Here are some photos of Tom Hiddleston at last night’s BAFTA TV awards, which seems like the American version of the Emmys. Tom was there to shill his many projects, plus he was a presenter. He looks nice in his navy-and-black tux, although I’ve seen too much of him in formalwear over the past few weeks and I need a break. My kingdom for Hiddles in a flannel shirt!
Anyway, back in the day, when Hiddles loved playing Loki, he was constantly tweeting about random things, poetry, music, New Year’s resolutions and more. He seemed personally engaged with his fans and he was pretty chatty. Then, at some point (circa late 2014-ish), he took a step back from social media. It might have been a calculation, an attempt to cultivate more mystery. Or maybe he was just over Twitter. In recent months, he’s gone back to tweeting with some regularity, although he’s keeping the focus on his work rather than personal stuff. He’s no longer playful and chatty. And now he’s explaining why he’s no longer the same tweeter as before. Some assorted quotes from a few different interviews:
Taking a step back from Twitter: “I don’t use it as much as I used to, to be honest there are a few trolls. It’s a distraction, I feel as though the most important thing is my work.”
He doesn’t like being online at all: “I would rather think about something with more rigor and nuance and then put it in a piece of work.”
Whether he thinks of himself as a sex symbol: “God, I can’t! Because I know myself. All of that stuff I can’t really attach anything to it because it’s intangible, it’s ephemeral. Honestly, I’m just happy that people have enjoyed The Night Manager.”
On-screen nudity: “I’ve come from the tradition of European film, where nudity isn’t really something. I’ve seen many other more esteemed actors be infinitely more naked than me. I just don’t think twice about it. It was important for the scene and no more or less significant than any of the other scenes in the story.”
[From THR & Kingston Region]
I feel bad that he had to take a step back from Twitter because of trolls. From what I remember, it wasn’t so much the trolls as the crazy, obsessive fans who Twitter-stalked him though. Like, trolls are one thing – unhinged loonies are quite another. Maybe he just meant “trolls” in a general way, like he doesn’t enjoy the trolling that goes on all over social media. Tom also has a new interview with the Wall Street Journal, which you can read here. It’s boring as hell.
Tom also made a video for UNICEF.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I suspect we are coming to the end of the Tom Tour and he’ll go off to VacationLand now for a few weeks. But who knows? Maybe UNICEF will have him continuing to meet with politicians and appear at events and stuff leading up to the Humanitarian Summit. He seems to have had a UNICEF promotion from supporter up to ambassador recently.
Breakfast on the veranda. And lots of cake. Because cake!
Shall we continue our speculation on whether he’ll be doing theater later this year and if yes, what?
I have banana bread if you’d like some?
I wish he’d do something a bit more risky than Shakespeare. A new, contemporary play; not a revival of any kind.
I would love some banana bread, thank you very much.
I too would like for him to do something contemporary. He hasn’t done contemporary since Wallender, except for a five minute scene in Exhibition.
If you want to move on to chocolate later, I have that too!
Yep. I’d like to see a new play and the role an unpolished character that would stretch his range a bit. Shakespeare is always lovely but it is a pigeon hole.
I would love to see a dark, modern farce. He has the ability to do physical comedy.
That would be good. Or something issue-based, like an updated A Day in the Death of Joe Egg?
Written by and co-starring Eddie Izzard?
YES! Ha.
I may actually have to tweet that idea to both of them! And I have never tweeted anything in my life. Someone please take this chocolate martini away from me.
I actually saw Izzard and Hamilton in the revival of Joe Egg, which is probably why I thought of it. But LEGS should do something kitchen sink-ish.
I think Izzard is on a path to going for standing in the 2020 election as a Labour candidate, so if you’re going to tweet, do it soon or you may miss your moment!
I might have to move there to vote for him. I think the man is brilliant. I’ve seen him several times in his stand-up tours.
Something new, something more risky. Something that paves new creative territory, on a par with Angels in America or Bryan Cranston’s performance as LBJ, which started at the ART then moved to Broadway. I would love to see him take on something that is political, that really takes a stand. I love shakespeare, but Much Ado would just be too much like what he has always done. Safe, safe, safe, safe, safe….
