Thread to talk about the actor Tom Hiddleston
I'm looking forward to the promo tour in which TH attempts to get deep and meaningful about a giant monkey movie. You know words like 'mythology' and 'reimagined' are going to be thrown around, along with 'anthropomorphic.'
'Kong is not dissimilar to Lear actually....' Or 'I based my character on my portrayal of Henry V.'
>>842 I wonder if TH will start getting offers to do commercials in China. Big money, I hear.
Is that Jane Arthy behind Tom?
>>853,854 Face shape looks wrong to me. I think it's pre-Jarthy - a little too ancient.
Are you still hoping to make Richard II with Tom Hiddleston?
I am. That’s moving along. Tom has become a very popular actor and he has all sorts of things that he wants to do so it’s when he can do it which hopefully won’t be too long from now. But he’s keen and is going to do it. The other starring role will be Bolingbroke played by Damian Lewis.
>>856 Again! James Ivory is TH's biggest fanboy. I remain sceptical. If TH wants to do it that much, he would have made time (especially since he hardly has a busy diary that we know of after Thor). TH has also never announced it or even I think mentioned it as a project he is interested in. I increasingly feel like JI is one of those annoying people you meet at a party and say "oh yeah, that sounds interesting", and the next thing you know they are trying to flog you shares in their company or whatever.
Bit of random gossip from a not necessarily reliable source: http://insanely-smart.tumblr.com/post/150816754278/hm-very-interesting-that-his-us-agent-meets-him
I mostly want to know what it is so I can publish it on tumblr and annoy the unbelievably clever one. She said on another post it was a novel.
>>858 I remember them all talking about The Scarlet Pimpernel some time ago.
@858,
Amazing how she acts like she knows something but knows nothing. Her arrogance (and Berlinale girl's) remains out of this world.
It only they knew how much they are loathed in TH's fandom. Esp after their behavior during Twiddleswift.
>>858 She's teasing a rumor after admonishing people to not during Tayto? Are there any clues to be had by looking at his Twitter or IG account?
I went ahead and anon messaged her my guess. I was wrong.
>>862 I saw that - wondered if it was you!
I haven't seen a thing on Twitter or IG about any new project for TH. She claims to be a film student and producer so maybe she has heard something on the grapevine. Or maybe not!
>>858 Bah! I gave a look at WME headquarters in LA and it looks nothing like that parking lot where TH was seen. It seems to me this is wishful thinking.
>>863 I had it wrong. I thought she was a freelance entertainment journalist.
Re: IG/Twitter, I was thinking more along the lines of him following people over the past 6 months that may leave a clue - a particular writer or director or producer?
If it's another bio but of a living person who has an account, it may be more obvious. I will sleuth when i get home.
>>863>>866 She calls herself a writer/ producer/ film student on her tumblr and Twitter. But I know she was parading herself as being in public relations in her earlier days. Which leads me to the natural conclusion of she's none of the above and just a stan parading as someone of importance in the entertainment world to be on the upper rungs in the hierarchy of the Hiddleston fandom.
Also how does one manage to become a producer while still being a film student? I thought you had to bust your ass to be producer.
>>858>>862 I'm guessing she's teasing the rumors about The Voyeur's Motel. There were some rumors floating earlier this year that since Sam Mendes wants to make it into a movie that Tom would be cast as the main character because it's a mix of Night Manager meets the sex of Laing or something like that. But it died out pretty fast because of a murder controversy surrounding the book and the author and who the main character is based off of. And then of course there were the Bond rumors and Hiddleswift.
I think she's just teasing that rumor again. She told an anon the book was released this summer and so was The Voyeur's Motel. Dunno if it's true or not but I think she's got access to the same info as the rest of us and she just tries to spin it in a way that makes her seem in the know.
>>868 I knew someone on here would know! I haven't been keeping up as I don't follow her (too nauseating). I hadn't heard the Voyeur's Motel rumour but it sounds like that is what she is spinning and that the murder stuff is the "controversy" she is alluding to.
