MEGACON Orlando 2024 Tom Hiddleston Loki Panel

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] wow thank you so much that's believe it or not that's not something I hear every Sunday afternoon uh I'm very grateful to you you all look fantastic there are worst ways to end a KH yeah this is wonderful really amazing thank you so much what an honor to be here and to be here with all of you I want to kick it off I want to go way back okay you've now been playing Loki ly Sun for 15 years which mean yes which means you've got over a decade of con experience of this wonderful culture this life yeah what are some of your favorite elements of this particular Community we were talking about in the back what makes this special to you honestly it's sharing the joy that's what that's what I love about it um this weekend I have uh received so much generosity and and um so much passion for um the work that I've done and um the ideas that we've shared and and believe me I feel the love so thank you um but I should I I should should say this is that I think um we use fiction you and I were chatting back there um fiction fictional characters in fictional stories comic books ancient narrative superhero stories to explain ourselves to ourselves it's all a metaphor it's all um a way of exploring who we really are in our real lives and we have done it forever as human beings um just like they used to do in the ancient epics and the thing that moves me the most is that it's been my honor and my privilege to to play Loki and to represent whatever he represents on that canvas and to and to hear and witness how much he means to so many of you for so many different reasons um and it's uh it creates an extraordinary I feel atmosphere of connection and togetherness is that actually we're telling these stories to understand who we are um and so I'm grateful to you thanks and in my opinion Sarah Haley Finn is one of the names at Marvel like the casting director who puts it all together she's the the one above all in so many ways what's unique about the Marvel casting process that allows them to build those relationships over decades that literally has to be a plug-and playay for so many different mediums so many different universes so many different relationships what's the Marvel casting magic well first of all I'm grateful to the writer for his endorsement and encouragement um but yeah I'm uh even more grateful to Sarah hiy Finn and and Randy Hiller actually who cast both cast me in the first Thor movie um and an extraordinary gift of their confidence in me and in Chris Hemsworth neither of us had done anything up to that point which could prove that we could deliver on that promise I hope that we could be presented ourselves as people who were willing to work hard and um and were grateful for the opportunity but it is amazing how they have populated this universe you know the constellations with um desperate and versatile Talent um and the magic always always with acting is is what happens between you um and I always feel if I've done any acting that's half decent it's because of the actor I'm opposite um it's it's the uh that's the joy of the unpredictability of the chemistry that you have um and yes my hat hats off to Sarah um for populating the MCU with these amazing actors who are able to create in the spaces between them these relationships which become more meaningful as time goes on it's such a a precious seed you have to plant and hope turns into the trees that become the forest that becomes it's incredible and and I love that you know that Marvel did make that risky I guess at the time gamble is there anything you remember from the casting process that now is interesting as Loki evolved like a take a choice a decision you made about Loki then that's so different now um funly enough in in many respects the center of the character the soul of the character feels the same um and from that day to this the thing I've wanted to honor most was the complexity and depth and size of his soul that that Loki is an ancient character um who is mischievous and playful and unpredictable and sometimes chaotic sometimes vulnerable sometimes destructive often contradictory but that the soul of this character is deep and I wanted his soulfulness to be evident from the get-go now as the stories have changed and the movies have changed and my requirement in each story is different um um in The Avengers the point of view isn't from Loki's perspective the point of view is from The Avengers perspective um but it's interesting people some people have asked me this weekend do you prefer playing the villain or the hero and my respon is it's the same character it's the story that changes who the hero is um he's still this uh deeply complex and contradictory character as are we all that actually brings me to our next question because the god of Mischief yeah thank you so on paper Loki isn't as translatable from an outside perspective but once you're in him absolutely he's that connection he's that eyeline so what do you think it is that you wanted to in the beginning before it had as much screen time as he had now wanted to be that anchor that eyeline that connection to the everyday person that's seeing their Humanity reflected in someone that in his first iterations felt very antagonistic how did you want to Anchor someone to be like I'm rooting for him I know I shouldn't quite be I think it's the the the