EDIT: Eddie Izzard! Omg, yes!
I love the Izzard too.
I think the Hank Williams thing was not safe, Miss J. But that was American. He’s British and I do think his British choices have been way too safe. Something out of that safe box would be good.
I don’t think High Rise was a safe choice, and Coriolanus was pretty unusual even though it was Shakespeare. You don’t see many productions of that play
I would like to see him do a new contemporary stage drama though! What’s Jez Butterworth working on at the moment?
Ooh. Butterworth. Good call!
Yes to a contemporary drama, and I guess he would like to do one. On the other hand, while I want to see Hiddles do some comedy, it is quite difficult to make a decent romantic comedy these days. So I will be more than satisfied with Much Ado.
@KTE, I agree with you that Coriolanus was not a safe choice with him. As far as I remember, a number of people worried about Tom before the play was performed because in many cases older, more “masculine” actors have played the role.
Thank you lilac and sixer, banana bread and chocolate cake are my favorites. I agree sixer, I would like to see him in something besides Shakespeare. Most everybody already knows him for that. He would be wise at least to continue to work on more non-Shakespeare character acting. It doesn’t have to be too modern day. It can be more roles like Hank Williams or even Laing type. I think he still needs to work a lot on modern day characterization. He was fine in Joanna Hogg’s films, but he’s still not found the right project for modern roles except TNM which I don’t feel is a realistic character/genre, certainly not for a stage production. He said of acting as Pine that it was strange for him to essentially act as himself after doing so many roles from other time periods. I think more theater would help him work on this.
Can we have safe Shakespeare AND edgy contemporary?? I would like to see him to both.
I tell people going to London that if they want to see full frontal male nudity, to got to the Barbican Pit. Both times I went — 5 years apart — I got a eyefull from the men. Now, I just assume that’s what ya get in The Pit. 😉
It’s not confined to the Barbican Pit. Generally plays featuring gay men are a good bet for male nudity, if that’s what you’re after.
From a British perspective, all of Shakespeare is safe. Coriolanus might have been a marginally less safe choice but only within the safest of safe categories, you know? Not a bold move for me, but certainly better than just doing one of the CV roles.
KTE has made me fixate on Butterworth now, so can’t think of any further suggestions to move us forward!
I don’t know, I’ve seen some pretty radical productions of Shakespeare that took considerable liberties with text and staging.
The Young Vic Hamlet with Michael Sheen springs to mind. Lots of people hated that.
The initial responses to all-female productions were pretty hostile too – though people seemed to change their mind on that pretty quickly.
Other contemporary writers: Patrick Marber, Tom Stoppard (though I hated his last one), Caryl Churchill. Though I think it’d be more exciting for him to bring attention to a less well-known, up-and-coming playwright, to be honest, since they can sell tickets in his name alone.
I’ve seen Twelfth Night as if Iranian censors had edited it to conform with Sharia law; Midsummer Night’s Dream set in Studio 54; Hamlet set in a 1930s fascist state, Comedy of Errors performed by the Flying Karamazov Brothers; Complete Works Condensed; numerous ballet versions; Henry V and Midsummer’s Night Dream told by puppets; all female Shakespeare plays; all male Shakespeare; West Side Story; Kiss Me, Kate; 10 Things I Hate About You; Much Ado About Nothing set in Joss Whedon’s kitchen; and Drunk Shakespeare. And that’s just in Massachusetts. I suspect any and all of these variations and more have been done in London. Shakespeare is safe.
I want him to do a cintrmporary farce with lots of slapstick.
It’s a shame Branagh has just done The Painkiller – that would be perfect.
Though I wouldn’t say no to Noises Off.
I’m hoping that he goes back to the stage but selfishly, I hope that it’s not until next year so I have time to save up for another trip to London. If not there is always NT Live, but I would love to see it in person and I don’t care what play it is.
Agreed Maxine! I’m still paying off last fall’s trip to London to see a certain long-named actor play a certain Shakespearean role. I need another year if it’s going to happen with Tom!!
