Tom Hiddleston (Lucky 13) (1000)

1 Name: Anon. : 2016-08-17 16:22 ID:ogIaQkZp

Thread to talk about the actor Tom Hiddleston

901 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-09-26 00:04 ID:/dRQNS9U

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

902 Name: Anonon : 2016-09-26 04:41 ID:OSrGtg9Y

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.

903 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-09-26 07:24 ID:/dRQNS9U

>>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

904 Name: Anonon : 2016-09-26 10:16 ID:OSrGtg9Y

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

905 Name: Anon : 2016-09-26 10:42 ID:8IiGgU4Y

>>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.

906 Name: Anon : 2016-09-26 10:46 ID:8IiGgU4Y

God, I just zoomed in on the last pic. The spotty suit with the man Mary Janes. I am speechless.

907 Name: Anonon : 2016-09-26 10:58 ID:OSrGtg9Y

>>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...'

908 Name: Anon. : 2016-09-26 11:15 ID:kYaIUqng

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.

909 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-26 11:50 ID:Heaven

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.

910 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-26 12:34 ID:71ZRjDEo

whuds goin on in dis dreahd boys

is 4-ch alive?
what the fuck is doing on

911 Name: Anon : 2016-09-26 13:58 ID:yoc0K+UN

"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.

912 Name: Anon : 2016-09-26 14:05 ID:yoc0K+UN

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.

913 Name: Anon : 2016-09-26 14:06 ID:yoc0K+UN

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)."

915 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-26 15:24 ID:Heaven

>>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.

916 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-26 15:30 ID:Heaven

>>912 Didn't Miss Yours Truly said that none of the suits fitted him well because of his torso? In that God awful ISTL his torso was non-existent.

917 Name: NewAnon : 2016-09-26 15:59 ID:axsU/GEJ

>>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.

918 Name: Anon. : 2016-09-26 16:07 ID:Roq0aBrd

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.

919 Name: Anon. : 2016-09-26 16:11 ID:Roq0aBrd

>>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!!

920 Name: Anon. : 2016-09-26 16:13 ID:Roq0aBrd

>>913 A more laughable and unlikely headline: Ms Swift welcomes Mr Hiddleston to her bedroom.

921 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-09-26 18:13 ID:/dRQNS9U

>>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.

922 Name: Name? : 2016-09-26 18:25 ID:s2G9jpne

>>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.

923 Name: Anon : 2016-09-26 19:29 ID:2N6FC+ZQ

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?"

924 Name: Anon : 2016-09-26 19:48 ID:2N6FC+ZQ

>>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.

925 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-09-26 20:53 ID:mIy0tI3C

>>924 I was thinking wax figure meets Noel Coward but yeah....

926 Name: Anon. : 2016-09-26 20:58 ID:kYaIUqng

>>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.

927 Name: Anon : 2016-09-26 21:10 ID:2N6FC+ZQ

>>926 With perhaps a matching merkin.

928 Name: Anon. : 2016-09-26 21:17 ID:kYaIUqng

>>922 Did we ever give you a proper greeting, Name?(?) If not, welcome!!

929 Name: Anon. : 2016-09-26 21:18 ID:kYaIUqng

And so it begins. Did Gucci not see this coming? http://4-ch.net/img/src/1474924618954.png

930 Name: Name? : 2016-09-27 00:05 ID:s2G9jpne

>>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 :)

931 Name: Anonon : 2016-09-27 00:46 ID:OSrGtg9Y

>>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..'

932 Name: Anonon : 2016-09-27 00:52 ID:OSrGtg9Y

933 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-09-27 06:00 ID:/dRQNS9U

>>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.

934 Name: anonsy : 2016-09-27 06:13 ID:J8WOgAEy

>>929 Does the "I [heart] T.S." in this case mean "I [heart] These Slippers"?

935 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-27 06:42 ID:Heaven

>>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.

936 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-27 06:43 ID:Heaven

>>931 "But then again, they probably don’t care that they’re working with a dude who models like a ventroliquist’s dummy," LOL I love it!

>>933 Really? So we are back to emergency meeting to fix the situation as reason for his long stay in LA in July. I bet Gucci is not going ot use him again.

