Thread to talk about actor Tom Hiddleston
Tom Hiddleston 1: http://4-ch.net/tv/kareha.pl/1382608996/
Tom Hiddleston 2: http://4-ch.net/tv/kareha.pl/1410345704/
Tom Hiddleston 3: http://4-ch.net/tv/kareha.pl/1437479014/
Tom Hiddleston 4: http://4-ch.net/tv/kareha.pl/1440684211/
Now back to my hiatus, but here are some tweets about Kong
https://twitter. com/reeltourshawaii/status/657600725409644544
https://twitter. com/reeltourshawaii/status/657690957396111360
https://twitter. com/reeltourshawaii/status/657760528710791168
>>150 ah it is done and finished with anyway and irrelevant to post. Presumably (and rightly so) not a media circus on account of her more famous sibling.
>>149 I did not know what to make of it until I read the comment which referred to his ... Impressions . Anyway - acting is a bitchy business too - behind all of the smoke and curtains .
>>152 Nice to think it still can be. Many celebs in the UK, even quite well known ones, are left alone much of the time. I saw Tim Burton on the street last week doing his shopping and being ignored like any other citizen. He's another one who seems to own one set of clothes!
>>148 Chill out ok? I'm none of this people you mention. Check my ip and id first ok before jumping to conclusions.
>>155 I'm afraid your monomania about proving EO and TH are not a thing gives you away, as do all the "you'll be sorry" threats to Couch Potato. Not to mention the big fight you had with the town bicycle about EO which you are now bringing here by posting disparagingly about her.
>>147 There were a few twitter posts regarding TH in a morning suit in the City. And then another saying that they met him but because it was a private event, he asked for no pics, just a hello and a chat. I imagined that it was for his sister's wedding. Apparently, he and others then rocked up at a pub - still in full wedding gear - later that evening.
I didn't post because I didn't 1) want anyone who lurks here to repost elsewhere and 2) for those twitter uses to be hit with the now obligatory Spanish Inquisition - Was it his wedding? Was he with a blonde? Was EO in a wedding dress? Did EO catch the bouquet?
>>156 monomania - what a good Greek word. Thank you for reminding me of it. Must remember to use it more often in the future!
>>157 Forgot to add...drunk, slightly jet-lagged morning suit TH...oh, the glory of it.
Also, I hope that at least one proverbial slutty bridesmaid got lucky...maybe even two...and the female vicar.
>>156 not to mention using your user name to get info about a woman guilty of breathing air close to TH.
>>157 I truly admire your ability to find things of twitter, whenever I try I can't find a single thing, twitter search hates me.
I'm kind of sorry though that because of a silly delusional girl we have to hold back. But who knows, maybe it's better this way.
Anyway, since I was forced back for today I might make myself useful, here's a nice little interview with TH for an Italian radio.
While this is a translation of an interview for a Finnish mag
http://thetwotees.tumblr.com/post/131829193811/episodi-finland-magazine-october-2015-the
I have sooo many accounts blocked - spam accounts, kpop ghost accounts, hard core Loki-ites etc. - that his tag is manageable...as long as he doesn't tweet and blow it up. I remember that I checked it one day after work, and there were 3,000 tweets relating to him. That's when I close the tab and walk away. I'll look at 30 tweets, not 3,000.
On a more distant prospect...having just watched the latest HIGNFY episode with Michael Sheen, does anyone else hope that TH might take a turn in the host's chair?
With the TNM coming up, it might be a nice promotional crossover. HIGNFY is consistently high in quality, and while I'm sure some Loki jokes would sneak in, it would be less cringey than some other appearances.
Also, it would be particularly pleasurable to see TH demonstrate some snark - as some hosts are required to do when delivering lines.
And EO could be a guest...just kidding!!!
An interesting article regarding CP, China and ghosts, i.d., superstitions.
I'm not one to think that financial failure = career blot, however, I'm sure TH, GdT and the powers that be at Legendary would like CP to make a healthy profit.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/china-ghost-movies-crimson-peak_562a7b0ae4b0ec0a38946d11
>>164 I am bad at Twitter as well so (privacy permitting) always keen for you to post your discoveries. No need to link if you are worried about lurkers.
BTW that thing about China and ghosts was fascinating! I am sure I have read Chinese literature featuring ghosts. All banned now I suppose.
>>166 I wondered why it hadn't opened in China yet since it had in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
https://twitter. com/ItalianLokiArmy/status/658300677555384320
This is an interview for an Italian mag, the few things that were somehwat interesting - it's not a word for word translation.
