Thread to talk about the actor Tom Hiddleston
>>698 Though Couch is right, he is the most naked and badly shot of the men. There is a guy in there wearing sweatpants and a vest, for god's sake. They aren't all standing there showing off their dick prints, like the fans would have us believe, so TH still looks by far the most idiotic. He and Paulson are duking it out for thirstiest nekkid person. I didn't need to see her titties either.
>>700 I am surprised the list said "Tom Hiddleston, Crimson Peak" and not "Tom Hiddleston, boyfriend of Taylor Swift."
Seriously, he gets this because of Avengers and CP? I don't think he deserves it. He has never been nominated and his last 2 big movies bombed.
Insight - nothing we didn't already know, but it's from a journalist who is not an invested Taylor stan: http://www.eonline.com/news/776646/who-is-taylor-swift-why-her-new-romance-with-tom-hiddleston-has-me-questioning-love
"The far too rapid emergence of Hiddleswift reminds me of a conversation I once had with a top Hollywood power player. ... the bigwig argued ... the more we cover certain celebrities’ private lives, the more we are unable to suspend disbelief when it comes to their professional life.
In this case, the power player is right. I no longer see Tom as the thespian-with-a-double-first- from-Cambridge-University; instead I feel like I’m watching a soufflé collapse.
And I certainly no longer believe Taylor is just like you and me when it comes to love.... On Monday, as Taylor and Tom ... paused so she could wrap her arms around his neck and kiss him, it was all for the cameras.
For the first time, I feel somewhat manipulated. This love story feels disingenuous. I am not saying her feelings for Tom are not real, but the public telling of their romance feels inauthentic.
It makes me wonder if she didn’t actually feel the depth of emotion she told us she experienced through her songs because if she did then how could she be so careless with her ex’s heart… unless Calvin did something particularly terrible."
>>702 CP because it's Del Toro (even if he flops people still recognize his talent) and Avengers because that's his main biggie. Those are the credits but it's also taking into consideration him as an actor and professional. He's schmoozed enough people in the industry that he would've made it through the considerations and all his coworkers have nothing but praise for him.. And honestly before the Taylor fiasco he was respected, High Rise and TNM were his saving graces this year before he decided to wreck it all for the biggest thirst stakes.
Maybe if he had just waited for a little instead of going on a bender with this Taylor thing, this would've been great news. But now it's mixed feelings because of his famewhore ways.
>>701 They should've just stopped at the nice shot of him with his shirt open and maybe lounging in bed or near the window like that like Liev Schreiber. Or lying topless in bed with the covers on his lower half staring at the ceiling like his many pensive Jonathan Pine shots and close ups.
>>704 TNM is tv - which the Academy sets its face against. I do take the point that he is liked and respected (or was) for being a nice down to earth guy and a serious actor. But he needs a hit, doesn't he? I loved HR as you all know but it wasn't a huge box office hit, or an unmitigated critical success. CP foaled badly to make good on its vast marketing budget, ISTL was a stinker of epic proportions and TNM didn't do so well in the US....
>>700 Does anyone care? Will anyone notice?
>>701 I want to see her tits out but only if she is wearing the Marcia Clark wig. ;)
>>702 It's not exactly a Who's Who of HW talent. I mean, Daphne Zuniga from Spaceballs? Dakota Johnson couldn't act her way out of a paper bag.
>>703 There is officially nothing sadder than watching a souffle sink. It happens all the time in my kitchen.
Thinking back, we should have seen this coming with the stylist. We laughed it off then, but it was a frightening portend of things to come. A sad grab for attention using clothes that seemed to fly in the face of his usual style, clothes in which he either looked a tit or looked uncomfortable.
I blame myself. I was there for the Time Talk. I saw that tartan monstrosity close up. I should have recognized the signs of an impending breakdown and done more...more...I let the team down.
>>708 I saw it coming when he said he loved "Fast and Furious" but I didn't think he would takes the change to THIS level.
