Thread to talk about the actor Tom Hiddleston
>>575, >>571 Despite his having said he "doesn't see" the paps, I've come to agree that he must be aware of them. Or at least he always adopts that face when he's out and about as a protective measure. That's a sweet picture of him with the dog; and in all the others I've seen of him with dogs, he's been interacting with them a lot.
>>575 Daniel Radcliffe also "casually" remarked, when he was turning up in stage door photos from (I think) Equus, that he "noticed" that he'd worn the same clothes for a week.
I wonder if the timing of this pap/pup walk had anything to do with TS having released some kind of behind the scenes vid on Tom's birthday in which she jokes about the 4th of July? The PR sniping continues....
>>577 Did she? I didn’t hear about that. She is a real class act if so. Though if he wants to win the propaganda war he will have to dial up the fashone a bit. I am not sure a revenge pap stroll in a coat with holes in it is sending quite the right message!
>>572 Sorry, I meant that the clarity of the image quality of the photos is much much better on torilla,then the images on the DM. Sorry! I should have been much clearer. In the words of former Kodak spokesman Andre Agassi, Image (image clarity) is Everything!
CB doesn't think the photos are too bad. Maybe dlisted will comment later on.
http://www.celebitchy.com/566171/is_tom_hiddleston_having_a_midlife_crisis_now_that_hes_turned_37_years_old/
>>578 Allegedly, she did, but I’m basing that on tumblr, not original (re)search :). Funny that tumblr didn’t erupt over that, but did over dog-walking pictures.
>>578: Isn't that what you want? For TS to savage Tom? For his career to end? For him to what? Suicide? Talk about class acts.
I wonder how many of you have trolled other sites to make sure they all engage in intense discussions about Tom's rapid fall to keep the memes going.
And Crazy Days has a Tom blind today too.
What is with the sudden uptight super nannies in this thread all of a sudden? There meltdown is insane.
Apparently Tom was seen, filming something for the BBC, and watching a 3rd year play performance at RADA?!
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@kathrynrose17
5h5 hours ago
Tom Hiddleston filming in leatherhead while I’m training at work 👍🏼🙃
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Grace Lilley
@LilliesForGrace
19h19 hours ago
at a play
sneezed
heard a “bless you”
turned around to say thank you
tom hiddleston blessed me
goodnight everybody
>>586 Apparently the RADA sighting was true, but not the filming sighting.And the girl just went private on her twitter, so...Oops.
>>585 You lurk at places where Tom's fans are at so why can't we lurk where his enemies scheme and plot?
>>587, >>585 Suspect we’re going to see both more mistaken sightings and fandom disagreements until there’s a project announcement and it’s known what he’s working on and where. (It’s rather like a smoldering brush fire that flares up every now and then.)
Speaking of projects, there’s now a Nov. 2019 release date for Sir Ken’s next Agatha Christie project - perhaps TH will be part of that acting company? https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fox-dates-murder-orient-express-sequel-pushes-alita-1084263?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral
I hope he doesn't work again if it means it will give some of you the opportunity to drag him some more.
>>589 I wondered about that. I think it might be just the project to get him off the bench. I do wonder if he has been saying no too much (as previously discussed, nobody seems to think he has had no project offers at all). Sure he would accept something from Sir Ken!
As for our tedious little visitor (and yes I do think there is just one of you, as Anonon has previously suspected, due to your strangely repetitive comments): if you don’t like what we do here, then go somewhere else. Or go mad and set up your own thread on 4-ch, maybe. But don’t waste our time with this pious cant about not approving of what we get up to here (since you lurk here and clearly can’t drag yourself away) or the utter bullshit about us wishing him dead. Show me one single post in which anyone has said that.
You can also spare us your tinhatted accusations of plotting (by the way, congratulations for the maddest comment from a lurker that I have seen since I started here in 2015!).
>>592 This troll has also been on the LSA Tom thread as well accusing members of the same things as well. This person is mentally disturbed.
Why do you think you have the right to have a place where no one will troll you? And LSA? That's literally slumming. They still hold out hope Tom will pull a Prince Harry. I find it funny you think there's just 1 of us who've decided to visit your little psych ward here. Guess its b/c you've been using multiple id's and just think everyone else does too.