937 Name: Anon : 2016-09-27 06:48 ID:2N6FC+ZQ

>>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.

938 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-27 06:59 ID:Heaven

>>922,926 she is in very good company, read who this one managed to blame link

939 Name: Anon : 2016-09-27 07:06 ID:2N6FC+ZQ

>>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.

940 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-27 07:14 ID:Heaven

>>939 Either that or just before that comic-con in Philadelphia.

941 Name: Anon : 2016-09-27 07:27 ID:2N6FC+ZQ

>>940 I forgot about that. FWIW Hollywood Life says it was shot in July.

942 Name: Anon : 2016-09-27 07:47 ID:2N6FC+ZQ

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.

943 Name: anonsy : 2016-09-27 07:56 ID:J8WOgAEy

>>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!

944 Name: Anonon : 2016-09-27 08:23 ID:OSrGtg9Y

>>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?

945 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-09-27 10:06 ID:/dRQNS9U

>>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.

946 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-27 10:44 ID:Heaven

>>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.

947 Name: Anon : 2016-09-27 11:24 ID:2N6FC+ZQ

>>944,945,946

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 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-27 11:55 ID:Heaven

>>947 You are right and I very much doubt Gucci's designer would mind the jokes, because it'd mean the focus is on the product. What people forget is that an ad, be it a spread, a commercial or even a catwalk is first of all supposed to inspire desire. Like with film costumes, models are playing a part for a purpose. If with this spread, all people can think of is TayTo and TH's awkwardness, it hardly has to do with the clothes, as absurd as some items are. And it hardly classifies as hate.

Last year's GQ spread with TH was nice and suitable for him. It also conveyed that desire that made you wish to see men dressed up like that, or for men to own suits like those. http://www.gq.com/gallery/tom-hiddleston-suit-photos

But while it wouldn't have made him look ridiculous, jokes would have happened anyway. As it would have happened with a new jaguar commercial.

949 Name: Anon : 2016-09-27 12:03 ID:2N6FC+ZQ

>>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.

950 Name: anonsy : 2016-09-27 12:07 ID:J8WOgAEy

>>949 I for one went out and immediately bought a pair of bright white socks and an Afghan hound.

951 Name: Anon : 2016-09-27 12:25 ID:2N6FC+ZQ

>>950 I am too poor for that but I am training my pet rabbit to lie across my feet and pretend to be slippers. It's all about the aspiration!

952 Name: Anonon : 2016-09-27 12:27 ID:OSrGtg9Y

>>950 I hope your hound is wearing the socks

>>946,947,948 Couch is right, the best models are a dream to watch in action. They simply do not take a bad shot.
I'm a little surprised how passive TH is as a model, he is so animated on film, yet it seems he completely surrenders and acknowledges he's out of his league working in print.
All the photos from the last GQ spread caught him in motion, I think there lies the solution. He's just not that great at lying back and looking come- hither.

953 Name: Anon : 2016-09-27 15:22 ID:2N6FC+ZQ

>>952 I think it has something to do with not being in a specific character as well. Photos taken to publicise a production are posed but they are beautiful - for example a lot of the CP ones, in which he certainly doesn't look dead-eyed. He also looked utterly gorgeous and unfazed when posing almost naked for the HR sun lounger publicity shot. But when he is himself or playing a "character" created for one day for a Gucci shoot, he sometimes loses the thread. The W mag pics were him naked, not Laing or Sharpe or whoever and he clearly felt uncomfortable with that, even though he loves showing us his beautiful body when in character.

954 Name: Savvy : 2016-09-27 16:10 ID:OXm/TlpP

>>953 Exactly. If the suits were more classic, something he would wear himself he would have felt more comfortable in them. I'm sure he hated them as much as I did.
The only way he would feel comfortable in this type of clothes would be if he were posing as a character.

955 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-09-27 18:55 ID:/dRQNS9U

Regarding the W mag white-boxers shoot earlier this year and the female photographer - I wonder what she did say, if anything. And if she did, why didn't it work? She couldn't say "pretend you're trying to hit on me or person X" to get the come-hither look?

