3 December 2020 Tom Hiddleston Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you’re playing a tender love story that’s set in a coffee shop or whether you’re in ‘The Avengers,’ which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.
3 December 2020 Tom Hiddleston In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.
3 December 2020 Tom Hiddleston Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don’t know about categorizing them in terms of class I’m a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.
3 December 2020 Tom Hiddleston You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don’t love themselves enough.
3 December 2020 Tom Hiddleston If you play it straight it’s funny – the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.
3 December 2020 Tom Hiddleston Haters never win. I just think that’s true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.
3 December 2020 Tom Hiddleston It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don’t have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.
3 December 2020 Tom Hiddleston Loki in ‘Thor’ is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I’d built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.
3 December 2020 Tom Hiddleston I’m an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.
3 December 2020 Tom Hiddleston I was informed yesterday that there’s a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing.
