Thread to talk about the actor Tom Hiddleston
>>647 Nice interview. I can appreciate the effort he puts into his long, drawn out answers in other interviews, but they can come off as arrogant. This time, he really shines in these short, to-the-point, intelligent replies.
New brief interview with the NY Daily News: http://m.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/tom-hiddleston-plays-country-star-light-article-1.2570741
>>654 "Bashful" about the social media attention to his arse? Oh come on, Tom. You snake-hipped those bare buttocks on purpose.
>>655 And when Liddle Hiddles made an appearance on Twitter, you tried to tweet-bomb us!
Reading from HR: http://youtu.be/bMd90N3cixA
This just popped up: https://www.instagram.com/p/BDMsYbmLjov/
from British Esquire photo shoot at Casa de Arroyo in Pasadena, California. Looks like we'll be seeing another magazine spread soon.
I watched it - very hard to do this without spoilers so it is somewhat truncated, but:
No of times TH showed that he would be an excellent presenter on QVC: 1
No of times TH said "shhh, shhhhh" and my panties flew across the room: 1
No of times TH wore combat trousers and my panties flew across the room: too numerous to particularise
No of times I was glad not to be a trophy girlfriend: 1
No of times I was glad not to be a trophy gay hanger-on: 1
No of times I really did think RR was the worst man in the world: 2
No of times TH's voice slipped and he sounded about 18 and also unbelievably posh: 1 (prize for identifying when)
No of not quite gratuitous shower scenes: 1 (in the dark. Suzanne, what's up with that? Why do you tease us like this?)
No of cliff-hanging, panty-wetting, edge of seat moments: 1
>>660 Is that his ISTL suit? It looks kind of.....brown!
According to tumblr this is for an imminent edition of Esquire. If so I assume it was done in January when he was in Pasadena for whatever it was (TNM publicity? I can't remember) and is being dropped now as a teaser.
Whoops: http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/night-manager-final-leaks-online-7598080
And the cause of the leak was - sending out pre-ordered DVDs several weeks early! How hopeless is that?!
>>661 Still haven't watched it. the final ep leaked, but I want to wait till next week to watch.
>>663 Ha. I need to refresh the page more.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDN5Z9wGQ9S/
Pretty sure he wore most of his own clothes for TNM - maybe not the military gear, but that black v-neck looks familiar.
>>662 These might have been taken in Jan but TH is likely in LA because Eo was spotted having a PDA moment on a street corner. yep, that's how my reasoning works with these two! no confirmation it was TH and no pic. I won't link the account for reasons, but the person is not a fangirl or a gay porno pap!
>>666 I am assuming he is in LA for the premiere tomorrow and for Jimmy Kimmel - is it recorded in LA? That red carpet will be interesting. You don't snog someone on a street corner, especially when he is on every magazine cover in town due to his new tv show, unless you want the news out there.
>>666 PS I am in awe of you for finding this stuff because her tag is full of the most dreadful junk. It's not even heart eyes emojis - it's all spam for unrelated beauty products or celeb gossip sites!
There is an ISTL Q&A today with TH and EO so TH should definitely be in LA. >>666 the person saw EO getting cozy with someone today or yesterday?
>>661 How was the acting? I'm home. We left NH early to avoid the snow - spring, my ass. I'm going to watch it soon. Ready for the panties to fly at 'shhhh, shhhh!' That's my new favorite TH line.
>>667 I think they think they're undercover in LA as long as they don't go to celeb spots. Tweeter might have gotten it wrong, but I just don't think all these sightings are fake. Shoulder shrug.
Here's an EO ISTL interview from Nylon. TH is mentioned so it's not completely OT http://www.nylon.com/articles/elizabeth-olsen-i-saw-the-light-interview (Linked without snarky comment - I know, I know!)
>>670 No, I don't either. The "hooking up" continues!