>>866>>867 As far as I am aware TH's Twitter follows over the last 6m at least have been easily explicable and very specific to current issues and personal concerns - so by way of example, he follows AMC, journalists who interviewed him, and Bernie Sanders. The only follow for a project we haven't yet seen was the guys who did the as yet unreleased UNICEF feature. His follows are something I do keep an eye on and I would have googled anything unusual.
How funny that the super clever one has changed what she said she was. I definitely don't keep up with that!
>>868 The Voyeur's Motel rumor came from the Bond Reddit board, i.e., Sam Mendes shot an audition tape for Bond with TH because TH was going to star in Mendes' next film which was meant to be TVM (that seems to be up in the air because of a plagiarism/honesty issue with the book's author).
So >>868 is correct, she doesn't have anything more than the rest of us floating around in the TH-sphere.
>>870 Forgot to add: The TVM rumor also led people to speculate that TH did in fact meet Mendes in London recently but that there was no Broccoli and he was meeting Mendes to talk TVM not Bond.
>>870 I gather the book is a piece of shit, even if any of it is true. Norman Mailer it ain't....
>>870 And the super clever one is full of shit also. How funny that she got this off Reddit. Not that I am remotely surprised, but it's nice to have it confirmed.
>>874 If it is the fishing hook she's casting, it most certainly came from the Bond reddit. I got the Bond info from someone whose main board is reddit; I posted it up thread or in #12. I didn't mention TVM then, but remember the reddit source mentioning it at the time.
>>875 Several people suggested it was TVM and strangely she has gone all quiet. Ha ha ha.
Crazy Smart (I think it was her) has in the past boasted about deducing his next project from SM follows and the like - always after the fact, of course. So if we assume she's using this same strategy and do likewise ourselves ...
With my limited knowledge (I'm no writer/producer/director/film student!!!), the only 'big name' twitter follows he's had recently are Brian Grazer, James Wan, James Franco and Patty Jenkins. These, I think, fall into the 'filmmaker' category.
Wan makes horror films. Franco directs and produces, but mainly does so when he's starring. Jenkins recently did Wonder Woman and had done Monster back in the day.
Grazer is BIG TIME. TH seems to have followed him around the end of May (shortly before he followed the people he met at the Philly convention) and around the time (?) he was in LA. TH also followed Sharon Stone (and a saxophone player?) around this time but I can't make the connection, if there even is one.
It seems that TH does mainly follow people he's met, has worked with or plans to work with, and he seems to do it in real time, e.g., he followed Sarah Pascoe and Malkovich after appearing with them on GN.
SOOOOO, if he met Grazer on that LA trip and talked shop, that may be an indication of an upcoming project. Grazer does follow TH, but I can't pinpoint the date - and it could just be a mutual follow rather than a 'we're going to work together' follow; Grazer does only follows 190 peeps. The problems with using this info to even suggest a possible collaboration: 1) it's all speculation based on SM follows! and 2) Grazer has his fingers in every producing pie out there so it's shooting in the dark, not fish in a barrel.
Will someone please remind me when TH was pictured outside of Paramount pictures in London?
>>876 That's the life of a busy film student/producer...always being pulled away from spreading rumors on tumblr.
>>877 Early May 16, right after the end of the "polishing the turd" publicity tour. The trouble is TH follows over a thousand people. Hard to extrapolate much from that.
>>877 PS I had a feeling Brian Grazer was at SDCC - or at least the 24 reboot was heavily trailed there. I assumed that was the reason for the follow.
>>879 You're right. As I said, the problem with taking anything from SM follows is...they're SM follows! I will say that he seems to follow more judiciously than in the past. He racked up a good number of follows quickly but has slowed down, probably a part of his step away from SM in general.
>>860 anonanon, are you new? Welcome if you are! Or welcome back if you've been here before but have been away.
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>>882 Yes welcome! I had misread your handle for Anonon, but I see now that you are new (I think!!).
>>880 Was he there? That could be, although TH's follow was well before SDCC. Still maybe TH knew he'd meet him there and followed beforehand. Either way, Crazy Smart's sudden silence suggests TVM was her 'insider' info. And she can fuck right off with her 'I don't want to stir up controversy' bullshit. (Insert 'Sure, Jan' gif)
>>884 oh yes you said end of May. Duh. I thought it was July.