@Phoebe, same reasoning for me!
Oooh…I want in on this brunch. I bring an offering of vegan zucchini bread and three bottles of champers.
I agree with all of you. Something dark would be great next…although I just saw High Rise last night and loved it…very dystopian indeed.
I wonder what he would be like in a Neil LaBute play…where every other word is the “f” word. I think I would find listening to his gorgeous baritone repeatedly drop “f” bombs incredibly erotic.
Can I offer anyone a refresher on their drink?
Hmm, sounds like you and Guillermo Del Toro might have the same sensibilities regarding Tom dropping the “f” bomb.
https://youtu.be/OannHjmOtaQ?t=5m41s
This opinion won’t be popular here; but I don’t like the way the shot that PSA.. it looks to stylized. like it is a photoshoot for him. They should have just shown him talking and pictures of the people he is talking about. The images looks to posed and like it is focusing on his body.. eyes.
I’m glad he is bringing awareness. These issues need voices.
It is part of a UNICEF advocacy project leading up to the World Humanitarian Summit in Turkey later this month.
Lisa, I had the same reaction when I watched that PSA.
Lisa2 and Nutty, you’re not alone – although I confess I only watched about twenty seconds of it because it smacked of a narcissistic photoshoot, which was far too frivolous for the topic. It’s the kind of “look-at-me” nonsense I usually give celebs crap for doing.
In all fairness, he didn’t write or direct it.
Every word and image used in a UNICEF spot is usually written/pre-approved by UNICEF and that video was just one of several UNICEF plans to release before the humanitarian summit. If UNICEF thinks someone is going too far with self-promotion, they end the relationship and they have done so abruptly. A friend was present when they cut ties with an actress while she was on a UNICEF tour for making it too much about herself.
@Totally – true. It could just be that (for me at least) the shift in tone/format from the interviews he had just done with the BBC was jarring. I’ll have to go back and watch it in full now that a little time has passed.
I didn’t like it either for a PSA, (except towards end in background footage he holds the baby’s tiny hand). One thing that can be said, it does get your attention.
The video was part of a series (Every Child in Danger) and they are all somewhat artsy.
That one is the creation of one James G. Stroud.
It was published on the official UNICEF UK You Tube channel with a three or four paragraph press release and, below that, their standard information block:
” Our YouTube channel is your primary destination for the latest news from Unicef UK including videos with Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham, children’s rights resources for your school and even comic sketches with Andy Murray, Richard Ayoade and One Direction’s Liam Payne. ”
I think they do what is necessary to get eyes on their material and thus their cause.
I’ve seen many other more esteemed actors be infinitely more naked than me.
That has to be one of the most satisfyingly constructed sentences I’ve ever read.
Yeah, if I was him I would stay as far away from Twitter as I could. Sad, really-I don’t get on Twitter much, but I did enjoy some of his comments. Especially during the London Olympics. But the nutjobs on there (and Tumblr) are not only obsessive, they’re entitled and obsessive and that is just a horrible combination.
I think I’m with you, Kaiser. I think celebrities can be ridiculously precious about “online abuse” – the kind that is just white noise of sweary nonsense written by inadequates because their little brains can’t imagine anything better to do. Means nothing and is easily ignored. Not something to get butt hurt by.
But the lunatic fringes of fandoms that do the creepy stalkerish stuff and check your movements and the location stuff on Instagram and all the rest of it? That would put me right off social media. Not that I’ll ever be famous for it to happen to me but if it did, I would scarper pronto.
Sixer – you can’t say that unless you have experienced it yourself. You are being very dismissive.
I used to wonder why celebs didn’t just stop reading their @s if the abuse was too much but my sister’s friend recently got into sports presenting – she is ‘encouraged’ to create a strong social media presence by her bosses, so she can’t really avoid it. Yet she was showing me some of the comments she gets about her looks, her weight, her voice, her accent, how she does her job – along with the general sexism and misogyny of a woman presenting a ‘man’s’ job. This girl is a really cool customer, very pragmatic – but she admits that it can really knock the wind out of her and bring on anxiety. Celebrities are not superhuman – they have shit days like the rest of us when we feel bad about ourselves and then to be told in such a nasty fashion is going to get to you. You don’t have to be literally stalked by crazy fans for it to have a bad effect on you.