I can't wait to see how he/she/they play it. The balance of power has changed a lot. In May last year a lot of people commented that she was a bigger name (at least in the US, and off the internet) and speculated that he had more to gain by this pairing than her. Now he has huge visibility from TNM and HR has been well-received in the UK, which bodes well for the US. He has a public image which I am sure he will feel benefits by appearing to be footloose and fancy free - and women lying on their backs as far as the eye can see. Will he hold hands/kiss on the RC? This is more gripping than ep5!
PS the acting, erm:
OC: A+ (again - touching scenes with Mr B)
TH: B+/A- (I can't put my finger on it. There is a slightly uneven tone to his acting through this series I find hard to put my finger on. I feel like he hasn't mastered who Pine is underneath all the roles he plays, so we see a disjointed series of personae that don't quite gel)
HL: Ranged from B to A (he gets some awful lines at the start which don't help, but when he has the material he is outstanding)
The plausibility is thinner than a size zero at this stage by the way. If I were Roper I might be able to join an instant line between new bug joining organisation in odd circumstances and secrecy suddenly going to shit, but as we saw last week he remains mystified by these coincidences!
>>666 I've been through the last three days of her tag and I didn't see it. Was this an evil joke for post 666? Devil's number and all? ;)
>>672 Okay, seen it. I missed the 'shhhh, shhh' part, but I'll re-watch. Agree about TH - sometimes he gets it, sometimes it's a little wooden/forced/mannered. I don't know, perhaps he's being too cerebral and thinking back to RADA lessons rather than becoming the character in that gut way some actors do. Maybe he needs a pork pie hat like MR. Maybe that's the secret to great acting - a pork pie hat?
I think we're meant to believe that all hasn't gone smoothly with deals/secrecy (the first deal with Hamid/Apo/the need for the trick with the trucks), hence the inability to pin down the snitch. Supposedly he asked Corky to bring Jed because he suspected her too - as another 'new addition'. Still, you're right, and we might be in 00 range - the runway standard! Were I Roper, I'd know just from the annoying, sycophantic chuckle TH shuffles out whenever Roper tells a joke. I wouldn't trust that laugh.
>>673 No, I didn't even notice that. :) I promise it's real. I suspect someone will stumble upon it soon but that won't be on me.
>>674 Did you spot the posh, slightly braying voice bit?
Unfortunately two of my most favourite to series ever were the Le Carré pair starring Alec Guinness. He is such a consummate performer - and they too were adapted from densely plotted novels - but somehow without feeling as though we were skating over essential character motivation that was there in the book.
Thinking about it again, part of TH's problem is that his character acts purely to advance the plot right from the start. He meets a bit of Egyptian skirt and 5 minutes later is sending her private docs to his mate at the Embassy? Give me a break.
I'm crap with accents. Was it after he and Corky were spotted on the slope? Before the 'crunch.'
>>678 Oh yes. Wan Hundred Per Cent!
Remember this? I found it after I'd been a fan for a while and I did think that IRL he was a LOT more like the slightly bleating Old Etonians with whom I work than I had initially thought. He has definitely got a deeper "acting" and interview voice which is also less honkingly posh.
>>675 Torrilla has some more shower shots. I love how the canvas camp shower has mysteriously lost its front panel mojo, sagging down to reveal his abs. I used showers like these on safari - put it this way, I didn't see any 3.5 sided ones! The gratuitous nudity has achieved joke status at this point.
>>676 Well, as it turns out, Marc Abraham is in Los Angeles and did at least one of the ISTL interviews today with Tom and EO, so maybe HE was the one she was PDA-ing!
A possible THEO sighting that supposedly happened but cannot be found by anyone else but one person on this board who isn't willing to share the link.
Sounds legit. Lol.
Tomorrow should be interesting.
>>683 Anon. has been commenting on here for a long time. She often picks up tweets that nobody else saw, and she used to post links to those tweets. Unfortunately we acquired a troll who used those links to go on Twitter and harass and abuse the person who tweeted the sighting. So by mutual agreement we stopped posting the links to any possible Twitter sightings of THEO.
Since then she has mentioned a number of tweets I was able to find pretty easily. She also posts a lot of links to other stuff like IG pics and articles that make this board worth visiting to lurkers like you.