It's been coming on for a while. Remember the TDW tour when he travelled with the orange makeup lady? And we have had other troubling signs such as taking guitars on planes (how the other passengers in first class must have laughed with delight when they heard they were to be serenaded!). Not to mention all that nudity for feminism.
>>711 If he is the Academy's poster boy for diversity, they are doomed.
If The Night Manager has a second season, Miss Swift will be his Pine girl.
>>712 No, that'd be Idris Elba. Him and John Boyega and Oscar Issac are going get pushed more as the new names in the class.
>>699 http://4-ch.net/img/src/1467244742572.png
And this is why those W mag pics are terrible - in any situation. This face. This face! It's worse than the other faces, which were terrible - but only 'entry level' terrible; these are 'advanced level' terrible.
Little did he know at the time that he was perfectly predicting what his fanbase's collective expression would be at the end of June.
>>715 Is that a manip??? Why would they print that 'I just ate warm fresh poo and I don't know why' face?
Just catching up with the 100 or so posts!
If the plane stopped in London it was surely to drop him off. He has to pack at least two washed outfits for Oz and I can't for the life of me picture him fitting in at her tweenybopper party. The photos would top him dancing at Selena Gomez though so please make it happen.
They just came out and said it: http://pagesix.com/2016/06/28/tom-hiddleston-might-be-using-taylor-swift-to-land-bond-role/?_ga=1.61565868.1843477913.1466463216
'Also a big thank you @twhiddleston for coming along to our costume exhibition. Such a pleasure talking with you about my work. It was unreal'
She did drop him off in London.
Naturally there were no sightings from the airport. TayTo were only seen by paps last time they landed (insert eyeroll)
Is Taylor in London with him? Wimbledon tomorrow??? Will they sit with Camilla? Will Taylor and Camilla fight over the Night Manager?
>>721 According to the Swifty plane trackers (who have yet to be wrong), her jet stopped briefly in London and then headed back for the U.S., so she's probably in Rhode Island inflating her Taymerica bouncy castle for her squad party.
>>716 It is. But doesn't it perfectly sum up that shoot and the fans right about now?!?
>>720 I want my country's greatest holiday to be untainted but I also want them kissing while sliding down an inflatable slide and holding sparklers. Nothing says love like a slide-kiss with sparklers. Hoping she sends the plane back for him. Hoping she sends the plane AND a bodyguard back to make sure he gets on the plane.
>>723 You have obviously never mixed inflatables with pyrotechnics before
>>721 >>722 They probably had a Wimbledon pap stroll planned but then had an audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Il Papa took TayTay aside and said, 'Girl, you need to pump them breaks.' Next thing you know, the plane makes an unscheduled stop in London for TH to deplane and raw cookie dough and ice cream to board.
>>725 I have actually. Sparklers and pool floats don't mix well, but if you're drunk enough, you don't mind the smell of burning plastic!!
Has anyone else noticed that all of the HD images from the dailymail review of their Rome trip that were published today, were also from the same "image direct photo company"' that the Rhode Island kissing pictures were from, as well?
In suspense as to whether he got off the plane in London, or not. Not sure if I can handle TH pics on the Tayamerica water slide. Also confused by the we are not bf and gf yet narrative. So much to be confused about. Yet, he's leading the entertainment news on every channel. Is this a secret stroke of genius?
You'd think he's heading off to work, hence the surgical procedure to separate their hands. But I have a feeling that some of the Swifters on tumblr are going to grumble about Tom 'not supporting TS when she needs him most' - at her pool party. They seem the sort to not understand how real life works: what do you mean he chose a contractually obligated deadline over our Tay? If he really loved her...blah, blah, blah.
>>728 Crazy like a fox? It changed every other day, but today on TV entertainment shows it was back to people in the know saying they believe the two met long (weeks or months) before the pre-MET dinner i.e. TS cheated.
>>728 Most of them have been. I saw the Theoanons tumblr mention that with the concert photos a few weeks (yes, it's only been a few weeks!) back.
I guess it's a company that acts as a clearinghouse for independent paps -negotiating prices and the like. Considering those first shots (now semi-verified? via GC to be staged/sanctioned) were through them, some have wondered at the connection to TS.
