Tom Hiddleston Reveals His Favorite Scene From The Avengers and Discusses Meeting His Thor 2 Director
Posted 12.06.11 by Ryan
After playing Loki in Marvel's comic book hit of Thor this summer, British actor Tom Hiddleston has already reprised the role for the upcoming adaptation of The Avengers. While Hiddleston may have again played the villain for The Avengers, Hiddleston told Elle magazine (via SuperHeroHype) that the production was more like a big "group hug", despite the movie's intimidating ensemble cast.
For the first 10 minutes after you meet [the other actors], they have the wattage and charisma of movie stars. Then you have a coffee with them and you realize we're all the same, we're all just people. All of the actors in The Avengers are so nice. Marvel has these code names for projects and the code name for The Avengers was Group Hug. It felt very much like a group hug on set.
Marvel won't release The Avengers until next May, but that doesn't mean that Hiddleston hasn't already picked his favorite scene. Hiddleston says he preferred a scene where he was able to do his own stunts.
My favorite moment on set was filming at a NASA location the size of a cathedral. I flew around like a trapeze artist in a rocket-testing facility in the company of Samuel L. Jackson and Jeremy Renner. That was a pretty good day at work.
Marvel has confirmed that Hiddleston will again play Loki in Thor 2, though Hiddleston, Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman will be joined by a new director, Monster's Patty Jenkins. During a press conference for War Horse, Hiddleston told SuperHeroHype that he had already met with Jenkins.
I had dinner with some of the executives at Marvel and Chris Hemsworth and Patty in London and she's amazing, really. She's the most incredibly fearless director and has a really innate understanding of the muscularity of a character like Thor. I'm not just saying he's jacked-up. I mean, the character itself has an enormously muscular, visceral, emotional complexity and Patty understands it, and she understands it in her bones.
Hiddleston's third appearance as Loki hasn't lessened his enthusiasm for the character, admitting that "the whole Loki thing is just so exciting."
It is quite surreal, because I never expected it to be so fervent, for the passion to be so intense and one always hopes one's work is going to be appreciated, but my God it's a compliment that people have responded to what I did and everybody who’s written letters say such lovely things like "I really understood what Loki was going through and I understood his emotional predicament" so it’s pretty great.
Written and directed by Joss Whedon (Serenity), The Avengers co-stars Chris Evans as Captain America, Mark Ruffalo as Dr. Bruce Banner (colored with the slight greenish hue of Banner's alter ego, the Hulk), Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Clark Gregg as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Coulson , Cobie Smulders as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Maria Hill and Stellan Skarsgård as Erik Selvig.
Next Showing: The Avengers opens May 4, 2012, and
Thor 2 opens November 15, 2013