Thread to talk about the actor...oh fuck it. You know what to do
>>46 A couple of other reviews also didn't mention him at all. I wonder why the UK reviews trended more negative than the US ones? (There will be more US ones for next weekend's opening here, but more will be from outside the entertainment press.)
>>47 lol - so indirect that I missed that interpretation (I'm so used to our politicians dodging every question)! And the new "I'm only here to talk about the work" is ironic given his team's use of GQ to get the Official Personal Answer (TM) out about Tayto, in an article that barely mentioned any of his work.
>>49 Now he must know how Chris Hemsworth feels about Loki stealing every Thor movie.
Agree about the importance of the non-US box office. This review even calls out that "...it's almost painstakingly clear Skull Island wasn't made for a Western audience..." (scroll down to the section "This is a Global Film"): http://www.polygon.com/2017/3/2/14782556/kong-skull-island-review
>>46 Oh, and what does it say about his role and/or performance that after Empire ran a huge spread on the film beforehand, heavily featuring TH, that they can't bother to include him in the review?
>>51 But GQ's profile was about him, not a film, it was a way of getting rid of the tayto questions prior to this promo tour. So what he said isn't ironic, it's consistent. For now.
I was thinking about money spent and box office yes, and to add to the review you posted (good review by the way), Legendary is now owned by China's Dalian Wanda, which is why you have Chinese actress Jing Tian as part of the cast. And because of the KongvsGodzilla they also needed bait for the Japanese audience, which is why you have Miyavi as part of the cast.
>>46 They didn't have a problem with bad ISTL reviews because all but one praised Tom's acting to the hilt.
Captcha: fetheish for some, yes.
He's wearing a goddamn sombrero in Mexico. Looks like he should join a mariachi band. Really Thomas? Didn't he learn from 'tank-gate' not to randomly put on things thrust your way.
>>46>>49 I don't know if the nannies ever had it to lose.
I've only read The Guardian and The Tele's review. The Guardian was bringing both barrels. The Tele liked the movie but strangely said that nearly every character, even TH's, could have been left out without the plot suffering. Only BL's character was 'key' (probably because of the tank top). So if they're reblogging the Tele's review, they're not doing him any favors.
TH is probably practicing this line in the mirror: Honestly, I've always wanted to be in movie about a journey to an undiscovered island that got mixed reviews and made back its box office thanks to overseas markets.
>>55 Ha! I'm surprised Miss Yours Truly didn't put him in a mariachi suit for the RC. More: hasn't he learned anything after the GG speech. People will accuse him of cultural appropriation. ;)
This RC look is another miss for me. I'm not feeling the coral (?) shirt and tie contrast.
>>55, >>57 From the video bits of the sombrero moment, his smile looks plastered on (especially the last one where he's turning away after having taken it off). He may be thinking "well, that's going to be all over the internet...."
https://68.media.tumblr.com/5eba2649737af109b9017b9aba1bdd55/tumblr_ombn78i7qo1t7x9x7o3_400.gif
https://68.media.tumblr.com/e0006ae3e1113b1f27415345170977c4/tumblr_ombn78i7qo1t7x9x7o2_400.gif
https://68.media.tumblr.com/f9e3a27eebfee55b200323d2eef22c93/tumblr_ombn78i7qo1t7x9x7o1_400.gif
captcha: coyngly
>>56 hahaha that's a wonderful line!
Brie's boobies are also doing all the promotion for her, another deep v necked dress in Mexico. (btw, on the subject, in Room where she was mostly braless they weren't that prominent)
>>55,57 In words he learns, but give him an adoring crowd and he forgets. He is back to his old habit, he stood there for 2 hours taking photos and signing stuff. Will he ever understand that that is the source of his fans entitlement? No. What will happen when he doesn't stay there for 2 hours at future premieres? A mess.
The coral shirt doesn't suit his complexion.
>>60 saw one comment on twitter to BL along the lines of 'TH stayed with us for 2 hrs why didn't you?' (I'm paraphrasing). Entitlement spreads it seems; fans asking a lot of those with TH too.