>>728 A woman in London thanked him for attending her costume exhibition a couple hours ago (thanks Anonon >>720, no idea how you managed to wade through his tag on Twitter to find that). She apparently had a full conversation with him, so it was most definitely him and not one of those mistaken identity sightings. So he did get off the plane.
>>729 I can't handle tumblr anymore. Too much terrible logic, too much insanity, too much immaturity. It's not worth it for me personally to sift through all of that just for the handful of blogs that make some sense - especially since even those are being inundated with crazy anon messages now.
Tom due to arrive in Oz on the 1st
>733 How have we managed to avoid the cray crays here? I can't help noticing posts from this blog doubling up in other tumblrs so there's a lot of cross reading and mutual lurking. There's only three tumblrs I glance at now who have maintained the snark
>>733 Someone mentioned on the Theoanons that a good number of Swifters were 'invading' the usual TH tumblr places. She said she'd had to deal with them too but that she could smell them a mile off as they stunk of apologists!!
They seem to have a swarm like mentality coupled with the maturity and real life experience of 12-year-olds.
>>734 I think the Australia rumor was one of the first ones they put out - something about him giving her an open invitation to visit. The interesting bit of that article is that he's going so soon. No pool party for Tom!
I'm not sure about the tumblr thing. Maybe we're just not cool enough. ;)
>>734 I guess if she's willing to hit up every grey, rocky beach in England for him, she'd be up for a few more beaches in another country - sure, it's winter, but they're less rocky!
I can see her TayTaying her way through the 4th before packing up and letting the powerful magnet in her palm find its mate.
Unless this is true love, I think the worst thing a girl could do would be to travel to a guy at his place of business, doing all the work for him. If this is real, TS flew him round the world on her plane, and now she has the honor of flying herself out to Australia to be at his casual beck and call? TH must have pretty good game. This could turn into the usual scenario where a hookup girl doesn't get the hint that it's a hookup, and she tries to turn a one night stand into a relationship, when really it was only supposed to be a relationship of convenience. Except this version had a five star trip involved. Now I'm kind of worried for TS! I must be spinning. But that breakup would make a pretty good song, if they were bf and gf, which apparently they're not...
>>738 This whole "not boyfriend and girlfriend" thing really has me scratching my head. It's completely incongruous with the narrative they've been attempting to sell us for the last two weeks. Maybe they are unhappy with the way things are going (personally or professionally) and are trying to slowly back out? They can't just say "never mind, everyone is right, this is fake/stupid/whatever and we're calling it quits," so they start slowly dropping little hints like "not boyfriend and girlfriend." Then when they do "break up" in 3-6 weeks, it won't be completely out of the blue - people will think oh, well they were never officially boyfriend and girlfriend anyway, guess it just didn't work out.
>>739 Yeah I think they're getting ready to end it. So they've downgraded from "true love soulmates he's the one!" to "not boyfriend and girlfriend". I wonder why Taylor did this. And why would Tom trot his mom and niece out just for a publicized fling? They could've done it all in London instead of his mom's. The presence of his family for the sake of a big summer fling makes no sense to me.
>>740 I'm sure they weren't anticipating the relationship being so poorly received by the press and the public, so they kept trying to go along with their initial plan of selling it as a whirlwind romance - meeting friends and family, romantic vacation, etc. thinking that eventually everyone would start going along with it. Since that didn't work out they are moving on to plan b, laying the groundwork for an easy end to the relationship.
>>739 - That article was written only after the first pap shoot. I suspect htat after the whole "meet the parents" business, we can safely assume that they are indeed, "boyfriend" and "girlfriend".
>>738 It's Taylor Swift, she seemingly ALWAYS does the worst thing a girl can do in a relationship. I'm not sold on it being a one-night stand or hook-up given the very public and very 'romantic' campaign. One wouldn't think they'd (and it has been a joint TS/TH operation) publicize a hook-up so doggedly.
