Thread to talk about the actor Tom Hiddleston.
>>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.
You'd think he'd learn not to drunk tweet after that fateful New Year.
Continuing on the 'is he slightly unhinged' train, some feedback from the Norton taping;
Also I am hyper aware I was very visible to red sofa guests where I was sat and Tom Hiddleston needs some serious PR coaching.
should I be prepared to cringe..like how bad was it😂
depends how much they edit out, I imagine they'll cut quite a bit 😵
>>800 Jinx!
I have my cringe face on the ready for this upcoming press tour.
Tom the Piddle Puppy is back. When he sees you, he runs in circles barking shrilly; he looks cute until all of a sudden he deposits a turd at your feet.
>>803 Haha, a perfect metaphor. Let's hope he learns to polish his turds
But he's not nearly as cute. More shrill as Anon said.
>>802 You know they're going to have to edit a lot out to make him 'not cringey.' Maybe they'll just superimpose a pretty picture over TH. When he talks, they'll distort it so that he sounds like the adult characters in the Charlie Brown cartoons.
Wawa wa wa wa wa waaa waaa. Translation: Taylor and I were very happy and REAL. The shirt was a joke. That's the truth. Please love me.
>>801 some tweets are coming through on tumblr about the GNS - only the complimentary ones. I haven't seen anything describing cringe-worthy behavior yet.
Ask me how surprised I am.
I'll look on some of the jaded blogs.
From the GNS: TH plus guests
>>808 Young Hamish's eyebrow's are even more puppy-doggish than TH's!
>>798 And at the very bottom of the online article, it says that the print title will be "“We ♥ T.H.” Even if the writer wasn't dragging him, the copy editor was.
Oh Lord, it's impressions or gushing about TS, or an impression of TS! Please don't cut that out!!!
The level of cringe is, I'm afraid, personal, I found his MTV movie award speech cringe worthy, as when he started dancing at the Chatty Man or when he insisted on singing ISTL during the ISTL promo tour. His previous GNS was awkward, but not embarrassing. Of course all of this was pre-Tayto.
>>798 I get the intention, but what he said was all wrong and I wonder now how much more Taffy cut out.
I still don't understand the GQ's cover title for this profile. What the US got to do with the content, do we have to assume this profile was supposed to re-establish his image in the US?
>>799 you might be right about those sources.
>>812 Tom has been on the cover a of UK GQ a couple of times. I can imagine that addressing the summer in significant way was part of the deal for his getting the US GQ cover, and Tom's ambition got the best of him. But why would Tom do it in that way? Did the Kong producers encourage he had to to secure the cover? It should have just been a profile of his family, upbringing, love of Shakespeare, etc. And then Tom could have laughed off the t-shirt with a brief comment by saying it was joke among friends and he knew he looked like a jerk, but luckily he loves Tony Stark and T.S. Elliott. But summer was a long time ago, and they had both moved on. He could even have even said that there was a steep learning curve that he still had to learn about PR and that he was naive about the machinery of gossip magazines, and that a choice to step out into the limelight continuously(which he had no prior experience with), for better or worse invoked those to comment. Sad Romeo/blaming the media was a weird choice. Or, Tom should have just shut up like JG and not taken the cover. Jake didn't address his fauxmance with TS for years, and his career is pretty good. But some are buying Tom's BS, b/c if he was could pretend to be so naive about PR aspect of associating with Swift, then he couldn't have been driving the PR game himself. Odd.
>>811 probably just a continuation of the manic behavior from earlier in the day. Did he personally thank everyone in the audience? Did he get too excited and wet himself per Anon? He could be so far gone that he asked DanRan for a PR spell.
Also what asinine outfit will Yours Truly put him in?
>>813 Some are, yes: Those who will buy anything from him are buying this. Others, the media, people with brains or common sense aren't. They will continue to see Tayto, the article and those tweets for what they are - the shrill barks of a puppy about to shit on your carpet.
It just keeps coming. The Guardian has a Kong article today, showing in my search results with the blurb "Apologies for the shirtlessness," says Tom Hiddleston. "I didn't want to show off." The full article explains (sorry, am on phone so can't link) but it feels as if the universe has it in for TH right now.
Captcha - lo
>>816 It has nothing to do with the tshirt of authentic love.
It's an interview that happened on set while he was filming Kong in Hawaii (although the article was clearly written after the Golden Globes win).
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/16/welcome-to-skull-island-on-set-with-tom-hiddleston-and-the-biggest-king-kong-ever
There's nothing really that interesting in this article, but boy this film must have cost so much.