He looked great for the GQ shoot last year (striped suits, whether you like them or not he looked into the shoot) - it appears the photographer simply told him to look like a 'businessman going to work'. Maybe that mindset was easiest because it was less personal. And the Esquire shoot last year at the California bungalow by the pool - that worked; what was his motivation for that?

If he had looked more engaged during the Gucci shoot as opposed to a mannequin, it would have been off-character for Gucci. Their models always look 'dead': http://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/resort-2016/gucci/slideshow/collection#14

Here is another viewpoint of TH's photoshoot: http://hiddlesfashion.tumblr.com/post/151015585057/im-just-gonna-answer-these-at-the-same-time-1

956 Name: Anon. : 2016-09-27 19:49 ID:Roq0aBrd

>>955 'Look like I'm holding you hostage.' Snap, snap. 'Yes, that's it. You are alone, frightened. Now take off your clothes. Good. Don't forget I'm holding a gun.' Snap, snap. 'Is your willy trying to crawl inside your body? Excellent. Let's see that on your face.' And W magazine perfection was born.

>>955 I was never a fan of this woman on her IG acct. and really went off her when she started to madly kiss Miss Yours Truly's ass earlier in the year. According to her, MYT kept 'hitting it out of the park' with every outfit, even with the Times Talk All The Patterns outfit. That night TH looked like a dressed up vaudevillian monkey, to say otherwise is wrong.

957 Name: Anon. : 2016-09-27 20:04 ID:Roq0aBrd

As for Berlinale: lady, fuck off, fuck the fuck right off. I'm content knowing she made an ass out of herself in front of her prince and is widely considered the worst apple in the whole bushel. Her words and actions are nothing but derisible.

958 Name: Anon : 2016-09-27 20:13 ID:2N6FC+ZQ

>>956 Don't forget that the hostage situation involved a giant dildo, hence the "what are you about to do with that?" expression in the underpants photos.

I do think that the W problem had a lot to do with the near nudity in a non acting context, combined with a lack of any kind of story or styling. Usually there is some "story" to take away from the voyeuristic element - eg Idris Elba in a boxing ring. This was all rather grimly transactional - let's have a look at Tom in his knickers, standing in a hotel room because - well, because we all want to have a look at Tom almost naked and showing us the outline of his willy. He wasn't even given a change of clothes to style the shoot up a bit - he was papped at the hotel where the shoot took place in the same suit and shirt, which were his. They literally slapped a bit of makeup on him and told him to take his trousers off and stand there.

No wonder the poor bloke looked thoroughly miserable - I mean, even Playboy models got a theme to dignify their nudity (farm girl in Stetson, Hawaii holiday or whatever).

959 Name: Anon : 2016-09-27 20:17 ID:2N6FC+ZQ

>>956 Yeah, and he is following Hiddlesfashion now, so the ass-kissing WORKED!

I think that these days she has to kiss ass to get the ID on his clothes. In the old days it wasn't such a fast moving target. New cardigan? No worries, we have 2 years and 500 wears to ID it.

960 Name: Anon. : 2016-09-27 20:52 ID:gP1/7iW9

961 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-09-27 21:50 ID:/dRQNS9U

"She gave me Instagram followers and I made people believe she could breathe with her mouth closed."

I love it when satire reaches three levels deep to a sex joke,

962 Name: NewAnon : 2016-09-27 22:29 ID:axsU/GEJ

>>960 Oh that's the best one yet! LOL! "Oh, I wanted Bond. I could taste it, like fine wine licked off the belly of an Italian heiress in the midday Riviera sun."
Ah if only Tom would've dated an Italian heiress or ANY heiress instead of the tweeny pop star, the famewhoring and the thirst could've had some sexiness to it.

963 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-28 06:33 ID:Heaven

>>960 This is the best! LOL The caption for that photoshoot should have said just that.

964 Name: N8Anon : 2016-09-28 07:27 ID:VcSDzPP8

That TLO article is the best thing I've read in ages. Bloody hilarious.