Primary Emotion that's at the center of him and I felt very fortunate in the in the first Thor film that I was given by the late great Don pay the screenwriter an extraordinary Arc where very early on you got to see how lost and confused and vulnerable this character was so that his grievance was always rooted in grief his rage was always rooted in vulnerability um and so even when Loki is at his most destructive and his most um villainous I suppose I had had a second to present what was behind all of his anger what was behind all of his um misguided and um and destructive kind of element um which I think the audience could latch on to and go okay he's making some interesting choices decisions were made decision he's not thinking clearly um and also I think it is in his nature I think it is a the whole point of the trickster in any mythology is that the trickster is a Mercurial force uh a shape shifter uh Transformer a disruptor a boundary Crosser as soon as you think you can pin him down he's he's shifted away into something else and even I mean Chris Hemsworth and I used to talk about um evolving their choreographic fighting style as that Thor was like a block of granite and Loki was like the wind dancing around him but together they could be very powerful um so but at least in the characterization I had had a moment to uh reveal that at the center of this detached the mask of Detachment and coolness and Mischief was actually a very lost and broken Soul um looking for meaning which I think is something I'm hope I've hope I've managed to continue um all the way up to the end of Loki season 2 I definitely think so I I felt that connection throughout absolutely from memory Thor was not an easy um as as a movie it's quite an interesting movie to pitch and Marvel I think were thinking carefully about you know you've got Gods and Monsters and this shining Citadel in the sky of Asgard and Rainbow Bridge and you know eight-legged horses and you know and I think Kenneth Brer very clearly came in spoke to Kevin feige and said I see what this is this is like the best of Shakespeare's history plays it's like Henry IV Thor is Prince Hal and he has to go on a journey um of from arrogance to humility in order to become Henry V um and Odin is like King Leah uh or or King Henry IV um and Loki is a bit like Iago or um or Edmund in uh in Leah actually the illegitimate son the one who's cast aside um which is also true of Loki um so I think Kevin feige and and and the great producing team at Marvel thought what a great take on this story that you know this Celestial space um Opera I suppose that that that Ken was going to root it in something very grounded um a dynastic drama we're interested in royal families always we're interested at what happens behind the closed doors in royal families because if they disagree it matters and this royal family have a lot of uh you know so it was sort of like that really and um I remember looking at Anthony Hopkins and and thinking he looks just like you know I said have you ever played King Le and he said no um and now he has now he has yeah I ha I'm not taking credit for the idea kit was always in the car Sir Anthony Hopkins now you are so versatile in your work but there's a through line that I personally love in one of the channels there's this poetry in your work like jarmo when you worked with him I loved the Poetry in that film it literally feels like a poem come to life and Only Lovers and then with del Toro's Crimson Peak it felt like the the sensory of the ink was part yeah I'd love to hear that to me jarmo felt like a poem and to me Del Toro felt like the ink was part of the frame that we saw through to get to the story and then with Woody Allen Midnight in Paris felt like a love song and it felt like a love poem it felt like this poetry and I wonder is there a certain sensibility you look for in a script or do you think your mechanism is just ATT tune for that kind of poetry that is such an interesting way to put it you're probably right I mean I love poetry um and my appreciation for it has grown as I've got older um the abstract which then the abstract form of the arrangement of Words which then the individual can subjectively interpret according to his or her own experience of being alive I think they are very poetic directors um uh and I love making all the those films Jim certainly the thing that was most poetic about that was he'd taken something that's quite um popular in cinema the the idea of vampires and literature I suppose and used it to explore the idea of mortality and and death by which I mean if you take two vampires who by their very nature don't die um you are considering because of course we do and any meditation on death also brings about a reflection on life and how we make life mean something and how we make our short time on this planet worth it and really that's what that film is about and and that great line that um Tilda Swinton has which is life is about surviving in things appreciating nature nurturing kindness and friendships and dancing yeah yeah it's such a beautiful feel of a film yeah um and she's trying to help Adam you know my character she's trying to help him out of his depression um and uh it's a beautiful um conception of the film and then G yo is really making a similar well similar in some senses but it was his um tribute or his um finally his his version of a Gothic romance which is his favorite