>>817 Oh I know it wasn't about that T shirt. It just struck me as funny that the blurb makes it sound like he was in "extra" mode again. (Not to mention exhibitionist mode, which I do think he's a little prone to also.)
>>818 my bad :)
Came here to post a link to the Guardian article but Couch has done her thang and it is already up!
Anyone else notice the anecdote about 30 takes - of a talking scene? Sign of an inexperienced director I'd say.
>>821 Heh. When I watched a bunch of his work back-to-back this summer, I wondered if he has a standard contractual clause that lets him choose to show off some portion of his anatomy even if the script in no way calls for it! I love how Del Toro roasts him for suggesting that for CP.
He does have a beautiful body. Let us not forget the beauteous high res photo of him in a sun lounger in High Rise.
I'd always rather look at his arse than hear him talk out of it....
OMG! I see on Dlisted that it's EO's birthday. Let's speculate over whether they exchanged birthday texts, calls or gifts.
She did call him but only to whisper the word 'Tayto' and cackle like a hyena. She sent him a big cowboy hat just like Hank's so he could hide his face and shame under it.
He called her. It was frosty to start because he blames her for Tayto - if only she'd agreed to take THEO public! Then he caved in and offered to take her out for bolognese when he's in LA. She agreed but plans to take the biggest purse and scarf she owns because she's wise to his games now.
>>823 RIP THEO (2014ish-2015ish...maybe)
>>825 He sits at home, wearing his Gucci slippers and a smoking jacket, sipping a pink gin and leafing through scripts looking for the nude scenes. "Luke? Luke!! I'm not doing this, it has me fully clothed throughout. What do you mean, I have to wear a space suit in space?" [hangs up]
Samantha Bee video rips faux Hiddleswift:
“Watching Ryan play moral watchdog was like watching Taylor Swift pretend to be surprised at an awards show — bland and fake, but weirdly compelling,” she joked.
“Take another cue from Taylor Swift, Mr. Speaker,” Bee added, comparing Trump to TOM HIDDLESTON. “Know when to dump the guy you’ve only been pretending to like to help your career. It’s kind of hurting your ‘moral compass of the party’ brand.”
http://ew.com/tv/2017/02/16/samantha-bee-paul-ryan-taylor-swift/
Well, the first cringe-able leak from the GNS taping - TH re-used the story about him peeing on Tom Hollander's jellyfish sting. (multiple outlets)
Captcha: reuse
"Submit Q's now for #kongskullisland's @twhiddleston using the hashtag #KongAskTom, and join us tomorrow for a LIVE Q&A!" Well, that should be festive! (on Twitter at /kongskullisland/status/832322812920557568/photo/1)
Nice pix of him, though.
>>828 Well, his fans kept saying dating TS raised his profile in the US, if looked at upside down a down curve can be seen as raising.
The mirror states that the tank top did not ruin Tom's style credibility since he got the Gucci campaign. Clickbait with Swift pics as well. Summer summer go away...More projects, less gossip.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/style/celebrity-fashion/tom-hiddleston-lost-style-credentials-9823234
>>831 Ha! I'm loving that his most 'insane' fans who staunchly defended any damage to his reputation are now shitting themselves that he has no other projects announced. No, it's not normal. Not at all.
The GQ cover, while marginally increasing his US profile, was obviously negotiated in exchange for an exclusive on TayTo.
There's a lot riding on Shit Island.
This, according to an ONTD user, is a summary of early SI screener reviews:
'It's apparently is like Jurassic World. Big on Kong vs Island creatures fighting, and low as hell on script/plot. 75% of the film is Goodman vs. Jackson, Brie is the damsel Kong falls in love with but it's only a call back and not as heavily prevalent like in the original film and she has minimal screen time. Hiddleston is apparently hilarious because he can't even pretend to feel peril by CGI monsters and his facial reactions are hilarious.
From what I've gathered, it's pretty bad but 'it's covered up by 2 hours of big creatures beating each other up and is only here to set up for Godzilla vs Kong.'
'..it's a mess..'
>>832 Lord...severe eyeroll at that Mirror article. That one smacks of Luke Windsor trying to do damage control but failing miserably. They just to let that disaster go and move on, like they did for Graham Norton Show.
>>833 Doesn't he have that cyborg Frank Miller comic, Hard Boiled with Ben Wheatley lined up? Or is that just in initial talks and hasn't been greenlit yet? So far the SI trailers and TV spots are underwhelming. I can wait til it comes on Netflix. Maybe Tom will end up having to do theater and TV for a year or two after Shit Island bombs and he realizes that maybe character acting is his forte than trying to be leading man. Leading man days were a thing of the 80s and 90s, the concept is pretty much non existent nowadays.