I agree, this stuff isn’t easily ignored when it’s day in and day out, especially when the more persistent ones escalate in order to get a response – that old saw about ‘just ignore them and they’ll leave you alone’ has never worked.
Yvette – I’m an outspoken woman on the internet who holds trenchant positions, often minority ones, on many topics. A great deal of internet white noise – including the nonsense you describe and worse – comes my way. It doesn’t hurt my feelings. Perhaps my skin is simply thicker than most.
Worthless are opinions are what they say on the tin: worthless and entirely ignorable.
Creepy stalkering? Another level entirely.
Sixer, I think it’s the thicker skin, which I also share. I look at those abusive comments as white noise coming from depressed people looking to vent their anger and get a reaction. Their drivel isn’t worth any more than the “I love yous” that he gets from the stans.
There are enough actors that don’t engage their fandoms online that it’s really not necessary for him to be active on twitter. Best to do what he does on Facebook and let his publicity team run any social media on his behalf and for him to focus on other things than what people are saying to him online. It is easily ignorable and if he can’t fight the urge to read fan comments, it’s better to ask himself why he needs to read them in the first place.
Nuts – it’s just the flip side of the “I love yous”, I think. On the interwebz, famous people don’t get the one without the other. But at least they get a) the “I love yous”, b) the wealth and c) the fame. We plebs just get the inadequates!
It is what it is and not worth bothering about. I am generally unsympathetic to famous people who go about moaning/attention-seeking over it. On the other hand, there’s Lily Allen. THAT is serious.
“it’s just the flip side of the ‘I love yous'”
Yep, that’s why neither attention-seeking responses are worth any brain space. Better to be disinterested enough not to be elated by the positives and devastated by the negatives. But I get how hard it is to find the roots of confidence in something outside of people’s opinions. Easier said than done.
Lilly Allen… I had to look her up. Geez, that is frightening and that sort of thing can happen to us plebs that don’t have the money for security upgrades. That sort of thing will affect a person for life. Yikes.
Exactly to all that.
It’s Not just the flip side of the “I love yous”
Just on the news recently they’ve shown using brain scans how differently the human brain reacts to complements and praise as opposed to insults. The scans show the reaction to insults affect more parts of brain and lasts five times longer and complements.
Sixer,it’s not the same entering discussions on different sites and having people disagreeing with you as when being on social media and internet is part of your job.
In your case you can always just not return to whatever site that was on, to that article or whatever, and forget about it-noone knows your name, who you are, where you live, but wen it’s your job to be involved with social media, you are being insulted for absolutely no reason but doing your job, your looks are insulted even of you are just posting an info about an event etc. And you have to go back there to do your job. And you never know if the troll who posts said insults knows who and where you are and if he’s dangerous.
So you’re mixing apples and oranges here, comparing yourself to people whose job includes social media (unless you are one of those people, in which case I aplogize and congratulate you on your thicker skin).
He has a point about ‘trolls’. Even the fans can be icky as hell: witness some of the things Chris Evans’ fans say whenever he posts something, like yesterday for mother’s day. ..
I always cringe when he tweets something serious about the work UNICEF does or some other topic and gets dozens of “I love you” tweets in return. It’s frustrating for me so I can imagine it must be for him as well. I’d bet that turned him off Twitter as much or more than trolls spouting hateful stuff (as he didn’t seem to get a lot of that).
I remember about a year ago one crazy on Twitter kept @ to him that she was suicidal because he wouldn’t tweet or reply to her. Not surprised he doesn’t engage anymore.
I’ve followed Tom on Twitter since 2012 and I remember he slowed down on there around May 2013, and that was before the mess of the Coriolanus stage door
At least 2 people pretended they were acquaintances of his and ended up with his phone number. They were busted by another fan, who realized they had set up fake accounts. Then there was that “British film documentary” some other fans made, and actually got to interview him under that pretense. I’m sure there are other things we don’t even know about.