form of literature um where you're the story is actually investigating some really Prime primary engines in our lives and the battle between love and fear and all of our choices essentially boil down between those two forces you either make a choice out of love or you make a choice out of fear right and M vasakova character Edith Cushing is is light and love and she is kind of banishing the shadow of fear in everything that she sees and and in in my character in Thomas sharp um and I think Lucille Shar played by Jessica Chastain is a kind of emblem of fear and how fear can um uh corrode the soul in some way um but um yeah I love making that film it does have a very um unique strain of sincerity which is very um unique to K yeah which I appreciate yeah I like that it it feels like the smell of a book yes yes he would love that yeah yeah tell always when I think of that film like this is like a nice book yeah he would different Loki all those years ago yes absolutely I mean it was it was a great line even then I loved saying it um I had to say it on the way out I I it's so uh it's so grand um and Theatrical um and in that moment he's he's um I think he's covering he's improvising yeah um he can back it up um well at least he tries till Hulk shows up it's the whole thing and the Avengers those pesky that pesky team they keep showing up yeah um but uh yes the most exciting thing I remember when I was uh I cast my mind back to a couple of years ago now almost exactly and I was in Los Angeles with the great te team who make Loki Kevin Wright our producer castra farahani our production designer um Eric Martin the head writer and some other brilliant producers and writers who are part of the writers room and we had a board and at the top at the top of the board um we had a big sign that just said glorious purpose question mark beautiful because I kept insisting I think episode one of season 1 Loki discovers that the Glorious purpose that he felt was a part of his mission and a part of the center of his capacity to derive meaning from his life was fraudulent a lost cause with no Foundation it leads to nothing it leads to the suffering of his friends and his own death and so and Mobius gives him this second chance and his this journey through the TVA and and trying to understand himself meeting Sylvie and going on a journey with her meeting the other Loki variants and then finally getting to the Citadel at the end of time and thinking how do I reinvigorate redefine ReDiscover this sense of purpose how could I derive meaning from my life and it's such a great engine for a character such a just driving forward um and making sure he doesn't waste it again but then it also became a great question for every character what's glorious purpose for Mobius what's glorious purpose for Sylvie how does she find purpose after she's done what she came to do and uh execute he who remains what's Gloria's purpose for B15 who finds out she had a life on the timeline what's glorious purpose for the TVA suddenly all these people at the TVA they think they've been working for this institution that claims to govern the order of time and actually they find out that there is more moral ambiguity in their actions and can this broken institution be repurposed for something better yeah which is a debate we have in the world all the time can broken institutions be reorganized um without being Swept Away So Glorious purpose became this true north for the compass of the show um and of course for Loki and and his desperation to to make it mean something um in the face of so much confusion and so much loss and um and M Stakes are really high yeah you know these uh the the Multiverse you know people are trying to destroy people's lives so and it led to these amazing conversations about the whole nature of purpose which I think is very resonant in all of our lives and um I kind of believe that we all that's what we're all searching for we want a purpose in our lives and it led to some great discussions Kevin R and I used to have we had a whiteboard and we wrote the um the great Socrates quote the unexamined life is not worth living that's perfect parallel yeah um and you know we started reading Victor Frankl and man's search for meaning and his idea of that freedom and responsibility actually go hand in hand you can't have freedom without responsibility um and you can't have responsibility without Freedom um and I started quoting TS Elliott and everything else um but uh it was a really it felt like a a fantastic and um fruit ful place to start especially as in season one we've been talking about Free Will and predeterminism and all these kind of quite philosophical ideas which it felt like a real I couldn't believe they let us get away with it you we were talking back there I think art is more of a feeling than a than a thing you think through and I think glorious purpose is something we all feel more than we think about feeling so I love the idea that glorious purpose became a narrative we could attach ourselves to to feel the art more directly and that's why I think that Arc is so profound over the years because every time we feel it in a different medium it's a different feeling that we can't pin down uh and that brings me to another question I just to a point I think when we when we in our lives feel lost we feel like what's my purpose and I think Loki has represented that and we look for it in art which