Looks like Tom will be seeing an awful lot of the Australian sun next year - Skull Island now apparently filming in Queensland (?)
http://statements.qld.gov.au/Statement/2015/10/26/kong-skull-island-to-film-in-queensland
He will be appearing on bbc2 on Artsnight on 6 November.
>>167 I'll admit to being nannyish - not toward TH - but towards the twitter users that post sightings.
I remember that one user who posted about seeing him post-PGG was bombarded with all sorts of questions about EO, what he was wearing, where she was located, could she get a pic, etc. After an hour, she'd made her account private - and rightly so.1
If I find anything, I'll post a full summary (whatever that means for 140 characters!), but I might not link to the person.
One poster said that he was wearing a 'wedding suit' in the City. I took that to mean morning suit. Another said that she say him near St. Paul's and that he didn't want to take a pic, as it was a private wedding, but that he did have a chat with her and her group.
I wonder if this was ISTL promo which was set before the date was pushed back. Could be HR as well.
It will be interesting to see what movie he is focusing on, if any.
>>172 I saw a number of obsessive comments to Twitter users who saw him at the theatre, at service station on M1 etc.
I have to say if I did see him I wouldn't tweet it. Twitter has really chipped away at any privacy celebs have now. Some of my acquaintance, whom I otherwise consider relatively moderate, are surprisingly militant about this ("if he didn't mind being photographed he wouldn't take the Tube, he can afford a taxi" etc). I really don't think that being famous means you have signed up for creep shots tracking your every move across London. Long may he continue to be able to use the tube, walk out for a coffee etc without being photographed or tweeted everywhere he goes. I hope the lack of Heathrow tweets means he was able to leave the country unnoticed.
>>174 Although of course inquiring minds want to know if others tweet.....consistency thou art a jewel etc etc.....
>>173 Indeed. "And now we welcome Tom Hiddleston to talk about the soon to be delayed I Saw The Light".
Sorry for multiple posts. Butterfly mind unable to concentrate today. Anon., have you seen CP yet?
I feel like this might be another reason why he's backed off using twitter himself. Some of his tweets located him and his actions/movements just as much as pics and tweets from other people.
Yeah, people's arguments regarding celebs and their rights to privacy are always a little off: 'if he didn't want to be photographed, he'd just never breathe air outside of his house!!' Okay, reasonable logic there.
And we all know - too well - that taking a taxi doesn't guarantee that he won't be photographed!
Even better:
Host: 'Tom Hiddleston is here to talk about a guaranteed to be a piece of crap movie, ISTL, AND a highly likely to be a piece of crap movie, Kong: Skull Island. Tom, which turd did you want to shine first?'
TH: Can we talk about Hiddlestoners?
I haven't!! I was meant to go Friday, but was too ill (I didn't want to be that person - the one that coughs all the way through a movie!). On Saturday, I went to watch the rugby and was too tipsy (read: drunk on beer and Nyquil) to do a movie justice afterward, and I was also afraid the beer/Nyquil chaser would cause me to shout out inappropriate things during the sex scene.
So, Sunday was meant to be the night, but the boy bailed on me (he got called into an emergency shift), and I didn't go - because 'one for CP, please' translates - in my mind - to 'I'm a Hiddlestoner and I once bought a lock of TH's hair on eBay' and I'm not ready for that.
So, this Friday is the day.
>>180 My boy refused point blank (doesn't like horror movies - and forget all that GDT bleating about it "really" being gothic romance, he knows it was a horror movie with literary pretensions). I bunked off work and sat alone in the IMAX surrounded, slightly oddly, by lone males wearing white socks and heavy metal t shirts - not the demographic I was anticipating. About 20 of us in all. It was glorious, like owning a very, very large tv. It has totally bombed at the box office.
>>172 The interwebs is a strange, strange place indeed. Tbh, I was very relieved once the NW3 person mysteriously stopped posting. The daily updates on whether or not the man was outside his front door was very unsettling and undoubtedly fed into ("well-intentioned") stalker central aka as the cafe crowd.
(seriously - all you have to do to find the "fans" is to see who is following his neighbourhood tea shop on twitter).
On serious matters: I did see CP last week and eh.. I dunno ... the costumes and sets just gorgeous (I so hope that they are recognised professionally) but almost all of the "scary" moments were spoilt in the trailers AND it was just plain old weird seeing Tom as the sweet ingenue. Jessica was amazing and MIa seemed to be playing two different characters tbh (i rather liked independent typewriter toting Edith more than the other one).
