and criticise the film -there have eve been some that praise the film as well but not many.
He does shill his little heart out, doesn’t he? But it isn’t for every project. For OLLA, he did the film festival circuit but when the film was finally released months later, while he was filming Crimson Peak, he just did a small print interviews while Tilda handled the heavy lifting. With High–Rise coming out now in UK and next month elsewhere, he again did all the festivals and quite a few print pieces but he hasn’t been part of the release with the actual film, other than a few mentions during the longer interviews he has been doing. I’m actually surprised Colbert didn’t show the balcony picture.
Those gaps you mention were always when he was off filming something else, and in movieland a project with active filming underway will always come before everything else – unless it’s negotiated ahead of time. If he hadn’t been running through a jungle on the far side of the world, I’m 100% sure he would have been right alongside Wheatley doing the Q&A’s for High-Rise, but even the Tomster hasn’t figured out how to be in two places at once.
I know, Dara.
Lilac, he does. And I do not say that at all as a backhanded compliment.
Just because I have nowhere else to put it – a local cinema will be showing Maxine Peake’s Hamlet in May. I’m so excited!
If you still have your VPN, then I can give you Maxine doing The Skriker on Radio 3. Very good. You still have 18 days left to listen! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07454g5
Thanks. I’ll try to check that out.
Peake.s Hamlet was wonderful but not perfect-I saw it live. with a frond and we were both a bit disappointed but she is still one of my top actresses and I am hoping for another series of Silk
Charming. He is obviously a good sport and I am sure he made many people in Chicago forget the inclement weather that day.
I have to admit that I have a lot of respect for him for shilling so hard for a movie that got such terrible reviews. I don’t think he’s hoping for awards recognition or even box office success at this point (the man is anything but stupid). I think he’s still proud of the movie and the work he did for it.
And I would much rather have someone like him being occasionally a little extra than someone begrudgingly going through press tour like we’re lucky he graced us with an interview.
And the video where he taught the lady how to two step was adorable.
I saw it this morning and he has every reason to be proud of the work he did. Mark Abraham? No. But Tom did a great job with what he had.
He’s a manspreader, but not on the subway. Somebody once took a photo of him on the tube and he had his legs crossed and was politely taking up as little space as possible.
Loved the weather report, and the two-step demo…and Colbert, and Charlie Rose, and the Time video, and so many others. If nothing else, this promo tour has given his fans some really great moments, and hopefully sparked some interest among people who weren’t aware of him, or the film, before this week.
I’ve done this before. Telling the weather is A LOT harder than it looks.
I think the manspreading in necessary because, how to put this delicately, his giant trouser snake needs space to breathe.
Dying! 😂
Didn’t someone once mention that he sits like a s***? It was pretty funny….as for the ISTL previews. I am just mad at MA. He could have made such a beautiful film and I am sure that TH could have been a contender for awards. Damn you MA. Oh and where the eff is EO? Is she even promoting the film?
I’m plenty irked at the director as well, but I’m trying to remain neutral until I get to the see the film for myself. Abraham really did assemble a top shelf team in every respect, and it makes me sad to think of such a wonderful opportunity, and all that talent, wasted. Hank (and Tom) deserved better.
EO did a few days of press in LA. She’s off making a film with Jeremy Renner (her first work in nearly 9 months) and probably couldn’t get more time off.
Adorable. Dammit Hiddles you finally won me over. Didn’t get his appeal before but for some reason now I do.
Welcome to the club, darling. He won me over through the NerdHQ interview. Before that I didn’t get his appeal either.
NerdHQ was so cute, and Damn he looked sexy that day.
Thanks and now I’m off to check out that interview!
You’ll love him on Colbert https://vimeo.com/160704537
New member of the club, too, as of this week. 🙂 I’m crushing! Had not seen his work until I saw ISTL, Tom and MA in person Q&A at screening, and TH on Colbert. Tom is so engaging, thoughtful, smart, funny, and a good sport. And that voice! He can read me a bedtime story any time he likes. Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr….
As for ISTL, Tom gives a fine performance—truly excellent! He really carries the film. EO (or, “Lizzie” as TH warmly, oh so affectionately, calls her IRL), weighs down every scene she is in (and not because of her intentionally grating singing). The film suffers from choppy, murky storytelling and editing, but is still worth watching if you can suffer through EO screen time. Her costumes and hairstyles are the redeeming part of her scenes, aside from when TH shares the scene with her. The scene in which they sing to the newborn baby is so sweet and quite lovely, however!
Hi @lucy. Welcome to our little pocket of the universe where we’re regularly saying things like “what has our Puddletom done now? . . And how did he look when he did it?”
I’m glad to hear you liked Tom in ISTL. I’m going to see it this week, and your report sounds like what I’ve heard others say. They were very pleased with Tom’s performance and the rest of the acting, but the story and editing had some big problems. Oh well, at least I won’t be surprised.
@lucy
Tom has had many incarnations over the years as well as hair colors. Of his professional work might I suggest his Shakespeare work the BBC’s “Hollow Crown” in plays Henry IV and Henry V. More recently he’s been in the big Gothic Romance “Crimson Peak” and the independent film “Only Lovers Left Alive”. Coming out soon is “High Rise” although you might want to prepare yourself for that one.
There’s the independent films by Joanna Hogg “Archipelago” and “Unrelated” that he plays the lead in, as well as his smaller roles in “War Horse” and “Midnight In Paris”. Of course there’s our beloved Loki in “Thor” and “Avengers” which couldn’t be more opposite films from Joanna Hogg’s extremely nuanced, non action plot style independents. So there’s a bit of a range to choose from. Hope some are to your tastes.
