Thread to talk about the actor Tom Hiddleston.
>>699 That is the most well analyzed and deft interpretation of the entire article Couch! So multi-layered. I agree with you completely on the subtle shading about her saying she 'said' she wanted a relationship, him being infatuated with the persona she presented, etc. FYI, by framing a narrative, I just meaant that was 'a version' of a story to the press. The average reader is no where near as insightful or as informed as you are, sadly. IMO, Tom seems to not only LOVE being LIKED by co-workers/fans/journalists, but revel in the spectacle of the affect he has on people. Not sure if that is b/c he has a 'trained seal' bit like most actors, or b/c he is a middle child, or b/c he was sent to boarding school Thus, rather than stay silent on TS, or joke of the tank top (either would have worked for me), he chose this faux wounded sensitive soul, bit. He longs for that 2012 version on Tom to still resonate with people. TS is on thin ice, b/c no one believes that she doesn't have the press on speed dial, unlike Tom whose private life is comparably less recorded.
Tom liked this tweet. I am going to hurl.
tarheelprincess/status/829356022724751362
>>702 In case he unlikes it, it said: "@taffyakner When us, his fans, think we can't possibly adore him more, you give us this, and we swoon all over again. Thank you."
>>703 yuck, quite the narcissist
>>701 I'm not sure it's a matter of how much you know, outside UK and US, TH is Loki and the guy who dated TS, this interview changes nothing. Outside the US and UK, TS is a pop idol who writes songs about her ex-bfs, nobody bothered with Kanye, which is why she is capable of staying afloat, so I wouldn't say at all that she is on thin ice.
>>702 If you can, make your way to a pair of baby feet or emergency alcohol. Or just do what TH did during Taymerica: sob/scream into a pillow. Make sure you wear your protective tshirt so the screaming doesn't aggravate your graze.
Wait, news breaking on the pillow: I did not scream into a pillow during TAymerica...that's the truth...thanks for asking. I just know the pillow I met. She's kind and generous. We just wanted to travel the world.
>>700 Did we expect anything less than this level of hypocrisy from that lot?
>>701,705 I think they may both be on shaky ground. Tayto got a rough ride from all levels of print and social media during their tour. And from fans. They are still occasionally mocked and compared to other possible fauxmances. If either pull another fake relationship anytime soon, it will need to be very convincing or people will light the coals and get out the rakes. The shaky ground is perhaps evidenced by their behavior. He's done this laughable interview because he's fearful of what he may be asked on promo or he 'wants to alter the narrative' - not take it back - but fundamentally change it because the one out there now is dangerous to his reputation and career. She's gone to ground save for a few SM posts and one off concerts, something she rarely does. They seem to know that they're not in Kansas anymore.
Captcha: fiquition (fiction that gives you the sqiucks?)
>>699 "...what happens when the object of that love withdraws but all your love is still there..." could also be read as TH pining for the love many of his fans have withdrawn.
>>707 haha, no I suppose no.
I still think TS is the one who risks less, much less, she was working on her new album so she did few appearances and since she claimed it was TH who wanted the limelight, it makes sense.
Look at googletrends for both, particularly the interest by country, does it look like this interview made a difference?
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&q=tom%20hiddleston
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&q=taylor%20swift
>>708 TH doesn't pine over his fans, for the simple reason that as an actor his fans are irrelevant, as CrimsonPeak clearly proved.
This interview was for people in the industry and journalists, it works well as a consequence with his fans, but won't get him new ones. If he had really wanted to clear the air with his fans and merely dispel rumour, posting on facebook would have been enough.
>>710 I agree that TH doesn't care about his fans when he picks roles (like his character in CP, he doesn't seem to have learned that one's choices have consequences!).
And for the article being aimed at the industry and press - yes, it's so obviously timed to SI promotion and trying to fend off hiddleswift questions during the tour ("I've said everything I think need to be said about that in a recent article. Now, back to the mythology of Kong and my charismatic character").
I think the industry people care about his fans, though, because the fans' "tushies on cushies" are how money is made. If a good portion of his former fans will now wait for reviews rather than blindly rushing to see anything he's in, at the least that could affect the important opening-weekend results. And I'm not sure this sob-sister story dispelled any questions in the industry about his good judgment.
>>712 Ouch! (maybe, as a board, we should start a PR company, we nail it most often than not)
I agree with both of them, I only disagree with the executive editor of Variety when he shows sympathy for TayTo.
>>713 I don't know if I agree with any of it. The 'shit' was a shit sigh. I understand why he had to do it with the impending promo tour but Tayto has been well and truly brought to the surface again. If the BBC is reporting on it and taking advice from 'experts' then Tayto is back.