I will probably go to hell for this, but I actually preferred ALLO and even Tom's performance (ahem) in High-Rise, to CP..
>>179 Will skull island still be seen as crap when (presumably) Oscar nominated/winner Brie Larson is attached to it?
ISTL seems to be on a weird PR trajectory of its own at this stage.
And .. what next after Thor? Given that Kenneth Branagh has his own theatre company, it would seem that another tread on the boards is almost inevitable.
>>183 Who knows - but with so many rewrites, delays and personnel changes it will remain, to me, Shit Island until it comes out! I do at this point slightly question his eye for a great script. For example everything I have read about ISTL (episodic series of unexplained vignettes from the life of) suggests that it is not just poor direction that has sunk it. And the plot of CP is not a great surprise. So is SI going to be better? I hope so but I am not taking his word for it.
>>184 Well, there is also the possibility that he just takes whatever script / film he is offered. I am not sure that he is at that position where he isn't competing with others higher on the Hollywood food chain than himself for the choice parts.
I do think though, that he was trying to extend his range/challenge himself and avoid the typecasting associated with Loki (why oh why didn't they just let him keep his bouncy golden locks in CP?) - kudos to him.
I also do think that in terms of prestige/iconic performances, he would never turn down an opportunity to be in the Bond franchise ... look at the effect on Daniel Craig's profile pre and post Bond.
Two words - Jupiter Ascending. ER and his buddy Oscar couldn't save that one. Hopefully, K:SI won't be that bad!
By all accounts, BL is going to get an AA nom. She may win it - she and the movie have received nothing but the highest praise. Still, if K:SI is a whole heap of rubbish, her name won't keep it from being a box office/critical flop, I don't think
Hmm fair enough (I lasted about 10 minutes into the Jupiter film, Eddie or not) but I thought that it was made before ER had the accolates..
anyway, here's hoping that Brie has the confidence and acting chops, together with Tom, to make something out of a seemingly trite script. I saw "Me, Earl and the Dying Girl" too recently and thought that Thomas Mann was terrific, so ... fingers and toes crossed for something not awful to watch.
eh I meant accolades though probably acolytes too by then.
An interesting tidbit re: ISTL and when TH came aboard.
I watched a video of MA and Dante Spinotti from the Middleburg FF. MA was talking about when he and TH had dinner and MA offered the role to TH. According to MA, it was at some point after War Horse and he offered it to TH on the spot - explaining that he didn't have a green light with money and he wasn't sure when it would be made, but that it would be made. MA said TH agreed to come aboard at that dinner.
I wonder if TH agreed, on a handshake and without looking at a script, because haunted, tragic genius has often = OSCAR in recent history. And because TH sometimes gets so excited that he puts the cart before the horse.
I think actors sometimes think their talents can overcome a dodgy script even though a script is the foundation of a movie.
I think TNM is going to be our first 'something not awful to watch.'
I'm looking forward to Bond-light from TH. After that, I'm praying HR gets US distribution.
I could get behind a stage run - as long as the stage door doesn't go the way of Corio. Ugh, the poor man, the poor security team. I would like to think that he'd appreciate a second Olivier more than an Oscar.
I wonder if he's even considering Richard II with James Ivory. Ivory seems keen.
And, fingers crossed that he'll have a role in Kong v. Godzilla! (Breaks sarcasm button.)
>>189 That is fascinating indeed - I have to say that in terms of appearance, he does really resemble Hank, so perhaps that was what Marc Abrahams was also considering.
HR is a very very very niche market and most certainly won't be playing at your average US multiplex (imho) so lets see. Perhaps Netflix or whoever will pick it up instead, though I don't really know how the business works tbh.
I had totally forgotten Richard II - James Ivory is still listing him as being on board, isn't he? I guess that there must be a dozen or so projects floating around in development cough Robert the Bruce cough though I hope that he stays away from too many period pieces.
>>189 That tidbit makes a lot of things fall into place. No script, plus TH much less well known at that time (far from being the star of WH), flattered by the attention of someone wanting him for a lead, and the lead having OSCAR written all over it.
He then also had the year of drought (2013) with no projects so he was hardly going to turn down work in 2014 (and we see the result of all that work being released now).
