Tom Hiddleston 12 (1000)

1 Name: Anon. : 2016-07-26 12:59 ID:1Gv7ebAj

Thread to talk about the actor Tom Hiddleston

651 Name: anonsy : 2016-08-10 18:42 ID:jk4W5Vi7

>>640 Oh I missed this when I caught up!

I'm going with either 2 (but the pictures will look suspiciously like they were taken weeks ago) or 3 (Tom will try too hard to look happy and end up looking crazed).

652 Name: Savvy : 2016-08-10 18:46 ID:u9o1B1E5

Mark Ruffalo is the first of his friends/co-workers to follow him on Instagram. Robert DJ posted that not so innocent shady post but did not follow him. Interesting, hum?

653 Name: anonsy : 2016-08-10 19:03 ID:jk4W5Vi7

>>652 That is interesting. I'm sure it means something, but I can't decide what.

654 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-10 19:15 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>638 I wonder if he has garment bags folded up inside those suitcases. He seems the type to keep his suits in garment bags. When folded into three, they take up a fair amount of room.

Or maybe they are full of Tay's favorite treats from Oz, awww!! (Did I just write People's next article?)

655 Name: anonsy : 2016-08-10 19:17 ID:jk4W5Vi7

>>654 Why on earth did he take all those bags for a week and a half long trip? If he's traveling with suits for his appearances this weekend in those bags, why did he bring them to Oz? Why on earth didn't he just leave them at his "girlfriend's" place?

Guess he didn't want to pay for a room at the Four Seasons just to leave his suits there for a week.

656 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-08-10 19:18 ID:YBjr16P/

>>654 Ew. 😝

657 Name: Savvy : 2016-08-10 19:44 ID:u9o1B1E5

When he came from London, he only brought one suitcase (the one he's been using for years). But the last time he travelled he has 3 brand new suitcases (from the same brand, according to Hiddles Fashion) instead of his old suitcase.I bet he got some complimentary new clothes from the brand that sponsored their last pap dinner and probably a few others. Even the suitcases are probably a gift.

658 Name: NewAnon : 2016-08-10 20:18 ID:41I9V1sS

Her jet is on the move y'all. Landed in NYC. We're getting a pap stroll tonight. Is pap strolls with her part of his Emmy campaign?

659 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-08-10 21:42 ID:yJpq0A3q

"demonic bean sprout"

http://dlisted.com/2016/08/10/tom-hiddlestons-bond-dreams-are-probably-dead/

the comments are golden as usual

660 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-10 21:43 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>658 I hope at least that it's an entertaining pap walk.The last one was so downmarket. A chain restaurant, a velvet mini, sponsored tweets afterwards and an article that was released a hot minute after they pulled up to the curb.

Do better, Tayto.

661 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-08-10 23:03 ID:yJpq0A3q

>>631 Justin Theroux married Jennifer Aniston last year. He's an actor and director in his own right.

662 Name: Anon : 2016-08-10 23:19 ID:HnBAvsLN

>>633 What is this no t shirt under your jumper, Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct, free the nipple bullshit?

663 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-11 00:47 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>662 He's got to be sessy. Mucho, mucho sessy. (None of that is actual Spanish)

>>661 But he's really just Mr. Aniston. Yet he's making it work for him. Maybe TH can come to the same arrangement.

>>659 The pic MK used was perfect. I'm assuming that he typed 'sad Tom Hiddleston' into Google images. It has the highest hits after 'regretful Hiddleston' and 'WTF Hiddleston?'

664 Name: Sosorry : 2016-08-11 01:16 ID:I4dpY8ws

>>658 Okay, fun fact. If you search the Teterboro airport flight plans, there are no scheduled flights departing for CA either today or tomorrow. So, I'm assuming that TS might not head out to CA till this weekend, since TH has a Night Manager SAG Q and A on Friday night. I think that you have to file a flight plan to fly. So maybe no pap walks till Sat or Sunday.

Also, the www.inquistr.com website, gossip of course, suggests in their new write-up of the romance that TH and TS are actually on a "break from the relationship". Wow. Dark. Going in for the kill a bit early.

665 Name: anonsy : 2016-08-11 01:29 ID:jk4W5Vi7

>>662 This is the second time he's been papped in that sweater, and you could see through it both times. He must be doing it on purpose. He wants us to see his nipples. "Hello darlings, remember these? Follow me on Instagram!"

>>664 Where do you go to see flight plans?

666 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-11 01:36 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>665 Flight plans need to be filed but should not be public for private planes.
Maybe FAA regs have changed since I had cause to know this. Either way, legal or illegal, her fans will find out.

