This should show you how bad my Cumberbatch Withdrawal Syndrome has gotten – I’m writing about Tom Hiddleston. I do like Tom, even though he’s made of Try-Hard. I would just prefer him with a dash of danger in his English Thunder, and perhaps with some facial hair too. But I will give him this – he did a really, really nice thing last night. In fact, Tommy was so sweet last night that I’m going to give him a week-long freebie pass. If I talk about Tommy in the next week, I will be really nice to him (even if he’s wearing VELVET). This is what Tommy did: he flew into NYC for a special kids’ screening of Thor 2: The Magnificent Loki, all for charity.
Actor Tom Hiddleston flew in from London on Halloween just to trick and treat kids from two charities in a special screening of his latest film, “Thor: The Dark World.”
“I am Loki and I am filled with glorious purpose,” Hiddleston said in the menacing voice of his character as he stepped out to surprise the crowd at the event co-hosted by Disney, Marvel Studios and the Daily News.
He then dropped into a more regular register to thank the charities being honored at the AMC Empire 25 in Times Square — Variety the Children’s Charity of New York and The Children’s Aid Society.
“It was amazing,” a beaming Hiddleston, 32, told The News after leaving the theater as the kids watched the movie. Though he had landed at JFK just two hours before the screening, the British thespian said the screening was worth the long journey. “I just landed from London at 4 p.m. and to sort of come through the airport, throw on some clothes and come into that response where there were just 300 kids so excited to be there. To see that enthusiasm, to see them clap and cheer, wearing Loki T-shirts and swinging hammers, that was really gratifying.”
Little did the kids engrossed in “Thor: The Dark World” suspect that [Hiddleston] crept back inside to watch a bit of their reaction to his movie after his interview with The News.
“For charities like Variety of New York and Children’s Aid Society and UNICEF, who I have done some work for, I believe so strongly in their work,” he said. “There are armies of people behind the scenes who do tireless work on behalf of children all over the world. So it’s nothing for me to turn up and introduce a screening for them. I hope it’s a nice reward.”
[From The NYDN]
You can see photos of Tom at the screening at the NYDN. He wore a vest, because brother loves his vests. No! I said I was being nice to him. I’ll be nice. He looks very cute with the kids.
Tommy also has some new interviews out. Nothing groundbreaking, but I thought you’d find some of the quotes interesting:
His fan-girls: “I have been in receipt of mostly nothing but the sweetest, most generous attention and affection. It feels like it diminishes them to call them ‘fans’. They are not just one homogenous lump. Anyway, I Iove their enthusiasm. They are more sophisticated than people realise. They love the complexity of it. But they also love that it is tongue-in-cheek.”
He was asked about Eton & his posh education again: “I don’t know. It’s all about someone else’s interpretation. I would counter you with Michael Fassbender and Idris Elba and Tom Hardy. I don’t know that it is a phenomenon. I would say that my becoming an actor was a very unconventional thing in my peer group. That was not what people did. So the idea that it’s become ‘a thing’ is very strange to me. I have always felt like I was going off-piste. To be told that I am the one skiing down the main track is so strange to me.”
Filming Only Lovers Left Alive in Detroit: “I really fell in love with that place. It changed my entire perception of America. I had been to New York, Los Angeles, San Diego and all those coastal places. This was something else. In the 1920s, it was the centre of the world. Now there are only 300,000 people and looks like the set for a post-apocalyptic movie. But the people are so incredibly kind.”
He was given a treat by a journalist: “Ohh, oatcakes? How lovely! I’m going to have one right now… Haggis flavoured,” muses Hiddleston, as he checks out the packaging. “And yet ‘vegetarian-friendly’! It’s yummy, but one wonders where the flavours come from.”
The story for Thor 2 was his idea: “I was quite vocal that after seeing Thor and Loki as antagonists in two films, we couldn’t just do that again. And Chris was equally vocal about avoiding identikit scenes. Everybody pitches in ideas, so when I said ‘wouldn’t it be amazing to see them fight side-by-side?’, Kevin Feige of Marvel immediately said ‘yeah, let’s see how that works.’”
On his dancing skills: “It’s organised flailing. I didn’t learn any steps, I didn’t train – that’s my misspent youth in the 1990s, I have always loved dancing. When my sister got married in India, I missed the dinner because I was dancing. And Tilda has a line in Only Lovers that she wrote herself ‘Life is about appreciating nature, nurturing kindness, friendship – and dancing.’”
[From The Scotsman and Irish Times]
I get the feeling that Tom is really trying to repress his upper-crust education, but for the life of me, I don’t understand why. It’s his shtick! He’s a nerdy Shakespeare guy with a great education. Own it, Tommy! And I’m sorry, but the haggis-flavored vegetarian biscuits were the best part of the interview.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Thanks to Cele Bitchy