Hadn't seen this before - especially for them as knows Lat and Gr (looking at you, Anon.)
http://insanely-smart.tumblr.com/post/131959605958/hiddleboners-tom-hiddleston-performing-in
>>185 '(why oh why didn't they just let him keep his bouncy golden locks in CP?)'
Because it's a gothic romance, and that is iconically about a talk, dark, handsome stranger with a past. Thematically, the 'dark' bit is important. That's why Chastain had a black wig too.
>>193
It's not true to say that he had no projects in 2013. He had Coriolanus, which he was preparing for from at least the summer onwards and opened in early December, and Thor: The Dark World (principle photography happened at the end of 2012, but a lot of Loki's bits in the final film were from re-shoots in 2013). He obvously had promotional duties for Thor fall in the middle of what would have been Coriolanus rehearsal period, so they started rehearsing ealier than usual, then had about a month off for him to promote his film, then went straight back into rehearsal. That accounts for about half of his 2013!
Films can be bubbling under for a long time before coming to fruition - it's also quite likely that he was taking meetings back in 2013 for ISTL and High Rise, since he was involved with those before the financing came together.
I'm willing to bet the first half of this year, when it looked like he wasn't working, was actually filled with meetings about projects that we won't be hearing about until next year.
>>181 Don't say it bombed, don't burst the bubble for the fangirls who are calling it a success about to make profit.
>>197 Yes, it bombed. And yes, even if he was rehearsing and doing reshoots for Thor 2, he had a quiet 2013. That's why he was available for all that promotional work for OLLA and Thor. A lot of people (not just me) remarked that he would have turned up to the opening of an envelope in 2013, because really not very busy.
>>195 He seemed slightly gray as a character- nothing sinister stuck me whatsoever as opposed to the icy visage of Lucille. I am trying to remember who I was thinking of in a similar role and I immediately thought of Allesandro Nivola's characterisation in Mansfield Park http :/ /www.imdb.com/title/tt0178737/
You know, it's not actually normal for actors to have back-to-back filming scheduled all year, every year. They do need some time off - some actual recuperation time, and time off to find their next project. It's the way the business works. A major blockbuster release and a major Shakespearean lead role in a year would be considered plenty of work by most actors.
Most of his Marvel co-stars have had a very similar work rhythm. Those big Marvel films are hard work, most of them take some time off after filming/promoting them.
I mean, he is a bit of a workaholic, like Cumberbatch, but after the stretch of work he had in 2011 and through 2012, he really did need some time off in early 2013. He did the same thing this year - basically took the first 3 months off (apart from meetings I am sure he was taking to line up future projects) to recover from making 3 films back-to-back.
>>200 Well you can't have it both ways. Either he was busy in 2013 or he wasn't. Are you Luke Windsor?
More generally I notice that you only ever seem to pop up here to tell us the error of our ways and not otherwise to contribute to the conversation. It might add to the gaiety of nations if you tried not to get so exercised by the remotest suggestion that he may not have been working flat out or that his hair wasn't right or whatever. We are all speculating on here, let's be honest, and you insisting that he is planning new projects or having some much deserved downtime is no more well informed than my original thought (which so sent you off the deep end) that he may have been keen on ISTL because he had been a bit quieter than he'd like.
Apparently K:SI now also to shoot in Vietnam according to "sources close to the production." http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/king-kong-skull-island-shoot-834766
Global distribution rights for TNM given to AMC :
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/amc-global-takes-night-manager-834794?utm_source=twitter
Wow. So anyone who posts something positive in here is Luke Windsor?!
No. I come for a peek in here every now and again, today in particular because I'm off work sick and looking for a distraction from the lurgy. I comment when I have something to say.
I'm actually a fan, and I tend towards optimism. I happen to genuinely think that Tom makes pretty good choices in his work - at least as good as any of his peers - is extremely attractive, is extremely talented, has huge amounts of charisma and stage presence. I have genuinely enjoyed the vast majority of his work - I loved High Rise, and I loved Crimson Peak. I know I'm not the only one - just because a film isn't unversally critically acclaimed or doesn't make huge amounts of money at the box office doesn't mean it's not a successful film on its own terms. Both of those films have people who will passionately defend them as works of art, as well as people who didn't care for them.
People here seem very keen to overanalyze small things - like, you know, going out to the theatre and dinner with a friend, which god knows I do all the time with no romantic involvment - and to be prophets of doom, proclaiming his looks to be going, his career to be on the slide, etc etc. There's a lot of negativity floating around.