Many a true word spoken in jest.
I called TH a piddle puppy yesterday. On Graham Norton he told the following anecdote: ‘Very soon after I arrived I got the nickname “Piddle” and the boys made up the rhyme, “Hiddle Piddle did a widdle in the middle of the night.”
PS: Tom, please don't refer to yourself as "engaging".
>>835 I am convinced you are psychic. Pray tell, what do you foresee in Pid's near future?
>>834 He does seem to be quite solidly attached to that project but the project is still in the script development stage so anything could happen. He could be dumped/ the whole project could be scrapped/ we could all die of global warming waiting for it to eventuate.
I think I know to whom you refer, Anonon. I can't be bothered to scroll back though her page though.
I am interested that you say that it's not normal to have no projects announced.it is the great stan cliché that he must be VERY BUSY behind the scenes reading plays and preparing new projects - as if that actually took as much time as a proper day job and didn't leave loads of time for loafing around! And as if it were somehow bad for him to take a break anyway...
I wonder if he recognises that after filming or promoting since January 14 with barely a break, he needs a rest. Since end '13 he has done: Coriolanus, CP, HR, ISTL, [shortish break of maybe 2 months], TNM, TIFF promo, Kong, ISTL promo [shortish break in May 16 but not really as loads of appearances], THE SUMMER OF LOVE, Thor. He has had a bit of a break since Thor finished and I think this is the longest since at least January 15 when he finished ISTL and hadn't started TNM. He will then have what I am sure will be a fairly punishing press tour for SI - it is being heavily promoted in the Far East so I am sure there will be more China trips.
I think the Hard Boiled thing is only in development. I am sure TH will do it and I am sure he has attached his name to it early to help Ben Wheatley get funding. But it seems unlikely to be a project for the back end of his year, for example.
This is an itunes podcast with a rather long response to the GQ article on Dirtcast Episode 2, and some clips of Tom's voice. They surmised that Tom's wounded Bambi act was either an award winning performance for PR, or that in truth, Tom hasn't realized that the mainstream attention had subsided since the summer, following the split. Thus, Tom remains literally a wounded Bambi b/c he is tormented by his own misteps with the fauxmance and the misguided GG awards speech. Whereas Tom used to only have to contend with a small coterie of tumblr fans and critics, who are usually in his professional corner, Tom's first foray into the world spotlight lead the world to see him as a conman and a liar. And that emotional judgement, although accurate, is just too much to bear for a man who wants to be liked so much. Truth.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dirtcast/id1200894796?mt=2
>>838 Yes, he has minions in his agency scouring scripts for him. Only a handful end up in his hands. It's such a myth all he does is read scripts and knock them back.
I won't begrudge him a break, he has been working relentlessly (especially if you include the SUMMER OF LOVE in his work schedule ;)). He does however, as we have all acknowledged, need to repair his image. Perhaps he plans to disappear for a while after Kong promo a la his prominent ex but nothing fixes shit like a blockbuster or an academy award and you have to work to get those. I honestly can't see SI leading to either accolade.
It's possible his future is also tied up in the success of SI; if it is a success, he can take a guilt free break, if it is a flop he will (insert opinion).
My personal opinion is that he needs to keep working. He needs a breakthrough quality project while he still has hair (although looking at the SI trailers I think they fixed his hairline). He's a confessed workaholic and I truly believe if the quality projects were flooding in he would be grasping them by the balls and announcing them from the hilltops
>>833>>834>>838 I think it was Ari on HBO Entourage who told Vince you always book the next job, before your last movie opens, just in case. Hopefully Kong will make a killing, abroad. The only box-office proof leading men left are Leo and Denzel. Tom can always do theater, or the BBC Spy Who Came in From the Cold adaptation, if the writing is good. I think that Tom should conquer Broadway. A Tony award would fuel his ego, and I'd love to see him perform live.
>>837 I hate to say this, but my main prediction if he doesn't step back is a nervous breakdown.
I think he is a fairly fragile personality - a people pleaser, highly ambitious even for this business, thin-skinned and overly concerned wth his online rep (checking his twitter tag and so on).
