Thread to talk about the actor...oh fuck it. You know what to do
Someone may be getting a little punch drunk from all the promo work: https://www.instagram.com/p/BRrLZEsgoDy/
>>252 (giggling madly) SO glad you didn't decamp to the Gackt board!
>>241, >>245, >>246, >>249 Other previous drinking examples -- odd dancing and DJ'ing at last year's BAFTAs, and (my fave) his in absentia (or absinthe?) acceptance of Elle's Man of the Year award: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px4Xq6UDYLc
I suspect that drinking less might also have to do with (as he's said) he "can't just go out for a drink" anymore now that he's much better known.
But I agree that he must have needed all the booze he could get to survive Taymerica. There was also a story about him sneaking away with the other guys at some point for some beers. (And he did have a death grip on that huge wine glass!)
>>245 Here he is signing autographs, taking pictures with fans in Tokyo. This is a good wide shot, and I was considering how much weight he's lost compared to mid-2014 when filming CP (the height of his weight was probably during Coriolanus at the end of 2013):
https://mobile.twitter.
com/9quew/status/841951525387792385
Thoughts?
>>245>>254 Tom still seems to be a social drinker. Tom drank multiple cocktails at that lunch with TS in Nashville, and he drinks quite a bit at wrap parties, and he looked like he'd had quite a few drinks when he was spinning that reporter on the dance floor and DJing after that awards ceremony. In general, we don't see pics of Daniel Craig, or Hugh Laurie, or Jude Law out and about, so I don't think that fans are so wild about Tom that he can't grab a pint at a pub. Although people would notice if he were to go out partying and if he got way out of control. The pics we see of Tom in his neighborhood are prearranged pap walks. I actually think that Tom strategically lets fans take pics with him when he's in a promotional groove, as a sort of fame management tool (although he does value his fans.) And of course, Tom had to take a big step back from overexposure because of the summer antics.
>>255 Tom seems to feel better about his physique when he is lean from running. Does he just feel capable when runs as much as possible? Does looking slim make him feel younger, like when he was in Suburban Shootout? I have no idea. Catherine Deneuve famously said that as you mature, you have to choose between your fanny and your face, because being too slim for your frame makes you look drawn/older in photos.Tom looked good in CP, and post the TNM slim down for Loki. Seems a little narrow in the face, now.
>>255 I think he has lost quite a lot of weight over the years. The publicity photos for The Deep Blue Sea at San Sebastián show how much he has lost round the bum. In this pic you can see how much rounder his face is as well: http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Tom+Hiddleston+59th+San+Sebastian+Film+Festival+af0KUnTg7DPl.jpg
He then lost a lot of weight for OLLA and at that time he started to really show the cheekbones. Since then he has put it back on at times and lost a lot more at times (ISTL) but he has never permanently gone back to the size he was in the pic I posted. He looks positively chunky in the CP publicity stills (where he is standing in the hallway wearing a navy coat) compared to how he looks now - and he was by no means big then.
>>256 >>257 I just realized - could it also be that since he's signed with Gucci for the moment, he needs to stay slim for the way their suits are cut?
I do see what you mean, Anon, about being rounder in his face re: that pic. The running has gotten rid of the facial baby fat. The CP publicity still were coming off of Coriolanus and he was relatively huge back then.
Kong, Beijing press conference video. It seems the host asked them to repeat dancing moves they performed in the past.
http://m.miaopai.com/show/channerWbH5/1034:4332881e7209d125829b44f8663441a4
>>255 - >>258 He seems particularly thin at the moment (I'm trying to relocate some of the "candid" standing shots of him in knit top and jeans from the LA press junket - his waist looks tiny in those). Could be for Gucci, though since his suits from them are custom-made, they should be able to adjust for any slight variations in his weight. I'm guessing it's more from lots and lots of running (which I think is his stress relief), plus not currently working on a role for which he needs to bulk up.
The pressing question - is he currently at his Loki weight (for the rumored IW filming soon)?
>>262 I remember those pics. In some of them he looked waffer thin (to quote Mr Creosote).
>>262 But when he was in OZ for Thor3 he was bulkier (unless all that gym was stress relief too), so does he even have a Loki weight?