Holy Crap. Didn’t hear about that one. That is really scary. It also sounds like Hiddles was genuinely naive and very much overly trusting around that time period as well. Good on him and his people for not letting that get even worse.
I remember both of those. The fake account was suppose to be someone who worked on the Avengers set. They told him their cousin was suppose to go to London & they asked him to show her around. To which he agreed before someone told him it was a fake account . The fan who was doing the documentary used to run a Loki Twitter feed and I know he meet her during one of the War Horse premiers. Then she changed her look & started this documentary.
And I can’t believe I remember all of this. I need cake.
I followed him from, I think, right after Thor and I was a bit shocked at some of the spamming to his account I saw, I think I remember that specific account or one very like it. She claimed he had contacted her (after she sent him hundreds of messages begging him for attention) and posted videos to him etc. saying he was giving her tips on acting. It was frightening and not something I would want to deal with.
This is the sort of thing I mean. Fantasist stalking. I would disappear sooner than tolerate it.
Thwarted fantasists are particularly disturbing. Remember how that JArthy Bora Bora pic was followed by a spate of tumblr rumours claiming all sorts of horrible and totally unsubstantiated things?
The internet can melt down all it wants; that’s irrelevant to rational people in real life. It’s when it starts to boil over and there’s nothing they can do about it that gets me. It’s a bit victim blame-y. And Tumblr is the absolute worst about everything. Hopefully he’ll get some sane/diverse fans with his recent works and the weirdos will start to be drowned out.
i don’t like the distinction between ‘the Internet’ and ‘real life’. After all many people carry the Internet with them in their pocket all the time, now, and when your business is in any way Internet or communication related you can’t turn it off and walk away. The Internet is real life.
This relates less to ‘celebs’, who can generally afford to hire people to filter out the bad stuff, than people like the independent games developers who were targeted by GamerGate.
Well, for one I am of the opinion that life-especially social lives-shouldn’t revolve around the internet so much and that there should be more safe guards (especially for average citizens) against the internet mob and more repercussions for the bad things people do online (but that’s a whole long separate issue). Two-I was talking more specifically about celebrity internet rules. When I said “the internet” I should have said fandom and “people” meaning celebs and their near and dears. I don’t get serious in discussions here much. Sorry for the bad phrasing.
The fantasists are disturbing to me, I think, because you can never be sure that it won’t spill over into real life, a la Lily Allen.
People shouting aggressive nonsense in your mentions just because they have nothing better to say and you laughed at gamergate, or said something about feminism, or supported the wrong political candidate, or were less than complimentary about their internet girlfriend or boyfriend? White noise.
I think the thing that freaks people out is that the crazy stalker fantasists often start out as one of the people shouting random nonsensical abuse.
You can’t tell the bored drive-by losers apart from the truly dangerous when all you have to go on is horrible tweets.
When they start showing up at his home or other places that he frequents, it’s time to take security precautions. Didn’t someone say that he has a security guy that he employs when he’s in London? That would make sense since the uberfans know where he lives and that cafe he’s known to go to.
“. .the crazy stalker fantasists often start out as one of the people shouting random nonsensical abuse.”
@KTE, +1
I’m sure it’s gotten to the point now that media tech agencies are contracted to monitor fans and related social media and create profiles of the more active and outspoken ones.
I wonder how big the file is for Nutballs.
😛
@nutballs I could name at least eight or nine fans who have hung around his neighbourhood/local cafe and pub, to “sample the London food culture” I presume… and at least two who have rented accommodation there during a holiday.
and that’s just the ones I’ve seen broadcasting it on their social media accounts. There’s no doubt quite a few more. None of them seem to be a danger and don’t even seem to approach if they’ve managed to see him, but it’s still a bit unnerving. It’s not like his house is in a popular tourist spot so there’s no excuse for going there other than to snoop around for a glimpse of him. And even if they go there to genuinely try out that cafe’s food, they have to admit that they only know about it because of Tom. And the chance of spotting him is probably at least a very guilty incentive.