Since Tayto he has been under enormous pressure. His projects have received a mixed reaction, he has a lot riding on Thor/SI, he is getting older, he has been mocked in a way that he had not experienced before, and that has had a hangover so that small silly things like the GG speech get a disproportionately unkind reaction. (I am not interested in assigning ultimate blame for this, or saying "oh it's his fault for fauxmancing" - I am just saying that we are where we are and he is currently the press's whipping boy, despite the fact that there are a lot more unattractive characters floating around (cf the Mel Gibson rehabilitation)).
So he is under a lot of strain, probably exacerbated by the poor counsel he is receiving from whoever thought that the underpants shot was a good thing, and either thought a fauxmance was ok or failed to manage a real relationship in the press.
I think he needs a proper break - for himself primarily and secondarily to let the press forget about him as a target. He had such a (semi compulsory) break in 2012-13 and I heard rumours of some kind of breakdown at that time. I think a long rest is on the cards, probably followed by a return via the theatre (as previously).
>>840 Yes I totally agree that if he had a quality project he would have taken it.
He did say he had some theatre project on the books which he was supposed to be announcing as long ago as May. Wonder what happened to that? If he is worried about gaps, I have been mystified why he hasn't gone to the Donmar or wherever and said he wants to do more theatre. They would be bound to say yes as his fame does mean he sells out theatres (smaller venues plus I suppose the added draw of seeing him in the flesh). And a good theatre project with a possible West End transfer is intellectually and critically respectable. A good way to win back the critics, a return to something he does very well, and an opportunity to live at home for a while.
I have a horrible feeling that his American PR has told him it is movies or nothing. Not the right call in my view - par for the course with them.
>>842 Certainly if he is having any kind of breakdown he must take time off and I hope there are people close to him looking out for his mental wellbeing. I guess my point is, if his mental faculties are firing all pistons, the boy needs to go back to work. Pronto.
He can have a stress- free promo if he keeps TayTo on lockdown. Now that the 'expose' is out in the open there needn't be more questions. If Shit Island can turn into Polished Turd Island all may be forgotten.
>>843 His US PR would have a valid point; theatre ain't got nothin on long form drama. So far his greatest success has been TV- I would advise him to look in that direction
>>844 There's a brand new Howards End adaptation being made by the BBC with Hayley Atwell and Tracey Ullman. Is Tom still age appropriate to play Leonard Bast? Not sure if its prestigious enough for him. Spy Who Came in From the Cold, LeCarre would work. FYI, if the US PR team allowed to Tom to do Tayto, they need to be ditched, ASAP. The London theatre critics seem to be reluctant to reward Tom for his work. They seem to prefer Rory Kinnear and Ben Whishaw (amazing actors, btw.) Unless Tom finds a truly unique play with a killer role (Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time unique and astounding), I'm not sure he'd get his due. Maybe if Tom killed in Much Ado About Nothing, as Benedict? But he'd need a real sparring partner for Beatrice, and even then I think the Olivier awards might slight him and reward his leading lady!
I can't recall exactly what the rumours were or where I got them. Possibly from this board which started in I think early 13. Have a read back of boards 1 and 2.
I think perhaps you mean 8 performances rather than a Beatles-esque 8 days a week! I hear what you say but going home to your own bed at night is hard to beat even if you are working late.
I think he would be great as Benedick. He never does comic roles but he has good timing and does the comic scenes in straight roles very well (as when interrupted while having sex with Sienna Miller in HR: "I thought we were doing this...?"). He's far too old for Leonard Bast, who was in his 20s and married to a much older woman IIRC. Anyway, I really think that sounds like a dud. Another case of why remake perfection?
>>842 I half joked about pulling off the highway before Britney Head Shave junction but that business a few days ago with the sad birthday tweet followed by the manic 3am cries for love and attention - it's not the behavior of someone fully happy, healthy and 'in a good place.' We said as much here and we're fairly good at assessing situations.
Whatever he decides to do, I think we can all agree, it will probably backfire on him. That seems to be the track the universe has him on at the moment.
Captcha - joux. Not sure what that means but the captcha never lies....
>>833 They have finally stopped saying that it's because he'll be busy with The Avengers IW? They have finally noticed that the rest of the actors involved has already announced stuff? Tough times for them.
Shitty Island was a prescient and fitting name.
>>833,834,838 Guys, you're all forgetting the voice acting work! Don't make me call veranda woman to do some scolding!
>>835 Piddle! He told this story before, this past year in fact, but I don't remember when. Repeating it again in TV is truly masochistic.
>>847 I only ever read of TH saying in an interview that he passed out from too much work and had to rest for a couple of weeks, that his plans for the New Year (2012) was to find some balance.