>>265 IW promo? Will Gossipcop deny? Chris Evans and Olsen kept getting asked if they were a couple during Civil War promo, and instead of just saying no, or Evans saying that he was with Jenny Slade, they just kept teasing each other. I think it's that sizzle and steak theory, where if you want the audience to buy the steak/film, you have to get them to believe in the sizzle/chemistry b/twn the leads. Or maybe Tom is just distancing himself further from this summer? But no one believed that the crazy kinds weren't promoting ISTL when they had dinner in front of the press corps at the Wolseley in London, and then let the press run stories about them till the film got no oscar buzz at festivals, and then they finally killed the relationship talk. No more more games! Please, more talk of good scripts! Cumberbatch is playing the lead in the miniseries of one of Tom's favorite books, the Patrick Melrose novels, on Showtime, gosh darnit!
>>265,266 It's radar online, so it's probably complete made up click bait BS, like all the other "Tom dumped Elizabeth Olsen for Taylor!" and "Tom is texting his ex Lizzie behind Taylor's back!" stories from the summer. Isn't Olsen "dating" Jeremy Renner now anyway? They've got a movie together coming out soon.
>>265 Ha! This is mediocre even by the mediocre standards of gossip websites. I find the chance of that, if that was ever a thing, happening as likely as TH going back to TS.
Besides, if one has to build a narrative about that, we already posted something here http://4-ch.net/tv/kareha.pl/1475085154/335,336 and here http://4-ch.net/tv/kareha.pl/1475085154/529
>>266 Nah, it's just good old-fashioned click-bait. Another publication today had an article about Scarlett and CE possibly starting a romance because allegedly they wanted to be seated together at an event. If Marvel is going to use that kind of publicity (provided this is the case) these two would make more sense since they'll surely appear in IW.
>>264 Not sure if there is a Loki weight/look, but he's said he does train specially for that role due to the heavy costumes and doing stunts. So perhaps next week isn't IW (or the Oz bulk was due to the Summer of Pasta and Take-Out).
>>265 Oh good grief. I think they're expecting a drought of hiddleston-clickbait, so they'll just make up some of their own.
As a side note, but not so much, Derek Walcott has died today.
He is the author of one of TH's favourite poem, Love After Love, TH did a reading of it for The Love Book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z850LNbudlw
Yours truly is a Scientologist (see comments on this article: http://www.celebitchy.com/528004/tom_hiddleston_his_stylist_agree_that_he_should_never_wear_capri_pants/#comment-15422818)
Director GDT has posted all three sections of Sir Thomas Sharpe's bio on his twitter account. Deliciously dark.
RealGDT is his twitter.
>>273 Tom's stylist, Ilaria, also just got a deal to design a women's line for Eddie Bauer. I guess all of the press for her clients in magazines/connections worked, whether or not we agree with it. I kind of miss the days when stylists were in he background, though. Although I loved the Gucci bumble bee bow tie, and the oxblood coloured suit Tom wore was interesting for the Tribeca film festival premiere, I really think that Tom's prior Armani duds and Ralph Lauren three piece suits (like Wimbledon 2015) suit his classic sense of style, the most. Ilaria's casual wear is interesting, like the Breton striped Cunicelli sweater and the new Isaia double breasted Pea Coat.
>>275 I prefer the cut of Armani suits on his body, RL second. And you're right about the casual wear - it's brightened up his look. Now if she could convince him to get another pair of shoes besides the grey ones.
>>275 A perfect example of why yours truly only styles men- I wouldn't be caught dead in those clothes.
>>273 Oh dear
I missed most of that press tour but it must have been fairly uneventful compared to the usual. He schilled his summer romance harder than SI, I feel cheated.
Who here has seen the Monkey Movie- is it worth giving up some of the precious little spare time I have?