>>595 Pic of Tom at the Nuffield Theatre Theatre!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BfPKwlOFrXA/?taken-by=tomhiddleston_daily
>>597 Happy smile - hanging with his peeps at the theatre. Good to see!
I read recently that Harriet Walter and others “joined” him as a patron of the Nuffield Southampton Theatres (https://www.nstheatres.co.uk/about-us/news/harriet-walter-and-craig-david-announced-as-new-patrons-for-nuffield-southampton-theatres). Since he did that q&a in early 2015 I am not aware he has done any event for NST. He was originally named as an “associate actor”. See http://www.whatsonstage.com/southampton-theatre/news/07-2014/nuffield-southampton-50th-anniversary-season-hiddleston_34939.html.
I’ll be glad if this marks the start of a closer association! He looks like he is having a good time.
New coat (I think!). Also, is he having his hair straightened? Compared to Wallander days it looks a lot less curly!
>>599 From those articles, it looks as patron and assoc. actor are both “ambassador” roles. Probably something he can do as much or as little of as he wants and has time for. So a positive of his current situation is that he seems to have the chance to support organizations he cares about.
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The thinking you-know-where is that the coat might be his peacoat from RadHam. The hair - who knows? It’s longer than in his youth, which in my experience makes curly hair straighter. And it might be hat hair from being out and about in his baseball cap. He’s definitely had it straightened for some of his RC appearances, though- possibly yours truly’s influence?
>>599 In this photo, his hair from the other night looks wavier (side not front view): https://www.instagram.com/p/BfOoJPjhG4J/
Tom looking good here.http://joemonster.org/mg/58675,28
Tom is still in the industry! And I think that he and his PR guy, Luke, have taken a page from the TS playbook by refocusing on charitable donations, and notifying the press about it, just like his peers do. The British actors have joined forces to fight sexual harassment just in time to promote the BAFTA film awards. Tom, Emma Watson, K Knightley, Emma Thompson Gugu M-W, Jodie Whittaker from Return to Cranford, etc. have made donations to a fund for victims of sexual assault, called the UK Justice and Equality Fund. Tom gave £10,000 and Emma W gave £1 million, and he made the contribution by name, on a GoFundMe page. Hmmm...I guess this is Tom's answer to the the Harvey Weinstein fallout, the Time's Up Movement, and acting in a Woody Allen film. Hmm... Processing. Given Tom's last 1.5years in the business, it was probably best for him to stay quiet on the issue, and let his financal contribution speak for itself. I'm a little wary of the Time's Up. The agents are heavily in involved in this. They agencies need good press themselves, b/c they knowingly led actresses to meet with a violent predator, when they many knew about Harvey's crimes.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/18/actors-activists-bafta-red-carpet-calls-time-sexism
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5405641/Emma-Watson-gives-1MILLION-sexual-harassment-fund.html
Tom and Eddie R's Early Man has premiered in the US to roughly 3.2 million dollars so far at the box office so far, over President's Day weekend. I guess EM is family oriented counter programing to Marvel's Black Panther, which has swung quite a large ax this weekend.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2018/02/18/black-panther-box-office-record/349062002/
https://www.the-numbers.com/weekend-box-office-chart
Short i’vue with TH in Empire. Current project: improving 5k s time but not with Bobby cos he is too young. https://tumblr.tomhiddlestonnews.com/post/171058629121/zhora-salome-empire-magazine-april-2018-x
Apparently Sir Ken gave Tom a special copy of Hamlet (the one that Derek Jacobi had passed down to him): https://mobile.twitterDOTcom/IamMental_Leaps/status/965709646278295552
Seen at a performance of a play in London - participate in a “University Challenge” skit.
Yay! James Ivory just won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Call Me By Your Name! Richard II funding, here we come!
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>>609 Tom wore his Early Man Premiere styling to the BAFTAKids event at Kensington Palace, March 6, 2018. Still bearded, not smiling. Genuinely great to see him. And I'm glad to see that he's comfortable chatting to journalists again : ) Kids are psyched about Avengers: Infinity Wars and Tom has to protect that fan base.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BgBGcWjl7rI/
He will soon start to rival Jordan Vogt-Roberts in the beard stakes! The beard is well below his chin now.
Was he chatting to journalists?
I was at Letters Live tonight. Half expected he would show because the venue is now in Islington, closer to home, and Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman both read letters. Sadly not!