667 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-11 01:38 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>665 Do his nipples have a twitter or IG account yet....um, just stepping away from the board for a moment to...do something...defo not register a new twitter account or IG account...no, not that.

668 Name: anonsy : 2016-08-11 01:41 ID:jk4W5Vi7

>>667 Might I suggest @hiddlenips as a username? Not that you're going to actually do it... just... joking. Yes. Ha! Ha ha!

669 Name: NewAnon : 2016-08-11 02:04 ID:1R0DkkPA

>>665 Taylor makes him wear her silicone pads next time he wears that sweater because no one should be seeing his nips except her.

>>664 This is Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston. We're worrying about flight plans and she's probably already here. I don't put anything past her or his thirst for attention.

670 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-08-11 05:06 ID:yJpq0A3q

From the DListed comments: Someone finally put to paper how much money this relationship has cost him in $$$$$.

$20 Mil per movie (lets say 3 - 4, or less for even more money)
up to $10Mil for the Armani gig

TH has potentially blown $70 - $100Mil plus whatever other doors the role would open.

Such a damn shame.

671 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-08-11 07:18 ID:Heaven

>>652 No, it's not interesting and it doesn't mean much. When RDJ first joined twitter TH welcomed him but RDJ didn't follow him back right away. Everyone wondered about it then after a few days RDJ followed him back. The same will probably happen here.

Anyway RDJ posted this https://www.instagram.com/p/BI8ek-1gQsR

Which I suppose was to mitigate the reactions to his previous post. And Ruffalo posted this https://www.instagram.com/p/BI78e3ZBnin/

I'm guessing they are trying to be supportive (of what I wonder, it's not like TH was a victim of anything, I'm so bloody tired of people depicting like an innocent victim)

672 Name: anonsy : 2016-08-11 07:49 ID:jk4W5Vi7

>>671 I did think it was a little odd for RDJ to tag Tom in a post without following him. He's followed now, though.

It seems to me that Marvel is doing more social media promo for Thor, and I'd bet they were the reason for Tom's Instagram debut. Mark Ruffalo and Chris Hemsworth have both been sharing behind the scenes videos and photos. Tom's first photo was of Loki. I think it's not so much that they're being supportive of Tom as that they're promoting his account for professional reasons - RDJ by poking fun, Ruffalo by sharing that little clip of the two of them that's been very popular on tumblr.

673 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-08-11 07:53 ID:Heaven

>>672 You have a point - although I do not think that RDJ first post was about Marvel but about making fun.

It would have made more sense for TH to start this account while he was still on set and not now that he is in LA for his Emmy. I suppose we'll have to see, if he uses this account only for Marvel or for work in general.

674 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-11 17:44 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>670 No way he's getting $20m per movie. CH was getting only $12m before his stock fell with a string of flops. I think TH makes well under $2-3m for his films. Maybe with the Marvel films he gets to the $5m mark but even that may not be the case. I don't know if we can place a monetary value on what he's lost. It's all too much in the realm of possibility and the unknown. He has, however, lost some serious actor cred, a fair share of his dignity and perhaps set his career off on a track not to his liking. And he's certainly opened himself up to ridicule.

675 Name: Anon : 2016-08-11 18:11 ID:HnBAvsLN

>>674

I think we can vaguely peg his Marvel earnings to what he paid for the house. It was marketed for £2.75m in Feb 2012 and he bought it for I think a little less than that. That is a fairly hefty mortgage for a single jobbing actor - assuming a £2m mortgage you are talking about £12,000 a month.

The job is not exactly secure, and the money may be a lot in one year and not much for a couple of years thereafter, if you're doing theatre work and what have you - so it's not very easy to service a £12k a month debt. I therefore assumed that he had already banked enough for the deposit and knew from his Marvel contract that he would be able to pay off the rest once he had done all the Marvel films, or at least get it down to a feasible level (say £500k, which sadly in London is the mortgage on a 2 bedroom flat). So his net Marvel earnings after everything else - tax, agents' fees, expenses - would have to be at least £3m. Say £2.25m for the deposit and paying off a big chunk of the equity, plus £750k to live on over 7 or 8 years (2010-17).

I reckon as a self employed person that you take home about 50% of what you earn when you take into account tax and deductible expenses. Maybe a bit less than 50% as you earn more - or maybe a bit more if the income is smoothed through tax efficiency. But £6m overall sounds about right to me. Maybe £750k for Thor as he was an unknown, then £1.-1.5m for Avengers and each of Thor 2 and 3.