>>277 Just saw the Monkey Movie last night, and my sister did last week, as well. The good news is that it's a fun ride while you're in the theater, but a week later you will forget the plot completely. There is an awesome helicopter sequence with Kong, and each time the team defeats a monster, a new monster pops up to for the teams to confront. It's kind of like an Indiana Jones movie where every time a new obstacle is conquered, there's a new problem to solve, and on, and on. But unlike Spielberg, Vogt Roberts has far too many soldiers for us to care about anyone at all. They each have 2 sentence back stories and no time us to explore them. Toby is empathetic, but the script is full of cut out banal cardboard characters, despite the fact that there are a lot of really talented actors in the project. John C Reilly does his best to be funny to bring something to the script. I like Tom a lot as an actor, and in general prefer Brits hands down to the young American actors. But I think that Tom's strength is his ability to use his Shakespearean verse speaking training to make flesh out of complex language on the page, and his ability to mine the poetry of the text to fuel his emotions. When there's just a silly script, Tom doesn't yet have those innate Harrison Ford leading man instincts with humour and irony to make an underwritten script believable. Hope Kong holds well with Beauty and Beast coming out.
>>273 Goodness.
You know, we mock here because as a group of people, I think, we don't have a tendency to idolize. And sarcasm is what allowed us to still be here with an interest for TH. But boy, this guy has a natural gift for associating himself with dubious people. He truly looks at people through pink coloured glasses.
>>273 Since I know next to nothing about Scientology, except being a stupid cult (like all cults) I googled a little bit.
Yours Truly is bad news, worse than I thought. She and her husband (and her mother!) are both chummy with Danny Masterson, she opened a shop with him some time ago called Confederacy.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/sep/21/image/ig-confederacy21
http://champagneandheels.com/uncategorized/mick-rock-at-confederacy/
http://digital.modernluxury.com/article/The+Radar+People/93054/10070/article.html
It gets worse. Danny Masterson has just been charged with sexual assault (second of her client involved in something like that, she just has that keen eye)
http://variety.com/2017/film/news/danny-masterson-sexual-assault-allegations-lapd-scientology-1202001831/
Where is Luke when he is needed?
>>280 Yes - that venture failed but she is still hand in glove with Masterson. According to the Celebitchy thread her mother is a lecturer at the Scientology "Celebrity centre" in LA. All rather ghastly.
Apparently there are a lot of Scientologists in the industry, especially in support professions - stylists, hairdressers, cinematographers etc. I can't imagine that TH would touch it with a bargepole, but it does explain the excessive thirst on her part. They suck in the more minor industry people by promising them access/success. If they achieve it, of course they attribute it to Scientology and not to the fact that it is just networking with a crazy cult overlay. So she has to peddle the "I am a Scientologist and look how I hang out with famous people" line, to show others how great it all is.
>>281 Or would he? If they promised him the ultimate fame?
>>282 haha No, he is not the type.
But, Yours Truly isn't some random hairstylist or make-up artist the studio has employed for a film. She is his personal stylist, he chose her. Her link to Scientology and her closeness to a man charged with sexual assault is something that will reflect poorly on him, because these infos are easy enough to find. He really doesn't need any more bad press.
>>283 She also styles Chris Evans, Bradley Cooper, Rami Malek, Ryan Reynolds... She was a big Celeb Stylist before Tom ever hired her. It's a professional relationship, and there are a lot of Scientologists in Hollywood. He's not dating her and he's not her only client, so the press can't really single him out in any way for his association with her - if they even cared.
>>283 How many of us would have said the same about a fauxmance a year ago?
>>284 Professional relationships come under scrutiny just as much as personal ones these days. More so for TH as he now says his private life is off limits. And just like with Tayto he's opened the door for scrutiny of this professional relationship by appearing with Yours Truly in this article.
The press, if they cared, wouldn't 'single' him out. Instead they'd lump him in with the others you mentioned. Bad press is bad press, shared or not.
And welcome, huh. I think you're new. We're always glad when newbies decide to join the conversation.
>>285 (I'm actually dreading the approaching of summer, it's a tricky season for him)
>>285 I am watching with some amusement as the tumblr regulars, who ran to fawn over yours truly's amazing style choices (!) are now recalibration for their opinions. Shades of Tayto - at first the drivelling love for Taylor and the refusal to accept that she might be flawed in any respect, followed (mostly after they broke up) by the realisation that she was, perhaps, not a perfect example of feminism etc...
I mean "recalibrating their". I have just tried to type this about 10 times but iPhone's autocorrect is very resistant to present participles.
>>279 Thank you, Coach. You've summarized a lot with this comment. Since I'm sure I won't use it as a parent - we've decided to be angry and stern parents :), I'll use it with TH. I'm not angry, TH, I'm just disappointed. His choices of late have been disappointing, especially in the people with whom he's chosen to associate: The American team, which led to TS ( yes, that's a professional association) and the stylist.