@Lucy welcome to the dark side. I suggest you look up ‘Stories Before Bedtime – Kingdom of Earth’ on YouTube. Trust me on this…
Thanks for the tips 🙂
WOW. He is “hustle” personified! I wonder how all those people who paid $500+ to see him at Wizard Con are feeling right about now??? Seems like most of them could have saved their money and gone down to the local cinema instead! I personally have tickets to the Times talk in NY, but I’m beginning to think that surely he’ll have nothing left by then. No worries, though, because HUGH LAURIE 😀
I wouldn’t worry about it platospop. The man’s a machine!
A machine in a suit. 😆
Excited, I imagine. They’ll get a panel discussion, an autograph, and a professional photograph with him for their money. I know it’s a crazy amount of money, but there is a big difference between that and standing around for hours on the off-chance that someone will have time to give you an autograph and a selfie, fighting the crowd of professional ebayers with their stacks of prints , and having them whizz past hastily scrawling something illegible on the way.
Tom is pretty good about giving autographs and selfies, but still, there’s never a guarantee that you’ll get one if the crowd is large and he is short of time.
Platospopcorn, you got the better deal, imo. Times Talks are where Tom shines. To have a bonus Laurie and anyone else from the cast is frosting on the cake. I’d never shell out for any of the Cons… that’s way too much to simply see or get a photo with a favorite star.
I just hope the Hiddlestoner fangirls mind their P’s and Q’s after seeing how Hugh made fun of that chick in Berlindale.
Wait, Hugh Laurie made fun of someone? I really want to see this. I know him from House and this entire promotional tour, I’ve really wanted to see sarcastic, bitter Hugh Laurie. I realize he’s not his character in real life, but I still want to see it
Die Zicke, It’s here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GgNwAFPTq8
The cringe starts around 6:55 when a rambling Hiddlestoner asked two questions about “Unrelated” and doesn’t end until Tom shut her down a couple of minutes later with a “I think that’s a question for another time”. Polite, but firm. That’s the new and improved boundary-setting Hiddles. He can say no, it seems.
C. Adorably cheesy
The TV station in Chicago is getting a LOT of mileage out of this. Several staffers have it on their FB pages, and comments by one of the anchors lead me to believe it was the meteorologist’s idea–Tom was there to be interviewed, and the guy talked him in to it as they had a big storm on the map.
Who thinks it was AT ALL difficult to convince him?
Yeah, not me, either.
😉
(Oh, and the station has sent the video off to EW and other sites, working the click-bait!)
It is trending all over Facebook. People I know who’ve hardly heard of him are sharing it.
It’s been all over Twitter all day too. Some people seem to think it was an April Fool’s prank.
It’s still trending this morning…
ETA: my 6YO girl just saw Tom’s picture on the screen and broke out into “Hey Good Lookin'”. Indoctrination is complete.
It really was a shrewd PR move to get him trending on Facebook.
One thing about Tom you can’t deny, he is totally prepared to put a shift in for the team, even so long after it finished, and the direct ****ed up big time. And he never makes it looks as if he doesn’t want to be there.
@spidey :
Tom is a tireless and kind profissional.
People said so many good things about him, one of my favorite is from Jake Hamilton Fox 32 Chicago – Facebook:
” I’ve interviewed Tom Hiddleston (Loki from THOR and THE AVENGERS) many times over the years, and he continuously continues to impress me with how much of a gentleman he really is.
Could he kill it as James Bond? Absolutely. But it doesn’t matter — he’s going to have an incredible career either way.
I have to say that my favorite part of ISTL today was the trailer for High-Rise immediately before the film began.
Lucky!
Unfortunately, I don’t expect such good fortune this weekend when I see it.
Oh sexy! The two films couldn’t be more different. Watching them back to back was so tippy for me. I hope Tom’s future projects get releases like that. He’s got amazing range in the right projects.
I thought this was an April Fools prank, but apparently not.
http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/actors-on-actors-season-4-lineup-1201743491/
No, it is not a joke.
I hope they put Tom with Emilia Clarke or Jamie Lee Curtis because these ladies are really funny.
Well, there are so many talented people on this list that it’s hard to choose, can be everyone but Lady Gaga or John Travolta. God, help us, if JT start messing up Tom’s name or gets creepy.
from@debrabirnbaum – executive editor for Variety:
A new bromance: @twhiddleston and @aaronpaul_8 are competing at @Variety’s dartboard. #actorsonactors
https://twitter.com/debrabirnbaum/status/716396991710777344
Eek, Aaron Paul! Love him!
So after seeing I Saw the Light today, I have oh so many comments and angst-y questions, but what I really want to know is – Why the hell isn’t Your Cheatin’ Heart, Cold Cold Heart or I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry, on the bloody soundtrack in some form? And why call the film I Saw the Light and not include that effing song in some form? WTF Sony/Legacy? But I suppose that’s par for the course for this film, because I’m also WTF’ing Marc Abraham in a big way too. But that is a different rant for a different day.
Now, you understand why I was b!tching about the soundtrack selection. To leave off the haunting opening number and other Hank classics in favor of “My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It” was downright criminal.
I look forward to hearing your rant, Dara dear, as you’ll probably put words to my feelings after seeing it. Much WTF alongside of much impressed-ness with Tom’s performance.
And why does it include Eartha Kitt’s “Santa Baby?”
I wonder if it’s because those songs were sung live on set, rather than in the studio? It does seem odd that they were left off the soundtrack if there wasn’t a technical reason for it.