965 Name: Anonon : 2016-09-28 12:35 ID:OSrGtg9Y

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/tom-hiddleston/#_

For those who thought his photoshoots couldn't become even more questionable, meet TOUGH AS A FEATHER; LEATHER TOM DOES 70s GAY PORN and some kinda prison mugshot.
and there's a lovely interview conducted by Cuminbatches which I lost interest in and will try to finish another time.

966 Name: anonsy : 2016-09-28 12:59 ID:J8WOgAEy

>>965 Oh dear God.

967 Name: Anon : 2016-09-28 13:23 ID:bLtQ+vkO

>>965 Are those leather dungarees he is wearing in the shot after the prison guard photo? Without anything under?

This is the "Tom does an impression of every member of the Village People" photo shoot.

968 Name: anonsy : 2016-09-28 13:26 ID:J8WOgAEy

I am eager to see Berlinale's defense of these photos.

969 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-28 13:28 ID:Heaven

>>965 Photos first: neo-nazi fashion, how lovely. And I'm not even making fun, SS it's all I could think about. Yuck.

970 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-28 13:30 ID:Heaven

>>965 Interview, Anon. I need your sense of humour because I don't think I can sum up this piece of shitty interview as it deserves, they spend the whole time complimenting each other.

Highlights:
TH: "We're in on the coast of Queensland, and apart from the fact that the sun goes down very early and very quickly, it's been blue skies and sunshine. It's preferable for my Celtic complexion to their summer." - Does he look himself in the mirror?

His buddy asks TH what he does to go back being Tom after spending so much time playing Pine, TH's reply:
"I flew home and I went to my sister's engagement party. I was surrounded by family. And they were so reassuring. And then I just, I live such a boring life. I just potter about, read books I've meant to read but haven't had time." - This interview happened in August, is he fucking kidding me?

971 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-28 13:35 ID:Heaven

On the bright side, veranda woman is probably seething because she hates Cumbersome and, like with EO in Hawaii, she pretends TH is not best friend with him, even if TH attended his wedding, so there's that.

972 Name: NewAnon : 2016-09-28 14:09 ID:axsU/GEJ

>>970 They did, right? At first I thought maybe I was just being cynical but the whole time it's just a bunch of patting each other on the back for their accolades. Tom says nothing he hasn't already said before though the Sudan experience was new for me. And also building roads to carry equipment for Skull Island in Vietnam. I stopped reading his interviews during HiddleSwift because it was a load of shit so I don't know if he mentioned all this before.

Speaking of HiddleSwift, Cumberbatch's line here cracked me up "And there's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too. And, without getting into a huge debate, I just want to say that I'm not going to ask questions about my friend's personal life just because there are unsolicited photographs of him and a certain someone, in a relationship or together." UNSOLICITED! HA! Hahahahaha! Your friend and that certain someone couldn't stop calling their favorite paparazzi for these "unsolicited photographs". Funny how the two of them are not getting photographed at all since that their relationship became the most ridiculed one in the media ever.

All in all, the whole interview reads like a clear bandaid interview to save Mr. Hiddleston's image that crashed and burned this summer. He literally retells his whole acting resume as Ben and him fawn and marvel over each other. Even the Sudan humanitarian part became more about him and how he used that anger he felt for Pine rather than about the tragedy of those children's lives. In fact his whole Sudan experience is all about him and how it affected him and how he feels it's his responsibility to talk about it yet he didn't share a single personal moment from that experience, just oh it's a militarized nation. Yeah we know that already. Saving it all for the documentary I suppose. It was an annoying and eye rolling read. Same old, same old. No wonder him and Swift got together and broke up. Two egos of that level can't sustain each other lol

973 Name: NewAnon : 2016-09-28 14:13 ID:axsU/GEJ

>>969 The photoshoot is odd and yeah, very neo-nazi...Not liking it. Only redeeming aspect is that he modeled better in this shoot than the Gucci and W one. Probably was channeling all that anger he felt when no one believed his "authentic" relationship captured by "phones with cameras on them".

974 Name: anonsy : 2016-09-28 14:15 ID:J8WOgAEy

>>972 I skimmed a good bit of the interview, but I quit reading altogether at the "unsolicited photos" line. I scoffed and got annoyed and didn't care to finish.