As for discussion of his 2013 - well, people in general don't understand how long films take to get made. He was almost certainly lining up his 2014/15 work in 2013, and he has almost certainly spent some of his 'time off' this year setting up work he'll be doing next year and later. Anyone who has been paying attention to the various rumoured projects he has been linked to over the past couple of years should realise that he has been offered projects that he has turned down (we know from the Sony hack that he turned down a project with Sacha Baron Cohen), and that projects he has been interested in didn't manage to get financed, so the idea that he took ISTL because he was lacking work is faintly ridiculous - especially post-Avengers!
And you know, everyone needs a break eventually. It's not good for actors to spend all their time on sets - they need to decompress at some point!
[Puts on diplomatic hat (don't know how I own one of those as an American!) and waders.]
Kate, most people around here lean toward realism rather than pure optimism; it's one of the reasons I like this part of the TH forest. I don't think it's outright negativity. And, I can safely say that we are all fans of TH (we wouldn't be here otherwise). Everyone on this board - save me, and it's going to happen on Friday! - has been to see CP. So, they've done their part as fans. Some of the board liked it, others not so much. As realist-fans (maybe I just made that a thing?), they've discussed its positives and negatives, and we've been honest about the fact that it's a dud - box office wise. People around here don't tend to be 'hear, speak and see no evil' in our discussions about TH - we point out good and bad, and sometimes we do take the piss out of him - affectionately.
And yes, we certainly do question and analyze (maybe overly so - but that's the life of a message board) his project choices - and the reasons for taking them. Sometimes we criticize his choices - Kong comes to mind. There's plenty to criticize and question about that movie - even if TH has said that the script made him shiver and so on. We've questioned his reasons for taking ISTL, especially in light of the overwhelmingly negative reviews and script problems, but we've never said that he's washed up professionally.
We also talk - sometimes gush - about how georgeous he is. I genuinely can't recall a post talking about how his looks are going. We joke about how he wears the same cowboy boots and jacket, and we talk about how he should bring those blonde curls back (maybe that's just me). Other boards, you've probably been to some, are often on about his hairline, his teeth, his terrible skin, etc. In the short time I've been around these parts, I've not seen one of those 'he's aging so horribly' diatribes that you can find elsewhere.
Did we overanalyze his innocent trip to the theatre with a 'friend?' Yep. Everyone did. We did our jobs as realist-fans (it's now a thing).
>>202 I feel like TH is going to be living Ricky Nelson's 'Travelin' Man' over the next few months. The lucky bastard!
>>204 Kate you are entitled to your positive opinion but Anon is entitled to hers, so while there's nothing wrong in explaining why you think otherwise you must accept that other people will have a different view, and if you can't replace their opinion with yours you can't start tellign them that they are not fans, they don't genuinely like TH like you do. It's possible to respect his work without liking everything. And if they want to spend the next 4 weeks talking about something they are free to do so.
And, really, if you think this to be such a horrible place, go elsewhere, start another thread, what the hell is this habit of having to post everywhere on the internet!
I saw this when I first entered the TH fandom; I actually found my way in via Classics - long, strange, but true story. Loki, who cares about Loki. Dude's got a Double First in Classics - mamma like.
He may have mis-translated the word annona on the Corio. comm, but he is killing it here!! To my ear, some British Classicists have a touch of Henninian pronunciation to their Greek, which doesn't really exist in the US. So, sometimes the Greek sounds a little off, but TH's pronunciation is goooood.
I get the impression that he was one of those students who easily translated Thucydides. It makes hate him and want to remove his clothes with my teeth.
>>204 The optimism I can cope with - and by and large I think we are a pretty positive lot. We are all here to talk about the great man after all, and why woul we do that if we held him in such scant regard? I don't recall anyone on here talking about his hair loss or saying his career is on the skids.
What I do take exception to is your (or anyone's) inability to appreciate that this is a place where people are allowed to express opinions, including those that don't accord with your own. You seem to want to show that a contrary opinion to your own is wrong (or "faintly ridiculous" as you so rudely and patronisingly put it) . When someone dares to continue to hold their original view you come back again (and again and again) to try and bludgeon them into submission, which is a bit rich when you accuse us of overanalysing things. I do recall that you tied yourself in knots trying to prove beyond reasonable doubt that a tweet from Josie Rourke about TH in London was consistent with a tweet from a fan who claimed to have seen him in Toronto later the same day, and refusing to take "I disagree" for an answer on that occasion either. I come here to get the gossip, including about all the stuff you claim to find so beneath you, to have a gossip with a bunch of people I have come to know pretty well, and to make (on occasion) flippant, off the cuff and maybe slightly snarky remarks. Other people come here to post links or to get infos or whatever they want. What I don't come here for is to be told I or the views I express are wrong/stupid/ridiculous and repeatedly treated to lectures about how you must be right because you know so much more you know about the ins and outs of the film industry than anyone else. If you really are all about spreading positivity on the interwebs then how about starting here instead of jumping repeatedly down the throat of anyone you disagree with?