>>739 That was from UsWeekly, right? I think that was their storyline in previous print articles, that it was casual (it sounded so much like the EO story last year) and they were just seeing each other and getting to know each other (even though that was ridonk given the past few days). Online, I think they've just sorta reported on it all without all the gushy, lovey-dovey of other publications. Am I not remembering correctly? It's a blur.
I thought it was People, ENews, and GC selling the true romance/he's The One line.
Also, does she use UsWeekly as a quasi-official mouthpiece like she does with People and GC?
I could be wrong (couldn't we all with this unpredictable crap), but I don't think they're through - not with each other, not with us, not with the PR. I don't even think they want to parachute out. They may be enjoying it, they may just be slogging through with moments of enjoyment, whatever the case, they seem invested.
>>743 It is a blur. I can't keep anything straight anymore. Perhaps it's just wishful thinking on my part that this is on the way out, but even if it is, they can't just abruptly cut it off after the events of the past two weeks. So yes, you're correct, we are in this for weeks - maybe months - longer, regardless of whether or not they've decided what course the relationship is going to take.
I think this is a short toothbrush break due to necessity. She has her serious hedonistic pursuits and he has his serious werk. The fat lady isn't singing yet
>>743 They're starting the rollout and laying the ground work for the breakup. It'll probably happen sometime in Australia. Mid to end of July, maybe early August. To put things like "not boyfriend and girlfriend" isn't a mistake. It's deliberate. I'm also seeing "rumored romance" thrown around as their tour is recapped. So it's on the horizon and it'll be soon. I don't think we'll be seeing too many new paps of them, not at the past 14 days level.
I think they thought they would get the big happy response. They didn't anticipate everyone including the tabloids calling them out. It's not worth the effort to keep up appearances anymore so they'll gradually taper out from the public eye and then issue something work related broke them up or something.
>>744 >>745 >>746 The break may be because her private pap has called off with exhaustion! They're wearing the private snappy-snap out!
The boyfriend/girlfriend thing is from UsWeekly; they've never gushed about love and fairytale romance. They've been fairly neutral, surprisingly. If People starts to dial this relationship back, then I'll start to believe that there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
>>745 I feel like the lady isn't even fat yet! She's only just started her vocal lessons and gone off her diet. That's how far out we are. I hope I'm wrong, I suspect I'm not.
>>748 Wouldn't it be amazing if it timed perfectly with your gestation. You could be the phantom hiddlespawn
I go to sleep for 8 hours and I wake up to find the hostage has been let off the plane!
Why didn't he take her to the show at RADA? I wanted pictures of her looking bored and holding his hand in a vice-like grip!
Tumblr has gone nuts. My fave blogs have mostly not commented but have gone dark, or are posting a few pics without comment. There's some snark (my dash this morning was asking how this helpless victim of the paparazzi managed to land in England without being photographed) but there is also a lot of stanning from some other regular TH blogs along the lines of how dare anyone find it odd that he says one thing and a month later does down thing quite opposite. A lot of shrieking of get out of the fandom from our favourite Stan who asked the crazy question in that q@a in Berlin. Good luck Tom - a few more months of this and she'll be the only one left.
Just one thought re photo agencies - some of what I thought were fan pics are now on the DM as being from an agency. Agencies do steal photos off Twitter etc - I know this because a friend of mine's child died a couple of years ago and the circumstances made it into the DM. All their FB photos suddenly appeared in the DM with "copyright Rex" across the bottom. They had to take legal action to make the agency stop selling their family pics as its own.
>>703 a sinking souffle! Beautiful!
>>750 Yeah, me too, RADA, he went to a safe place in incognito, and no photos! WTF!
I think most of his fangirls are hoping for this to go away soon, so they can dismiss it as a summer fling, a momentary craziness and go back believing whatever bs TH will start selling again, pretending he never pimped out his family for PR. Thing is, his fangirls might go for it, but media and others not so much.
>>751 yeah same here. Although I mainly use mine for film and vintage Hollywood stuff, but the Hiddleston side had gone very quiet. Those that remain are very divided. It's all quite Brexit actually.