But welcome to our merry band....!!
>>63 Ha. I was about to chastize you for taking the Lord's name in vain during Lent! Good thing I didn't.
>>20 I think I stumbled across this woman on IG. She posted a pic of her speaking to TH. In the pic, he's looking at her and listening patiently but you can maybe detect an urge to 'depart from the conversation' - as my MIL delicately puts it. I read the caption and she talked about her novel and getting TH to star in the movie adaption.
Those who saw her on Tumblr, is she rather busty and with an Irish and then Welsh name?
Apologies! This should stop the confusion.
>>65 Positive ID.
She was busty but he very evidently had no desire to look down her cleavage.
I once was presented to the Queen (true story!) and among my little group was one lady who thought that HMQ actually cared about her phd. She spoke without drawing breath about rock formations in Bogota (or whatever it was) for two or three agonising minutes while the Queen shunted uneasily from one sensible shoe to the other. Eventually the rock person paused for a millisecond and the Queen said desperately "Well!" At this point her equerry bodily dragged her away.
Anyway, HMQ's expression was just like TH's expression in this photo.
And it's hardly surprising he wanted to run. Almost all fanfiction seems to revolve around the premise that Tom has sexytimes with someone strongly resembling the author!
Aaaaaand he posted the sombrero photo to his IG. We can just be thankful that he didn't dance.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRRpeYiDCMy/?taken-by=twhiddleston
>>66 Welcome. And you've already figured out the referencing system. It took me a week to do that.
You'll enjoy TH's latest IG post...him in the sombrero. He even captioned it in Spanish and added a tiny Mexican flag.
He should post a pic of him in the t-shirt and caption it with the lyrics to 'We Are Never Getting Back Together.' That IG post would make me go see Kong.
>>73 Our spidey senses told us he's embarrassed himself again somehow.
>>72 Or perhaps this shirt instead: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmgZuPbWEAAUOKU.jpg
Tom's Kong radio interview w Australian radio, commenting that he is not afraid of being mentioned in a Swift song. Says that they are friends, but he sounds a bit chilly, that they brought up his peronal life. Part 1 is there as well.
https://m.soundcloud.com/fitzy-and-wippa/tom-hiddleston-part-2
>>75 I guess the GQ article didn't reach these two. I love, LOVE that the Australian media just does not give a fuck about playing games. Remember those tv reporters hanging outside the hotel asking him about TS? Does this mean that Luke or Luke's stand-in isn't vetting questions or topics? Why aren't more people taking advantage of this?
Also love that they call him 'Tommy' and reference 'Johnny Goodman' and 'Sammy L.'
>>75 >>76 waves Aussie flag high I'm sure the article made it to them, they would have laughed, thought it was complete nonsense and asked whatever they wanted regardless. We're not know for sticking to the rules and TH is too media polite to just not answer. Other celebs would just say no, but as mentioned >>62 image rehab is a-happening.
>>76 >>75 Wow, the audio file of Tom mentioning Swift on the radio has been deleted! Will it reappear in an edited form? Was it the power of Kong? Did the American PR team step in to actually do PR? If they did, parabens!
Sadly, the talented Brie Larson had her phone hacked, and her intimate photos were released to the world. Unfortunate, b/c she's a talented woman. I think that Brie's stylist just knows how to work the bust tape, and padding, and those are skills that must be revealed to the world, IMO. Brie has an Oscar, and has been repeatedly told by casting directors that she was too much of a girl next door and not pretty enough to play leads. So I think she's just trying to have fun by roping in more fanboys for Kong and Captain Marvel. She looks great.
"I guarantee you nobody has said me". The hard NO from SLJ made me laugh out loud, too many long winded stories? https://youtu.be/fIYfONzE-jI
>>75,78 That's curious since the radio website talks about it and links to the soundcloud page.
http://www.nova100.com.au/show/tom-hiddleston-breaks-his-silence-his-relationship-taylor-swift
>>78 I don't understand how Brie's leak is relevant (it was her iCloud account not iPhone), it happened in 2015. Besides she was told those things at castings before she won her Oscar, and during Oscar campaign she made a big deal of telling the world how she didn't give in to those requests, she went as far as saying "winning an Oscar allowed me to burn that miniskirt". I don't get your point, of course Brie can dress as she likes.