975 Name: Anon. : 2016-09-28 14:19 ID:Roq0aBrd

I'm actually afraid to click to the article. Will the modicum of appreciation I have for the man survive? Will it harm the baby? I'm fan-ing for two, I can't just think about myself.

976 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-28 14:22 ID:Heaven

>>972 I forgot about the "unsolicited photos" in my highlights, thanks for posting. They are both so full of it.

>>974 I felt the same, I skimmed because TH was being his usual verbose and still managed to feel annoyed. Bah!

977 Name: Anon. : 2016-09-28 14:25 ID:Roq0aBrd

>>967 Leather overalls? Good Lord in heaven, why are you testing us? I've replaced alcohol with cake so I might need to wait until I have a slice or two in me before I read the article.

978 Name: NewAnon : 2016-09-28 14:25 ID:axsU/GEJ

>>974 He could have very easily not said a word about HiddleSwift and avoided the topic completely but of course the public must be told how the couple was just so famous and the paparazzi just kept invading their personal space and hounded them every second of their relationship taking "unsolicited photographs". Such a pathetic attempt at constructed fame.

979 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-28 14:27 ID:Heaven

>>978 And also insult the readers, for expecting questions about it, followed by complementing each other for the umpteenth time.

980 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-28 14:29 ID:Heaven

>>975 I suggest a slice for after, just to be safe. The baby will probably develop a sixth sense for pretentiousness.

981 Name: Anon. : 2016-09-28 14:30 ID:Roq0aBrd

>>974 Did TH say that? Fucker, DO.NOT. Your weak Jedi mind trick isn't going to work on us, on most. We remember what went on, we remember you pap trolled most of your summer away, AND involved your family.

He needs to not mention photos or privacy for a good, long time.

Michael K, come in swinging on this load of twatage. .

982 Name: Anon. : 2016-09-28 14:33 ID:Roq0aBrd

>>972 Read before you post, Anon.! So Cucumberbitch said 'unsolicited.' TH, you're forgiven - this, and only this.

Still, MK, come on in!

983 Name: anonsy : 2016-09-28 14:38 ID:J8WOgAEy

>>981 It was Cumberbatch who said it, which made it seem like even more of a setup to me - it wasn't Tom making his ridiculous camera phone statements while he was caught off-guard. I'm going to borrow Couch's very appropriate word choice - I felt insulted.

984 Name: anonsy : 2016-09-28 14:39 ID:J8WOgAEy

>>982 I went straight to dlisted after seeing the photos. I just know Michael K will have something to say about them.

985 Name: NewAnon : 2016-09-28 14:55 ID:axsU/GEJ

>>979 They do think most of us are like a certain subsect of their fandom that will believe anything and everything they say or imply. Even the media was calling those pictures staged. Only the mags that were getting the exclusive deals were fawning.

>>983 The whole interview was a clear setup to save TH's image and while it could have helped, that "unsolicited" bit was just bullshit. Then again Cumberbatch does these unsolicited shots himself so he's the last person to call out Tom over that.

The fans on tumblr are forgiving him already and drooling over him in leather. I'm curious what the CB crowd thinks but I don't have the stomach for all that verandah talk right now. They didn't seem to like the Gucci shoot very much.

986 Name: NewAnon : 2016-09-28 15:01 ID:axsU/GEJ

The actual leader of the CB ladies (not verandah lady tho she tries very hard) called it #epicfail. Lol! So far no one is loving the shoot or the interview itself but it's less than 50 comments in. Tumblr seems to be the only one loving the whole thing.

987 Name: NewAnon : 2016-09-28 15:07 ID:axsU/GEJ

People took the unsolicited but and ran with it, and now all the Swifties are calling him out on using her for fame, that she's never mentioned him at all publicly and is staying private, yet he continues to talk about their relationship despite it being over. Scroll to the comments below to get a flavor. http://www.people.com/article/tom-hiddleston-taylor-swift-benedict-cumberbatch-interview

988 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-28 15:07 ID:Heaven

>>985 It was an obvious setup, which adds insult to injury.

Nothing like drooling over an unnatural photoshopped cover.