comes back to the Ora Boris of the all I see what you did that I loved when that character was named I was like this is going to be a L I'm going to go on this journey for a while which one of us see you hi my name is Elise and I'm from Florida and my favorite variant is kid Loki I relate to him because even though he is Young he is still incredibly clever and tough hey everybody um so my variant that I feel like I relate to the most other than Loki is Sylvie I don't know just she's so so badass and just really cool ever since the beginning I've just had a connection with her and I just I love her so much with my heart other again than Loki cuz Loki is awesome all lokis are awesome but Sylvia is badass awesome hi my name is Riley I'm from Tampa Florida and the Loki variant I would relate to the most would be Sylvie because of her determination and her passion and I also love how she can escape stress through music or appreciate certain Aesthetics of places like the record store which we saw in season 2 she always has that sacred place she can refer back to and for me that sacred place has been Marvel and Loki so thank you Sylvie and thank you Loki hey I'm Harper I'm from North Carolina and the Loki variant that I identify with the most is Thor Ragnarok Loki because he's still kind of suspicious of people and like not really trusting um but he ultimately wants to do good and wants to be helpful I'm Lauren I'm lla and we're from Port St Lucy Florida if I was a Loki variant I would be alligator Loki uh I'm a Florida local so of course I love basking in the Sun and jumping in the water I'm usually calm but if you do me wrong I might bite your head off I think I might be TV alop because uh even though I'm mischievous and I like to play tricks I'm still trying to find my way in life and eventually I want to find my glorious purpose hi Tommy my name is Kell wion and I'm from lisis Delaware my favorite variant of the garbage Loki show was the political Loki because he actually reminded me of the actual Loki from the movies I think you're awesome hi this is Marie from St Cloud Florida and this is my cat Thomas and uh the variant that I would most relate to is the sacred timeline Loki who stole the tesser and my second favorite would be alligator Loki cuz he likes to spend his time in the pool like I do hi there my name is Maya I'm from Seattle Washington the Loki variant I relate to most is Tom heston's portrayal of Loki especially throughout the movies and the TV show as someone who has always felt burdened with glorious purpose he is my favorite I also love that Loki is the adopted son as an adopting myself it's not a background that I often see in characters and I have come to really respect respect Tom hson for the way he portrayed Loki being adopted hello I am Julia I am from sner Florida my favor variant is TVA Loki he's the one I can relate to the most especially the part where he reflects on his life sees the things he has done and he has find a way to cope and deal with these traumas that has happened and I like that he tries to make himself a better person I think that's very inspirational for anyone me to here especially me he changed my life thank you I love you hey how's it going uh my name is Kyle coming live uh from Fort Meers Florida uh thanks for coming down here uh huge question for you after the amazing season ending of Loki uh and you ascended to your uh well-deserved Throne uh where do you see yourself in MCU going forward now that you have transcended to the god of stories thank you very much we'll see you at the live show w a lot of love for alligator Loki quite rightly quite rightly by the way I I haven't been to Florida for a long time and I've been this weekend I've been obsessed on the way to the convention center every morning every body of water I go we drive past I'm like is there an alligator in in that today's the day maybe today's the day I just real like want to see one yeah I mean I want to see one but I also maybe don't like alligator Loki there's a certain yeah so a lot of people asked what Loki variant you would want to be but I've always seen it as like kind of on the day like it's the multiversal concept change equals so today what variant do you feel most Loki the one that I play question answer yeah yeah take it yeah I think I just you know I love the guy um played him for 15 years there's a connection yeah yeah yeah we've been through a lot so I've got a bunch of questions and I think you guys are are largely here in this audience if all went well so we've got one from all the way from North Vernon Indiana a Haley monrie who asked we saw Loki as a villain throughout most of his Marvel movies but he has quite a different personality in the TV series what do you think changed him so much and why um I think it's the I do I think it's the uh I tried to think of it as if I wasn't Loki um because of course it's fascinating that it is Loki but what happens I guess in the wake of Thor and in the wake of Avengers he's still caught up in this defensiveness and he you know he gets in Avengers he does terrible things he tries to take over the city of New York and brings in an alien Army um but he eventually is he hauled up in front of Odin and he's still really defensive and um I think he's lost and he's still trying to Pivot and spin out and find a way through find a way to manipulate the situation to his advantage of course he does that you