For some reason the British press were giving Brie a really hard time over her outfits, because she wore a low neck jumpsuit at 7pm. There were multiple articles about it for some reason. I was just trying to be supportive of her, and I said she looks great, and that I think she has a lovely fashion taste, and a natural figure. I was just suggesting that she's having fun dressing in a more overt way now on red carpets, and I'm sure the fanboys appreciate it. Her earlier looks were more subtle, but she always looks great. The Brits need to relax.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/brie-larsons-busty-display-one-9946068
>>80 Btw, the radio shows the SoundCloud page link, but it says oops we cannot find that track. It's odd. That's why I was confused.
Here's the podcast of the aussie radio program
http://www.nova969.com.au/podcast/fitzy-and-wippa-podcast-6-march-2017
>>78 Often clips that are getting a lot of plays are taken off secondary sites so that traffic is sent to the 'home' site. I don't think it's a PR matter.
>>81>>82. Brie can dress as she likes, all would agree. But if she's going to get her baps out, it's expected the British - and most western - media outlets will focus on them. 'Sexy' dressing will, right or wrong, always come in for extra mention and scrutiny...probably wrongly.
Maybe Miss Yours Truly will give us TH in a deep V and Brie will get caught looking at his baps. Equalite.
The true test of #hiddlescalm arriveth tomorrow at 10:30 am Eastern US time. He's doing a Facebook live with Josh Horowitz (according to JH's twitter).
>>87 There is no such thing as HiddlesCalm. There is only the eye of the HiddlesStorm.
>>87 the cracks are starting to show. He got a little snippy in his Telegraph interview but then true to form he had to go and be extra about privacy lol yeah Tom you really should have thought through this whole summer of romance thing. Here's the link. The super smart one posted since the article is a premium one:
http://insanely-smart.tumblr.com/post/158075433638/tom-hiddleston-interview-im-entitled-to-a
>>89 The true comedy will come when one of them ends up humping the other's leg mid-interview. Because that's what those two are headed for.
>>90 This seems to be part of the roundtable interview done when he was last in LA, the one that gave us the 'I'm taking a break to find myself' story before the UK premiere. We had one of these for ISTL that produced a variety of 'shades' in his answers and how they were reported. It will be interesting to see what else comes out of this interview.
How much do you want to bet that the snippiness is rooted in the GQ article not working like he and his team wanted it to work? It will be like Tayto: doesn't regret the action, just regrets the outcome not being successful.
As to being entitled to a private life, I will direct him to Bond, James Bond: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8923078/Daniel-Craig-celebrities-who-speak-about-private-lives-should-not-expect-privacy.html
We had this article up during the early days of Tayto. It still holds water. He's used his private life - albeit a manufactured one - for publicity. So that ship has sailed, Tommy.
>>91 I think you're right: some of this is from a group session - and some is from very old interviews (the boarding school as Harry Potter, the quote about prince William being busy).
New: 2 Avengers films in 2018? Speculation or derived from something he said?
>>92 He would have never said that he had parts in the next two Avengers films. He knows better than to give away spoilers. Think she's inferring that from the known Marvel schedule.
>>90 Don't you wish that when Himself snapped "“What should I regret, in your mind?” the interviewer had started to list some things? Or responded "How long do you have?"
>>91, >>92 The interview does mention being in a hotel suite, and that TH is all in black, which he wasn't for the panel interview in LA. I suspect some of the familiar answers were him recycling verbiage. (There must be parts of interviews that he can do on absolute autopilot.) Though the quote about seeing Prince William "a few years back" might have been lifted.
>>91 I'll take that bet, especially because the interviewer was a guy this time. No cute young female being all "oh you were so HONEST in that article - thank you for sharing!"