I have noticed that he often now follows people when the project he worked on with them actually comes out. Bizarre.
>>884 also Crazy Smart is calling it her "dream project". I know this got good reviews in the US but it was universally panned in the UK. The general view was that the emperor had no clothes, and that it was both pernicious and without artistic merit of any kind.
And really, is it your dream project to have TH play a motel owner who wanks off to his customers having sex?
Thanks for the welcomes. Sorry about blasting in about that insanely smart person but she just irritates me TBH. Every fan should basically be on the same level and it shouldn't be a pissing contest.
Have been enjoying lurking your board :)
>>887 Don't apologize; you are not alone. Both of them annoy 95% of fans, and 100% of posters here.
>>886 There's no accounting for taste. If it is TVM she's talking about, then it might be her 'dream project' for a number of reasons. Maybe she thinks it's the sort of nitty-gritty, Oscar-winning role that TH was made for. Yes, this http://4-ch.net/img/src/1474678654993.gif was made to play a sexual deviant.
>>889 Yes, she has confessed, now a lot of people have guessed.
Meanwhile I saw on her tumblr that Berlinale Girl has found out that the blonde that TH was photographed with in a cafe just before the Emmys is a journalist. Berlinale is castigating her for stalking TH by hanging out in a cafe waiting to meet him - this being the woman who waited outside the Donmar for a fan encounter and chased TH down the street!!
>>887 It's always a pleasure when someone delurks and says "I've been here for ages!"
>>890 Waited for him, chased him, and let's not forget the incident that gave her the nickname "Berlinale" in the first place. It's amazing how she misses the irony.
The journalist's name is Amy Price, and she interviewed the Thor cast weeks ago. She's now written an article about the DM's mystery blonde story.
>>890,892 Again, not breaking news from Crazier of Crazy and Crazier duo, insiders that they aren't. TCM actually responded to the DM's article with a tweet with that info and several comments in the DM article mentioned she was a journo.
I didn't know she'd written an article about it - good spot, anonsy.
>>890 Chased him down the street? What? I hadn't heard that. I thought she had just defended the naughty fan behavior, not actually been a part of it. How was she let into the TNM screening? Shouldn't TH's people be handing out her picture to security?
Before her hypocrisy was amusing, it's less so now that she seems to be a proper stalker who is projecting her crimes onto others. Yikes. And to think I felt a little stalkerish going to The Times Talk!
>>894 I don't think TH has steady security since early 2014, when it was Faisel (sp?) the driver/security guy, so no idea who's been watching out for him since.
Hahahahaha! Makes a change from the usual blind items!
>>896 LOL! Is this his way of making up for all the jet fuel he burned over the summer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C6oIYQpvGs from 19:00.
I guess it's good that he's being mocked for something other than a failed showmance.
The 'NEVER!!' got me in the funny.
>>896 Colin Firth seems the better guess as his wife is all about the environment. She has an environmentally aware fashion label and only wears environmentally friendly outfits (whatever that means) on the RC.
TH maybe does the same but I've found most guys do with pee - it's just a little pee and no TP in the bowl!
PC and TH backstage at the Emmys - this link cuts directly to them. They're on camera for about 2 mins, PC much more animated and flirty than TH, then someone comes by to probably tell them it's time for them to present and the camera cuts to the press room. The sitting lady in beige to the left of PC is looking her up and down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyx1J-Pp9Pc&feature=youtu.be&t=11428
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKy8LAGB24u/
I love this man
Good to see him letting off some steam
>>901 PC is very over- animated, she probably thwacked the beige lady a few times practicing her twirl.
http://mydigitaldaydreams.tumblr.com/
This first gif is my favorite from backstage.
Don't look at the camera, don't look at the camera.. whoops. Terror face.
That's some serious stage fright right there.