Taylor Swift shows that it is possible to go off the grid with one’s Britishactor boyfriend: http://www.celebitchy.com/569429/grazia_taylor_swift_has_gone_off-grid_in_a_big_way_since_meeting_joe_alwyn/#comment-15867323
OT:
To Anon. and others who recommended the John Adams miniseries: I watched it in advance of a vacation in Boston. Loved it (and found it very useful when going round museums to be able to recognise and contextualise Benjamin Franklin etc). Paul Giamatti has cornered the market in grumpy yet principled lawyerly old gits (cf also Billions). Stephen Dillane was unexpectedly foxy as Thomas Jefferson.
>>614 I was joking about the press, b/c a little boy with a microphone interviewed Tom : )
Oh no! New Dailymail click bait article w new pics of Tom walking Bobby, and rehashing the TS fauxmance with rock canoodling and the tank top incident. It's her team's PR for the release of her next music video. He seems to be wearing a new grey scarf, the Hamlet grey suede boots, and black gloves.The article promotes Avengers Infinity Wars, as well.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5485033/Tom-Hiddleston-sports-unshaven-beard-walking-dog-London.html
Tom not shaving is not going to stop TS from crossmarketing w him for financial gain. How much of this is contractual, I wonder? He needs better lawyers and better PR. But Luke Wilson is quite busy with Colin Firth, b/c his wife lied about her extramarital affair with an old friend who she falsely claimed was a stalker! Messy! I guess that real relationships require as much tap dancing PR BS as fauxmances, do. But Luke, solely retweeting a pic of Tom as Loki in IW from EW magazine is not going to cut it.
>>619 I don’t think that is a new scarf - Torrilla’s pics show it has a hole in it!
So Luke wilson is now Tom's publicist? Do tell! You're a fucking idiot.
>>619, >>620 At least Bobby is looking elegant. Hmmm - if this were contractual, how much of the homeless chic look could be due to TH thinking how he could be the least cooperative and digging out some of the oldest stuff in his closet?
If her PR team had anything to do with the recent pap shots of him, it's another sign of how far she's fallen. Trying to exploit a whatever-that-was almost two years later feels a tad desperate.
>>619>>622 I don’t think it is contractual, personally. It just feels to me like DM click bait. She has a single out, so boring everyday pap shots of him have a value for the time being - though surely getting more and more limited as he goes out every day doing the same thing in the same clothes (I am now sure designedly a la Leo di Caprio or whoever it was who always wore the same clothes to reduce the value of the pap shots).
>>623 I don’t really think it could be contractual - just that it would be a funny passive-aggressive way for Tom to fight back if it were!
>>621 Luke Windsor. Silly me! Maybe puppy Bobby is chewing up his clothes? Or maybe it's just Tom bashing the heck out of his clothes, as usual.
There's a shoe print on his coat and his scarf has a hole in it. He knows he's going to be photographed yet he chooses to dress like someone who doesn't wash themselves or there clothes. He has to get his act together, this depress person he's become is getting odd and crazy now. I'm surprised he hasn't snapped at someone.
Those are the clothes he uses daily to walk his dod and play with him in the park. If you ever had a dog, you know that you always come home with dirty clothes.
I'm sure that when he gets home he takes a shower and changes to normal clothes.
I've had a dog before and my clothes were never dirty even if I played with him in the park or yard. That's a bad excuse, especially since he's a celebrity and he knows he's going to be photographed. Image is everything to celebrities. Is he trying to make people feel sorry for him or what with this sad man image he now has.
>>628 If Tom wants to dress comfortably and not bother with personal grooming, and be understated in interviews, maybe he's still trying to prove to the world that he's not a publicity attention whore? And maybe he's also trying to lose some of the interest of his young Teen Beat fan girl base, as he approaches 40? This does seem like quite an over correction, though. I still hope the beard is for Ivory's Richard II.
Apparently Hugh Laurie might play Prince Phillip in the next series of The Crown. And someone just suggested that Tom could play opposite his neighbor, Helena Bonham Carter, as the toy boy lover of Princess Margaret in the The Crown series III. Thankless part in a critically acclaimed netflix series? Meh. Only if the writing is phenomenal.
http://www.celebitchy.com/569713/hugh_laurie_may_replace_matt_smith_on_the_crown_good_choice_or_meh/
There is this misconception that Tom's fan base consist of a bunch of teenage girls when in actuality it's more a bunch of twenty somethings and middle age women. It resembles the Twilight fan base. His popularity is teenage-like but the fans are most often adults.