*edit: one of the women who used to hang around in a cafe near him was actually responsible for some of the nasty rumours spread post-Bora Bora (as KTE mentioned upthread) She was pally with that troll who used to post her own fantasies on threads here (Miss Thing). Most people knew she was lying out of her backside but still, creepy. But I’m sure his team are well aware of any potential problem fans visiting the area.
Wasn’t there a fan who managed to get past the ISTL set security via trickery? Or was that an exaggeration? Sometimes small incidents are blown out of all proportion…
KTE, I don’t know about the ISTL thing, sorry.
To clarify – the vast vast majority of the fans who’ve hung around his neighbourhood are harmless, and I don’t think they intend to make anyone uncomfortable. Hell, maybe Tom doesn’t care much as long as they’re not taking pictures or interrupting his morning coffee all the time. But I think for people on the inside of the fandom, seeing all the talk about where he lives, when he’s home, if he’s been seen, the over investment into his life… just seeing people then travelling specifically to a cafe right by where he lives makes me uncomfortable. Because imo it’s a case of fans prioritising their own wants (“I want to meet him or at least see him in person, even if I have to travel to his private downtime hangouts to do so”) over the possible comfort of the person they’re a fan of. And if a fan were to let their wants or emotions take over a bit too much, it could become a much bigger problem.
I just think it’s a case of people choosing impulse over thought. And I understand the emotion behind it. But I could never do it, personally.
It’s still happening, if you look at the comments almost every time he tweets there are always some responses that are just screaming I LOVE YOUs and begging for him to follow them or comment on some fanart they did. Those kind of crazies ruined the fun for everyone.
Dear God, that man can wear a suit, can’t he?
How does he not have a contract with a fashion house yet? I’d love to see him do a campaign for Ralph Lauren.
But then he wouldn’t get to wear the lovely bespoke Burberry he’s wearing above.
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Now this tux is more like it. I prefer this to what he wore at the Met Gala.
I just need to say that I think the best thing to come out of last night’s BAFTA ceremony is the picture of Tom and Idris fake fighting in their tuxes.
That’s part of a series, which the Guardian has written a special article about. It’s blatant click-bait but the pictures are pretty, so….
I was happy with the night altogether. Happy with the winners in all the categories I cared about. Loads of digs at the government being mean to poor old Auntie. Even careful LEGS did a safe version!
The script had them flabbering on about diversity. Not sure whether it was to set up for the Lenny Henry fellowship given for his work in that area, having digs at #oscarssowhite, some Britisher laughing at ourselves thing, or a combination of all of the above. But it didn’t really come off, so they should probably have shut up and just let the nominations, awards, and Henry speak for themselves.
Yes the diversity stuff felt a little forced whereas the speeches about the BBC and the Government came from the heart and you could tell.
Exactly, I couldn’t work out the diversity stuff at all. Were they blowing the BAFTA trumpet or mocking BAFTA? Or mocking #oscarssowhite? I didn’t get it at all. Some of it was cringeworthy.
I liked the Kosminsky rant but my favourite bit of sticking up for the BBC was from James Nesbitt, who clearly went off-prompter. I bet the entire production team was cacking it for what he would say!
I need more coffee and my contact lenses because I saw one and thought they were waltzing lol Had to do a double take.
I’ve just realised he and Emma Watson share the same PR guy and both have been very active with UNICEF/UN. So yeah, he definitely rebranded from Marvel newcomer and dork, to serious, considerate, humanitarian ACTOR who does not have the time nor inclination to share his running playlist on Twitter anymore.
Nothing wrong with that! He is his own vessel.
Tom was active with UNICEF even when he danced for MARVEL, and I think he will dance again for Kong if necessary and go to Africa, or any place in the world if he has time and UNICEF needs him. Some people can do both.
Of course he can; I remember when he was doing Below the Line for UNICEF UK – he had to feed himself with very little money, and he would chronicle every step on Twitter and WhoSay.
I just meant that he has stopped sharing banal personal tidbits like Running Playlist or Favourite New Song, and his twitter is not mostly all business, which is not wrong at all. He has rebranded, even if he still commits to promoting his movies like crazy and being able to tell when he needs to tone it down or go all in like he does with Marvel.