676 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-11 18:34 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>675 This could be on the money - so to speak. Don't forget that he had a flat in Kentish Town that he sold after 3 years (I think) which could have made him a tidy profit. Rumor (grain of salt) is that his maternal grandfather's trust fund/legacy allowed the purchase of that property outright. That rumor stems from the fact that his younger sister - who hasn't done a lot of work and perhaps hasn't earned a lot of money from her acting - bought a flat in Hampstead at the same time, i.e., they both came into some serious cash around the same time.

677 Name: Anon : 2016-08-11 18:38 ID:HnBAvsLN

>>676 I think he did quite well on the flat. It was in an area that was going up a lot at the time. I assumed that the money for that purchase came from his father, who is easily rich enough to buy them each a flat if he could pay the fees for Eton. PS I think the sister's flat was also in Kentish Town.

678 Name: Anon : 2016-08-11 18:59 ID:HnBAvsLN

>>676 Also I do wonder about the fabled Vestry wealth. In a radio interview earlier this year (the one with a lot about his early life) he referred to his maternal grandfather taking him out at Christmas to the panto with all of the grandchildren from that side. The impression was that there were at least 10. That inheritance (which I think wasn't even from the main branch of the Vestry family) would have had to stretch a long way to give all those grandchildren enough to buy a flat in London.

679 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-08-11 19:15 ID:yJpq0A3q

>>674 >>675 >>676 Sorry guys I was not referring to his current salary - I meant if he had a chance to get Bond, they'd probably pay up to $20M per movie. Is that not about what Daniel Craig is earning?

680 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-11 19:17 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>678 Oh I don't think it's Vesty wealth. Those connections are always overemphasized when mentioned. A baronetcy built on canned meat? Please come back with something impressive.

But his mother's side does seem to be populated with the types that tend to be monied and keep the money ticking over from one generation to the next. The father is another possibility.

681 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-11 19:19 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>679 I think Craig might be getting more! That's how cuckoo Hollywood is.

682 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-08-11 19:19 ID:yJpq0A3q

>>674 But yes Anon. all of your points about loss, agreed.

683 Name: Anon : 2016-08-11 19:20 ID:HnBAvsLN

>>680 The canned meat heir - very Henry James, no?

Even if it wasn't from the Vestry family, the jam would still have had to spread a long way between all the grandchildren, so I think the father is a more likely source than a big inheritance.

684 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-08-11 19:38 ID:yJpq0A3q

>>683 Wish I could dig up the reference - someone quoted Tom's mother saying the Vesty wealth is no more (there is none, I think she said). So I'm guess the bulk of the wealth was probably distributed to his mother's parents' generation (between WWI and WWII), and whatever was left trickled down from there. I agree the trust fund came from his dad.

685 Name: Savvy : 2016-08-11 19:47 ID:BWDCPccq

According to this o obituary, his maternal grandfather wasn't rich. He retired in 1980 and spent most of his time in the South of Portugal (the Algarve) where he had a house. I think Tom mentioned in some interviews the happy memories of his summer holidays in Portugal with his sisters. He died in January 1999. So if there's an inheritance, it should be in 1999.

686 Name: Savvy : 2016-08-11 19:49 ID:BWDCPccq

687 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-11 19:58 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>683 But jam spreads so well on basic, white bread.

>>684 I'm sure the main branch has still got some sweet, sweet canned meat money, but as Anon said, he's a few trees over from that branch.

>>685 Thanks for this; I don't think I've seen this before. Inheritances can be delayed. My husband only recently received his from a great-uncle. There was an age restriction on it. Navel officer, business manager, a house here and there - he sounds fairly well off but perhaps not 'rich' as you say.

688 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-11 19:59 ID:1Gv7ebAj

And now to important matters! Where is her plane!!

689 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-08-11 20:14 ID:yJpq0A3q

>>685 Ooo yes Saavy great info !

690 Name: anonsy : 2016-08-11 22:19 ID:jk4W5Vi7

According to her Instagram, TS is with her parents at what people are saying looks like her Rhode Island house.

691 Name: Anon : 2016-08-11 22:21 ID:HnBAvsLN

>>690 Did she delete something? I just looked and the last pic she posted is of her and Karlie.

692 Name: anonsy : 2016-08-11 22:25 ID:jk4W5Vi7

>>691 It's on her Instagram Story. It's a new thing, apparently.

693 Name: Anon : 2016-08-11 22:49 ID:HnBAvsLN

>>692 Yhanks. I am too old for this, evidently.

