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Tom Hiddleston Talks Thor: The Dark World #ThorDarkWorldEvent

**Thank you to Disney for bringing me out and covering most expenses during the entire trip. Opinions are my personal views**

During the trip to LA, where I attended two red carpet premieres, which you can read about here and here, I had the chance to sit down with the god of mischief himself, Loki, who is played by the dashing Tom Hiddleston.

He cruised right in, sans motorcycle, to the room where 24 mom and 1 dad blogger were awaiting anxiously to get to know the man behind the villian. After hellos and telling us how beautiful we all looked…be still my heart…anyone telling me I look beautiful with his accent wins me over. However, the night was not about us, but rather getting to know the man behind the mischief. I started things off by asking the very first question myself, on behalf of my son…

How did you get in character to play a bad guy, and do you really like playing those kind of roles?

Second question first. I love playing all kinds of roles and I hope it doesn’t sound too pretentious but I always feel like human nature is like a piano and there are 88 keys. There are some white keys and some black keys and each character is a different chord on the piano. I hope that in the course of my life I will have played all 88 keys in lots of different ways. So I’ll have played heroes, villains, princes, kings, warriors, beggars, thieves, lovers, fathers, wizards, and all of those things. For me that’s why I’m an actor, is I love studying people.

Loki, I think he’s a minor chord with a couple of black notes in there, but I loved playing him. I suppose the first question, my answer to it is, he’s the God of Mischief. Thor is the God of Thunder and Loki is the God of Mischief and his mischief is the thing that I love playing so much. His playfulness, his sense of fun, and the challenge of course is to make him real, vulnerable, and complex. Great question.

If someone visits your home and looked inside the refrigerator, what would they find?

Ha. Well I’ve been on the road for a bit. I was very conscientious and emptied the fridge of all perishable food. As my mum taught me before I went away. I didn’t want to come home to like moldy bread. I think there’s some, there’s probably some bottles of fizzy water maybe some old cheese in the back, but cheese is alright, I think. Normally it’s full of green vegetables, butter, a few eggs, you know just sort of fridgey stuff, really.

Fridgey stuff…love it! In Marvel’s Avengers they team up a lot of superheroes and I was wondering if Loki teamed up with one of Marvel’s villains, who would it be and why?

Oh if there was like a team of villains? Well the thing about getting a group of villains together is they don’t get anything done. Because they’re all acting out of self-interest. Kind of like “No, I want to take over the world!!” “No, but it’s mine!!” “No, but it,” and then it’s over, it’s finished. That would be the end of the film, it probably would have lasted two minutes.

Who would Loki turn up with? I’d love to see in the comics he teams up with the Enchantress, who is a sort of a big, beautiful blonde, and is as untrustworthy and as skilled in the powers of magic as he is. They have quite an interesting dance that they do of recognizing that they’re basically the same, but that that’s why they shouldn’t be together.

Who else? I mean I love the bad guys. I’d love to see him with Dr. Doom, who was one of Spiderman’s big villains, there’s a villain called, Surtur, and he’s the fire demon who’s a pretty crazy cat. You know I think that would be an interesting alliance.

But I feel like if Loki ever teams up, he’s just using people. In Avengers he teamed up with Phanos, who’s the big guy you see at the end of the credits. That deal they made was that the Tessarak, the blue cube, that Loki could use it to take over the Earth and once he had the Earth in his clutches he would hand over the Tessarak to Phanos who would then do whatever he wanted to with the Universe. So the stakes are pretty high, um, but yeah. The good thing about Loki he is genuinely dancing on this high wire tightrope between good and evil, between redemption and damnation, so you never know what he’s gonna do next.

Not giving too much away, what was your favorite part of the film?

Working with Chris Hemsworth. There are a couple of scenes where I feel like the two brothers just really get a sense of the particular chemistry of these two guys. I also know that my friendship with Chris is something that infused that relationship. He and I, we met in 2009, we were both in our late ’20s, we’d been kicking around the business for the same amount of time.

We became very firm and fast friends and we’ve had this amazing adventure together. I think our friendship really infuses the Thor/Loki relationship in this film and that’s probably my greatest pride. There’s a scene where they’re arguing over who gets to drive, which is one of my favorites.

There was so much more and maybe I will share the rest of the interview at a later date, but for now, I hope you enjoyed getting to know Tom Hiddleston a little bit better.  I also hope you have or are going to very soon, see Thor: The Dark World.

Once the interview was over we had the chance to take a group shot with Tom and I ended up next to him (SQUEE), I have to say I have a new found like for Loki both from meeting Tom and seeing the movie!

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**Thank you to Bare Minerals, Fusion Day Spa & Salon, and Simply Dresses for products/services provided for this event.**
Photos in this post are thanks to Disney/Marvel (the 1st two) and MomStart.com (the rest)
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Hi! I'm Toni. I am a happily married, christian, momma of 3 living on Florida's sunny Gulf Coast. I am a lifestyle blogger and Seint Arist. I started blogging when my last child was born as a way to share my love of all things travel, cooking, beauty, recipes, and more. Now pull up a chair, grab a glass of sweet tea and let's get to know each other. I truly hope you enjoy getting A Daily Dose of Toni!

Comments

  1. 1

    Look forward to this movie! Great interview!

  2. 2

    Love the movie! Even better than the first one.

  3. 3

    I’ve met him before and he is a total sweetheart.

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