Tom Hiddleston Looks Back at 10 Years of Loki | Entertainment Weekly

the capacity to be a hero or an anti-hero i've loved all of that complexity i auditioned for thor over a quarter of my life ago i remember thinking i should probably do some exercise because thor is a very athletic character so i did that did my camera test and put on the blonde wig and swung the hammer and had a go for outland but i do remember on the piece of paper that i signed it said the role of thor slash loki i thought okay long story short chris hemsworth is definitive in the role of thor i certainly think so um and the right decision was made on that day i'm very glad that it went the way it went what am i you're my son what more than that the scene with between odin and loki in the vault in the first thor movie i'll never forget doing that scene because i had such respect and still do for sir anthony hopkins and suddenly i was having to play tennis with him in a very emotional place but he couldn't have been kinder it's where loki learns the truth of his lineage i'm the monster that parents tell their children about at night and he decides to go it alone um sadly for lucky because it's not an easy journey he goes on i said loki now knows he has no place in asgard he doesn't belong there and he wants no part in it so he's gone down to midgard as they call it to earth and the line is it's the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation the bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power you were made to be ruled it's about as bad as it gets but the avengers are there to stop him i am a god you dull creature and i will not be bullied by what is it like to be hulk smashed i think the sort of the smash starts in the middle of that line i am a god you dull creature and i will not be bullied by an animal and i had a piece of wire tied to my ankle and there was a mat on the floor which was out of shot and three of the strongest stunt guys holding the wire at the other end of behind the camera the experience of being yanked out of frame was one i will not forget in a hurry puny guard for about two years after that i couldn't go through airports in anywhere in the world without somebody kind of going hey mr loke i love it when you get a hog smash and they would do the whole thing and they so it became you know it became a bit of a a bit of a thing um in a fun way have you come to gloat to mock loki enough no more illusions a key scene from thor the dark world i think is the scene where thor goes down to the dungeons where loki's imprisoned to ask for his help begrudgingly thor calls him on it and says enough loki no no more illusions and you realize that loki has created this illusion of of being okay and the illusion dissipates you see there that that moment in that moment loki had no grievance and he feels guilty and ashamed that he pushed her away and so there's this love of their mother that unites these two brothers you know adopted or not and um they form a kind of unpredictable and unstable alliance perhaps you prefer one of your new companions given that you seem to like them so much oh this is much better whoa costume's a bit much so tight actually when we filmed that scene i sort of played loki doing captain america wearing the captain america costume which was a very strange and surreal moment nevertheless enjoyable um so i've got to feel that whatever the the feeling of wearing that suit anyway which was definitely a moment and then they played that footage to chris and he did his best impression of me doing an impression of him and he does it brilliantly you might as well be strangers now two sons of the crowd set a drift i thought you didn't want to talk about it here's the thing i'm probably better off staying here on sakara that's exactly what i was thinking the elevator scene in ragnarok the dialogue was was scattered across these different places as they were trying to escape and find their way through taika said guys do you know the rest of the scene and we both said yeah it said maybe we should just do do one where we just do all of the dialogue here in the elevator and you haven't really had a chance to catch up and maybe you should just talk to each other and thor is quite honest with him i thought we were going to fight side by side forever but at the end of the day you're you and i me i know maybe they're still good in you but let's be honest that bath's diverged a long time ago and i think it really affects loki he thinks oh actually maybe maybe i got this wrong maybe i did have a place in that family maybe maybe this guy is my brother but it was a really enjoyable scene because it was just a very quiet moment with chris in a very calm space in a big colorful spectacular film joe and anthony russo had said this is one of the most important scenes in the film because it will help us the audience understand if thanos can take loki out he can take anyone out and he does the redemption of loki as a character was was achieved in that moment of sacrifice and catharsis risk his life to save his brother and call himself an odin son and i saw this this sort of perfect closure in a way prince of asgard odin son and i remember josh brolin could not have been sweeter he was so generous and walked into rome and he uh turned around and saw me come in and just broke into this big wide smile and opened up his arms and enveloped me in a big hug and said i'm sorry man if it's all the same to you i'll have that drink now all right get him on his feet and i'll stand around posing up a storm later when i think of endgame i think of that the first scene we did which was so surreal where um robert downey jr chris hemsworth chris evans scarlett johansson mark ruffalo and jeremy renner were all wearing the same costumes they had been wearing seven years previously including me and we were in the same set and we were all scratching i was going is this what's happened have i gone mine back to the future too i think the hulk can't fit in the elevator he smashes through the door on the ground floor in the lobby in the melee the tesseract also known as the space stone rolls to loki's feet and nobody's paying attention and true to form because he's the god of mischief he mischievously picks it up and disappears in a puff of smoke the timekeepers have built quite the circus and i see the clowns are playing their parts to perfection [Music] big metaphor guy i love it makes you sound super smart i am smart i know okay where does he go when does he go how does he get there these are the big questions uh and if you've seen the trailer for loki the show you will know that loki finds himself face to face with the tva the time variants authority who are an organization within marvel comics that govern the order of time you're not big on trust are you [Music] you can trust me okay i've studied almost every moment of your entire life you've literally stabbed people on the back like 50 times why never do it again i suppose loki picking up the tesseract in m game might have caused some concern it is very exciting the world of the tva is an is a bureaucratic is a world of bureaucratic order and of course loki is the god of mischief and chaos so you have the forces of order and chaos coming together and that's where our story starts

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Published: Thu May 20 2021