I actually like what he has to say about nudity. I’ve been coaxed into watching The Night Manager and in the…second? third? episode (no spoilers) of the AMC broadcast in the US there were two separate instances where they clearly cut away from nudity for no apparent reason other than that we as viewers would Presumably be scarred by a nipple and/or a butt cheek. One instance was not sexual in nature at all, the other maybe vaguely but to characterize it as such would still be quite a reach. In both instances it was distracting and stupid.
…and here’s why:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BFK0bprKaeQ/
Personally, I don’t blame him. Not one bit.
omg. The one in the back is soo Jaws from James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me. lol.
Ok, 7 feet, easy.
“Moonraker” too, Cranberry. I guess that’s not going to stop the inevitable Bond gossip. Oops
🙁
It’s such a shame, that he feels he needs that now. At LFF last year I Saw High Rise and Black Mass on consecutive nights, and one of the things that really struck me was how little security there was around the High Rise cast compared to Johnny Depp, who had about 6 bodyguards, one of whom kept his hand in his shoulder the whole time he was interacting with fans, to control who came near him.
Maybe this was just for the BAFTAs because TNM was such a recent big hit in UK.
By the way, we have confirmation that Bentley is not Tom’s cat, via an interview with Shortlist.
I saw that. Well, we knew it, and it confirms some slightly lazy journalism on Esquire’s part.
Leads me to think his sister is probably still in India, as well.
Fun video, though.
http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/films/tom-hiddleston-talks-cats-dogs-prince-taylor-swift
His dog was called Muffin, and it’s mother was Crumpet. Sounds like good additions to Lilac’s veranda crew or maybe too confusing.
@Cranberry, uhm, I suspect since they were childhood pets that both Muffin and Crumpet are gone.
Maybe we could clear a plot in the meadow for a pet cemetery. Let’s see, there’s Muffin, Crumpet, the Crimson Peak heel nipper— and Ian.
Well, we could include Ian but I think he dissolved.
@lilac, true. It’s just that any mention of baked goods make me think of you and the veranda spread.
Don’t get women who are stalking this guy. Get a life, seriously. I would have stopped using Twitter as well if crazy fangirls had stalked me. How the eff can you rent a flat just for being able to see him? Groping him? That’s sick. After reading this I am not suprised about his protectiveness concerning his love life. Pretty sure that sickos would stalk his girlfriend too…..
My best friend met him at the Baftas the other night. There are a load of photos online of him with Idris Elba where she’s sitting right behind them.
The after party got a lot of write-ups. He was tearing up the dance floor again. Hopefully he now has plenty of time off to nurse a hangover!
Maybe no a hangover; It doesn’t sound like he ever went to bed. One of the mags reported he was dancing all night and was still at a party ’til 5am!
And when was the guitar store interview done?
To me it looked like he was really happy to be home and partying it up with his Brit colleagues in what might be the last big event/gala for a while.
He’s pretty much finished with promoting everything now with last weeks interviews, and he’s got a month at home to catch up before he’s supposed to be in US again for Wizard World Comic Con and then off to film Ragnarok.
Speaking of Twitter, tonight’s hashtag is brought to you by the censors at AMC that evidently think the gore of Walking Dead is fine but Mr. Hiddleston’s thrusting posterior is more than we in the US can handle. So no HIddlesbum tonight for us. Or
#NoHIDDLESBUMforUS
yesterday, i feel it was confirmed that he is with lizzie olsen. she was talking to james corden and he asked her point blank, are you dating someone? then…anthony mackie gave it away. he said, we don’t talk about him. so, i am sure they are dating. but, tom is very sad, it seems. his interview with uk esquire as well as his interview with ann thompson were about the saddest things i read. i think he is disheartened that i saw the light made 1.5 mill when the budget was 13. he got rave reviews for a horrible movie. nothing other than marvel has been memorable.so, i think he is lonely and sad.
Thanks for proving the point of this post. Your arms must be long for those reaches.
Yes, he is crying into his Scarlet Witch body pillow every night. And those rave reviews plus major bank the Night Manager have made don’t mean a thing because he is filled with ennui.