The most important question is: how will this sob story go over with Ricky Gervaise? On to the GNS....
>>712 This, a thousand times this! I've been thinking lately that TH doesn't understand that he's not an artiste - he's a business owner whose product is himself and whose brand is his public persona. So he can't see that the cumulative impression he gave this summer downgraded his brand and disappointed his 'customers.'
I do agree with the Variety guy that this will be only a temporary issue. Public figures have come back quite successfully from doing much worse things than just looking like a twit in public.
Luke just had to deny to gossipcop that Tom and TS are reuniting.
http://www.gossipcop.com/tom-hiddleston-reunite-taylor-swift-back-together/
>>714 True, as I said today to Sosorry, Tayto was only still an issue to him and now he gave the excuse to other media to ask him about it.
The part I agreed with was about his brand taking a hit, not thinking things through, and that this interview was damage control. But I also think that there are so many hits one can take, one single bad event is easier to forget and forgive than a sequence of bad choices. TH is piling up bad moves with great speed.
GNS is pre-recorded, but it's going to be interesting.
>>713 I should have said that 'I don't know if I agree' meant that I really don't know what to think. I have no opinion. His brand has been damaged with me but not with the veranda-dwellers so it's hard to say for certain.
>>716 The sound of Tayto fans' hearts breaking. Actually no, they'll just think this denial is their way of keeping true love hidden from...say it with me...people with cameraphones. They are probably convinced TH is cooking her his famous bolognese right now. I hope they both get food poisoning at this imaginary dinner party.
>>717 GNS may be pre-recorded but a few tweets from the audience might hit the internet.
>>719 Best part of this article is:
<i>The curious phrase here is “pictures that were taken without consent or permission, with no context.” Given that every attendee at Swift’s July 4 party released a slew of Instagram photos, Hiddleston presumably means the mountain of paparazzi photos on their trips around the world; the morning shows in Australia practically had a meltdown when they arrived. However, Swift is very skilled at avoiding the paparazzi when she wants to.
So essentially, he’s blaming the media and observers for “extrapolating narratives” — when really, the fact that he and Swift were photographed so often (and so professionally) made it seem like they were, in fact, telling a very clear story about their relationship. So assuming Hiddleston isn’t being purposefully misleading, he is either is very naive about the way celebrity works, or he is just completely unaware.</i>
None of the three options in the last sentence reflect well on him. So far, I think this is the first mainstream news outlet to offer commentary on the article rather than just summarize it (looking at you, USA Today and Time).
And I don't know why I find this video that goes with the GQ article particularly annoying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6YN5tDAVW4
Those two either-ors: again, his PR should have picked up that slack. If not them, then his managers. To say something like that this many months after the fact is a huge failure of his support staff, IMHO
>>720>>721 It's disconcerting seeing someone you think you respect make multiple career slips like this in such a seemingly obvious way, and continue to watch him clearly distort the truth (silly t shirt story) to save his rep. However, I kind of like that Tom a good actor, but a terrible liar. Even though Tom accidentily shortened the TS relationship by half its entire time frame when he admitted that they had ended as soon as he flew back to AU for Thor 3 following Emmy/SAG campaigning, Tom's ability to seem wounded by the consequential public humilation, loss of his rep, and judgement by the general public (his own fault) in vocal tone, body language, etc. allowed Taffy to portray him as if he is in pain, and hence some STANS and undecided readers do empathize with him. Wild.
>>718 I see. I don't know, the best I can offer is the numbers on his SM (very low) and googletrend showing a decrease in interest.
I forgot that GNS has the audience present! And there's Bafta this weekend, though I have no idea if he is attending.
>>723 No BAFTA attendance for Tom, So far. http://www.bafta.org/media-centre/press-releases/ee-british-academy-film-awards-attendees-2017
Nominees confirmed to date include (in alphabetical order): Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Amy Adams, Andrea Arnold, Andrew Garfield, Anya Taylor-Joy, Barry Jenkins, Casey Affleck, Damien Chazelle, David Hare, David Heyman, David Yates, Denis Villeneuve, Dev Patel, Emily Blunt, Emma Stone, Hayley Squires, Hugh Grant, J.K. Rowling, Ken Loach, Kenneth Lonergan, Laia Costa, Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Nicole Kidman, Pedro Almodóvar, Ron Howard, Ryan Gosling, Tom Ford, Tom Holland, Viggo Mortensen and Viola Davis.