>>753 I think you're right Couch and I get the feeling they're going to be quite disappointed on that front. I feel this has only just begun, far from over yet.
If he has to be in OZ on the 1st, he either left right after that RADA exhibition or early today. No Wimbledon this year, surprise surprise.
I hope I'm not reposting something, I'm losing track. It's an estimation of how much the Whirlwind-Totay-Tour might have cost with some snark. I think it might actually be a bit higher than that.
>>756 I'm not sure how accurate that report is. I'm still holding out hope for some Wimbledon Tom and some lovely snark on his companion, or lack of.
https://twitter.
com/kinseyschofield/status/748408682673741824
'Taylor Swift & Tom Hiddleston make me miss Ted Cruz & Heidi.'
>>753 The media won't let him forget it. Jake Gyllenhaal still gets questions about Taylor and why he didn't marry her lol One thing though TH can't ever use his privacy and discretion line now without getting a good deal of side eye.
I'm still in shock that we went a whole day without new pics. It's giving me separation anxiety. Beach pics in Australia though. They like beaches and holding hands there. Will the Hemsworths and their babies join the photoshoot this time?
>>759 LOL! We'll always have Rome and the Colosseum.
>>760 Maybe we'll finally get to see the Conda in speedos (trying to look on the bright side).
>>763 NO PLEASE! Not speedos. That is not a bright side.
I think TayTo will go dark for a short while while their PR teams take more mushrooms to come up with a better idea
>>758 he only goes to see Federer or Murray, maybe Djokovich, so he doesn't have many options.
>>759 SNAP!
>>760 Double date, certainly, at the Hemsworths. Please Ruffalo don't stoop down to that level, please! - Jake was considerably younger than TH when it happened, late twenties, and people still gave TS the benefit of the doubt.
>>765 TayTo and her team are all on a Skype conference call right now trying to figure out the next move. Luke is there but he's on mute because as Taylor said, "Luke I feel like your vision is not in line with mi- ours. How about you listen to the brainstorming today and it'll help you with feedback at the next meeting, hmm?"
>>767 Ok correction:
ALL PARTIES involved in this recent fiasco are to take a hefty dose of mushrooms and reflect on the past fortnight.
Imagine tripping with Swifty. I bet she'd go all single white female psycho then wallow in a pool of self pity over her father not loving her enough and you'd have to lock her in a room for your own safety
>>769 Yeah, it was excellent. More of that kind of thing required!
>>770 She's a baking girl. You know she'd bring brownies to the meeting ;)
Oh jeez I'd rather not. I don't even think she'd make a fun drunk, simply because she's too much in control and wound up tight to go beyond a little flush in the cheek tipsy.
>>772 She'd be that bitch that says 'you look nice' while her face says 'you're ruining my selfies'
https://twitter.
com/sherrifflucy/status/748427150336864258
Buzzfeed journo burn.
I almost feel bad for enjoying this.
I just hope these burns don't incite or invite actual hate towards Tom Hiddleston. I just read on tumblr that some part of the Hiddlestoners are planning to boo Tom at comic con and make him sign a photo then tear it up in his face and some even want to kick him...
????!!!???!!??
What is wrong with these people? No wonder Taylor Swift travels with bodyguards. Jeez...
>>776 I saw some of those posts a few days ago and got the impression that they were mostly joking around. The only semi-serious one I saw was a post encouraging people not to fawn over Tom at Comic Con and to direct questions to his costars instead.
>>776 >>777 Tumblr is extra as usual. I hope there will be no dramatic tearing up of Loki posters or, God forbid, kicking or shoving (??!! I hope it was a joke).
Although it would be interesting if the reaction to him was more or less reserved instead of the usual head over heels excitement.
Lol
https://twitter.
com/vibe89/status/748418117634785280
>>779 That's the thing with tumblr. When they say stuff like that I can never tell if they're just kidding around or scheming.
We'll still get head over heels excitement. Swifties have become his fans too. Maybe they'll all go to support Taylor's boyfriend.
>>780 True, even if a few juvenile tumblrites go through with this booing thing, there will be hundreds of other people who will cheer, so it's probably going to be all right.