Also how is taking paparazzi photos of walking your puppy looking like a disheveled mess prove he isn't a famewhore? He's getting photographed doing the most mundane things with his newest prop-the dog-which is what reality tv stars paparazzi photos are like. He's just making himself look pitiful and it's not helping him.
He needs to guest star on some popular show or something. Go back to square one and stop being tabloid fodder because he dated a girl his obsessed fan base hates like every girl he dates.
And if he wants to get rid of his insane overly entitled fanbase; get married and pop a kid. That'll shatter their wish fulfillment fantasies about him. Though I'm sure they'll talk bad about his wife and child ala Cumberbatch, but the fantasy will wear off aand they'll target another single actor.
>>630 pop walk shmock walk....who cares!!?? I enjoy current pictures of him. Don't care how he's dressed either. At least he's comfortable. Don't think he's pathetic. I don't wear heels and make up to clean stalls and when I'm out with any of the animals I wear what's used and comfy in case they slime me. I'd still be a big fan if he was gay or got married with kids or came from mars as long as he was happy. His career will be what it will be, there's been a lot of good actors that never made it big and others that did that shouldn't have. Que Sera Sera
>>630 Perception in the GP maninstream news is interesting. After the TS fauxmance split, E! news discussed Tom arriving at LAX from London. And even though Tom was clean shaven, was reasonably well dressed, clean cut, etc. and obviously his PR had called the paps to cover his arrival, E! remarked that no one really seemed to care about him in the tabloids anymore and how calm and relieved Tom seemed just walking around by himself, no assistants or fans in sight, and the hosts concluded that Tom just liked his life to be low key. Not sure Tom can ever prove that he's not a famewhore. But in Tom's head, maybe he thinks that compared to other actors who look 100% styled when they call paps in LA (to the same Au Bon Pain, the Brentwood Farmer's Market, Whole Foods) the identically clad Mountain man puppy pics seem less staged to the casual viewer.
>>632 I guess. But from what I've heard from the GP is that people feel sorry for him and that he might be depressed or something. I don't know if he wants that type of reaction because that just plays into some type of victim complex like you-know-who loves to play.
I wish there was a new project announcement that wasn't about Loki or yet another billionth adaptation of a Shakespeare play.
Also, looking back at TH pics outnabout, the only time I found that he looks grubby is with Bobby. Granted it may always be in the some of the same tried and true clothes and shoes...
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Twitter sighting of TH, seen on the tube yesterday, in London.
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21h21 hours ago
@twhiddleston I’m the loon that left it to the last minute to say hi on the train
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Elizabeth Debicki has confirmed basically nothing about TNM2. I'm glad that TH has a gig, and yet I am no longer interested in Roper and Pine squaring off again. And Pine seemed kind of ambivalent about Jed at the end of the series, unlike at the end of the end. The book has been adapted and it has no sequel. There is no more night to manage. Think like Elsa in Frozen, and Let It Go. Or make Olivia Coleman the lead maybe, and start over...Hmm...Like a LeCarre novel meets Fargo, and Olivia has a hot affair with her sexy ex-lover in the CIA! I've solved it!
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-03-16/elizabeth-debicki-confirms-work-on-the-night-manager-sequel-im-sworn-to-secrecy/
>>637 I meant, Pine goes off w Jed in the novel, but I didn't feel like those crazy kids would make it in the movie. Or maybe they just made it look ambivalent in the movie to leave people in suspense.
Interesting little blurb on another site. I have not read TNM but I guess at the end there was something about him having grown a Cornish beard. Hinting at gearing up for TNM 2. Thoughts?
>>633, >>637 But we haven't really had project announcements/gig news. RII is still dependent on getting funding, and TNM2 on developing a good story and script. It's nice to know that Tom is still wanted, but those are still birds in bushes, not in the hand.
>>637 I didn't feel the ending of the TNM series was even ambivalent; I felt it more as it got Roper and Jed out of the way, leaving Pine free for more potential adventures that wouldn't involve either of them.
>>639 That site is stretching. TNM2 doesn't even have a story/script yet, that we've heard. So it's at least a year off and more likely two. Doesn't take that long to grow a beard.
