Loki: Tom Hiddleston On Acting Without Chris Hemsworth’s Thor
Tom Hiddleston talked about what it’s like to play Loki without Chris Hemsworth and how the roles of the two actors elevate each other. Loki star Tom Hiddleston talked about what it’s like to portray the role without Chris Hemsworth’s Thor for the first time in his career in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In an interview conducted by MTV News, Hiddleston said that the polarization between the two roles helps determine who they are. “In the early MCU stories, there was always this duality between Thor and Loki, and Loki and Thor, and Chris and I defined these roles as opposites,” Hiddleston said.
He continued to imply that Loki “always defines himself by his relationship with Thor” and vice versa. “One of the things that makes me excited about Loki is actually in any drama, if you remove something familiar to him from a character, then you have to reveal something about the rest,” Hiddleston He said. “So if you keep Loki away from Thor, away from Asgard, away from everything he is used to, what will he do to Loki, Loki?” Loki marked the first time Hiddleston had played the character without Hemsworth. Tom has played this role in six MCU movies, starting with Thor and ending with Avengers: Endgame.
In the final film, Loki and Tesseract are teleported together, setting the premise for the Disney+ series. “In the ten years of playing this role, or six films in ten years, in my preparation and research, I always found this extraordinary range and complexity. He has a huge story,” Tom Hiddleston said. Different aspects, numerous and contradictory characteristics, suddenly, this is an opportunity to explore some of them in a new environment, and they may reveal new things about him to me, I am waiting for the audience. ” The Loki in the Disney + MCU series of the same name is different from the Loki who joined his brother in the movie after the Avengers because this version died at the hands of Thanos in the Avengers: Infinity War.
On the contrary, Loki saw the fresh role of his era in the first Avengers movie without any brotherly development. According to Hiddleston, this version of Loki will not reunite with Thor because the character will be absent from Thor: Love and Thunder. Loki stars Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson, Sophia Di Martino, Richard E. Grant, Sasha Lane, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku, and Eugene Cordero. The new series is broadcast on Disney+ every Wednesday.
Source: MTV News, via ComicBook.com