>>751 Yeah. Get out of the fandom so I can have him to my unstable self.
>>749 before the madness post-RI, I wondered here if it would outlast my gestation. A few weeks on, I think baby will make an appearance before the end of TayTo. They just seem too invested not to keep this going.
With my luck they'll end it just as I go into labor and I'll have to watch the tumblr Swifters collapse in on themselves between contractions.
>>783 If that happens, you must name the child TayTo. It will be a sign from the heavens.
>>781 and even if that happens TH will play victim, doing puppy eyes and saying that people always mock him for his passion. I'm starting to think that we might not get another photo Totay until after SDCC, creating enough doubt to make his fangirls think it might be over. And then after SDCC, there'll be more.
>>786 'I've come back to you and the work, my dear fans! Your love for me has helped me escape that evil succubus.' Public event passes. 'Haha, got you! Enjoy some more TayTo beach shots!'
I wouldn't have though it possible before but that was before.
>>786 They would be fools to keep parading and pap walking so obviously they will continue to do so.
>>783 >>785 Aww little TayTo. I love that we will be constantly up to date on the couples progression through your gestation. I assume you've been nauseous of late, especially in public. Let us know when they start kicking.
>>785 I often buy Tayto crisps from the British market, so my husband would think I'd lost the plot and wanted to name the child after potato chips.
'Hiddleston...is working extra hard to get the part.' Tell me about it!
>>788 No nausea, but I now insist that my husband hold my hand everywhere and publicly display affection by touching my bump as often as possible before throwing his head back and laughing maniacally. Strangely I'm also now able to spot a camera a 100 feet away and smile smugly for it.
The power of a gestation running concurrently with TayTo!
>>791 LOL does TS have also a personal gym on that private jet of hers, or the heavy lifting is her?
>>792 hahaha Tayto's love taught us all the secret ways to true romance and an education in camera spotting.
>>791 This seems to be a positive spin on the usual 'so and so is getting fat' article. Both of them appear to be a little bit porkier rather than uber buff. Lets face it, they've been living on a steady diet of pizza, pasta and swan pastries for nearly a month.
They haven't even disappeared off the radar for long enough to have epic weight- loss sex marathons.
I bet he won't be able to fit into his Loki costume.
Today is Thursday, but instead of a traditional #tbt I thought about a ThrowBackTom, and in honour of the abusive use of private jet:
TH joining Vivienne Westwood and Greenpeace to campaign against climate change for the Save The Arctic campaign from 2 years ago, back when he was chummy with ELLEUK fangirls
http://www.elleuk.com/life-and-culture/news/a23089/tom-hiddleston-saves-the-world-greenpeace-vivienne-westwood-climate-arctic/?zoomable
https://twitter.
com/eiffeltyler/status/748495813505056768
Yes I was wondering what was going on under that tablecloth too...
'computer, enhance quadrant 17'
>>797 I must be missing something, it doesn't look like anything to me? >.< Even with the zoomed version. What am I being blind on?
>>798 I can't see anything either. Is he hiding an enormous boner or something?
I thought this article was fascinating: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/06/30/taylor-swift-and-tom-hiddlestons-parade-of-love-is-a-gold-mine-for-paparazzi-a-dream-scenario/
The best part for photographers and agencies, besides the money? All the photos have been fairly simple to obtain. When Swift met Hiddleston’s mother in the small seaside town of Ipswich, England, the couple didn’t appear to mind that photographers were following them around on the beach.
“It’s only as easy as [the celebrities] allow it to be,” Ken Goff of Goff Photos said, explaining the challenges of photographing stars. “Because if they had gone there and stayed in the house and not come out, that’s as hard as it can be. So really, whether it’s in a small town or village or in a major city, it can be difficult anywhere or easy anywhere. It just depends on the subject and how much they don’t want to be photographed.”
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None of the agencies would confirm exactly how they find out where Hiddleswift will be next — the Image Direct, which first snapped the photos of the couple making out on the Rhode Island beach, declined to comment.