Presenters and other attendees confirmed to date include (in alphabetical order): Andrea Riseborough, Bryce Dallas Howard, Carmen Ejogo, Daisy Ridley, Eddie Redmayne, Ella Purnell, Ewen Bremner, Felicity Jones, George MacKay, Holliday Grainger, Isabelle Huppert, Jamie Dornan, Julia Stiles, Lin Manuel Miranda, Luke Evans, Sir Mark Rylance, Noel Clarke, Noomi Rapace, Penelope Cruz, Rafe Spall, Riz Ahmed, Russell Tovey, Simon Pegg, Sophie Turner, Stanley Tucci and Thandie Newton.
Their Royal Highnesses The Duke, BAFTA’s President, and The Duchess of Cambridge will also attend the ceremony.
Dear me. Tom's 'chit chat' amateur recipe for spaghetti bolognese is now posted on the bonappetit website, and heavily critiqued. Hand Tom some crocs, b/c he's the new Mario Batali. Apparently Tom served the pasta sauce to Taffy w/o any pasta! I guess he's a toast by day, low carb guy by night, apparently. Beauty first, I guess. Love the honesty.
http://www.bonappetit.com/story/tom-hiddlestons-bolognese-recipe
Taffy Akner
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@taffyakner
Just to clarify, HE DIDN'T SERVE IT WITH PASTA.
4:33 PM - 9 Feb 2017
I just can't with all of this. Taffy's continued desire to be the story, the endless tumblr debates about whether Tom's is the echt recipe for spag bog, the think pieces about whether talking about TayTay was deliberate/inept/shady/helpful/harmful/hearteyes.
I need to go and have a lie down and it is only 9.11am.
BTW I saw a pic of someone arranging the headshots on sticks for the BAFTAS. There was a stick with a pic of TH in his white tie from the Met Gala. Is he coming? Is it a conspiracy to not announce his presence to make us all watch the show? Has he been put 10 rows back to prevent Excitement Boner from impeding the camera angles?
>>726 Ha Ha! I vote that it's a conspiracy to make us watch, Anon. Missed the BAFTA prep pic. Maybe he's walking the carpet or will just take pics to promote Kong, but he has to stay incognito by just sitting in the theatre afterwards, like he did at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards in Nov 2016? Now watch him turn around and present. Annoying. If not for this summer, and the weird GG speech, the BAFTAs would be a gosh darn victory lap for his GG awards win! Blah for weird decision making!
Here's the BAFTAS stick for TH, and of course he is going to attend! He is no John Lee Miller.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQSyBDrF2Dc/?taken-by=twhnewscom
>>726 I'm not reading anything on tumblr, actually I haven't been there since September. But, writing that long post yesterday exhausted me so I can imagine reading many others. From now on it's back to mocking only.
>>728 He's so far back. Don't the organizers know about his bolognese? Rather than the Met pic they should have used a big pot of bolognese. I don't think people are talking about his bolognese enough. Taffy, do another article about it. ;)
>>727 I personally hope that he's not there to present but to cater the show. Hmmm, now what dish could he serve?
>>722 I hate that we have to know that he is a bad liar and lies about silly stuff like that shirt. At this point Anon has all but worked out his tell. I don't want to watch his movies anymore but I do want to play poker with him. He'd be signing over the deed to that house in an hour tops. 'The truth is I don't have a very good hand.' I'd probably get Olly in the deal as well.
Captcha: spade - no lie...which in TH's world means that I'm lying.
>>722 Disconcerted is just how I feel about this (on a good day). I really wish this had been a video interview so we could have assessed his body language directly. What adds to my suspicions about his truthiness is that he speaks so fluently; usually when he has to talk about his personal life, he ties himself into a a pretzel.
Lol Tom just followed Ed Sheeran on twitter. Well isn't that something?
CBS News summary provides some inadvertent mockery: "In a wide-ranging, soul- bearing interview...." Is soul-bearing related to dancing-bearing?
>>720 I figured out why I dislike that "TH does accents for GQ" video so much: It's just a staged, pretending-to-be-adult variation of his linguistic dancing-bear act. Wonder if he will ever realize that what's cute in a 26-year old guy is at best questionnable in a 36-year old man. I join in the group sighing.
Well, the great man went on twitter today to follow Ed Sheeran and make an onanistic comment in response to Samuel West posting a pic of an early TH theatre ticket.
What he didn't do, the self-obsessed little twerp, was tweet about the fact that his fans raised £15 grand for UNICEF. He must know about this because it is all over his tag and because he has tweeted about it in previous years. He hasn't seemingly been on twitter for a couple of weeks and it looks like he went on to collect his birthday greetings. Can't be bothered to teeet 2 words to the fans who donated to charity for his birthday.