I am not surprised it was impossible to find this particular tweet because if you check out Elizabeth Olsen's tag it is full of spam - repeat postings of airport pap pics from last year and a boatload of similar crap.
So yeah, I do believe her.
Sorry but I also went through EO's mentions going back months and there was nothing. Nada. Usually when there is an THEO sighting it's either in her tag or his and there's no special thing anyone has to do to find these sightings. They just appear. There are people who plant sightings just as there are people who bash THEO and attack the people who tweet the sightings. Just saying...
And yes I am a lurker thanks...
Besides all of these Twitter sightings don't matter. Tomorrow at the premiere I think they are going to finally come out as a couple and end all of the speculation. And you know what, good for them.
>>681 It certainly runs in the family. Do we want to place bets on whose hand EO will hold at the premiere? I feel like TH's lack of touchy-feely-ness with EO is almost proof of something between them; he's nearly fathered the children of most of his co-stars on the red carpet, and lately that of his female director. But with her, nothing. It's almost like reverse psychology.
>>683 I'm not trolling. I saw it, I reported it - as I've done many times here.
>>684 Heart Eyes! Thank you, sir knight. What little reputation I have around here hopefully points toward my status as a non-troll.
>>686 I'd be perfectly happy for that to happen. It would lift both of them in my estimation. These PR games - we're hooking up in May, theatre/dining it in July, not dating in Sept, laser tagging it in Nov - are tiresome.
>>687 They were pretty touchy-feely in Nashville, though, more like Tom's usual - the awkwardness and denials were pretty centered on TIFF, I think because it was so soon after Pap Night. It'll be interesting to see this week if they continue with the normal interactions like we saw in Nashville, or if they go back to the TIFF standoffish behavior.
>>672 Re: TH's acting - I finished watching all episodes tonight and I think I get what you're saying. He's too good of an actor (debatable, perhaps) to play Pine flat. He must have been directed to play a lot of his acting through his eyes but it wasn't right, and I kept waiting for the rest of his face to catch up, or for Pine to say something. When he smiled in some scenes, it felt out of place, or maybe it was the timing...hard to put my finger on it. Intimidated by HL?
>>687 Lizzie's about to come on Jimmy Kimmel. I'll report back.
Okay, EO on Kimmel:
That's it.
>>687 My pleasure.
You've set a hare running though - someone has whizzed over to the bicycle asking her followers to find the tweet!
I'd respect them more if they did acknowledge they were a couple - no more PR games. Not sure if they will though. I think he's better served from an image perspective by appearing to be single. Also if they admit it today, every interview they do over the next week (for ISTL or his other appearances for TNM) will be about the relationship. I can't imagine they want the headlines about those projects to be "TH and EO finalleeeeeee admit relationship (ps was that a lie we heard in Toronto?)"
However I wait with baited breath!!
>>693 I still think it is/was casual enough that labeling it a "relationship" would have been an exaggeration, thus the denials coupled with the occasional sighting. Most people don't want to remain sexless for extended periods of time, and I'd imagine as someone in the public eye it's difficult to find a partner you can trust - and why invest all that time and effort in building trust with a stranger when all you're looking for is something casual? It makes sense that they'd hook up. They've known each other for a few years, they filmed together, they're promoting together, they're in and out of each other's home cities, and they're both very career driven at the moment and probably not wanting anything too serious.
As for the premiere, I believe the only thing we can be certain of seeing on the red carpet is a bad gown. But who knows? Maybe she'll surprise me.
>>690 thanks. Let me guess...she wore black? Ill-fitting? >>694 Her stylist seems to be taking the piss, or her sisters tell her what to wear. Either way, her dress will probably be somewhere to the west of right.
>>691 Thank you. I knew I couldn't have been the only one.
>>693 well, now that the hounds have been let fly, it will likely come to light. As I said, it wasn't much of a tweet and with no confirmation of it being TH or even EO, but neither was that Hawaii tweet that everyone dismissed.
>>693 Talking about the relationship might make for better press than talking about the film itself. Rotten Tomatoes has new reviews from Feb and Mar up and they are not pretty. If MA did re-edit, he employed the same cack-handed techniques he used originally.