know quite a big SC ja by pretending to be dead um um but he essentially at the beginning of season one he's confronted with the facts of his life and they don't add up to much or they don't add up to what he thought they were going to add up to and that is so shocking and I thought well what if you what if it wasn't Loki what if it was any of us what if it was me and you were pulled into to a a sort of sterile interrogation room uh between being born and being alive being alive or being dead and they were presented with your life and it didn't add up to much it would be so shocking you would I mean they say the definition of Madness is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result he has to change he has to otherwise he's bananas um which is only so fun to play so long yeah I mean he is quite bananas but um yeah I think that's probably the moment is is is realizing that there were these people that he Loki has always had this huge hidden heart and when he realizes that those people that he loves his mother his brother and his father um have suffered uh and that he and he then suffers I think that's a real wake up of like okay got to switch things up here and I think that Redemption is another thing that connects so many people to him is the idea that like life is this purpose this drive but when things go wrong it's getting back up it's finding that otherwise it is madness to just keep that day to day uh We've also got one from Katie OB which I wonder if that's an intentional name or if your name is actually OB fitting for Loki uh from Claremont Florida who asked if you went to a convention and cosplayed as anyone but Loki who would it be oh what was that I heard for but that yeah I I my first thought was um was Spider-Man I don't know I think I'm I think I'm a little too tall for Spider-Man um who's drawn yeah yeah yeah there you go okay um I don't know I don't know why I thought that I've seen you in the Daredevil suit that uh yes I love I've Daredevil Charlie Cox and I have already done the switcher room um um so yeah that will be fun that one's on hand so it's right before the start of the scene or just before you enter stage um I suppose I do and I um try to feel as free and relaxed next as possible uh and then you kind of I don't know it's it's really interesting with each character and with because obviously with each scene you're preparing in a different way the character is in a different emotional head space um sometimes they use music music is this extremely um instinctive and evocative art form that can just put you somewhere in your imagination and um but the main thing is to be ready to be open and ready for anything that happens that's always the most exciting thing it's on stage or on screen the unexpected the spontaneous thing it's like the way another actor feeds you the line or when something goes wrong it's often magical CU it's something you didn't prepare for but but it's about being free and and open did you have that moment differently did you have that moment different L before uh certain scenes where different timelines in season 2 because rewatching it it's fascinating to see your awareness and your knowledge of which you you are interacting with which of them in the timeline did you have to prepare like I'm me then but not quite then yeah kind of and also I think there was an element of of all the rest of the cast who were amazing um sometimes not quite having they didn't get the memo so I would just be steaming ahead they'd be like Tom seems really wired today cuz he had like seven pots of coffee um we had to learn physics very quickly we had to learn physics very fast yeah yeah um but uh that was really fun because it felt like life imitating art in a way uh there was some scenes where I had stuff that happening and they were like this is going much faster than I thought it was going to go that's so fitting that's great it was cool now bringing I think actually Sophia and one scene improvised Loki why are you acting so weird keep that let's put it in which may have been so feared talking to me now in that same vein this was full of immersive sets that were staggering what was your favorite to work on and did you take a proper setpiece home to keep as a momento from Lauren and Lila hotkis from Port St Lucy Florida great question castra farahan our production designer I salute you these sets were absolutely extraordinary um and unique for me uh in terms of my experience with Marvel uh sometimes often when you're in space um yeah you do you know marvel can't unfortunately take us into space um so that's when you find yourself in front of a a green screen or a blue screen but these sets were just so precisely built and designed and they were all Extraordinary um um I think I've had particular fondness for the um temporal core control room where some of the huge the biggest emotional scenes take place at the end of episode four and and obviously the end of episode 6 it it was on three levels it felt like a spaceship um we were in there all the time there were some funny scenes in there there was some very emotional scenes in there um and the Gang way leading out to the um the uh the end of it where the the sort of at the end of the gang way there's a I can't remember what technically what you call it um but some operating piece of Machinery um that a bit of um temporal Loom engineering but but that was all there it was all built