>>902 Also from that same tumblr is a post with pictures and even more info about the WME guy who was with TH in Australia and at the Emmys, to add to what's been discussed here:
http://mydigitaldaydreams.tumblr.com/post/150787516236/pedeka-insanely-smart-mydigitaldaydreams
http://www.gq.com/story/gucci-tom-hiddleston-ad-campaign-suits
Oh hello Mr Gucci
Seems TH not only has a shameless affiliation with Gucci, he is their new model. The Armani rumour was just a ruse.
So glad they had the sense to drape him on the bed fully clothed and overcompensate for his lack of hair with a hairy dog.
There's something very Liberace meets Barbera Cartland about this shoot...maybe it's the slippers.. or the decor
>>904 Well I'm not surprised. I have expected him to get an advertising gig for a while, as he does wear a suit very well. We must pray that there are no men's cologne ads (a la Johnny Depp).
Every high end menswear ad campaign of the last 10 years has looked like it sprang from the imagination/loins of Tom Ford's secret love child with Elton John. So I am not surprised at the slippers, the dog etc.
The contrast with this and Tom's probable home life sitting on his leather bean bag eating off IKEA plates makes me giggle.
God, I just zoomed in on the last pic. The spotty suit with the man Mary Janes. I am speechless.
>>905,906 I was initially more affronted by the fur leather and lion slippers but now you mention it, the man mary- janes are quite something with those Fauntleroy socks.
The juxtaposition between these images and his real home life is hilarious.
I only just noticed the text, so bedazzled was I by the images:
'Would-be Bond, soon-to-be Taylor Swift lyric, and Night Manager star Tom Hiddleston...'
Those slippers actually made me laugh out loud. How is it that he has more chemistry with the dog than TS? Did we see that soulful look at any time during Tayto?
Yep, GQ is taking the piss (don't whisper it near the veranda) and in what appears to be a quasi advertisement for Gucci and its designer.
All of this means Miss Yours Truly needs to amend her quote: Tom texted me saying he wanted to wear a Gucci tux with piping because Gucci had told him to wear a Gucci tux with piping.
The photoshoot in underpants brought him ridicule so they decided that an effete dandy was the best he could pull off, but once again he looks ridiculous. What's this habit of pairing him with dogs all the time anyway?
I bet Luke is crying that GQ doesn't consider his client as a favourite exempt from mockery.
whuds goin on in dis dreahd boys
is 4-ch alive?
what the fuck is doing on
"Tom texted me saying he wanted to wear a Gucci tux with piping because Gucci had told him to wear a Gucci tux with piping."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
No wonder they had made him 2 bespoke dinner suits (that he ended up not wearing). They knew there had to be payback for the slippers.
PS anyone think he is looking very skinny at the moment? Torrilla has a pic of him sitting down with Hugh Laurie at the Emmys and he looks ISTL levels of skinny around the jaw. she also has a pic of him in profile in his dinner jacket (where he is getting into a car with beardy weirdy in the background) and he is pencil slim.
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2016/sep/26/stylewatch-tom-hiddleston-in-gucci-cruise
"It’s tempting to imagine this richly hued mise-en-scene captioned with the words: “Mr Hiddleston and Ms Taylor Swift welcome you to their tasteful bedroom.” The text might then go on to say something like: “The dynamic power couple, shown here locking eyes after signing their nondisclosure agreement, are enjoying some time away from their busy careers, in their palatial Lake Como mansion.”....
Instead, this photo is from the new Gucci Cruise 2017 men’s tailoring campaign. Hiddleston is shown wearing a pair of slipper shoes, a bat-shaped bow tie and a suit cut with razor-sharp elegance. The star here, though, is the Afghan hound (Tom is always the bridesmaid, never the bride)."
>>913 Ouchy!
"As for Hiddleston, who always seems as if he’s been beamed into the modern world by a malfunctioning teleporter" hahaha
As I said, the result reaches new levels of ridiculousness.
>>908 The slippers and the Mary Janes lol Well at least the suits are nice. Every single fashion mag covering this Gucci shoot and announcement is enjoying making fun of Hiddleswift in it. The stink of the TayTo summer is going to stick with him for a while longer. Gucci or no Gucci.
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain a Gucci contract, and suffer the loss of his dignity, credibility, 1/3 of his fan base, the respect of journalists, his privacy - shit, this list never ends.