>>732,735 I'm no lover of Tay Tay and am certainly not a believer of Hiddleswift #2 but I have to say this Sheeran follow is a rather disconcerting move. Is he trolling his ex?
>>735>>736 I think he's throwing himself a pity party instead of a birthday party and probably still pining after his ex. Dunno if he genuinely cared for her or if he's just sad over his career trajectory so far. Based on that so overly dramatic "halcyon days" tweet combined with that weepy GQ profile, I'd say his follow of Ed Sheeran makes me think he probably wants a second chance with Taylor. God knows why but guess he must have some humiliation kink or some terribly low self esteem.
>>737 Or maybe he followed Ed Sheeran for a normal reason, like he's got two chart topping new singles in the U.K. currently.
>>738 Well, if we go by this summer's hypothesis that "if Team Tom denies something on Gossip Cop, it's probably true," maybe TH <em>does</em> want that second chance. And low self esteem is supposed to be one symptom of boarding school syndrome. Heaven help him, and us, if we get Hiddleswift 2.0. (Going to stock up on tinfoil now....)
>>739 Hiddleswift 2.0 won't happen because Miss Swift does not do takebacksies. I'm sure she uses that word too. Tom is entertaining to watch right now but for all the wrong reasons.
>>740 A word like "takebacksies" just captures the maturity level of hiddleswift so well! And the BAFTA after party pictures of TH should be telling.
Meanwhile, one segment of the fandom is having fun with #pastagate
>>735 Not thanking fans for contributions to the charity that he's supposedly so passionate about is beyond tacky. Maybe he was afraid to look because someone might have referenced his GG speech, which has to be another sad memory.
He can't seem to get even the simplest things right now.
(This >>738 was not me forgetting to make myself blue)
>>729 I swear I'll be so disappointed if nobody makes a bolognese joke!
>>735,736,737 Iirc, Sheeran was at the 4th of July party, so they met already and TH does have a habit of following trendy people. But yeah, a strange move to make, since one can listen to music without following the artist on SM and this one is bff with your ex.
Have a laugh a read Shape of you lyrics.
>>743 Haha at an impostor Couch coming here to emphatically and dramatically suggest it's perfectly normal to follow your ex's bff.
As someone who has many ex's, most of whom are estranged, I find it a bit creepy and stalkerish considering there' s a world of potential friends out there. Go find and follow your own.
>>737 The pity party is in full swing. I'd love to know the ham to heartbreak ratio. Something like 90/ 10 I imagine.
I'd be more concerned about Tay's low self esteem if she takes him back in this state.
>>741,744 No need to ridicule his meat soup recipe further, the joke is on all the fangirls eating it this weekend sans pasta
I watched the "Tom does accents" video and I have only just managed to uncurl
my toes. I hate it. When he used to do the dancing bear routine he came across as eager to please, which I found rather sweet - this made him look like a smart arse (all that smirking at the camera and the knowing, patronising tone). I also hated his chirpy lower class British person which was the worst stereotype of what a very posh person who never meets anybody working class thinks they sound like.
I am also very over his tumblr fans and their infantile obsession with the goddamn recipe:
1) TA did not disclose the recipe to a waiting world because of your pressure, losers. She was always going to do that because she milks her association with TH to the max.
2) What is wrong with people who scream "He put CELERY in his PASTA" as if he had made a bowl of spaghetti and laid an uncooked celery stick over the top of it?
3) Ditto people who scream "celery, eeeeew". If you have been to an Italian or French restaurant you are almost certain to have eaten something that has celery in it. Get over yourselves.
4) Almost all Italian recipes for ragù include milk (cf Anna del Conte, the Bologna tourist board website etc etc). I don't personally put it in, but if you are bleating about the "inauthenticity" of his recipe then please actually do the research.
5) I am over this interview and all the goo-ha surrounding it. Can you tell?
Clause (ii) of subsection (24) of 49c in the contract reads: PR Boyfriend will at a time determined by PR girlfriend follow on his social media accounts no less than one (1) member of the PR girlfriend's squad members (see attached list).
It was ES or some Victoria Secret model. He went with the lesser or two evils. Or ES really does write all her songs and TH is hoping a follow will gain him some sympathy.
>>745 Yes! ES and his girlfriend were in the foreground of the pic where TH is in the background looking like a mix of deer-in-headlights and Frankenstein's monster (the casual blazer edition).