Did Tom really make “bank” with TNM? I mean it was still a BBC joint production, and the on location filming looks like it cost a lot. I think that’s one reason he and Laurie became executive producers in order to get paid more as well as having input.
Yeah, absolutely nothing memorable at all, like that Olivier and the Evening Standard award and the What’s on Stage award never happened.
I would think that ISTL would do alright in Korea or China. He’s got a lot of fans there, and I would think it should pass any sensor standards except for the 1 sec. boob shot that gave it an R rating. Plus, apparently China only allows a set number of foreign films to come in each year. If these things also worked against the film, then that’s sad cause it just never got a break what so ever especially since the critics slammed it making it sound a lot worse than it actually was.
I kind of don’t think it matters how ISTL does, in the long run. If High Rise and Night Manager had flopped too it would be an issue, but at the moment he’s got one artistic critical darling, and one huge commercial success, so that insulates him.
Also, people tend to forget the flops that hardly anyone sees.
Tom was spotted going into a meeting with Bond Director Sam Mendes. Not sure how I feel about this. Does he really need another franchise?
Sam also works in Theatre and is directing a new movie called The Voyeur’s Motel so maybe I jumped the gun a bit. Anyway possibly a new project !
Don’t worry as Mendes said he would not direct Bond 25. They worked together for HC before. So, it could be a lunch between friends or a meeting for a new theater/film project. Mendes’ new film project, The Voyeur’s Motel, was announced in April and it seems that no actor is attached yet.
Mendes produces and directs lots of projects and they have worked together before so a meeting with just them doesn’t indicate anything in particular.
But, Barbara Broccoli also attended this meeting.
Daily Mail keeps changing their article – the first version said Broccoli was there and they were all together, now the updated version only mentions Mendes. The earlier version also had a small bit at the bottom saying Tom’s publicist had confirmed he was at Soho House but not meeting Barbara Broccoli. That bit has been left out of the updated version.
The Mirror article is much more specific, specifically says Broccoli and Tom were meeting (along with someone else) and Sam joined them.
And the Mirror Iies like a carpet!
I’ve traced a number of “quotes” that really sounded out of character (including language used) and oddly, they all come back to the Mirror claiming ‘he told us’ or ‘he told our rep’.
I know their reporter at the BAFTA after party was kind of cute, but I don’t believe he hung with her the entire night (as they claimed) and said the specific things they quote him as saying. Interestingly, the original article (by the Mirror) with this headline’s comment about Twitter Trolls (which was reprinted from heck and gone) has now been removed from their site. Hmmmmmm.
Online article in Metro.co.uk says a rep of TH cleared up any misunderstanding of today’s meeting with Sam Mendes. No Bond discussion and I think Voyeur’s Motel may be included in the No. Sorry I can’t link
It is actually rather fascinating. One site is going into great detail about who arrived when and where on Wednesday night and the other is claiming that his people have completely denied everything.
You know how, when people lie, they tend to include too much detail, to compensate for the fact that they’re making it up?
It’s a tell-tale for the tabloids. When they’re making it up they print way more details than they could reasonably know from a source who just happened to be there. If someone had genuinely accidentally spotted a meeting, they probably wouldn’t have made a note of when everyone was arriving, because that’s not the sort of thing ordinary people think to do. I don’t many people could recognise Barbara Broccoli, either, so they wouldn’t claim they’d spotted someone meeting with her.
What you normally have is a random sighting or even a pap shot that has been embroidered into a story.
Why Sixer calls him Legs, for those that wondered.
Well, ONE of the reasons. 😉
http://www.instagram.com/p/4odjZGhD9y/
Lovely, innit?
I think Harriet the Makeup lady had a little bit of a crush.
Ya think? Snicker, snicker. Have a look at the rest of her Instagram, going back a couple of months. She evidently did most of the injury makeup.
Oh, and I just realized that should probably say TWO of the reasons, above. Heeee!
I finally caught I Saw The Light today. I don’t know why Marc Abraham didn’t just make a documentary about Hank Williams and be done with it.