OT and for Anon:
MR...naked...with a dead fish...and a pork pie hat. Yes, the DM will show up in your browsing history, but think of the rewards!
>>696 That's a tad more of MR than I want to see!
Where is TH in this photoshoot with his manhood encased in a giant scallop? I feel cheated.
>>697 HA! Giant scallop indeed! What would be his marine life prop of choice? An octopus with nine tentacles? Or just one gooey duck!
>>695 Black dress, peekaboo shoulder lace, high-waisted, pseudo-waif-manic-pixie-dream-girl aesthetic. Like she was going to a goth prom as a fairy but without wings.
>>700 I'm giggling - goth prom fairy! I have a feeling you did a perfect job of describing it! I'm going to go look right now.
She writes for Esquire, so maybe this will go with the wet suit pics.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDRKZUoC4oI/
He is turned toward her, but it looks like they're in TIFF-mode body language wise.
Also, is she wearing a very deep cut top or are my eyes being tricked by a nude shirt?
And finally...his 'groomer' is ill, so she's wearing a mask! She's either too precious for words or she's undercover playing out her TH doctor fantasy.
>>704 It's so she isn't recognised and chased with sticks for making him look orange on the red carpet.
I am always kind of sad when I see that even a man with only two pairs of casual trousers has a "groomer"
>>703 God, I hope she is wearing a beige top or that is one seriously low cut outfit! They both look pretty miserable. Maybe they've read the reviews.
>>703 That's some serious side- boob paired with King Kong's claw. My side- boob theories are:
a) On display to gratuitously flaunt what he can no longer touch. Revenge boob.
b) On display to lure Little Hiddles to 2 second wall sex. Seductress boob.
>>705 He ditched the color-blind makeup artist at TIFF and it seems hasn't looked back. This one works for one of the top fashion agencies in the States. Someone's finally been reading the comments sections in every article ever written about him. I can't believe it took so long. The comparisons to Engelbert Humperdinck were embarrassing
>>704 Damn, the pic is not viewable, and the account appears to be gone. Who was the picture of?
>>708 It is from my computer. Perhaps try a different device? I think it's his groomer. She's since posted a second shot. She also has/had a personal IG account from which she posted the odd TH pic during her travels/work.
>>705 I think she's a newer groomer, from the CP onward time (I think). Ugh - that Thor premiere! He looked positively tomatoey.
>>707 Surely she must have a shirt on?!? I think I can just see a delineation from her skin to the shirt. No way she would wear something like that for a press day - revenge or seductress boob theories (which are excellent) aside!
>>710 Thank you Anonon and Anon. I can see the first link from my computer now, but not from my iPhone earlier.
(Not so) hot off the presses - the RC: http://precursorpress.tumblr.com/post/141520631342/tom-hiddleston-at-the-los-angeles-premiere-of-i
>>713 I should be using the direct IG source:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDRwrODGDxX/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDRy-xOLWb4/
And here's the FirstLook link. Besides for twitter, I've found pics tend to show up here first.
Happy Hiddling, ladies.
And finally (no, I really mean it), a periscope vid.
Lizzie thought she was going to the Marvel premier and dressed as Endora from Bewitched. I am grateful she has discovered red.
https://twitter(.)com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=elizabeth%20olsen&src=tyah
Have you noticed she has a lazy left eye? Comes up a lot in photos.
http://getfirstlook.com/photo/I90gze
>>717 My bad gown prediction was right! I am a psychic. About the eye - I wonder if it's an eye lift gone slightly wrong.
>>717 I would usually say she's too young for an eye lift if her nose wasn't so dramatically chipped and her face didn't have the glow of a thousand botox needles.
The gown is actually so ill fitting sceptics could again argue she is deliberately trying to look pregnant. She's a strong contender for fug of the year.
>>718 At least it's not black. Color looks good on her. I find her style so strange - while I'm glad she isn't falling out of a latex dress like a Kardashian, she does have a lovely figure (as my grandmother would say), so I'm not sure why everything she wears is so ill-fitting!