I don't care about TS or Yours Truly from a moral standpoint. We all have our failings. I care that they're both rubbish at their 'jobs.' His choice to associate with both has earned him some notice, a good few column inches, a few magazine covers, but I don't think either has benefited him in the way he wants: boosting his career prospects.
>>287 TH summers. Three years running, he's not let us down. BoraBoraGate, PurseGateGate, Tayto. What could he and the American team be cooking up?
>>290 and above. I doubt Tom would succumb to Scientology. As someone (surprisingly smart for the venue) said in the CB comments, it tends to be celebrities with lower educational level, or people new to the business, who get roped in. (Neither Cruise nor Travolta graduated from high school, for example.)
That said, I think his rose-colored lenses also may make him too loyal to people once he's committed to them, even if the association isn't helping him. (Aside from the BF rumors, how else does one explain sticking with Luke for PR?)
>>291 Oh, summer-gate could be fun to guess. I'll start. He launches his own fashion line, specializing in distressed casual/running clothing, and skin-tight suits in which the wearer cannot sit, only stand.
>>290 I think with both TS and scientologist celebs, their moral/ethical standpoint is hard to dissociate from the professional image that they portray and therefore from their success and the success of those who associate with them.
TS can be a feminist or not, vote Republican or not - her choice. However when she assumes the mantle of feminism for financial gain, one is entitled I think to scrutinise the extent of her feminism, and in particular whether it is sending negative messages to her mostly tweety fans. I think one is also entitled to scrutinise her decision on the one hand to pursue teenagers who make and sell Taylor Swift memorabilia on Etsy, but on the other hand to take no action against alt right groups who use her image as an ideal of Aryan womanhood.
As for Scientology - it's a cult, and one about which there is a considerable amount of evidence of exploitative behaviour of many kinds (financial exploitation, abuse of minors, blackmail). Setting aside the question of whether one wants to support any celeb who chooses to align themselves with this organisation (I don't), association with Scientology has come to have an adverse effect on professional image.
TLDR: being a fake feminist/a scientologist/etc is arguably part of what makes these people crap at their jobs.
>>295 I can disassociate the two. Perhaps it stems from what I do. If you want me to analyze someone's professional life, without reference to their personal, I can. International relations is also a world in which the ends often justify less than admirable means; I tend to focus on outcomes. TS engages in fake relationships for the purpose of publicity. She's an unconsecrated communion wafer of a human being who is essentially nothing more than a PR construction. She does this in order to make money. The people who buy into that, or the parents of children who allow them to buy into that, are responsible for their own actions as much as she is for hers. I can put that questionable morality to the side while saying I can tell she's a bland wafer and that her relationships are fake - questionable morals and poor outcomes. (Yes, the two are probably connected but I can separate them for certain purposes.)
Scientology is totally a cult. That they are given tax exempt status is shameful. I half remember a story about Peaches Geldof and Scientology. She met a man in LA. They did some drugs, heroin maybe, and slept together. He woke up vomiting at the celeb Sc. center in a sauna and found her on an exercise bike outside in some sort of purification ceremony.
Now for more important matters: The Boat Race.
>>280 Forgot to say that Luke is probably still embedded with Watson on her tour. And he's probably having fun with the supposed nudes of her that were leaked. Luke cannot catch a break with his high profile clients. I expect a pic of him at an airport bar with a HUGE drink and a FML expression to show on tumblr any day now.
>>297 Or he'll redeem his poor surfing paddling by pushing Cam's boat from behind!
Pix on toririlla of his arrival at Heathrow today. He's actually smiling at the pap in most of them. It looked like he had fun in Bejing.
>>299 I saw those. I thought he looked well and happy. He must have had a nice time.
>>292 How could I forget! Sadly I wasn't around for Wimb. '13 or BoraBoraGate. My life's true regrets. Please come back to us, JArthy.
I thought he'd show at WImb. '16 with TS but I guess tennis is just for real gfs and PAs. Now that Olly may be out of the picture, who will he take this year? Probably Mr. Beardy.