694 Name: Anonon : 2016-08-12 01:36 ID:dqYXAy71

The Variety interview is worth a watch- love Jenelle
TH manages to endear himself again.
I must say, the tension in his body when bracing for audience questions is palpable.
https://www.facebook.com/Variety/

Here's her snapchat of TH as a dog with the thirstiest tongue you've ever seen:

https://twitter.
com/jenelleriley/status/763907876867878912

695 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-08-12 03:32 ID:yJpq0A3q

>>694 She's been so friendly to him before, the tension was unneccessary with her. Did they not talk about what's off limits beforehand?

Anyway, great interview compared to the LA Times interview, she seemed less experienced.

696 Name: Anonon : 2016-08-12 04:29 ID:dqYXAy71

>>695 The LA Times interview was terrible. She had the high pitched squeal of a nervous teenager out on a first date.
He must've had a few colonics with his emergency face tightening session to try and ease the tension.
"Loosen the arse and tighten the face please"

697 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-08-12 06:45 ID:Heaven

>>693 you can watch it here http://tswiftdaily.com/post/148810284467/taylors-instagram-story-81116

It doesn't seem her RI house to me, her house is right on the beach and there aren't that many trees around but most of all too many roofs of other houses.
http://www.seher.no/sites/seher.no/files/styles/node_blowup/public/images/article/01/2.02189313.jpg?itok=Gnl4z-A-

698 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-08-12 06:50 ID:Heaven

A little video courtesy of Torrilla
http://tw.weibo.com/torilla/4007590494979950

I think I can almost officially say I'm no longer a fan, I watched this and was slightly annoyed.

699 Name: anonsy : 2016-08-12 06:52 ID:jk4W5Vi7

>>697 If you pause it about 2 seconds in you can see her neighbor's house - black pointed roof, brick chimney. The video is flipped because she took it with the selfie camera, but it's definitely her RI house.

700 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-08-12 07:06 ID:Heaven

>>699 Hmm, don't know those roofs are too close - I'd so much prefer it if she were in LA, much more fun.

701 Name: Anonon : 2016-08-12 07:12 ID:0PIcPF8N

>>698 What the...very annoyed!
Mostly because it's such obvious advertising for IG it appears they are sponsoring him now as well.
Is that why he has suddenly opened an account and is taking part in a pointless, dull product placement video?
He's becoming a walking talking advert.
Need I mention Tay is also strongly aligned with the app...

702 Name: anonsy : 2016-08-12 07:16 ID:jk4W5Vi7

>>700 At 4 seconds in when she's filming her dad, you can see the tiny chimney of the white house behind hers. I think the roofs just look close because of the selfie camera distortion or because they're on the ground level, but she definitely filmed that video on the non-beach side of her house in RI.

Plus, if you want real fun, look at it this way: every day she's not in LA is one day closer to a potential Hiddleswiffie meltdown. Can you imagine if he goes back to Oz without doing a pap stroll? Chaos!

703 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-08-12 11:48 ID:Heaven

Variety interview:
- Arms up arms down, buddy nobody cares! (TH was asking staff where he should keep his arms, in the official Variety video this part is missing, I watched but Torrilla's has it)
- Cinema, he hasn't locked anything = he wasn't cast
- Theatre, he has ideas = he doesn't know if he'll be allowed
- He has plans he can't talk about = it sound bad to say you have nothing
- Instagram, he wanted to for a while = yeah right
- From minute 25:44, good job Jenelle!

LA Time Talk:
Nothing much, but thumb up to the interviewer for asking about the jellyfish (though told by TH didn't sound half as fun) and RDJ's welcome to instagram.

On the whole though both interview were sort of underwhelming because they mainly repeated material from the spring press tour. I do have a question though, how does this help with the Emmy?

704 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-08-12 11:54 ID:Heaven

>>702 That's a fair point, but right now I'd rather see TH's apologists gnashing their teeth because there's video/photo evidence they are still together (reading CB would do that to your brain).

705 Name: Anon : 2016-08-12 16:03 ID:u1EB0/kp

Well, he is following TS on his instagram, so I guess it is "Instagram official". She wasn't the first person he followed though.

706 Name: Sosorry : 2016-08-12 16:16 ID:I4dpY8ws

>>705 It would have looked odd if he hadn't, since TS is still following her ex, CH. The only way TH could have gotten away with it would be if he hadn't followed anyone. Plus, have you seen the newest TS article on the dailymail about her gardening? Its the first interview without a single pic of TH, and with them as a happy couple during pap walks! And, almost all of the comments are negative and are about TS's lifestyle and persona being completely fake! TH is TS's human shield against negative press right now. I think that they're starting to phase down, but I just can't see the timeline clearly.