989 Name: Anon. : 2016-09-28 15:11 ID:Roq0aBrd

I clicked. Those pics made me laugh more than the Gucci slippers. I understand the whole concept of modeling being a passive activity with the photographer and stylist and creative director being the 'directors' of the shoot. But these pics are comic, just comic. It really should be as simple as saying, 'No, you're not going to make me out to be a budget neo-Nazi biker from a leather fetish gay porn movie. Come up with another idea.' He cannot say 'no' to bad fashion advice: t-shirts, fur slippers, leather coveralls.

This, coming on the heels of Tayto, Defcon 2 fan encounters and A Corpse Models Gucci, makes me wonder if Tom Hiddleston is spiraling out of control. Actually.

990 Name: anonsy : 2016-09-28 15:11 ID:J8WOgAEy

>>988 I can't quite figure out what they did to his face there. Is it the chin?

991 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-28 15:12 ID:Heaven

>>987 They are partly right though, Cumbersome apologies to us ignorant third state for not going to ask about a subject he himself brought up in the middle of an interview when there was no need to mention it. Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta.

992 Name: Anon. : 2016-09-28 15:13 ID:Roq0aBrd

Also:

Anon may be the only person to get this but all I can think of is Herr Flick. Herr Flick, Herr Flick. Which makes me think TH would be perfect for an Allo, Allo reboot. He now has the wardrobe.

I'll wait for the Dlisted version of the article or until I've visited a bakery and emptied the shelves.

993 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-28 15:16 ID:Heaven

>>990 Anonon will correct me if I'm wrong, it seems they lowered his cheekbones with those shadows and covered the forehead of his. And his eyebrows, less droopy.

994 Name: anonsy : 2016-09-28 15:22 ID:J8WOgAEy

>>993 I was looking at the wrong photo - the one where he's seated in the chair is where I think his chin has been edited. In the actual cover photo, definitely the eyebrows and forehead, and the nose too. I can't decide if the cheekbones are photoshopped or if they just look odd because of the lighting and the fact that the rest of his face has been altered.

995 Name: NewAnon : 2016-09-28 15:24 ID:axsU/GEJ

>>991 Oh no, they're completely right. After this summer, he shouldn't even try parading the privacy angle anymore. Uniess he was being blackmailed by Taylor, he embraced the constructed publicity shamelessly and wholeheartedly.

>>989 Maybe all that hard work on ISTL and the movie flopping broke him.

996 Name: Couch Potato : 2016-09-28 15:27 ID:Heaven

>>994 Yes the chin was made rounder and maybe slightly shorter. I'm the same about the cheekbones int he other photo.

997 Name: Anon. : 2016-09-28 16:28 ID:Roq0aBrd

>>987,991 This is called apophasis: mentioning something by saying you won't mention it. Cicero used the shit out of it during the Philippics and the Pro Caelio. Cucumberbitch must be a classical scholar. :/

I love that he mentions it to, seemingly, deny the constructed nature of this relationship and how it was present to the public, but really does TH a disservice by bringing it up at all. Those who didn't believe are reminded of his frankly terrible behavior during Tayto. Those who believed - Swifties - accuse him of using the relationship and her for publicity. Naked in a thorn bush - no move is a good move.

998 Name: Anon : 2016-09-28 16:49 ID:bLtQ+vkO

>>997 Naked in a thorn bush is a D/s themed photoshoot I could get behind.
Tom wears a leather flasher mac - not so much.

I cannot WAIT to show these to Mr Anon. What will his reaction be?

999 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-09-28 17:49 ID:/dRQNS9U

Quite a feat, Mr. H, to appear on both ends of the fashion spectrum in one week. Effete dandy to leather daddy. Now I'm sure this CDAN entry was about the former: http://crazydaysandnights.net/2016/09/blind-item-5-1105.html

1000 Name: Whatsinaname : 2016-09-28 17:50 ID:/dRQNS9U

CDAN:
This foreign born A- list dual threat actor not named Cumberbatch who just went through a recent press disaster, got to feel fulfilled when he was able to cross dress while shooting a new ad campaign. It was subtle, but he loved it.

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