>>294 More likely to be slogan t-shirts. ;)
Painfully awkward interview of Tom at the 2017 Empire awards, as High Rise and TNM are nominated. The questions were pretty dull. Tom seems polite but incredibly tired. TNM sequel is being created, and he says his return will depend on the script, character, and his availability which I think is his code for there is not a chance he will be back : ) Thank goodness.
>>302 Apparently he is receiving the Hero Award. I fear there will be a speech.
>>302 He did seem very tired (SM rumors say he did go to Cambridge yesterday). At this point, probably what he most looks forward to is sleep and no interviews.
I think TMN2 would have to be extremely compelling for him to do it - there's no good career reason for him to repeat the role.
>>303 Hoo boy.
>>303, >>304 From Empire's live blog of Tom's speech (and he's shown holding an unfolded paper, so he may have prepared this time): ' "They say never meet your heroes," says Tom, in a gracious and humble acceptance speech. "I'm lucky enough that I wouldn't be standing here if I hadn't met mine. I've been lucky enough to work with them. And if I haven't worked with them, I've attempted an impersonation of them on the Graham Norton show." '
What is the Hero award for, anyway?
Empire has a pic of him holding the award and, most importantly, a piece of paper with his speech. Everything might be okay.
>>304 Just did a little search on twitter and it seems he could have been in Camb. yesterday. Something to do with his college or Classics, both?
>>302 It's the morning in Beijing, he's probably still wrecked from the time difference and exhausted. The odd, awkward interview isn't rare for him, never has been. This is pretty low on the awkward scale imo.
>>305 Apologies, I didn't refresh after >>304. 'Gracious and humble' is sounding good.
I think the Hero Award might be one of those that your PR peeps get for you. Anyone remember EO's style award from Elle last year? I think this might be similar. Not that there wasn't something truly heroic about surviving a three moth relationship with TS. ;)
>>306 I had a little look yesterday and didn't find anything. No Gaudy that I could see (event for past students). No fundraiser, and Saturday is an odd night to be invited back to college by one's old tutor, for example - the formal dinner is usually on a Sunday.
>>307 Not a problem; great minds and all that....
From the list of previous Hero awards winners (the entire cast of Game of Thrones one year?), I think you're right that it's a "made up" award. At least it gave him some practice at speechifying.
>>308 I saw three tweets. Two from present Pembroke students about him coming back. Neither seemed certain that he was there. Another from a Camb. Classics student about singing in front of him. One talked about him 'sneaking' back onto campus. Undercover Gaudy?
I don't know if there's a rule of three that applies here. The tweeters all seem to be unconnected. Still could just be fiction. Maybe he was invited back but didn't show.
>>310 I don't doubt he was there - just couldn't find out why.
>>309 Ummm, hello? The cast of GoT is defending the Wall from the White Walkers. Heroes!
>>311 I do! Twitter can be a very good GPS but also an awful GPS. I can see it being a situation where he was invited by couldn't attend. Those often lead to these 'unconfirmed' event rumors.
>>313 I thought the singing one sounded legit - not I may be singing for him but I actually was, unexpectedly.
>>312 Ah, so it's for the role, not the person/people.... So perhaps TH's was for rescuing TS from -- oh, too many things to list?
Tom, expressing thanks for the Empire Hero award, and for audiences' embracing TNM.
>>300 Probably due to relaxation, at long last, inevitably the big tayto hurdle for him was in the US and UK.
>>301 JA to make you happy.
Partial video of his speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9_wHUVp-2E
Kong second weekend in the US is half the result of its first.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=legendary2016.htm
Foreign countries (without China and Japan)
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=legendary2016.htm&sort=country&order=ASC&p=.htm
So for now the film is a long way away from breaking even, let alone make a profit. I doubt that China and Japan can do the magic.
Look here for a comparison with Jurassic World who had a similar budget.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=similar&id=legendary2016.htm
>>309 Not that the rest was any better. They managed to give the award for Best Actress to Felicity Jones for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story while having nominees like Amy Adams or Natalie Portman, Best tv drama to TNM when they had Westworld and Stranger Things, Best Film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story when they had Arrival.
It's a silly award. But he looks like he had a nice time, he seems to have been surrounded by friends from the British film industry, and the location (the Roundhouse) is a 5 minute walk from his house. After his GG win, which I am sure was spoiled for him by the (over)reaction to his speech, I feel like he deserves a bit of a pass.