>>205>>207 Thank you - both of you.
>>208 You're preaching to the choir. My boy has a double first in Greats. He doesn't really trouble himself with the Loebs or with his dictionary. Thucydides doesn't really do it for me (shock, horror), but I will gladly sit on his knee while he reads from Plutarch.
Here's a random thought - what happened with that UNICEF trip? I haven't heard a peep about it since those pics were located then pulled from that photographer's website.
It sounded like he went to S Sudan in March and then for whatever reason (undoubtedly to do with the geopolitical situation of the time), it was decided not to publicise the trip.
The photographer posted some pics which were only found out about by Torrilla (ie: not actually officially released by anyone, including UNICEF). Their prompt disappearance seemed to indicate that UNICEF didn't want the trip to be publicised.
I thought that it was a bit misleading for some to suggest that the trip was a way for Tom to publicise his films (since the story came out in September).
I do think though, that it is now too far along the line for anything generated from the trip to be useful to UNICEF.
Having said that, it is amusing to sit on the sidelines and watch people suddenly concerned about the plight of the South Sudanese (though wonderful if it is actually enlightening them about this very poor country).
Is K:SI set in 'Nam?
https:// twitter(.)com/reeltourshawaii/status/659823721792696320
>>213 Vietnam in Vietnam-era Kong. This guy seems to be an expert on military aircrafts, last week he recognised the helicopters they are using and he inferred the film takes place in the '70s in Vietnam.
https://twitter. com/reeltourshawaii/status/657614107072327680
https://twitter. com/reeltourshawaii/status/657640380708487168
Which is why I don't get why they would need to go to Vietnam to shoot if they are already filming the Vietnam scenes in Hawaii.
>>210 Thuc. doesn't do it for anyone...unless they can easily translate him. I'll never understand what that man did with participles - ugh, frustrating!!
>>212 I prepared a paper on NATO, the AU and AMIS nearly a decade ago. Every international org. under the sun has set up in that/those country/ies and I feel like there hasn't been too much progress since '02/'03. They're always top of the league on the FSI - never a good place to be.
>>213 Well, I guess it depends on where Shit Island is located. It's vaguely Pacific in other films, not? South East Asia is as good as any, I guess. The helicopters suggest it is set in the 1970s. Maybe TH will have a 70s porn-stash. Maybe they'll capture KK AND re-write history by winning the Vietnam War. TH can do it all!
The mention of 1970s Detroit makes me wonder about accents. We know TH can do a southern drawl just fine. But what if he's required to do a run-of-the-mill American accent. He did fine in MiP, but he has like 10 lines of dialogue in that film.
In earth shattering twitter news...
Ooops, pushed the button too soon.
Maybe Hawaii is meant to be generic tropical/green/exotic island, while Vietnam is meant to be remote, lush jungle.
Hawaii has the look of an exotic, tropical place, but doesn't really have proper jungles like Vietnam does.
>>217 Macy's, hmm. Maybe getting his Christmas shopping done early since he's supposed to be filming through December.
>>217 Someone* is pestering him to give his opinion on 'the banana industry.' Yep. I don't know if that's meant to be a joke, a euphemism or he/she really wants TH's opinion on the cultivation/harvest/sale of bananas.
*You left out some words: "A five-year old child with access to his mom's laptop"
;)
I hope he's buying bag-loads of the most gloriously garish Hawaiian shirts he can get his hands on, for all kin and kith. With the winter coming up, London needs as much mismatched pineapple prints as it can get.
Just responding generally to everything!
1) I find the need to be in Hawaii very odd full stop because Vietnam is well set up to film the military base/generic tropical stuff as well as all the jungly things. There is a former US air base at Danang which is apparently used for every Vietnam war movie ever (saw it when I visited).
2) I had heard Cambodia, I think from an interview with TH himself at the Baftas, which makes more sense because of jungle plus amazing temples. Visions of TH shirtless in the Tomb Raider temple with a Bowie knife between his teeth [fans self].