and uh so all those scenes with Owen and Sophia and key and Wy and Eugene we were we were up there all the time and it felt it felt like there was something out there you know it felt like there was a temporal loom out there that was about to blow it's pretty exciting that's so helpful the stakes feel more like it yeah yeah and then actually there were these because was obviously sorry to break the illusion but there was not in fact a temporal Loom um but outrage from the front row uh she's leaving she's gone but there was an extraordinary rig of of um of Lights set up by Isaac um Balman R DP who and and and it created and and sometimes the special effects team would be able to Rattle the whole set the shutters would rattle you know it was it was unsettling it felt like a bomb was going to go off Jim Starin likes to set it St in space because he doesn't like to draw cars and he he invented Thanos is there something for you where it's like like you prefer a certain type of set because there's a certain comfort in your body I think if you're in a if you're in excuse me if you're in a real environment um it gives your imagination so much more um it you know you literally have walls to bounce off or in my case you know there were tables and Polished corridors and mosaics and you know you're in elevators it's very very tangible uh for the whole crew actually everyone can feel what the energy is sometimes when you're in a blue screen or a green screen environment it's the the imagination has to work harder I love that too I love that challenge um yeah sometimes when I was time slipping I was on a blue screen um that was fun but so much imagination I can't imagine thinking about time to placement in your body and acting it yeah the crew was so sweet every time I time slipped we had to bring out the green screen and um I must have looked I mean on a Monday afternoon and it's like what is he doing mentally and physically exhausting that time slipping yeah uh Rachel from Orlando Florida probably here uh asks I imagine that over time as you embody the same character you discover more and more about them every time you step into the role after over a of playing Loki what's been the most surprising or significant thing that you've learned about the character that you didn't know at the beginning of your journey um that's a an amazing question give me one second the most surprising [Music] uh just 15 years of processing he's this is the time slipping up here that we don't get to see when acting I think actually the most surprising thing is that I've been allowed to explore his depth and his range for this long um is I never I never I really thought like I got cast in Thor I was delighted Kevin feige says you're also in Avengers I was delighted Thor the Dark World fantastic um I never expected to play the character for this long and to mine and excavate so much of his complexity and so many of the the keys on the piano as I like to say and I think it's because of you guys um I think the fact that the audience um thank you I would love to go back and show onset Thor Tom Heston the final scene of the god of stories and be like you don't even know how we got here man there's a lot that's going to happen wait why is he wearing a tie yeah there's a lot of abstraction and linear filming that happened uh Autumn from Sebring Florida asks this is maybe the most important question of the day how do you prepare your hair to play [Applause] Loki well how long have you gone um so yeah I've died I di both seasons of Loki it's I've used my own hair I've grown it out and dyed it um it's always a moment when the dye goes in um this is my natural hair color by the way so yeah it we die it and it's actually it's quite strange it is a transformation that first day when it's died brushing my teeth at the end of the day I go oh there he is you know it's really interesting um but in terms of the daily prep it's just like like you know try and make it look less like a bird's nest and more like something smooth and Loki like um you know getting the getting their hair chair I think gets blowdried um you know it's gotten flipped more over the years as well so I feel like it needs that a lot yeah yeah the hair flip getting the sheer is maybe my favorite surprise we're about that is really interesting cuz I don't it's when I'm lowkey that's the longest I've usually had my hair and it's sometimes I think it's sort of Cu it's he's in these jerky scenarios where his his body is being jerked around so it's just sort of getting it out of his face and then it's become this signature move it's kind of become like a dance move like there's this kind of like emotion to it oh yeah I feel it every time we've got one from Harper North Carolina saying what three songs should everyone add to their favorite playlist right now wow good question um ah Rose Rouge by San jamama I'm listening to a lot it's fantastic um it's kind of a jazz jazz thing um contact by Darth Punk great song fantastic [Music] and uh goodness put me on the spot here um I'm trying to pick an obscure one that maybe you haven't heard of what's on it what's on there what's on there what's on there what's on there um bear with me no pressure the last one's always the hardest cuz you know every other song is excluded yeah yeah everything else um hang on just pick one I've drawn a blank um more time slipping is happening inside Spotify Shuffle Teardrop by