707 Name: Savvy : 2016-08-12 16:22 ID:MOhfeMiz

>>705 TS was the first person he followed. You can confirm that on a web browser. But on the mobile app they appear alphabetically (not by name but by username). But she still hasn't followed him back. She's too busy gardening.

708 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-12 16:23 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>705 I'm so not wit' it. I thought IG official was when they posted pics of each other but maybe a follow is the new 'IG official' and a pic is 'IG official-official'

Whatever the case, I personally think pics are forthcoming. I think this follow may be a response to all the 'they haven't followed each other on IG so maybe it's over!!' comments on gossip pages/twitter/IG. You can't tell me that they haven't got their beady eyes on all the goss; they do. So a follow is just another way to say, 'pap stroll countdown initiated.'

I haven't seen him in a suit so those bags at the airport may indicate a longer stay. Perhaps he heads out to her in RI >>699 and they do some gardening together (that would be perfect for IG official-official). Maybe it's time for another frolic in the surf, this time with a new t-shirt: 'No, I really, authentically <3 T.S. and not Tony Stark at all, but Taylor Swift with whom I am very happy.' That's a lot for a t-shirt but anything to add legitimacy. They may take a second go at the piggy-back ride; the last one was such an utter fail and they may want to go the piggy-back ride = true love route.

709 Name: Anon : 2016-08-12 16:35 ID:u1EB0/kp

>>708 I think for the timeline there have to be pics. Someone on CB who listened to the whole Variety interview said that he said he was going back to Aus soon, that he might not be at the Emmys and that he would be filming till November. Marvel was "working on" letting him come back again for the Emmys.

I think this means:

1) there has to be a pic now or people will say it was the fastest fake in the west.

2) Sosorry is right and there will be a wind down - chronology as yet unclear.

When he goes back to Aus he really will be working, and she will also be working on her next album which people are saying is likely to be in the spring. Doesn't sound like she would see him much if she travels out there - but she probably has no time anyway.

If it's fake then it's going to be "our busy schedules". If it's real - I don't buy this one lasting a 3 month separation, for all sorts of reasons.

710 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-12 16:42 ID:1Gv7ebAj

https://www.instagram.com/p/BJAv2ohB2SF

This about sums up TH for me at this moment. And I don't know what to make of it.

Does he know that he's fucked his serious actor cred two ways to Sunday so he's going to abandon that and instead - just temporarily? - pander to the lowest common denominator and shallows of society (IG, pop culture, meaningless lip-service, canned answers, media and social media manipulation)?

Does he think that once he's recaptured some of his fanbase or acquired a shiny, new one with these antics that he can then easily transition back to his 'I might be the next Olivier' mood? Because once you've Snapchatted yourself into a puppy dog - complete with an appropriately thirsty tongue (credit: Anonon!) - the transition back seems very troublesome from my perspective.

711 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-12 16:45 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>709 I had a girlfriend that used to call her boyfriend (now ex!!) 'The Fastest Fuck in the West.' TH might qualify for both of those titles.

712 Name: Anon : 2016-08-12 16:47 ID:u1EB0/kp

>>711 A year ago when we found the kitchen door tweets you were defending him from my accusation of being a 3 minuter!!

713 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-12 16:51 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>712 Whoa, whoa, whoa!! I was defending him from the tweets' two minute accusations! ;) Enthusiasm gets you to 5 minutes at the very least

Those tweets make me think this is the reason why he didn't take her to his place. Although the chances of these two screwing up against a kitchen door are slim to none.

714 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-12 16:52 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>713 Whenever I say or type 'whoa' I'm always reminded of Alan Partridge telling his Russian girlfriend, 'That's English for "stop a horse."'

715 Name: Anon : 2016-08-12 16:55 ID:u1EB0/kp

>>713 He didn't take her to his place because it is a slummy man cave still furnished with the stuff he bought from the vendor.

716 Name: Anon : 2016-08-12 17:01 ID:u1EB0/kp

>>710 I don't know what he is doing. I really no longer have any idea. But as Couch said a few posts ago, having bravely waded through the Variety interview, he has nothing on after TR finishes filming. I think we are back to 2013 levels of circus bear.

717 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-12 17:07 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>715 Also there aren't enough rooms for their separate bedrooms and the bodyguards.