Will Gucci keep him around if this is the press they're getting? Sure, people are writing articles about Gucci and showing the clothes, but the piss taking is harsh! Will they want the model and campaign ridiculed like this?
Anon, have these gone up at CB? I want to hear the oh so wise and all-knowing opinion floating from the veranda.
>>912 Clenchng your jaw for two months straight while you hold back the screams/tears until your face is in a pillow would account for the slimline jaw.
Running everyday to relieve stress and being off your food because you'd made the biggest mistake of your life would account for the slimline body.
I plan on dating TS to drop my pregnancy weight!!
>>913 A more laughable and unlikely headline: Ms Swift welcomes Mr Hiddleston to her bedroom.
>>909 Just looked at the photos for the first time and Couch, your words popped right into my head before I read them. I haven't even gotten around to the commentary articles.
>>918 Maybe she's been hitting the champagne a little too hard but according to the veranda lady Esquire, The Guardian, and GQ are all praising the whole thing.
I showed the photos to Mr Anon, who I hasten to add is a metrosexual Londoner sufficiently in touch with his feminine side to own a flowery Etro shirt. One might think he was the target market for this particular ad campaign....
Mr Anon's response: "Why is he with those faggy dogs?"
>>922 Most people on CB are however saying that (a) the shoes are terrible and the styling is at best effete; and (b) that he looks dead, at least behind the eyes and possibly literally. My favourite comment was that he looks like one of those Victorian death photos where they dress the corpse and prop it up on the sofa. Once seen, this cannot be unseen.
>>924 I was thinking wax figure meets Noel Coward but yeah....
>>922 The delusion is strong in this one. STRONG.
>>923 Raise your hand if you love Mr Anon. (Raises hand) I'm going to assume the dogs were later shorn of their locks in order to make TH a beautiful, blonde hairpiece. Look for it during promo for Shit (Shit, We Don't Have Enough Material) Island. Yes, two 'shits.'
I hope signing on this dotted line will bite him as hard as the contract he signed in May/June bit him. In particular, I hope he is contractually required to wear ALL of these outfits and shoes...in public...more than once. After the I 💙TS tee and this spread, I'd say TH has had a summer and now autumn full of fashion faux pas.
>>924 '...possibly literally...' HA!!! He would've only died from embarrassment, but it seems the past three months have made him immune to it.
>>922 Did we ever give you a proper greeting, Name?(?) If not, welcome!!
And so it begins. Did Gucci not see this coming? http://4-ch.net/img/src/1474924618954.png
>>928 Thank you! I'm really shy (even online) and have been a lurker for a little while. I tried testing the TH fandom waters on CB and oh boy was that uh...jarring. I really like this thread though :)
>>930 Welcome de-lurker. I can't even read CB any more, they've sucked the fun right out of it.
Michael K does it again!
http://dlisted.com/2016/09/26/poor-tom-hiddleston-upstaged-by-a-bunch-of-blond-bitches/
'Tom Hiddleston may have almost collapsed his lungs when he breathed out a cyclone of relief after his contract with Taylor Swift expired, but well, he once again found himself getting upstaged in a picture by a blond bitch. Tom knows it too. If that isn’t a “Fuck me, this again” face, I don’t know what is..'
http://elitedaily.com/entertainment/celebrity/tom-hiddleston-taylor-swift-dog/1623616/
Twitter is mistaking the hounds for TS
>>929 Nope - the photoshoot was allegedly in May and scheduled for the October issue, before Tayto was a thing. Guess they didn't have the power to pull it.
>>929 Does the "I [heart] T.S." in this case mean "I [heart] These Slippers"?
>>923,926 Raises hand! Of course, without the dogs the effect instead of effete dandy would be whiny spoiled mama-boy brat.
The problem really is him, with someone like (much as I can't stand him) Vincent Cassel or evevn Luke Evans it would have worked better.
>>933 I wonder when. I thought he was back in the UK for most of May. I can't remember whether he flew to the US before early June for TayTo.