I have a sense that the ship is on a more even keel - or at least that it is no longer moored at Desperation Dock. He seemed to enjoy his little publicity trip without being too OTT or hogging the limelight and not letting anyone else answer. He posted pics of himself on Instagram having fun, like a normal person. He prepared a speech for his award show. He sounded self-deprecating when he was interviewed afterwards. Kong got mostly good reviews outside the UK and has made respectable $$ (more than you can say of any other recent outing). He even smiled at the paps when he flew into Heathrow. We haven't seen that for a long while.
Looks like it was a fundraiser at Pembroke Cambridge - hashtag thetimeandtheplace on twitter. I actually saw a reference to this fundraiser early yesterday, by an advertising exec who said he had enjoyed working with the college - but there wasn't a mention of any launch event until today, so I didn't bother posting it.
>>318 It didn't get my money this weekend but did get my BIL's. I asked him how it was. 'Okay' was the answer but he says that about a lot of films. He did say that the theatre was nearly empty because everyone was in B&tB. I'm sure it will make its money back eventually. I still can't believe it needs to make $500m!
>>319 In addition to being UK-centric (expected with a UK magazine), it seems like these awards were more likely to be given out to those who were actually in attendance. Looking at the categories, many of which were sponsored, I also suspect this may have been a money making venture for Empire. Not that the awards were paid for, i don't think that was the case.
>>322 Everyone likes to win a prize, I guess. That plus the fact that Empire is the big film magazine over here. It has been around for a long time (1989!) and it has seen off a lot of competitors over the years. It is not a bad business model to get everyone along by bribing them with a prize!!
TH already has a lot of plastic awards on the shelf in the downstairs loo (Elle Man of the Year, MTV for whatever it was). Let us also not forget that his brown nosing about Jameson (the former Empire Awards sponsor) has condemned him to a lifetime of getting a bottle of average scotch wherever he stays instead of vintage champagne!!
>>323 not even average scotch (it's Irish of course. Which is fine, but it's also a blended whiskey, yuk yuk)
He must be feeling better - and browsing the Guardian website a lot - two tweets and one like in 24 hours....
Elizabeth Olsen just stepped out with an alleged new beau/perhaps just a friend in NYC. Male model? So I guess that the only new Star magazine-created fauxmance for IW that we have to look forward to will have to be Chris Evans and Scarlett : )
>>320, >>322 Even if it's a frivolous award, at least now he knows at least one UK publication isn't totally against him. (Though their review of SI wasn't terribly positive, it didn't trash his performance the way the Guardian's did.)
>>325 Those were interesting tweets (in that the subtext of both rather parallels his life for most of last year - fake/real, having your life blown up, recovering)....
>>325>>327 That Harari quote was fascinating. But I read Andre Agassi's autobiography, "Open", and Agassi's past was a brutal one. Tom's father may have been a hard disciplinarian and unsupportive of his artistic career at first, but Agassi's Dad was cuckoo. He forced him relentlessly into tennis as soon as he got out of the cradle, Agassi became really depressed because he hated the professional sport lifestyle choice his father imposed on him, and Agassi developed a ragingly ugly crystal meth addiction in Vegas during his career because he tried drugs when he was bored one weekend. This summer and the public reaction to his extended GG speech was difficult for Tom, but Tom's career took a swerve as a result of ambition to make it in LA. Agassi blew up his own career and had to rebuild his life, reacting to a very different set of circumstances than Tom, IMO.
>>326 EO was with Robbie Arnett from the band Milo Greene.
>>322,323,327 It's sort of strange though to have a cinema magazine give awards with that criteria, if anything it should be based on quality precisely because it's a cinema magazine. It doesn't exactly give credit to their staff.
>>326 They make a pretty couple, but I love the photo-bombing guy. (note how there wasn't any scarf madness)
>>325 Good on him if he feels better, if he managed to take a burden off his shoulders (for the time being at least, because TS remains an unknown variable).
>>329 There was no PapGateGate madness because EO seemed to be an equally willing participant in this pap stroll. After Tayto we all got the sense that EO might not have been the driving force behind THEO. Her reaction on Pap Night was still OTT but her being unaware of the paps or unsure of being papped (changed her mind?) could have been the cause of her reaction. Want to bet TH is looking at these pics and singing 'we could have had it alllllllll?' She looks lovely and happy.