Also, I think her make-up here is on point. And the hair is good too, a lot better than the wrapped ponytail a la Nashville - that was awful hair.
They do look good together, and more importantly, they don't seem to be playing the TIFF games or the Nashville games. And while I don't think they're giving anything away, she does look very 'cat that got the cream' in some of the pics.
>>720 It all looks like very usual behavior for Tom with a leading lady to me. EO does have a tendency to make that "I have a naughty secret" face in photos, so I'm not surprised to see it in some of the pics from tonight. Actually they both seem more like their usual red carpet selves, thank god... maybe because there's nothing to hide anymore?
>>717 Never noticed the eye. I think I see it? I'll look more closely from now on.
>>719 I was just coming back to say that same thing- the vague-baiting with a pseudo-maternity dress.
>>720 She is pretty and has a great figure so I don't get her style either the majority of the time.
TH is coming on JK's next. I'll report back like I did last night.
Spoiler alert: Tom is wearing red socks with his blue suit, and he yodels.
And they showed a clip of him singing. Talked about Bernie Danders, Migel Faraj (blechhh). Mention of TNM, Bond, taking the time of Hank seriously and training to sing with RC. They ended with Jimmy persauding him to yodel.
>>720 >>721 Well, I have no idea. Torrilla has more pics and she is doing exactly what she did in Nashville - putting her hand on his lapel in a flirty way. But no hand-holding and no sign that they arrived together. Torrilla has some pics of him arriving and it looks like he was alone.
If we didn't know the backstory we wouldn't look at the pics and assume anything other than his usual friendship with his co-stars. Jury still seems to be out.
>>724 Someone put it on YouTube! http://youtu.be/kYx79PPQdL4
>>725 According to Twitter and Instagram (and Torrilla photos) he arrived alone, a good half hour before EO. And by alone, I mean with Olly, of course.
Can I be controversial and say I don't like his suit? The fabric was stiff and I thought the stitching in the lapel and its shininess made it look cheap (I am sure it wasn't). Also is there no middle ground between really dull dark navy and knock your eye out blue? It somehow worked for the Reiss suit - but translated off a fun high street piece to high end designer gear I am not sure it does.
>>726 Can I just say for the avoidance of doubt that the General Election was NOTHING LIKE the primaries. Trump makes Farage look almost normal (no mean achievement). And the press treated him as a fringe nutter, albeit one who might do some damage in marginal seats.
>>729 I wondered about Nigel (bungled spelling earlier, sorry) compared to Trump. Who were his core supporters?
>>723 Maybe the red socks were TH's way of confirming a relationship: 'Yeah, I had white socks but then I washed them with my FB's red curtains, and later she made those curtains into a dress, so, yeah, we're people who sometimes wash their socks and curtains together.'
Maybe red socks are EO's Wimbledon?
>>732 Whoa! Baby steps. That's for a post-engagement appearance!
>>730 That's an interesting question. The assumption before the election was that Farage would take voters from the right - however it now appears that more damage was done to the left (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/23/labour-win-working-class-voters-ukip).
The theory is that white working class men from the North, traditional Labour supporters, are most likely to feel threatened by immigration because immigrants are competing for the same unskilled work and are often prepared to work for lower wages. They are therefore likely to respond to the UKIP message of no immigration and to be turned off by Labour's silence on this issue. Labour has tended to accuse the Tories of racism for wanting to debate immigration, but that position has tended to mean Labour hasn't addressed the issue at all, or done enough to address the concerns of those who feel that "jobs are being stolen.
Okay, I'm not going to spend my last day of vacay searching his 1,400 strong twitter feed for anything juicy, but here are some links. I'm not as good at this as Coach, so it's not anywhere near complete:
A little dancing TH:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2016/03/23/tom-hiddleston-hank-williams-dance/82152038/
Access Video youtube link with 2 TH interviews at the top of the page:
https://www.youtube.com/user/AccessHollywood/videos
Pics of this 'delightfully goofy' duo!! She seems to have been doing the over-the-shoulder pose and TH took the piss out of her for it, leading to the giggle fit.
http://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/Tom-Hiddleston-Elizabeth-Olsen-Red-Carpet-March-2016-40668038#photo-40668041
Some nice insights here - and proof he's sticking with his signature pose (which I dislike very much):
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/03/23/how-tom-hiddleston-became-hank-williams/82129712/
Page with interview from the leads and director:
http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/we-interview-tom-hiddleston-elizabeth-olsen-for-i-saw-the-light-171
Okay, now I have to go off and do something productive! Or try to.