wac and wac okay hope you took notes I'm gonna ask after I'm sensing that like you've all heard of Darth Punk but you know Rose Rouge sanjam and tear drop by wack and wac the they're bangers I got stuff to Google after this I'm excited all right now we're going to play the game you guys played earlier here in just a moment my last question yeah I'm excited too I got some Curiosities but my last question is uh since and this is selfish I love Justin Aaron so I got to know this season felt so Shakespearean and at so many points like stage work it felt like a beautifully choreographed stage play at so many points with your Decades of Shakespeare experience how did their specific directing style being so love crafty and blend with your sh Experian nature and what was that set Dynamic like for you as an actor to use your tool with theirs well that Justin Aaron is so fleet-footed and dynamic as filmmakers they have amazing instincts for story and I think they were just what I was very moved by was how immediately how fast they understood how much this meant to me and how much it meant to all of us and trying to construct a narrative that felt like the most fitting chapter to close on um it's got extraordinary momentum propulsive energy going through the story which really suits them they love they love the um the fact that Loki's on the back foot all the time and there's this he's constantly wants answers we need to get the the the next bit the next bit the next bit um and it has quite a um edgy procedural Thriller element to it we shot episode one first and they had a director's cut like really quickly and we all watched it and it was so exciting because it just seemed it just comes out of the gates sprinting literally the first shot is Loki running and Mobius running and you don't really start yeah we don't slow down and um they were so on board with that and they were so quick and so um like I said so Dynamic they've got really good um instincts for what's the next thing that should happen and we used to just say to each other to remind each other the best thing about story it's really simple is to remind yourself this has never happened before and actually it it invigorates everyone on the set with a sense of the stakes like it's never happened before and it matters what happens next and it means that suddenly the stakes get become very high and everyone gets very serious and it means that any comedy actually comes out of the intensity of it it's like a it's no one's grasping at at sort of laughter that feels shallow it's often the laughter is from like intense disagreement or or exactly people trying to improvise um and to pay tribute to them uh at the very end of episode six of season 2 um Justin Aaron turned to me and we were doing Loki walking up the steps and with the timelines in his hands and uh moving towards sitting in the chair and what that would mean and very complex day say in terms of filming um the camera was on a techno Crane and it was kind of moving around this the stairs and Justin Aon turned to me and said I think we're going to be in here which is the size of the shop we're going to be really close on your face in about 30 minutes how can we help you with where you need to be there then and I said I I don't know I'm just makes me think of like the 15 years I've played this character and Aon said why don't you go away like because it's the energy of the the set was very practical so just go and take a minute and why don't you watch some of the scenes from the last 15 years and which was a brilliant note it was so clever cuz because it made me think of for me personally me Tom it made me reflect on the friendships that I had made in this journey the people I've met the laughter we shared the lessons I've learned personally and by the time I came back in to shoot the scene I was carrying all of those memories with me and it felt very fresh and very resonant and it all came from Justin an aon's suggestion to do that and so that last shot is me thinking of all the people that I've shared this journey with um which is who he's talking about in the end when he says for you for all of us wonderful wonder when you watched it did you feel that unne but from outside did Tom feel those memories that you felt to make that feeling again when you viewed you through the lens of the completed this I can't imagine directing that sex it's you and you and Loki but the the memories flashing through to get to that point for this when you watch that shot did that bring those same memories in yes yeah it I was it felt very open and very raw um that moment and yeah it was a it was one of those Unforgettable moments as an actor um I was alone there were no other actors called that day but I I actually said something to the crew before we did it I said this is very significant moment for me personally and I really appreciate you all being here and um I know some of you have been here for a long time you know on that journey and some of you have been here for less time but um as we as we roll the cameras be there be there with me let's let's do this together and um yeah I felt very open and it felt very simple actually um Loki's done so much deceiving and this moment felt extremely honest and for that reason was really uh profound it's beautiful and we felt that journey and we felt that experience

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Published: Mon Feb 05 2024