>>745 Yes! ES and his girlfriend were in the foreground of the pic where TH is in the background looking like a mix of deer-in-headlights and Frankenstein's monster (the casual blazer edition).
>>751 I double posted on purpose, okay? It was joke...among friends. Okay? It was just a joke!
>>748 Onions, carrots, celery - mirepoix. That's how most red sauces in most cuisines start. These Tumblr fans have never done anything more than open a jar of spaghetti sauce. Which is fine, I didn't do anything but that until I left college. Still I remember my mother and grandmother making cassoulet and sauces from scratch - in went the mirepoix every time.
If you want an antidote to the debate over the article, go here: http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/104997674.html They are all convinced that Taffy was mocking TH to within an inch of his life. They are also having none of TH's pity party.
My favorite: 'READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE Y'ALL. It is a trip. He's really trying to turn 3 months of shameless attention whoring into some Shakespearean tragedy about fragile lovers torn apart by a cruel world.'
From the mouths of ONTD readers' comes the truth. I called it Romeo and Juliet Part Duh as a joke about a certain section of his and her fans, but I now think that's the angle he's trying to sell. No one's going to ask alternate-ending Romeo about Juliet or their relationship on the RC, are they?
>>748 hahaha It's amusing how of his recipe the only wrong ingredient is the one they are not talking about i.e. bacon. Bacon is generally smoked and made out of different cuts of meat. Pancetta, instead, is never smoked and it's only made from the pork's belly. The other mistake is the cooking method: oven. For the rest, here's the notarized and registered recipe http://www.itchefs-gvci.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=587&Itemid=976
(I don't use milk either, I was taught and told that if the tomato sauce is good, milk isn't necessary)
>>752 or even better a brunoise cut, since ragù is a sauce.
and now I'm hungry.
>>752 Dear old Shakespeare is good for every spin. I'm surprised her feminist fans haven't started tearing him apart just yet, he called TS the 'object' of his love, the object!
>>756 I think bacon can be a great starter. I actually once ate a white ragù (no tomato sauce) in Italy, because that's also an option and I was told modern chefs don't necessarily use just ground beef, but mix ground veal, pig and beef. But let's not tell his fans, before they have another culinary crisis.
>>756 the ONTD thread is great. I forgot that he had an interview soon after the Met Gala were he was asked about him and TS dance off going viral. So much for "I just, I was surprised. I was just surprised that it got so much attention."
>>757 And I put a little sugar and a little cream in my red sauces to mellow them. And no red wine (that goes into me)...again, because I'm a culinary heathen. I do this when my mother isn't watching because she'd slap me and when my husband isn't watching because he'd gripe about the sugar and the added fat.
>>748 The most deliciously meta part of all this is Taffy milking it! TH may have gotten himself played yet again.
And someone has cooked the bolognese recipe and posted the pics. The meal looks like it has the consistency of chili. You all are oracles. Tom must either helm a show on the cooking network, or announce a new project before we all lose our minds. Something esoteric, dry and cerebral on the West End, to drive away the crazies. Please.
http://www.refinery29.com/2017/02/140442/tom-hiddleston-bolognese-recipe-test
>>757 I sometimes use half and half beef and pork mince. If so I don't bother with pancetta (and - hangs head - I do sometimes use bacon, but you can get unsmoked belly bacon here, so it is quite similar to pancetta, except that it is usually cut too thin for this purpose).
>>756 Very fine dice should be easy for a newly married woman - please tell me you had a Magimix on your wedding list?
>>761 That is a beef mince stew with carrots. It does tend to suggest that as a generality his fans don't cook much. For any sauce of this type I would take it as read that you dice the veg finely. This is why old cookery books like Julia Child are light relative to the enormous numbers of recipes in them, whereas you could fell an ox with one of Nigella's tomes. Longer instructions needed. BTW on the Great British Bake Off, they use short form recipes for the technical challenge. The skill lies in knowing how to fill in the gaps as much as anything.
>>755 Tom views the world through Shakespeare-tinted glasses. That man is just really over the top with everything.
I'm still baffled about the Ed Sheeran follow but I should file it away along with the Tayto episode as Tom doing things that aren't well thought out.
>>755 It's as if Tom never left university, in his head. When I was at college as a liberal arts student, when I was at the dining tables, sometimes I would slip and start speaking outload to friends as if I was writing a term paper on my laptop. But that was b/c We had to outline and write multiple papers every week. These florid languages pattern would pop out accidentally b/c I was required to use them all the time. Tom needs to work on addressing this, b/c it does not translate to the general public as it does to professors, esp when he is trying to rebuild or rebrand. Although a few comments said that they were able to forgive the GG speech b/c Tom seemed to be such an OTT emotional person in the interview, and therefore he didn't mean to present himself as an Anglo European saviour. Best of luck to Tom on hiring some kind of crisis PR consultant to turn this barge around. Lighting a candle.