>>736 The one where he lifts his arm near his face. It's the first pic in the link - he does it all the time. He looks like a tit when he does.
The weather is gorgeous, from snow to sunshine/70s in two days! So, I've abandoned that whole productive thing and have taken up with a book and iPad at a cafe. I'm imagining that TH gave EO a goodbye shag last night and has already landed in NYC. I'm sure he'll be strolling by any moment now. He'll stop for a coffee, there won't be any tables except for mine, I'll invite him to sit, we'll fall in love and end up on a date tonight (I've brought my purse for just such an occasion)!
When the book gets boring, I read gossip sites. This was on Dlisted. Oh, Michael K, you complete me! This article makes me want the above scenario to happen with MK, not TH!
Perhaps the most extraordinary news to me of the whole day. Tom has a stylist. To put together this - https://www.instagram.com/p/BDTf_d4yqJ0/
How crap is he at shopping?
>>738 My thought equation on that one goes: male stars with stylists = some people have too much money.
Lainey talking truth to power about our boy and Bond http://www.laineygossip.com/Tom-Hiddleston-yodels-and-talks-about-possibly-playing-James-Bond-on-Kimmel-while-promoting-I-Saw-The-Light/43413
>>739 That is a good spot. I am super impressed. It is like one of those tumblr photos entitled "my cat is in this picture - can you see it?"
I did think he was wearing pants under the blue suit because it was riding quite high instead of escaping down his trouser leg like usual. Do we think the stylist bought them?
>>737 Oh I see what you mean. He wasn't quite doing it in the photo you linked to as the hand was at half mast. My personal bugbear is that he never takes his hands out of his pockets.
>>740 As for the stylist.....I couldn't agree more. Who would admit to having "styled" the most boring outfit on God's earth?
And mysteriously she claims to have "styled" the blue suit - which I have just realised is the blue suit from the night manager (same colour, stitching, pocket placement, length of jacket, the lot). Do we really now "style" people to put on clothes they already own?
>>744 Heart eyes! (Again). You're on fire lately, anonsy.
Another funny article about how our favourite eager puppy runs in circles and then piddles whenever someone mentions Bond: http://www.vox.com/2016/3/23/11290654/hiddleston-kimmel-james-bond
He tweeted a pic of himself with Bernie Saunders. I don't know why this makes me cringe but it does.
https://mobile.twitter(.)com/twhiddleston/status/712435605007769600
>>737 That thinking man pose makes me want to hammer him into a cube. No. No. No. No. No!
I can only assume that as a creature of habit he was once told by someone he respected that it looked great so he's doing it all the time forever more. I noticed it's creeping into his acting in TNM. He did it on the scene in the plane and I cringed so hard I created a permanent wrinkle.
>>743 The hands in pockets is a deliberate ploy to smooth out and detract from Little Hiddles. It also solves the issue of what to do with his hands and I'm always grateful when he's not doing the thinking man.
>>747 Preach! Preach! Heart eyes, Anonon, major heart eyes. (Is that your first official heart eyes?)
Twitter is alive with the Sounds of Denial... http://www.eonline.com/videos/247064/elizabeth-olsen-and-tom-hiddleston-talk-romance-rumors
Yeah, okay, the thing is, we've been here before - at about the middle of Thread 5.
>>746 I think he would have tweeted a pic with whomever the other guest was. But maybe it marks him as a 'man of the people' and not a 'man of Eton' if he's seen with a liberal politician.
Or maybe it's his Jeremy Corbyn love coming through. Bernie's the American Corbyn, or Corbyn's the British Bernie - take your pick.