718 Name: Savvy : 2016-08-12 17:07 ID:MOhfeMiz

TS is following him now. It's official. The wedding ring will be next.

719 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-12 17:22 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>716 Yes, thanks to Couch >>703 for the rundown because I'm actually not able to watch him in motion anymore. I can watch him in gif sets, but actually watching him move and speak in an interview is beyond me at the moment. The cringing might hurt the baby, is the reason I'm going with.

720 Name: NewAnon : 2016-08-12 19:02 ID:1R0DkkPA

>>702>>704 I'm here for both. The apologists and the over invested shippers. Watching the meltdown on either side over something so inconsequential is hilarious. Also, I hate CB's veranda lady and love watching her pretend to be above it all when really she's just bursting at the seams to drag Tom and Taylor lol

I didn't watch anything from yesterday. Not even the GIFs or anything. I won't watch anything from today either. It's all going to be same old authenticity "find humanity" humble bragging blah blah recycled crap anyways. And I'm honestly not interested in him as an actor anymore. He's tabloid fodder so I'll be treating him that way. Just going to sit here and be entertained by the high school petty drama. Both TayTo's and their fandoms.

721 Name: Savvy : 2016-08-12 19:31 ID:v5pjJ8W6

She's in RI gardening with her parents. Tom will probably join them next Sunday for a pap stroll with her parents on the beach. They might even post photos of their family barbecue on IG. Maybe his family will join them too. Hell, he might even ask her father for her hand in marriage.

Also, he's using emojis on twitter. The second time since he started dating the eternal teenager.

722 Name: anonsy : 2016-08-12 19:34 ID:jk4W5Vi7

>>721 This summer has obviously been a spectacularly failed attempt to seem "young" and "relevant" - TS, emojis, Snapchat, Instagram, his behavior in general... it's not working. He needs to be stopped.

723 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-12 19:58 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>722 http://4-ch.net/img/src/1471031738604.gif

What are you talking about. He is totes down wit' it. Is there a grandpa emoji? Do you think he's afraid people will spam his IG with it?

Captcha: pere - as in he looks like hers!

724 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-12 20:05 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>721 If they pap stroll with her parents - with photographic evidence - I might be more inclined towards the legitimacy of this relationship, which I had recently started to doubt. Her parents have mostly been off the table as far as pap strolls are concerned. We got articles about her parents meeting past bfs, but never pap shots. I think CH was the only bf to be pictured with her parents (though she never met his).

725 Name: Anon : 2016-08-12 21:22 ID:u1EB0/kp

Apparently on the q&a with the HR tonight, he "was asked what he has learned about the “culture of celebrity” after his high-profile summer. His response: “We all live in a world where every phone has a camera” and “there’s nothing new about the spotlight for me.” He said it’s almost “too soon to tell” what he’s learned. He said “there are many sides to a story. Sometimes there are a lot of stories out there which are false. The hardest thing is to try to not let those falsehoods affect your own life.” (Quote from tumblr - I didn't watch)

A camera phone? What? Er, no, almost no photos of you this summer were taken by fans using camera phones.

726 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-12 21:49 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>725 Oh, this is what other fans mean when they say 'my fav just became problematic.'

'Every phone has a camera.' Tom, we weren't criticizing you because you happened to be caught out with your new girl a few times by fans and their phones. We had a problem with the blatant publicity you and your girl courted by calling the paps to capture every event in your lives, including your farts.

'Sometimes there are a lot of stories out there which are false.' Like the one saying TS had a boob job. Or the stories about how you're engaging in a PR relationship to further your career prospects? Yep. Okay. The lies need to stop, don't they, Tom? We should all try to be as honest and upright as you and Taylor.

Other things he's learned this summer:

  1. His fans aren't as gullible as he thought
  2. The answer to the question 'should I whore out my family to legitimize my relationship?' is always 'no.'
  3. Only wear shirts that have been approved by his stylist
  4. Referring to your SO by her full name and insisting that your relationship is not a publicity stunt is not the best way to prove your relationship is not a publicity stunt
  5. The Four Seasons has a really nice continental breakfast

727 Name: anonsy : 2016-08-12 21:52 ID:jk4W5Vi7

>>726 I love you.

728 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-08-12 22:04 ID:yJpq0A3q

>>726 A+++, Anon.

729 Name: Anon : 2016-08-12 22:05 ID:u1EB0/kp

>>726 Burn

All of this.

730 Name: Anon : 2016-08-12 22:15 ID:u1EB0/kp

Twitter is overwhelmed with screencaps of their mutual follows. On the same day as he does yet another interview. Coincidence?