The biggest buzz he seems to be getting at the moment is the question of whether or not Loki is killed off early in A:IW.
Pics from Dan Cagney on facebook, supposedly of Tom walking with a woman and his puppy, Bobby, in Hampstead Heath Park. The pics are incredibly blury. The poster seems to take post pics with actors a bit, so it could be true.
>>641 And the speculation has started, though very quietly. It feels to me as if, between the dearth of project announcements and the question of Loki’s fate, the fandom is holding its collective breath.
Tom with Bobby annoying an Eve. Standard person - 3rd section of this:
https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/wine-women-and-talking-about-sex-a-way-to-solve-our-problems-a3796616.html?amp
>>643 Lol the article calls him an A-list celeb. Sure, I guess with the upcoming Infinity Wars.
So puppy and a girlfriend now. Add in all the talk about the country house and seems like Tom could be settling down. Then again, his relationships so far have been more flings and non committal stuff that fizzles out after the 3 month infatuation mark ends so let's see where this one falls, serious or another short term girlfriend.
The pic is so blurry btw. Is this guy still using a flip phone? Seriously, it's like 2000 cell phone quality. How far was he that he had to zoom in so much that it pixelated everything?
Nice to see you again NewAnon. It’s been a bit quiet round here recently - Sosorry and Heynon have been keeping things going by adding links.
>>642 I don’t feel like the fandom is very excited about this. It looks vaguely like him and there is a dog in the frame, but as NewAnon says the photo was taken from space using a Box Brownie camera so who the hell knows.
Maybe he has been taking time off from projects in part to give a new relationship a decent chance? It must be extremely difficult to get anything to last beyond the magic 3 month marker if you are off to a set that’s miles away.
Although the blessed Jarthy did last a lot longer than that. Thinking about it, didn’t that relationship get going during another quiet period? I’m trying to remember. Was it 2013, when he did a lot of Thor 2 promo and not much else? No coincidence there, methinks.
>>645 There's almost been more discussion of dogs in coffee shops than there's been of a potential gf. Of course, the dog was described in detail and the woman is a collection of out-of-focus pixels. And as someone pointed out on tumblr, would he really be letting his grooming go to hell if he were seeing someone?
I felt like there was a period earlier this year when he really dropped out of sight. Since TayTo, there's usually been some sighting - out for a run, in a coffee shop, at a gas station - about once a week, but for several weeks there was nothing. This was not too long after the country house rumors. Was he away setting up his new household? On a vacay with the new gf? In South Sudan shooting more footage for the documentary? Off filming alternate endings for Loki's exit from the MCU? Only time will tell, and time ain't talkin'.
I had to google it, but yes, he and JA were spotted at Wimbledon in the summer of 2013.
Maybe the woman is JA. He was spotted with her in a cafe before the infamous Met Gala where he met TS.
Whomever it is Tom is at a better time at his life, and considering his age, to settle down since it seems he's not traveling for work nowadays.
Or maybe its just another friend and the country house was just a way to make money and rentng it to rich people.
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A fan on twitter had a nice run in with Tom.
ppawitraa @ppawitraa
Thank you for being so kind and polite🙂❤️even if I was impolite disturbance and asked many silly questions. I'm really sorry for everything I did include scared by running follow you😓 At that moment I just thought that it may be my first&last chance to meet you. @twhiddleston
>>649 It is slightly hard to tell, but is this person saying she scared him by running after him?! Because she thought it would be her only chance.....Reminds me of the fan who got into the same Tube carriage and chatted away with him till he got off. No filter. As ever he is unfailingly polite, but god.
>>650 It is pretty scary come to think of it. A stranger just running up to you and asking questions and even telling you there life story, i get images of his fans saying "He's perfect" and that he "saved their life" shivers
You would think with him laying low and not interacting with fans as much that they would leave him alone really since he's been looking depress and serious, but nope.
I think the problem is he lives in London and a lot of people live there plus tourists and expats. And since everyone has stalked him and know his regular hangouts he won't be left alone really.
So maybe him moving to the countryside would let him not be run after or caught in the tube. If that's what he wants.
>>645 Thank you, Anon! Life has been a bit crazy since the new year and deprived of my celeb gossip fun :( When google alerts popped up that Evening Standard article calling him an "A-list celeb" and bitching about the pup for no reason, I couldn't resist anymore.