>>761 That is made by an idiot who can't read instructions. The recipe says minced carrot and celery. Even I wouldn't call those minced. They're barely cut! I could have torn the vegetables into smaller pieces with my hands.
>>762 We did that annoying thing of asking people to donate to charities rather than do a registry. We have a blender and stand mixer but no food processor. Our kitchen is tiny!
I'm such a modern cheat at cooking. I just want to get the job done and have it taste good. When I first made spaghetti carbonara for an Italian I was dating, I tempered the eggs by mixing some of the pasta water into them before putting them in the pan with the pasta. It's the only way I can be certain of not getting scrambled egg. He nearly lost his MIND. Apparently it wasn't like his mother did it. I reminded him that I did a lot of things not like his mother. The next time he made carbonara, he tempered those eggs. 'It works so it's fine' is my guiding principle in the kitchen.
>>764 Don't light a candle on TH's barge. The way things are going now, that barge will catch fire.
https://www.facebook.com/Film4/?hc_ref=SEARCH&fref=nf
Film 4 unarchived this hilarious footage of TH inadvertently quoting Anchorman (I'm in a glass case of emotion) while comparing acting to working in mines (Zoolander).
The comments, from a stable of RADA graduates and theatre luvvies, are well worth a read.
>>766 Good god...what was that verbal vomit? Does he always try to challenge himself to stuff as many pretentious words in a sentence as possible? Mineshafts of human emotion? What on earth??? By the end of that, I couldn't even tell what he was talking about anymore.
>>766 Oh dear. That metaphor ran away with him.
1) Anthropology
2) Mining
3) Archaeology (bringing home things that he has dug up down the mineshaft to be put in a glass case)
The comments are hilarious.
>>767,768 Film 4 must hate him to dredge this up on his birthday.
The real nuggets are the comments attached to the 140 shares, especially fellow aktorrs
Meanwhile he unliked the nauseating tweet. Why does he do this? If you are going to like this stuff at least try not to make it look like you were then told off by your publicist.
>>766 Film4 must have thought they were doing him a favour, but right now, it really wasn't.
From his hair it seems to be from 2012, but he used this same analogy in 2013 too http://www.dailyactor.com/film/tom-hiddleston-acting-playing-
>>770 Once I would have said he liked it by mistake. Once.
I found the original Film 4 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRnw9f5rbN4
The only decent answers: Judy Dench, Leonardo Di Caprio, Olivia Coleman, Zoe Saldana, Kirstin Scotto Thomas. And Keira Knightley because I like her.
>>769 Film4 hates him like Taffy does. The low key shade, or the oblivious shade maybe, is becoming a trend, a worrying one for him.
My husband wants to know what's so funny about being up at 6am on a Sunday. I was nearly crying just from >>768 Anon's summary. But then I watched it and read the comments.
Universe, don't stop giving him rope now - the Baftas are today! I'm sure the twits over on the veranda will see this and praise his eloquence and intelligence in the same blind way they praised his spag bol. I always thought he deserved better than the veranda but now I see that they are perfect for each other and provide him with the mindless praise he craves.
>>774 he's in free fall, will he find a parachute?
Speaking of BAFTA, links to live stream
https://www.facebook.com/bafta/videos/10154419575404010/
In other news TH will be in LA for Kong's promo on Friday
"Headed up to Los Angeles this Friday to interview the cast of @kongskullisland. @twhiddleston, @brielarson and @SamuelLJackson. Fun times!"
https://twitter.
com/JoakimGomez/status/830335914790383617
>>To expand on Anon's great list:
4) He confuses anthropology with archaeology at the start
5) Isn't archeology always in 3D, otherwise known as in real life?
6) Even Eton-Cambridge grads say "like" sometimes
7) "present, past, and history" - maybe the past and history being different is how he came up with the third dimension?
8) This kind of stuff is best delivered in one's plummiest actor voice.
I think he just gets high on words.
>>774
To the "what's so funny at being up at 6 AM" question, one CB commenter pointed out "She also writes 'he lives 20 minutes away, he was there in 15'. Was he already lurking in the lobby and set his stop watch when she said yes? Or was he sitting in his fastest sports car, all bathed and dressed at 6 am waiting for confirmation?"