>>330 I love the thought of TS as some 'unknown variable' in a mathematical equation. It fits sadly. Yesterday I saw an article about J. Gyllenhaal being asked about TS. I clicked on it to double check the date. It wasn't from 2010, it was dated March 20 2017. I guess someone asked him while on his latest junket. He politely said that he would not speak about his private life (where have we heard that before?). I hope the stans over at CB don't see it because it will destroy their fantasies of TH never being asked about TS now that he's said he doesn't want to be asked about TS. Because that lot over there thinks that's how it works: yeah, he whored out his private life but now he doesn't want to talk about whoring it out - well, okay then! JG gets the TS question seven years after their three month relationship. TH will get the same. The CBers need to gird their loins just like TH because the 'unknown variable' isn't going away.
>>327 Is it subliminal or is this the only way he can blink out 'it was fake' because TS and her people are watching him like a hawk?
>>329 It is strange but they've got to make money and get publicity for their mag, and these types of awards, as unbelievable as it sounds, are a fairly good way to make money and get a name check. I know this because my FIL's company often sponsors these types of awards. They get companies - who can write off the expense on taxes (don't know if it's the same in the UK) - to sponsor awards and that can pretty much cover the costs involved in the evening. They often get the food and drink sponsored as well.
As for the publicity, the clue is in the trophy here. It's not some abstract form (Oscar's, GG, SAG) - it's the actual name of the magazine. Subtle? No.
>>324 Ahh, Jameson's okay. If you're going to mix your whiskey with ginger ale/beer/cola (and be European about it), then Jameson is the way to go. This is what my mother does! She also makes a Christmas punch with Jameson that is delish and lethal. I think it got a bad rep early in its life but has improved...maybe.
Chances that TH always turns up to a dinner party with a bottle of Jameson? 10/10.
>>331 I know we did, but I wouldn't say I'm sure about it. At the time of PGG we assumed her doing because he looked so annoyed and her so unnatural (tbf right before the started a conversation with the Gate, she also sounded annoyed when she asked the paps if "they got what they wanted"). The only other time I saw her doing that was always in London for CA:Civil War, outside her hotel. Maybe it's the city.
>>331 7 years later! Not that I expect TS to go heavy on him, but since most of her songs are love songs, the questions are going to happen. Unfortunately for him, she might be promoting during the Thor3 promo tour. (I have a great feeling for Thor3 so I'm hoping TS will still be into hiding)
>>332 I want to see them convince the Millenials to buy their mag with these premises.
>>335 and above: Turns out it was the Guardian who asked Jake G about that, so TH absolutely will get asked about it again around Thor3 and her album drop. (I also hope it doesn't time out that way. Anyone know how far in advance TS starts her album promos?)
And at least one outlet (Popsugar) that picked up the Jake G question threw in a TH mention at the end, so I that's now the first item on Tom's IMDB news feed.
Just skimmed the Guardian's Jake G. article. It got quite frosty after the TS question! If TH gets asked again, we may see this from him.
>>336 She always releases her albums in October-November so yeah it's gonna be perfectly awful timing.
>>338 Maybe by then she'll be picking apples, beach walking and sharing maple lattes/swan pastries with some other poor sucker. Fingers crossed.
>>337 I didn't even skim, just checked the date and the headline. Maybe TH is going to retweet some more Guardian in an attempt to get back in their good books. He may have seen this. He may have heard the bell tolling for him come promo time. His genitals may have retreated into his body.
Is it wrong that my spot for JG is softer than for TH in regards to TS? I fear that TS and JG was about mutual bearding. It is possible that JG is gay. With films like Brokeback Mountain and stardom under his belt, JG didn't need the publicity, he seemed to need the heterosexual relationship. TH could very well be gay but I think Tayto was all about the publicity.
>>339 Gyllenhaal is most likely in the closet. Could be Bi. He started to beard mutually for Swift two days before she dropped the Speak Now album, and one month before he opened "Love and Other Drugs". It was bearding in general and PR. But Gyllenhaal hated how his team handled the Swift PR, and he wisely fired everyone on his team directly following the breakup! Manager gone, publicist gone, and agent I think. Jake also fake dated Reese Witherspoon, so she could look like a yummy mummy after Ryan Phillipe was unfaithful, and they split up. And in turn, Jake looked like a very mature and kind fellow A lister b/c he had a gorgeous serious actress gf w kids. No idea about Tom. Tom's private life is so quiet, he just confuses me.