3) if he buys a Hawaiian shirt it will surely be blue.
4) bananas?
5) in England a porn-stache and a porn stash are 2 totally different things. Perhaps he was in Macy's buying a dvd of Emmanuelle to get himself in character?
(The bike has photos supposedly of EH wedding
I think that Australia will be used for the interior sets though if you get out and about Queensland (especially the Daintree and the far north), you are in the tropics, so it could fit in for other locations.
In any case, the cast and crew will be there for the hottest and muggiest time of the year ...
>>224 I suppose the 15% subsidy must be a big incentive for filming in Australia.
>>225 Not to mention our declining Aussie dollar :( ... We're super attractive as a cheap alternative to LA as I think, was mentioned on the other TH sites.
All is good. I do hope that that poor man does manage to see the rest of the country too whilst he is here - Byron Bay is particularly nice (though at times, a bit shark-ridden) and a particular favourite of the Hemsworths.
Gold Coast is a bit of a rowdy place - lots of high rises and sort of infamous for it's drug-running bikie gangs (though they are trying to clamp down on it). I am sure that there is a niche market that will be catering for millionaire film makers and movie stars.
>>227 (I forgot, you can also see TH in the second pic the bike posted)
>>223 Oooo, I didn't see the rude tweets. I just search his name, I don't search his twitter handle, so maybe she sent those rude ones without mentioning his name. What did the rude ones say?
I didn't investigate the banana tweet. There were about ten of them in a row, all asking the same thing. Was it really a kid? What kid thinks: I wonder what Loki thinks about bananas, and then acts upon it.
>>225 15%? Jesus. Australia is not messing around.
>>222 TH for the male-centered remake of Emmanuelle!! If they did it with Ghostbusters, they can do the reverse with Emmanuelle.
>>229 https://twitter. com/sandkassels/status/659550081863958528
>>229 Sitting naked in a basket chair fondling a string of pearls. Rawr. We might be onto a thing here.
>>231 He'd be the house-husband to a female diplomat. His name would be Manny, and in true Emmanuelle style, he go on a journey of sexual discovery!! She wore a lot of silk robes, as I recall, so he'd need to do that as well.
The first time I saw Emmanuelle was my first night in London. I'd arrived with all of my belongings in 3 suitcases. I'd managed Gatwick, the tube and gotten to the B&B I was staying in until my work could arrange for a flat. I was jet-lagged, exhausted. I turned on the tv and Channel 5 was showing Emmanuelle. You've not experienced Emmanuelle until you've watched it jet-lagged, at midnight in a B&B on your first night living in a new country.
>>232 Maybe we are going off topic (as if we haven't before). My parents had travelled a lot in Europe in the 80s. They were considered cosmopolitan because they made spaghetti out of the dried stuff not out of a can. They owned Emmanuelle on vhs (I am really showing my age here). I stole it and watched it with my little friends. Some of their parents owned The Joy of Sex. Only mine owned Emmanuelle.
He'd need to masturbate as a "plot device" and make out with a lot of other house husbands. We are onto a thing here.
I just reread the "plot" on Wikipedia. It is quite fruity! And like the Night Manager only without the pesky espionage (travels abroad, goes for nude swim etc).
Ok back on message. Anon., did you see CP last night? All agog for your review!
If you want to bid on a stripy pair of Converse which TH has touched but I doubt ever worn: http://www.smallstepsproject.org/portfolio/tom-hiddleston/
>>236 Still a cool thing to do (donate the shoes) but I think they're from last years auction.
>>236 Oops .. sorry .. stand corrected! They are front this years - the link was weird. Nice shoes in any case, and nice cause. :)
>>238 They are and it is. It is just that last year and this he has donated a pair of shoes he was never seen wearing (last year was a pair of black Jimmy Choo lace ups made of funky black patterned leather which looked brand new and which definitely weren't his style!). Maybe he thinks his own shoes get so much wear they aren't fit to donate!
>>239 Definitely! Also: how many actual pairs of shoes does the man possess? 3: and furthermore .. it honestly wouldn't surprise me if someone managed to extract his DNA from the odd toenail clipping found in one of his footware ..
>>235 Sorry for the late reply: Friday was movie night, Saturday was rugby in the morning/afternoon and Halloween party in the evening. I'm happy I got an extra hour this morning - that you Eisenhower for your DST scheme!
Spoilers...maybe...read at your own risk.