I was never convinced that Jane was an actual relationship/ proper gf. The way Tom did everything to keep their connection hidden, and also his behavior at the CP wrap party, all screamed FWB/ hook up buddy to me. I also don't believe that Tom had planned the Bora Bora trip and took her. It seemed like she planned the trip and took him. He was cold AF with that poor woman. But there's no doubt she has a big soft spot for Tom, hoping he'd finally turn things serious instead of keeping it casual. Going by those pre-TayTo pics at the cafe and her sad face, the two must have been hooking up in the downtime between EO and TS. I wouldn't be surprised if he's seeing Jane again and that's who he was in the park with in that pic. Maybe he'll treat her better this time. Or whoever this new gf, hopefully he won't play those "are we or are we not" games when we know he's fully capable of acting like a bf as we saw on the TayTo tour of "love".
>>651 That's another thing. He looks beat down. I mean really beat down. He doesn't look like he's taking a break and relaxing. His face looks miserable. If he has a gf now, let's hope he cleans up a little and stops looking like shit. It's really not a good look on him. No need to let go of grooming your facial hair. That beard needs some taming. I can't imagine any woman wanting that near her face or her private parts without a good wash and some trimming.
>>652 I think he strings JA along. When he said to a reporter "she's nothing worth talking about" after she said to that other reporter that she was his girlfriend that must've been embarrassing. FWBs don't proclaim you as their boyfriend, she obviously was duped by him.
Tom only has shown off women he considers well known like EO and TS, JA is no use to him since she's an unknown. That's why i feel he'll only marry an actress whose high caliber.
JA is deluding herself thinking she can tie that ambitious man down. His career comes first more then anything, so that's why he was showing off with EO and TS but not with JA because TS and EO are in the business and can help his PR. He will only publicly show off a girlfriend if she's an A-lister. The man is crazy thirsty.
I bet that cafe pic and the hug was him telling her that he's breaking it off with her especially since he got a Met Gala invite. He was hunting for an A-lister and he got one.
I have no doubt he's still stringing her along. And to think his fans believe he would make a great dad/husband/boyfriend. The man is going to be like Clooney, not get married until he's in his 50s and is satisfied where his career is at. Also going by the ages he's been dating with EO and TS being in there twenties, he'll most definitely want a twenty something by that time since he wants children. He'll just have an endless string of women until he gets there.
I think he's a terrible boyfriend, he hasn't had a long term serious relationship in the longest. So odd that no one focused on his dating life when he was with TS when they practically have the same dating habits, thing is Tom keeps it private while TS doesn't. That's why those two are perfect for each other, they're fickle in dating and get bored easily, plus the career ambition.
There were rumors he broke up with SF because he wanted to focus on his career and SF did liked some Twitter posts making fun of Tom's speech at the Golden Globes. Plus there was that Facebook post in which she vehemently denied being married to him and her friends saying "Thank F**K".
Apparently TH went to another play and it was mentioned on twitter. This was by an all-female theatre company. Glad to know that he's still passionate about the arts, and that he's enjoying himself in his time off. Yes, Tom had to step back from the GP. But he needs a new publicist ASAP, and a new branding strategy going forwards. Unless Tom is comfortable doing theatre and scooping up supporting roles in films, from now on. Fingers crossed that James Ivory secures funding for the Richard II film.
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Why the obsession with Tom Hiddleston? He's all but retired now. His career is dead and even if he wasn't, he's gay, gay, gay.
Tom will be at a Comic Con (not San Diego) in June. Poster shows him clean shaven (!!)
>>657 Huh. Interesting. Last of his Marvel obligations? Or could this mean he'll be in A4 after all? Wonder if the panel, with Chris H and Chris E, will be on "Life After the MCU." Still, it will be a sighting of Hermit Tom.
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The DM chose Tom as the best style icon for men who are in their thirties to emulate! Yay!
He's still gay. He's always been and will always be gay. Fawn all over him if you like but you are wasting your time. You're pathetic, wise than actually. No one will hire him bc he's such a hypocrite. No studio wants to hire someone and be embarrassed by it later the way they were with Spacey. His career is o-vah.
Gay is safe for them. Probably never seen a real dick in their lives, and never will.