731 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-12 22:54 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>730 No, it's all rather predictable at this point. Their bag of tricks is terribly limited:

  • Pap stroll or stunt to bury/distract from bad news
  • Denial from Gossip Cop to shoot down articles that are a little too close to fact
  • Article from friendly outlet (People, E!) to direct the narrative: Que romantico...with the six bodyguards!
  • Social media to keep their names circulating

And the tricks are executed with all the slight of hand of an 8-year-old magician performing at the school talent show. I know next to nothing about PR, but I can recognize basic patterns and clunkiness, and they've got plenty of both.

732 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-12 23:34 ID:1Gv7ebAj

This is from a Swiftie so it's probably correct (they take his words down like they're gospel):

“Wow. Well, uh, you know it’s interesting. We all live in a world where every phone has a camera and there’s nothing new really about the spotlight on me. I think, you know, the spotlight that’s what happens when you’re a public figure. 
Um, what have I learnt about it? I’ve learnt to…I don't quite know, maybe it’s too soon to tell. But, um, let me give you a proper response.
 I’ve learnt that there are many sides to a story, and that, um, that sometimes there are a lot of stories out there that are false. And the hardest thing is to try to not let those falsehoods affect your own life.”

Tom Hiddleston in response to —“This summer has been a high profile one for you personally. What have you learnt about the culture of celebrity?”

So problematic.

733 Name: anonsy : 2016-08-12 23:38 ID:jk4W5Vi7

>>732 What a mess.

734 Name: NewAnon : 2016-08-13 00:38 ID:1R0DkkPA

That culture of celebrity answer was so terribly coached. Embarrassing and transparent in trying hard that he's just so famous he's used to it by now eyeroll

Taylor's on her way to LA. Get ready for reunion weekend with dinner date tonight and beach strolls all through the weekend!

735 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-13 01:14 ID:1Gv7ebAj

>>733 Beforehand I wanted it all to end and quick. Now I want it to get messier and more car-crashy. I don't want him to have a breakdown - I've got to think about karma at this point in my life. But I have this funny feeling that he doesn't think anything's wrong. That quote is not the quote of a man who fully understands what is happening. He's like so many of his fans who are holding on to their unflinching denial. And maybe that is his coping mechanism and he does have an inkling. Still I want him to feel just a little of the true - even authentic - reality of the situation.

>>734 Hooray. Pap stroll here we come. Maybe he's in LA for another week so we'll get plenty of jogging, gym and dinner pics. Perhaps she's sent the plane to fly him to RI and we will have a two month anniversary photo session on the rock.

736 Name: NewAnon : 2016-08-13 01:42 ID:1R0DkkPA

>>735 I don't want him having a breakdown or anything terrible like that either. I don't think all this warrants such a severe reaction. He's dating a manipulative woman who is fine with coded racism and slut shaming when it furthers her agenda. He is putting on a public spectacle with this relationship because it's something he's wants so he can be famous in the mainstream. Too bad the blowback was spectacular.
I do believe his entitlement and privilege blind him to how problematic coded racism is. I think he knows what a mess this is (he looks too stiff and dead eyed for me to believe he doesn't know something is off) but he's too stubborn and egotistical to accept that yet and he'll continue until she kicks him to the curb or he reaches his wits end.

Btw, I don't believe there's a contract. Maybe an NDA of sorts but nothing like what some of the deep in denial fans are thinking. Shit will really hit the fan if the two attend the Emmy's together and make their red carpet debut there. I don't know if that'll happen but his terrible culture of celebrity answer makes me think it's going to happen. Tommy wants to be famous and dammit he's going to the Emmy's where he's been nominated with his very famous singer girlfriend on his arm.

737 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-08-13 05:00 ID:yJpq0A3q

>>736 I can't help but feel like going to the Emmys would be a disaster for him/them. The jokes about both of them. The camera on his face when he tries to laugh at the first one while he turns red; later on he tries to be stoic but you can tell he hates it. The camera on her face as the jokes are delivered. She can't hide her hate face. Then the press would be about her/their reactions for the next few days afterwards, immortalized on youtube forever. Disaster.

738 Name: anonsy : 2016-08-13 05:06 ID:jk4W5Vi7

>>737 Remember that one fashion event he was supposed to attend with SLJ and then something happened (Bora Bora I think) and then he bailed? I think he may skip the Emmys, especially since he's not the favorite to win. He already dropped the possible excuse of "I have to film" so he may have already decided to pass.