And last I checked, TH is still following Taffy, so he must be oblivious to subtlety.
He is the gift that keeps on giving, isn't he?
Tom didn't walk the BAFTA carpet, yay! In his interviews, Tom is basically regurgitating the identical theories promulgated by classical Shakespearean acting textbooks. Why he does this, I do not know. Mining the soul of the character, playing tennis with your scene partner when shared lines arise, etc. He speaks in plummy tones b/c the books say to fuse verbal thinking to discern the meaning of the words, with musical thinking by using your voice on specific higher or lower pitches following the verbal patterning of the words, to show how the words relate to each other. "Emphasis" is defined as varying vocal stress on the words, with the vocal pitches on the words, and determining the length to hold each word. The sound patterns of lines is the structural element of emotional expression, and how to give colour and life to the voice when "reading and speaking the score." And you combine your initial scansion of the lines, and lastly your own imagination of how the character is feeling to top it off, vocally. Tom, I'm glad that you studied and you are disciplined, b/c of lot of performers aren't. But please develop an awareness of how all this sounds to 3rd parties who know nothing about you, or know you only b/c of this summer. Fingers are still crossed for him.
Tom looks dapper in his navy tux. No interviews? How is the monkey movie promo going to proceed?
The Telegraph's live blog of the BAFTA's on TH's presentation of the Best Film award: "And Tom Hiddleston, presenting the award, keeps it short and doesn't bang on about his humanitarian work, so that's a double win."
Plus some interviewers on the red carpet were asking nominees if they had a speech prepared....
Mock Internet bf valentine from Tom, and his real bday tweet below.
Tom Hiddleston
✔
@twhiddleston
In other news, I turned 36 last week. Huge thanks to everyone who said hello. I went for a run in the rain, had a piece of cake. On we go.
3:43 PM - 13 Feb 2017
Refinery29 thinks Tom's being blue. I just think he's gettin back in the good graces of fans in a low key way, w/o saying anything interesting enough to rope in the crazies.
http://www.refinery29.com/2017/02/140728/tom-hiddleston-sad-birthday-tweet
http://www.refinery29.com/2017/02/139732/valentines-day-cards-internet-boyfriends#slide-2
From time to time reading CB serves to something.
The Main Draw is a podcast about tennis, but they had an interview with Taffy yesterday, and she talks for a few minutes about TH, from minute 3 to 7. The podcast title is, needless to say, mystery brunette
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-main-draw/id1002026920
>>781 On we go...
Add to the list!
>>783 3 tweets? Re-printing the bologese recipe? Multiple GQ posts? I am only in favor of more recipe discussions if Tom is announced as the new host of The Great British Bake off.
Tom Hiddleston @twhiddleston 12m12 minutes ago
Thank you to @taffyakner for many things, but mostly for sharing an appetite for Bolognese.
Tom Hiddleston @twhiddleston 18m
A huge thank you to @gucci. I feel very lucky to have your partnership and support.
Tom Hiddleston @twhiddleston 27m27 minutes ago
Thank you @GQMagazine for having me on the cover. A huge honour.
>>784 And he was tweeting at about 1 in the morning UK time? Captcha may say it all: "nayope."
Anyone else have the impression that he's swinging widely between being very hyper and being very down?
>>784 (Sorry, this is just too hard to resist) "Lego Loki" has already spoofed TH's tweet-out to Gucci: <link is giving me problems; it's on twitter, Loki_Lego/status/831666751272284160 >
Tom Hiddleston @twhiddleston 1h1 hour ago
Tom Hiddleston Retweeted Marvel Studios
Bravo @Kevfeige and everyone at @MarvelStudios. What you have built over the years is extraordinary.
>>788 And wasn't that at 3 AM in the U.K.? Unless he's already in Los Angeles. Insomnia or obsessive phone checking?
There was one still of Loki early in the retweeted video, but it's still not sounding as if he'll be in Infinity War. Really hope he can announce a new (non/voiceover) project soon.
>>784 Another misstep on Twitter? His tweet to Taffy seems to gone. Maybe he realized that she and the Bolognese have been upstaging his new PR tack.
Crap. Who else is he going to thank at 1:00 GMT?
Am I the only one who thinks this slightly maniac behavior does not bode well for GNS? Is Luke looking around to see where he can purchase animal tranquillizers?
He's been traveling down a strange highway for awhile and he needs to get off before the Britney Head Shave junction.
>>789 He can't be, TGN is recorded on Thursday, he'll probably leave London right after it to be in LA on Friday.