Tom has seen plenty of dicks-either in his bubble butt ass or his mouth.
>>658 The tickets were $200 for non-VIP autographs with him; $550 (!) for VIP autograph and photo sessions (and maybe the panel discussion). His sold out first.
>>661 The DM conveniently forgetting that the last article they ran on him was the "mid-life crisis" set of dog-walking pap shots....
He's on the cover of some NZ men's magazine this month. The full article is behind a paywall, but those who've read it say it's put together from old information. The cover picture (old, pre-beard) is nice, though. http://m2magazine.co.nz/category/m2-april-2018-full-issue/
Explore Twitter a little more closely and you'll find out that Tom was having Easter lunch with his boyfriend.
Tom will be doing IW PR in Korea w/ some of the other supporting cast: http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2018/04/02/0200000000AEN20180402007000315.html
>>668 so he'll be there with the rest of the has-beens then?
Even if Tom came out at this point, he still could not get cast in anything because he's PR and box office poison.
James Ivory keeps alluding to Richard II, and claims that the investors are looking at the project with, "renewed interest." Is this the truth or Ivory's wishing, hoping, and dreaming?! Fingers and toes crossed. There is also a video of Ivory talking about Richard II on the page below, in Toronto, and people woop woop a bit when Hiddleston is mentioned.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/27/james-ivory-ismail-merchant-love-secret-call-me-by-your-name-nudity
https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/tom-hiddleston-thread-part-xii.1199714/page-76
Also, Ken Branagh has just announced a brand new tv project for a novel called A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles. Maybe there is a part for Tom?
http://deadline.com/2018/04/kenneth-branagh-to-star-produce-eones-tv-adaptation-of-a-gentleman-in-moscow-1202357404/
>>671, >>672 My concern about Ivory and RII is that unless it gets underway soon, will Ivory still be around to make it? Let's hope the gentleman has great genes! And if KB can't make room for Tom in that TV project (I could see him as an earnest revolutionary), here's hoping for Death on the Nile.
Guillermo del Toro just signed a major deal with Fox Searchlight. He seemed really to have liked working with Tom, so let's hope this creates some opportunities. There are some interesting GdT passion projects here - I'd love to see the Count of Monte Cristo as a western one for Tom: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/five-lost-guillermo-del-toro-movies-his-fox-searchlight-deal-could-revive/
It'll be interesting to see if James Ivory gets financing since Shakespeare films don't do well in today's market. Maybe Shakespeare inspired but actual Shakespeare is a tough sell. He could always go to Netflix or Amazon. Netflix is already doing David Michod's The King with Plan B and Timothee Chalamet playing Henry V.
I don't think it's a case of directors not wanting to work with Tom. I think it's more of producers being wary of him. I thought him being subdued during Ragnarok and Early Man promo was him showing he's not the spotlight hogger or famethirsty actor Tayto showed him to be. If he keeps the same subdued persona during IW promo, he might get back in producers' good graces again. Then again it's not like he got a great selection of scripts before Tayto either but TNM success was turning things around for him...until well yeah.
P.S. did you guys see Luke Windsor deleted his Twitter account? A PR agent, one with his own company, deleted his Twitter. That doesn't sound good at all.
>>674 I wish Luke Windsor no ill will. But fingers crossed that his comapany is merging with some other PR company where Tom can get some crisis PR management. ASAP.
>>675 Well, I think he's terrible at actual PR. He can do the basic stuff, that most PR interns are capable of, but when it comes to the hard stuff, Luke is not good at all. Tom's bad PR in 2016 could have been fixed very easily since Taylor had been unmasked at that point. A good PR agent worth his salt could have easily steered away from it all by focusing the attention on Tom's charity, his likeable personality, his TNM success. There was a lot to work with.
The Emmys were the perfect opportunity for Luke to sit Tom down and really rehearse with him how to portray a 180 image to the one Taylor and her team were spewing. It wouldn't have needed any attacks on her either. I don't know why Luke dropped the ball so bad when the fix was very easy. I mean being famethirsty is not a good look but it was less than 3 months and celebrities have sprung back from bad PR due to actual CRIMES. Tom could have sprung back from it easily if he had a good PR agent, ESPECIALLY after he won a frickin' Emmy. That was such a gold opportunity that night for Tom to shine, even after it. But Luke cannot PR at all. Sorry, Luke.