739 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-08-13 06:26 ID:yJpq0A3q

>>738 I thought so too when he said that. Giving himself an out on camera. Nice move, which makes me wonder if the contract will end about then. He can use work as the excuse for not going, then announce the break up after the Emmy voting period is over but before the ceremony.

740 Name: NewAnon : 2016-08-13 06:55 ID:1R0DkkPA

According to the poster on LSA who attended the SAG-AFTRA event, the mod mentioned how Tom has to be back on a plane to Aus in 48 hours. That's an interesting bit to add. But still gives him two days to do staged pap strolls with Taylor who is definitely in LA now. So I guess we should be expecting something tomorrow and Sunday. The LSA poster mentioned she noticed a change in his energy, more cocky she felt.

>>737>>738 They can get their publicists to tell them no personal questions and Taylor won't field any at the Emmy's anyways since she's not promoting anything. She could just walk and look pretty on the red carpet on Tom's arm and Tom would field "werk only questions please". He seems pretty committed to going along with whatever this relationship is so that's why I feel like it'll end after the Emmy's. He doesn't seem eager to rock the boat with breakup nees while he's Emmy campaigning.

741 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-08-13 07:00 ID:Heaven

>>732 I'm not surprised, we are talking of a man that thought ISTL's script was great and its director good and in the face of a 100 critics saying that the script and director were shit, he never questioned his ability to pick a project. If he never did that for a film, imagine if he will for a gf even if it's his own Guardian dragging him for it. He is the poshie result of Eton&Oxford, he'll never admit he is wrong.

742 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-08-13 07:00 ID:Heaven

>>735 I share your sentiment. But I don't think this was ever going to end quickly (I hoped for it back when for a brief moment I gave him the benefit of the doubt). TS found a guy who is willing to do her bidding. TH found a girl that in exchange for his services is willing to leave him alone when he is working and is so rich he doesn't have to pay for her.
You don't pimp out your family to the paps when there are true feelings, nor for a fling.

743 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-08-13 07:01 ID:Heaven

>>738 That's what I thought when he said it, it's bs that he is working out things with Marvel, if they gave him a weekend off for this promo there shouldn't be any problem giving a weekend off for the Emmys. But I don't think it's for paving the way for a breakup, it's a convenient excuse to not be there because he knows he won't win.

744 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-08-13 07:15 ID:Heaven

745 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-08-13 07:21 ID:Heaven

>>744 at minute 19:44 he gets asked that summer and celebrity question.

746 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-08-13 07:24 ID:Heaven

>>745 and soon after that the host points out how instagram might be a more friendly social media than others, TH agrees. Which is basically what I said. he joined to avoid the vitriol.

747 Name: Anonon : 2016-08-13 07:41 ID:sJXgf3TS

>>740 The Swifties are convinced TS is still in RI as her jet there hasn't moved- apparently it's the other plane which has landed in LA, departing Illinois.
Either he flies to RI to marathon watch TNM with her folks or we will be spared a pap stroll for now or the Swifties are full of shit.
>>737 The likelihood of mockery at the Emmys is so high I really hope she does accompany him so I can watch the slo- mo reaction gifs on repeat.
>>726 Yes! Although I think he still struggles with point number 1

I do love that the HR interviewer let him stew on that celebrity question.
He watched him squirm and savoured the long uncomfortable silence, refusing to take up every opportunity to save him with an intervention. Slow burn.

748 Name: NewAnon : 2016-08-13 08:17 ID:1R0DkkPA

>>747 So it wasn't her jet that flew her to RI that came to LA? It's a different one? What if she's doing that run around thing, sending her jet out to LA to get tongues wagging? I think she's here though and god knows I'm prepared for a pap stroll weekend. I don't get how people track her jet, I tried but couldn't figure anything out apart from the dates part. Swifties make up a lot of crap but I'm surprised they wouldn't be spreading tales of Taylor in LA with Tom.

749 Name: anonsy : 2016-08-13 08:23 ID:jk4W5Vi7

>>748 The story they're going with is - are you ready - the jet flew to pick Tom up in Los Angeles and take him back to Rhode Island so he can ask Taylor's parents for her hand in marriage.

I'm not making this shit up, I swear.

750 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-08-13 08:27 ID:yJpq0A3q

>>749 LOL HAHHAHAHAHAAHAHHSAHhhhhhhhhhhhhh nononononono my sweet summer children!

Did he not just say in the SAG-AFTRA Q&A that he has to go back to filming in Oz in 48 hours? That rules out flying to RI.

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