Normally he would have done his thanks about the interview right away, but he probably thought it was safer to wait, given the reactions.
The Gucci thank you is obviously PR, Gucci wasn't the only brand in that photoshooting, he wore Louis Vuitton and Zegna and others I don't remember, but clearly it's the brand he has a contract with.
The Marvel thing, as we posted some time ago, his name wasn't listed for the Infinity Wars and Thanos was the only villains mentioned.
One of the nannies at CB mentioned that her sources told her he is going to be in it - whether a cameo or a consistent, in the first or the second film, no clue, but they are filming them back to back so anything it's possible, if true.
He also changed his twitter header to Kong. What was the previous? Still the mountain? He is betting a lot on Kong if he went as far as changing the header, he didn't do that even for ISTL.
You know, I do think this is - odd. He must as Couch says be in the UK to film the Graham Norton Show. So these tweets were at 1 and 2am. Plus he thanked Taffy and then deleted it. That is very hyper and he doesn't usually tweet at 2am GMT. He has also been sharing the love on IG twice - at 2.30am! He sounded either nuts or a bit drunk - "sincere thanks...a huge honour" - for a magazine cover! He has had plenty of those in the past and we haven't seen these outpourings of emotion.
I have to say, I don't think he's entirely well in himself. He has had a tough year. He was not a major star but was usually spoken of respectfully in the media. Now he has become a laughing stock over Tayto, and as a result is spoken of much more critically, even though he has reverted to his previous behaviour. So he wins a GG or does an article and nothing is quite as he envisages. That has to have had an effect on him. We have always known he reads his twitter tag and cares deeply about such things. He has never been one to let it all wash over him - and there's been a lot to deal with recently.
Has the internet taught him nothing? His fans have his tweet screencapped and posted anyway. http://hiddlestonredalert.tumblr.com/post/157254042174/twhiddleston-thank-you-to-taffyakner-for-many
>>795 I think you are right, he was never one for conflict and the fact that he has nobody to blame for this situation except himself seems to be taking its toll. And while a profile interview wasn't a bad idea, he should have left his summer antics out of it, or not talk about it like that.
>>795 I'm sure that he's a bit anxious and frustrated with himself. Tom is still a single man, without the distraction of family life. His passions have always been his prerogative and so he has all the time in the world to focus on the business of being Tom Hiddleston, and trying to get to the next level in his career. He's ambitious and a perfectionist. Had this summer not happened, this year would have been a cakewalk with a GG award win victory dance for his discipline and work ethic, and instead, Tom seems to be stuck in a Groundhog Day recovery mode for this summer. Kong will open based on whether or not people like the visuals of the trailer, and whether they want to see a sequel monster movie this time of year, and probably studios are waiting to see the success of that before they cast him in othe big parts, or he this that a big opening will help him negotiate for the type of role he wants. That's why I think a consultant PR specialist would be helpful. Tom should let someone else take the lead on social media and basic career strategy instead of making little slips and self flagellating himself for them. And he should never do a PR relationship again since theyre always staged and obvious. And maybe look for strong character parts in film or leads on stage. A film like Noctornal Animals would have been lucky to have someone of his caliber. With his looks and training he has time for leading roles in his career. Look at how Colin Firths career evolved over time. Best of luck to him.
>>794 The previous header was a longshot of him, arms outstretched, on a Scottish mountain with the rolling fields below.
>>796 Free of the contractual agreement (maybe?) he felt compelled to talk out the sincerity of his side of it. While it may convince some skeptics that it was not a Hollywood fake romance, it did nothing to remove how naive it was to enter into the romance with TS, given her history.
The complete profile article title still has the stink of the summer fauxmance - "Tom HIddleston on Taylor Swift, Heartbreak, and Great Bolognese." But it doesn't show on the cover though, so that's why he posted the screenshot of it on his twitter account.
>>793 A CB nanny with 'sources?' She can take a leap with that bull. A few months ago I posted a link to another board here that had some Marvel spoilers. 100 to 1, her info came from that board, the link for which I saw on Reddit. 'Sources' - my ass.
>>795 It's not - normal. He was all over the place this morning. Too many tweets, too early, too many superlatives, the strangeness with deleting the tweet to his partner in bolognese.
Kudos to this board for noticing that something was off. His twitter tag is all heart-eyes and declarations of love (for him, for Gucci, for Marvel), and no one asking, 'What the fuck is wrong with you? Go to bed.'
Seems GNS taped today. One tweet I saw: 'it's obvious TH needs PR coaching.' When some one asked if she would cringe the reply was: depends on how much they edit out.
Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy.