Thread to talk about the actor Tom Hiddleston
Just for old times, back when I was happy to post his photos
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsrTC_UUkAEX7Gk.jpg
>>699 Hahaha, but you know I also think he is incredibly vain.
>>700 they replaced the other boots.
>>701 I hate how she insists on doing his hair. It looks lovely when it has a curl and she straightens it back from his receding hairline.
>>704 Yes! It doesn't help improving a situation that is becoming more and more evident.
>>698 1. Firt, Suzanne Bier has the prestige and the name. since she is an Oscar winning director. already. That's a HUGE advantage in TV world.
2. You have to the remember that most of the people in the Academy are not actors. They hold/held positions in front and behind the camera. Although it's great to watch two actors in a room spar using wonderful verbiage, the TNM required Suzanne to do more than that. She guided English speaking actors as well as actors who spoke other languages besides English, handled muriad locations all around the world. This included filming in cities with many extras in crowd shots, and in small isolated towns. On beaches and on the water. In the snow and in the desert, during the day and night. And she accomplished filming gorgeous and explosive action sequences with explosions, and fight sequences as well. And this directon made the series glossy and exceptionally emotionally easy for viewers to engage, and esp. easy for voters who are not actors to respect, since Bier had to command such a variety of skills as a director.
>>707 1. Her name, prestige and previous work are irrelevant or they might as well avoid going through the motion of picking nominations and give it to the one with the best resumè. This is not a job interview.
2. And that's how she got her nomination, but to win, one must prove to be the best among all nominated. If she had been then her series should have won more, an Outstanding director that is good with explosions but can't bring any award to her actors? Viewers clearly engaged just as well with The PeoplevsOJ. so Anon is right, the award to Bier was a travesty decided in advance, ergo TH presence.
>>708 I think she was given the win because she directed the entire series. TPvOJS had a few directors who worked on different episodes, which maybe led the voters to perceive the actors as being more independent. Of course I'm not saying the directors didn't matter, but the voters' thought process may have been that a single director who led a cast of actors to multiple nominations was more deserving than a director who was only responsible for a few episodes, even if that series' actors gave better performances individually.
>>708 I wasn't saying that Suzanne Bier necessarily deserved the win for sure. I was just saying that despite how well Te OJ movie connected with fans, members of the academy, who are not thespians would find a diversity of skills to praise in Biers work throughout the entire series, The academy is not made of tv fans, and it's not made up of just thespians, like the SAG. Like when Gravity won at Oscars, it was because the film had such great visual scope, not because it had the best script, and not because it had the most subtle and multilayered acting.
Also, I wasn't implying that Bier's resume should make her the winner, I was just elucidating that in any awards competition that your name and prior resume can play a significant role in whether you are nominated or whether or not you win. People know and respect Bier's work. Spielberg gets nominated all the time, even though his films are not quite as great as they used to be, because people respect him, because he's a legends, and because his average films can be better than many directors good films. You know how it is. Sometimes you win an award because you're the best, sometimes you win because you lost when you should have won before, sometimes you win because your project has heat in the press, sometimes you win because of the politics of the voting of that year, and sometimes you win because you did a great job, but also you win because you are liked and respected and people know your name when they see it on a ballot. That's all! Just chatting.
>>687 Re: Eonline article matching up TH and PC at an after party: she has a steady bf - a fiancé, according to google. So I'm more apt to believe E! is shit stirring. Plus that was not the only party he attended. If she is spotted at more parties with him tonight, then I will say there's a spark.
>>693 I read that too. The articles are easy to find.
>>699 Is he that prissy (fussy) about clothing detail to call it out like that? Vain, yes, maybe not like before because he looked about 45 years old not 35.
There's another article claiming the Emmy director trolled TS by panning from Tom to John Mayer. https://m.mic.com/articles/154493/is-john-mayer-at-the-2016-emmy-awards-are-he-and-tom-hiddleston-trolling-taylor-swift#.5O7xwDN70
That was the funniest press to come out of this thing tonight
>>711 a spark of a friendship not her jumping to another guy while Tom jumps to another high profile romance.
Emmys 2016: Tom Hiddleston Says He's Still Friends with Taylor Swift : People.com
So, did the reporters scream this at Tom on the red carpet? And whose press team leaked this info, Tom or TS? : )
http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,21026212_21030973,00.html
Check this new article on Tom, Swift, and flirting with Priyanka at the Emmys in Vanity Fair. Its as if the reality tv relationship PR situation with Swift has tainted our perception of Tom's motivations so much, that all we can see when he talks to a woman or when there is article about him are the machinations of his/the Hollyood PR machine. It used to be fun to look at Tom's pics, or chat and gossip about him, but how we just wonder about how we are possibly being manipulated, and for what specific purpose, and by whom?
http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/09/tom-hiddleston-says-taylor-swift-still-friends-emmys
http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/09/taylor-swift-tom-hiddleston-relationship-problems
>>704 Everyone, look at how far my hair has receded! Look at how thin it is! Can everyone see my hairline and melasma?
Dude, you want to recapture your youth...have your youthful hair. Let it get long, let it get curly, stop scraping it in the direction you don't want it to go. Why is that such a hard concept to grasp?
His stylist and groomer do him disservices at a high cost.
>>717 The tabloids do what they always do, they are not forcing anyone to read their silly articles.
As for perception, nobody's perception was tainted by TS, since TH's freely decided to every single thing that happened.
>>716 How convenient. And conveniently comic. And just a little unbelievable. But that's my skeptical self.
>>718 lol
>>720 you are not alone, first thing I wondered was why would this girl travel all the way to Suffolk.
>>714 This seems a plant. Does People even have a reporter on the red carpet? Is that the only reporter TH spoke to on the RC because there aren't too many other RC interviews coming out, i.e., none.
From which camp? I know not, I care not. Hopefully it's an extended hand and both sides can stop behaving like their permanent residences are listed as 'the playground.' The relationship was a ruse, does the breakup need to be as well?
>>699 Sadly her presence - I won't call it employment - for a non-movie or press/ promo event suggests that she is employed not by a studio but by TH. Can we safely say she styled him on July 4th? Did TH text her saying that he wanted to wear something both emasculating AND embarrassing? She is such a good stylist!
>>722 Actually I can see Mama Hidds being in the Big Smoke for some artsy fartsy shindig. But the ringtone thing, if meant to be serious, seems the bullshit part.
>>725 Anything can be - that poster reminds me so much of nw3anon I can't help but taking everything with caution.
>>725 The woman said she was in the team for the Antony Sher Lear at the RSC. This is currently playing in Stratford and the RSC is a theatre company with which TH has had no association. Emma Hiddleston is not in the cast. Maybe Mama Hiddles went to see it in Stratford - maybe not. Can't imagine she would get special treatment if she did given TH has zero to do with the RSC, or that this poster would meet her even if she did. If Mama Hiddles went to London, why would this woman meet her, even if it was some arty shindig? Shouldn't she be working at Stratford still? Sounds like bullshit to me....
>>724 She's a terrible stylist. She seems to think that telephoning Gucci and saying "make Tom Hiddleston a dinner suit" shows that she is a genius, as if anyone with half a brain couldn't pick out a nice dinner jacket and some cuff links and surprisingly make it fit well given it was custom made.
If you look at her women's styling, where there is a lot more room for error, you can see how bad she actually is. She was responsible for this abomination as well: bad dress, and terrible hair which belies the phrase "styled." https://www.instagram.com/p/BKhK44zh1Ah/?taken-by=ilariaurbinati&hl=en
>>728 I've come to dislike most of her styling choices for him (I haven't checked out other celebs who use her). I chalked it up to me just disliking her vision of hipster style.
"The house band included Ray Parker Jr., Steve Jordan and Mayer, who provided the night's bitchiest moment when he played "The Thrill Is Gone" as Taylor Swift's ex Hiddleston was leaving the stage. Oh, dear John."
http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/rob-sheffield-why-the-2016-emmys-didnt-suck-this-year-w440660
Tom and Gwendoline Christie:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKizH-ZA1Q0/
>>728,729 I hope you both realize I was joking when I said she's good (I think you do)! Although, if she did style him into that t-shirt, she hit the brief perfectly as it was both emasculating and embarrassing! Earn that money, sweetie.
>>730 John Mayer - I bestow upon you the strange respect I recently gave to Kim K. Kudos! Maybe not totally bitchy in the sense that JM knows the dark tunnel TH travelled.
Mystery Man was Tom's +1 last night. There's also a possible identification of him as Tom's agent from NYC, although I'm not sure how to confirm if that's true.
http://dlisted.com/2016/09/19/tom-hiddleston-tried-to-get-with-priyanka-chopra/
Michael K. Sees you TH, he sees you.
>>733 Holding Tom's tub of hair gel for 5% of his earnings. I could do that job.
1) Yes, I know
2) I don't want to think about Tom and any dark tunnels he's travelled recently.
Tom doing an impression of either a tortoise or Michael Douglas:
http://dlisted.com/2016/09/19/tom-hiddleston-tried-to-get-with-priyanka-chopra/wenn29548343/
No point of re-shipping GOT actress, G. Christie and Tom. As of August 6, 2016, she is still with her partner of nearly four years, the outstanding couture fashion designer Giles Deacon. Smart girl. Finding a very tall, talented, and straight fashion designer as a beau! Reminds me of when Gene Tierney and Grace Kelly were both smart enough to court Oleg Cassini in the 40s and 50s, before he later went on to dress Jackie Kennedy during her White House years.
Game of Thrones actress Gwendoline Christie talks working with partner Giles Deacon: ‘I wear armour and I wear couture – both fascinate me’
>>733 There are now conflicting reports on tumblr, saying that Tom's manager from NYC is a man named Jon Rubinstein, who looks nothing like Mr. Beard. Google confirms it. Back to being a mystery.
Want a giggle, darlings?
So TS was in Nashville on Saturday. But on Sunday evening EST, her plane took off from Nashville and landed in Burbank in the evening (an hour or so after the Emmys wrapped). Today it headed back to Nashville at around 4:00 EST.
What does this mean? Yes, the Swfities think that TS flew to CA for a quick post-Emmy romp with TH and then flew back to Nashville this afternoon. Apparently, the super hot sexual chemistry between these two meant that they just couldn't stay apart. Tayto has been reborn, according to some. Praise Jesus!
I don't know if her plane flew out of Nashville, but an f900 did make those flights at the listed times (I asked someone in the office about Flight Aware, and I can just about manage it after a lesson). I can't imagine too many f900 are based in Nashville and fly into Burbank. There aren't many f900s in the sky at any time, full stop. So I think her plane did make this trip.
Now I don't think Tayto rose like a phoenix last night. But, knowing that her fans (and TH's) can track her plane, did TS send her main mode of transportation on a 4,000 mile round trip to make it seem like they might have had a reunion?
Or did she send the plan to pick up one of her cats' outfits? Or a favorite squeeze toy?
>>740 I remember Anonon first spotted that he was the same person in the DM pics and the SDCC pics. I then recognized him last night fairly quickly (the beard is an easy spot and my ability to recognize faces is the only faculty not being impacted by my time as an incubator). I don't think we saw him before SDCC. He seems new.
I don't know if he's the reason for the showmance, is the clean up crew brought in to deal with its messiness, or has absolutely nothing to do with Tayto.
Who again did TH visit (parking garage pics) when he returned from Oz, the people based in Beverly Hills?
>>740,742 I just Googled the shit out of this Jon Rubinstein and used all my imagination to add an ugly beard and hair to him. While the face is similar, his hairline aint. Jon's is in deep recession, rather like TH, whereas our mystery beardy dudey has a very pronounced and alarmingly straight hairline (rather like his beardline).
Conclusion: it's the same man with hair plugs or (most likely) a completely different person.
At this point I would assume he's either a bff or a bf.
>>741 Nooooooooooooooooooo.
Realistically, TH arrived in LA 2 days before the Emmys so if she wanted a proper shag and a catch-up that was the time to do it. Only a psycho ex would fly in and expect you to leave all the hobnobbing parties early.. oh wait..
>>742 Supposedly his agents, who, along with the show producers, were 'yelling at him' for allowing the stunt to overshadow his promotion of TNM during the Emmy voting period which ended on Aug. 29th.
>>743 Yep, there you go. No pics of them together Sunday night have surfaced. I think I read that it's already flown back to Nasville?
So either:
she flew in to attend a party she was rumoured to have been invited to but one TH did not attend
she flew in for sekret secks with tom because tHey ARe sTiLl ToGetHEr
she flew in to talk face to face about the breakup and/ or do some business associated with that
>>745 It was probably a family member using the plane. Her brother has been filming a movie in Los Angeles so the jet could have been picking him up, or bringing someone out to see him.
>>745 option 1 is least likely or we would have seen pics
Option 2 is just kidding cause Luke is with him and I find it hard to believe he would say " ok you two kids run off and have fun and DONT FORGET TO USE A CONDOM!"
Option 3 seems more likely
Burning fuel to create rumors without leaving Nashville seems out there even for her....yet....
>>744 Does he has LA agents? I thought his agent was London based.
>>743 He doesn't have BFFs: he has Luke and Olly. And while he may be planning to exit the closet (who knows!), I don't think he'd show up at an awards show with his boyfriend only a few weeks after splitting from his high-profile girlfriend. If TH comes out as gay anytime soon, the gig is up, and both he and TS will be in the shit.
I do love a good mystery! Mystery Man is a thousand times more interesting than Tayto ever was.
The dailymail has reprinted the pic of Tom laughing with the blonde fan outside of The Brunch & Co. coffee shop in Australia from last week, along with his pics with Priyanka from Emmy night and suggesting their after party flirtation, to frame him as some sort of lothario. The dailymail just wants clicks, or Luke and Co are just throwing anything up at the wall to see what sticks, to get out from under the TS Summer drama.
Filling that Blank Space? Tom Hiddleston turns on the charm while chatting with pretty blonde... just a week after Taylor Swift split
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3797474/Tom-Hiddleston-turns-charm-chatting-pretty-blonde-just-week-Taylor-Swift-split.html#ixzz4Kl6yO4Ns
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>>750 His US Agent is, or was, WME (Willam Morris Endeavor). They signed him in October 2011. Before that it was IME.
The last time I checked over to his IMDBPro site (which is partially blocked for me by a popup since I'm not a Pro subscriber), it listed his UK/US management (Hamilton Hodell) and WME for his US agents.
Now both are blocked for non-Pro lurkers. Anyone here have a subscription so we can verify?
Back on Mystery Man again, I've looked at some more photos from different angles and I think he may indeed be Jon Rubinstein after all. Ignoring the hair and beard and looking at facial features, bone structure, and especially the ears, I'm about 95% sure it's him.
>>755 It's such a shame the only available reference photos are completely hairless but there's been a remarkable transformation if it is the same man. I too see similarities in his face shape and obviously it makes the most sense if it is him. It's logical that micromanaging stepped in during SDCC and has not left his side for one second since.
In the time between his managers last official press shot he has had the 'stein' chiselled off his nose and his hairline sewn back in- all very plausible in the world of Hollyweird I guess.
>>755 it does, now that I found a picture of him without beard.
>>756 lol! I just caught what you said at the end lol I don't think it's Jon Rubinstein though. The noses are completely different though like Anonon said he could've gotten a nose job but I dunno. There's also the difference in the length of the face.
The more probable explanation is that it's probably a junior manager who works under Jon Rubinstein who's been tasked with keeping Tom's affairs in order. It makes sense since Rubinstein owns Authentic Mgmt and probably has to oversee everything.
Hang onto your hats for another desperate Oscar-grabbing publicity tour for ISTL. There was an "actors only" screening last night at which TH did a q&a. This lady has lots of tweets:
.com/the26thman/status/778084749457915904
>>755,756 The Jon Rubinstein you are talking about is this one https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonrubinstein and this one http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/authentic-sells-scripted-tv-series-848957 ? Yes, I agree with anonsy, the ears are the same.
>>759 Yes, there was an article a few weeks ago saying that SPC was going to promote its films for the Oscars, among them ISTL.
The video of the Q&A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZw_pLf1DNU
the article I was talking about
http://deadline.com/2016/08/oscars-miles-ahead-maggies-plan-first-2016-awards-screeners-1201810642/
>>760 It is easier to see the similarity from the 6,000 year old LinkedIn photo.
Here is a question: how many hangers on does TH now have?
Agent, UK & US (least hanger on like and most useful).
Luke
US publicist (identity?)
Manager
Stylist (shudder)
Olly
Other styling hangers on (has he had a "groomer"?)
He's headed back to Australia:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKkHV7BgNMX
That same instagram account also has a clip from the ISTL Q&A that I did not listen to.
>>762 I laughed when I read that Rubinstein's management company is called Authentic Talent and Literary Management, no wonder TH signed up with them, he is so authentic! But they are based in Brooklyn, was TH anywhere near them when he was in NY in June and then in July? Can we infer that him acquiring a second agent in the US means he can't find scripts?
There was also a make-up artist in the US, that was actually good, and the bodyguard/driver in the UK.
>>764 Thank you, because I almost thought of making the sacrifice of watching the over 20 minutes q&a, now I'll pass.
>>683 Re: trying to decipher his private IG - Anonon and I have different guesses. The one I'm looking at has a lot of the right people behind the scenes but it has a few verified accounts like they don't want to have to switch accounts just to look?
Anonon is your guess account still looking like it's Tom's private? Does it have any verified accounts?
As for his private Facebook, I haven't bothered to try to look. It's sad that almost 3 years ago, somewhere on FB or Twitter maybe, when I was newer to TH, someone posted a link to Sarah's husband's FB account to a picture of her, him, and their daughter. The account name was his company's name, but he seemed to be treating it like a personal but not private account. I don't recall the company name.
Meant to say that what is sad is that I can't recall the company name so I can't look up the account. My guess was that maybe he friended Tom's private FB account..
>>768 you can try the older threads, I think I posted the link to that photo last year.
The only thing I don't quite understand of Rubenstein is his presence in OZ. His company doesn't about PR so I can't find a reason for him to be there or at SDCC.
Anyway, this is their website http://www.authenticm.com/
>>768 I don't think I'll ever know unless we become friends and I will never send a request.
There is no way to see who the account follows, verified or not. That is the nature of private accounts from my experience. All you can see is the name of the account, their profile pic if they have one, the number of posts and the number of people they follow. JArthy's account, for instance is also on total lockdown.
It could possibly belong to an incredibly well researched fan who poses as TH and befriends cast and crew members but as I mentioned the cast and crew are following back when they don't follow any other fan accounts.
It's not used for posting photos- that number never changes so I think he must have another very private personal account.
I never bothered to trawl through any of TS's friends massive accounts to see if they followed and after the summer of stunts I haven't bothered to check on Thor cast and crew follows either.
I just occasionally look at the numbers and couldn't help noticing the uncharacteristic unfollows at all the right times.
I'm happy to post the name as long as those crazy lurkers PROMISE they won't do anything stupid like send a friend request...
>>771 The only frame of reference I have for that is the show Entourage, which is heavily influenced by the life of Mark Wahlberg.
His best friend is his manager and 'manages' him constantly and his agent and whole team step up the nannying whenever he does bad things that require fixing.
TH has done some rather questionable things this summer (and possibly run rogue of all his handlers). It has no doubt been decided he requires a permanent chaperone until he finds his feet again.
>>772 I kind of assumed that TH would have a private IG if he had one, not a public one under a pseudonym. That and the never posting any pics part makes me think Anonon might have the right account. Also it would seem to me that there is no point having a fan account if you keep it private, so it doesn't sound like a fan account.
Are there follows from crew and creatives from more than one of TH's projects?That would seem to rule out it being a particularly private crew member from one project being followed by other crew members from that project. Too much of a coincidence.
>>774 No the name is a dead giveaway it's either him or a fan pretending to be him. He's never been imaginative with his account names.
I doubt a fan would be able to maintain the ruse with close colleagues for such a long time either.
>>775 What is it? If you don't want to post the name, give me a good hint or point me in the right direction.
>>776 Have a look at his initials plus a number, no picture, very British emoji
>>777 I think I find it, just tell me if the numbers of post/follower/following are correct: 32/25/366
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-elliott-88136924
Mystery Man!
New Anon was right, he is an underling from the West Coast office who has not had a Hollyweird makeover
>>780 I was just about to post, I haven't found the possible Tom IG but I did find Jon Rubinstein's IG and his recent photos show him with no hair and no beard.
>>780 He apparently runs the LA division of Authentic and also manages Brie Larson.
>>780 at least we got the company right!
>>778 Damn - I still can't find it. Maybe I am being too obvious!
>>784 I haven't found it either. There is one account I did find that only has four photos of birds and kittens. I'm going to pretend that's his.
>>784,785 think simple, all of his initials and two numbers, the first two numbers you would associate with him.
>>786 Got it now. I'd have thought the numbers would have been in reverse.
>>785,787 Still nope. I thought I was being obvious. The only number I associate with him is a 4 digit one but his initials and that number bring up nothing (well they bring up an actual fan account)
>>787 Remember that with private accounts the only ones who have access to their photos or activity are the followers. That will be only his most loyal and trusted friends.
I can't remember now but I think it jumped around 6 extra followers at the beginning of summer and dropped most of them in stages after SDCC.
The larger number he is following will be those he is interested in stalking- acquaintances and work colleagues. That number has also increased and then decreased this summer.
>>788 Three initials, two letters, no spaces
>>789 Still nope. Two letters? I thought it was numbers. I must be on completely the wrong track. Never mind.
>>790 Yes, it's 2 numbers Anon. Ok, let's see if I can help you. Initials, that's easy. The other two, your hint would be an ID, the first 2 field, without zeros.
>>792 hahaha we are so covert we should be spies.
Yay! Found it! >>775 You're right. He really isn't very imaginative with the name. Maybe he really is very naive lol
OT The second greatest couple of our times has just split.
T I could see TH swooping in.
>>797 I'm more shocked about the reason for the split than the split.
TH will stay single until next summer. I think Luke put him on probation.