>>937 I looked back to the May board. He returned to the UK after the Met Gala, appeared at a school, the Globe, was spotted with Mendes, with JA, at that private members' club near Susannah Lipscomb. Not a single sighting at an airport. I wonder if he filmed this last thing before leaving LA in very early May. That does jive with the time he was using the services of the new US publicist, the stylist, the groomers etc. Also broadly with the time he shot the W mag thing.
>>939 Either that or just before that comic-con in Philadelphia.
>>940 I forgot about that. FWIW Hollywood Life says it was shot in July.
According to Berlinale (who will keep drifting across my dash via others even though I have blocked her), anyone who laughs at these pics don't know nuthin bout fashone. They aren't aimed at low lifes like us, people, so we should just butt out (who are they aimed at, then?). Especially, and I quote directly, we should stop using the shoot as an excuse "to hate on him and especially Luke." So there.
>>942 I was sitting here thinking I disliked the photoshoot because I don't feel Tom fits with Gucci's over-the-top image and terrible shoes, but thanks to Berlinale I now know that I'm just a hater with no style who thinks everything is Luke's fault. Thanks, Berlinale!
>>942 Bahahaha how I love thirdhand advice from a woman who has never worked on a high fashion shoot with a celebrity, let alone any facet of the industry.
To be honest, my house looks a lot like the Gucci set, it's an aesthetic I adore but I'm a woman with an eccentric and eclectic wardrobe and a lot of male friends who dress like this ad. TH, as we all know, lives in a rather modest house wearing the same dour clothes every day. It's incongruous enough to warrant hearty chuckles.
If I were to sum up this shoot in two words it would be 'twee' and 'twinky'. Two words TH had quite distanced himself from with TayTo and not at all how I would describe Bond. Gucci is the brand du jour though so this will do him no harm amongst fashionistas but he's going to have to work overtime to recoup any inkling of testosterone driven macho manliness to regain any favour with everyday men (and ladies).
It would have been so much safer to advertise a watch. He could have used his favorite ham fist pose.
I'm perplexed by "especially Luke"... Que?
>>944 Blaming Luke for bad choices in TH's life (starting in May)? Doesn't make sense, because neither one of them got to pick the clothes. But no Berlinale, I won't stop thinking that bad choices have been made as of late by a certain publicist.
>>942 pffft I'm not laughing at the clothes, I'm laughing at his terrible execution as model. I worked in fashion, do people think that models dress like they do on the catwalk? They do not, but it's their job to make clothes interesting when they wear them. The photoshoot looks ridiculous because TH doesn't have the features and charisma for it and because of what he did this summer, how he dresses every day is beyond the point. In every day talk he hardly speaks like in a Shakespearian play, would that be a good excuse not to play a Shakespearian character well? No.
Did his stans really think that just because he presented an award at the Emmys the whole world would forget about TayTo? It's going to take a while for the general public to forget, because outside his fans, the rest of the world only knows him for Loki and Swift.
I agree with all of this. He is not a great model, the styling is all wrong for him, and yes he does look like a twink. I am also however laughing at some of the clothes. We all know that some of the fashion in adverts or on the catwalk is more directional than many people would wear. Equally there is a line between directional and hideous. Man Mary Janes with a huge carbuncle of a buckle, worn with white tights, are over that line in my view.
And that's the thing. IN MY VIEW. Every person is entitled to say where they think that line is, whether or not they ever buy or wear high fashion. It's called freedom of thought. These photos are out there in public and they speak (or not) to every member of the public. You can't put something out there and then deny people the right to criticise it because it is supposedly aimed at someone else, someone richer and with a special understanding of fashion that the rest of us lack. What codswallop. Not to mention being the same old crap that that stupid arrogant cow peddles every damn time a dispute arises. You can say what you like as long as you agree with her and don't dare ever to criticise the special snowflake for anything he does. Well, she can stick it where the sun don't shine.
>>948 you are so right -inspiring desire is what it's all about, which makes the "not for you" argument even more ridiculous. The ads are meant to make everyone want a piece of the designer even if it "just" the perfume or a wallet (which for many fashion houses is where the money actually is). If it makes people fall about laughing it hasn't done its job.