>>339 If his package has retreated, that might also be due to being treated as it was in this video. In so many ways, this is how not to wear a tight suit. (Though to be fair, that thing he's seated on is much too low to the ground for someone his height and there's probably no good manly way to perch on it!)
http://damnyouhiddles.tumblr.com/post/158671047651/when-your-phone-rings-in-the-middle-of-doing
It was always going to make a mainstream gossip website. But I think this is the hi-larry part: 'Hiddleston had hoped that if he spoke about his former relationship once—in GQ's March issue—people would lose interest.' Even E! cottoned on to that plan.
The meme of being 'excluded from the narrative' will continue on as well. TS is to blame for that.
>>342 That "one and done" interview idea was a vain hope.
Wasn't there a theory during Tayto that some of the verbiage in TS's response that included "excluded from the narrative" ("character assassination," I think?) might have been contributed by TH? If so, it's another snake that will keep circling around to bite him.
Also an interesting bit from the E! article, quoting a previous interview w/ TS: >>...as she explained in an interview with The Telegraph in 2015, no normal man would ever "sign up for this and everything that goes with it. Like, 'Hi, nice to meet you. Want a date? Do you love camera flashes? I hope you do!'"<< Subtle shade of TH and JG as fauxmances for the PR....
>>342 Supposedly another gossip rag (Daily Express?) got a rise out of Tom at the Empire awards, but the blurb later was deleted from their site: >>Perhaps better known these days for his failed relationship with American pop star Taylor Swift than his acting, Tom Hiddleston did not shoot us down when we raised the subject of his ex but was looking to move things on, “She’s a great girl,” said the 34-year-old Night Manager star.
“More importantly, give me your phone. Let’s take a selfie.”<<
from http://myinforms.com/en-gb/a/188630997-day--night-taylor-swifts-a-great-girl-admits-tom-hiddleston/
Think the rag was more afraid of the wrath of TS's PR machine or TH's blue stare of death?
>>344>>343 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4336992/Jake-Gylenhaal-bubble-jacket-ex-lover-Taylor-Swift.html
Now the dailymail has an article about Gyllenhaal, TS and Tom. They defined Jake, who is currently warbling show tunes on Broadway in Sunday in the Park with George, as a known "macho leadies' man," so I now definitely think that he is not straight, not that it's any of our business, and best of luck to Jake in the show. I think that Tom's selfie answer was perfect. Tom showed that he is polite, and that summer was a long time ago. Can't wait for the announcement of a new project!
>>344 She's a great girl. Oh the beige-ry. It's the sort of statement that will make the Swifties swoon but really isn't something I'd want my husband to say about me.
>>345 I'll agree that the selfie deflect was a very good one but it is limited. He can't pull that with broadsheets or during sit down interviews. That's purely within the purview of a press line. Maybe he can walk around with a pot of bolognese and deflect with that: 'Let's not talk about the amazing Taylor. Let's eat some meat sauce!'
A new one will have to come eventually. Even if, technically, we got Early Man recently-ish.
What do we think? Comedy, drama, dramedy, another blockbuster action role? TNM 2? Bond? Whatever it is, it will be scrutinised heavily as to the state of his post-Tayto career.
(Junior doesn't want to sleep tonight/this morning so we're reading articles about Tayto!)
>>339 maybe because JG was younger and TS's MO wasn't that known? Or because, like you said, it might have been bearding. Claiming ingorance for TH is more difficult.
>>340 haha I didn't know that! "couldn't you have found me a better bearding? Fired!" sort of things? JG also involved his family I think, there's a photo with TS MaggieG. and a kid.
>>342 JustJared posted it too, which means TH saw it since he follows their twitter.
http://www.justjaredjr.com/2017/03/20/jake-gyllenhaal-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-dating-taylor-swift/
While I was browsing for JG I found this article. She is an unknown variable.
http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/01/25/taylor-swift-disses-jake-gyllenhaal-exhausting-dating-interview/