CP was okay - I didn't love it and I didn't hate it - middle of the road. I was actually surprised by how long it was! I guess I never realized that it was clocking in at about 2hr. The boy, who doesn't know I'm a TH fan (I said I wanted to see a scary movie for Halloween, no more) and is fairly cerebral, said he enjoyed it.
It's a beautiful film, everything's jewel-toned and rich - and I enjoyed the visuals. The plot was thin on the ground and there weren't many layers, so - with the reviews, trailers, TH interviews, etc. - I could see everything coming down the hall (things weren't even coming around corners!!). The boy - who had zero previous knowledge - said he knew the brother and sister were off somehow but thought that they were just killing women for money - he didn't get the incest vibe right away.
I actually enjoyed GDT's borrowing from books, films, genres - something others have complained about. I made a game of it: ballroom scene - Age of Innocence, heart thread - Jane Eyre, Edith as the 'final girl'- every slasher film ever made.
I thought JC gave the best performance; it was over-the-top, but I think that was the point. TH did well. I don't always believe in his voice, but his facial expressions are always on point; I imagine his eyebrows will receive a lifetime achievement Oscar at some point. MW always seems a little flat to me - I thought she was dreadful in M. Bovary and not much better in J. Eyre. She was better in CP, but I thought she and TH showed very little chemistry. I mean, if your going to move into a cold, crumbling mess of a house for a man, you should at least seem head-over-heels for him. As for CH - why was he even in this film?
Here are my overall ratings:
7/10 purses
6/10 scarves
7/10 gates
A few - rhetorical - questions and comments about CP:
1) JC neither blinked nor used an English accent at any point. Great outfits though.
2) Did MW's character know about riding cowgirl from the get go because she is American? Is this taught in schools or something?
3) To me the biggest plot hole was whether TS loved Edith from the start (viz for example standing on stairs looking winsome after driving in the (metaphorical) knife about how crap her writing was). Then lots of scenes of him looking alternately conspiratorial or longing. Not much progression from mammon to Venus - more like veering inconsistently between the two. I wonder if it was the editing.
4) It was weirdly long and yet so little happened until the last 15 minutes. I looked at my watch at one point and wondered how they would get through all the remaining plot.
4) If I didn't know the general plot, I would have wondered what the first hour was moving towards. It meandered a bit.
I should have added that I found it to be a good level of scary. Because I'd wanted to watch a scary movie for Halloween, the boy decided that we should drive about an hour outside of the city to see this at a drive-in theatre. And, it really helped to ramp up the scary factor - certainly more than sitting in a comfy seat inside a building.
It helped to have shadows and sounds (creaks and gravel crunch and the wind) around the car. When Lucille was slashing at Edith through the bars, someone walked past the window on my side and I, irrationally, yelped a little because, you know, it could have been someone with a huge cleaver.
It was Grace Kelly - to me it sounded like a very posh Anmerican person imitating HM the Queen. RZ I thought did the best ever English accent - totally natural sounding. JC sounded to me a bit forced, like she found it hard work, which was a bit odd as she didn't have that many lines.
As to the moment Sir T found love, well I don't know. If it was at the post office then why pop back to sis for a quickie (save to get caught, which is necessary for the denouement)? Why look so malevolent when Charlie Hunnam shows up unexpectedly? I do get that he is a tortured soul who does the decent thing at the last moment, but even with this in mind, it felt as though there were 2 alternative stories being played out: TS falls in love/lust, takes Edith home with idea of grabbing money but persuading sis that they keep her on (it's the last time, she is ideal, you must trust me); or, TS sees one more cash cow, intends to perform usual trick and then falls for her once he's got her home.
Apparently, a southern accent is the 'easiest' for a Brit, especially a Texan drawl. I've read/heard a few actors say this. So I find it interesting that as a native Texan, RZ did a very convincing job with her British accent. I'm sure a linguist...maybe even a cunning one! - could explain the reasons why there's a crossover there.
TH is a cunning linguist in CP, but only an implied one!
>>248 There is a reason. A lot of linguistic scholars think that the Southern accent is the closest we now can get to the English spoken in England in the 17th century. This theory makes sense given that the first settlement from the old country was in Virginia. (We are venturing into the territory of my college degree now!). I suspect that because of this history, there is still more of a continuum between Southern and modern British accents.
>>248 And the upper class southern accent also consciously changed more slowly - they wanted to sound English for a long time (more refained dahling!). Hence the divergence, even now when there has been a lot of change over the last 50 years, is much less than it is between British accents and any other Ameican accent.