Here's also betting that the JH/TH hugging tomorrow will be epic. (Yes, that's hugging, not humping!)
>>91 I wonder if the Telegraph reporter was told "interview over" once he asked the dreaded question about summer and was kicked out and maybe that's why it seems like some parts are a cut and paste job because it quite literally might be lol
>>94 oh! That would have been hilarious! The reporter should have listed the rocks, the TS tank, those gray shoes, the holey sweatpants, not jumping into the ocean and swimming for freedom on his daily runs in Oz, sitting next to Taylor at MET and dancing with her.
Tbh I'm getting quite fed up of this privacy lament of his. He sounded like a conceited fool when he gave that long answer about privacy. It reminded me of the "everyone has a camera phone these days". He needs to stop pointing fingers at the media as the bad guy when him and his girlfriend clearly sent a hand calligraphed RSVP invite and made deals with all the major agencies and outlets.
Tom at an Ed Sheeran concert today: http://okiejess1208.tumblr.com/post/158092049888/wealreadyhome-tom-and-ed-tonight
I don't know what to make of this except it looks a bit thirsty and looks like he's trying to keep his association with Taylor in the chatter for as long as he can.
>>91, >>96 In re-reading that interview, the snippiness may indeed have coming from the GQ article not working out as planned, because he evidently didn't expect any follow-up questions! Further evidence - he sounds unhappy later in it about having to do the publicity tour now: ' "I understand that this is a big film and it’s part of my duty to stand in front of it and do interviews and go to premieres and meet people and that somehow goes with the territory,” he says as if to explain his presence in a Los Angeles hotel suite. “So I just try to be myself.” ' (Duty? Since he usually seems so enthusiastic on the press tours, I get the impression he might want to go back into hiding at this point....)
When I checked Tumblr earlier, there was a lot of reaction to the Telegraph and Aussie radio interviews with discussion happening in ALL CAPS. Just like with the GQ article, he's managed to get part of the fanbase feeling sorry for him, and another part washing their hands of him. Let's hope his LA agency reads him the riot act again and gets some professional PR staff on his case. And that he'll finally take some advice.
On a lighter note, who is the man in these interviews and what has he done with TH? TH never sits with his legs crossed! (Unless called out on his manspreading by an interviewer first.)
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155166904510929&id=123963360928&_rdr
http://68.media.tumblr.com/1e49993f44fb189c7fdbd8b12bfd8999/tumblr_omfdwkpsz71u5j9sco7_1280.jpg
>>94 'Which do you regret more: the showmance itself or that you involved your family?' All shit would have been lost. It would have pushed him to the edge honestly. I'm glad it didn't happen. It would only have led to more 2am tweeting. No one wants that.
>>96 Yeah. He's hurt his chances for true privacy or for a true separation between his private and professional lives. I wonder if the titling at the windmills of an intrusive press is him realizing that he's done just that. He's perhaps thinking if he says that the attention and paps were unwanted - and keeps saying it - then the press will believe him and let him be. But the press have seen through Tayto since day one. He can't Greta Garbo with them, they know better.
Worse, his cries for privacy are prime pickings for gossip sites. This will be on Celebitchy tomorrow and may even make an appearance on Dlisted. Here's ONTD: http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/105345615.html
The intro is particularly snarky.
>>100 Fortunately for him and for us, no interviewer is likely to press him on a Tayto question; they can't risk him refusing an interview in future once his career has recovered from this mess. And, humor aside, I really wouldn't want to see TH pushed to the edge. He evidently wasn't doing well during that LA stop.
As we said above, he opened the door to the press again with the GQ article. He really could use someone on his team who can think through all the possible negative outcomes of these PR ideas.
One of the commenters to the ONTD post summed it up with a gif from Chicago: "He had it coming...he only had himself to blame."
>>90 Oh boy, it's not like we didn't foresee this, we said when the GQ profile was published that he opened a door on the subject and questions will be coming, but I thought he'd prepare some answers to give, not every journalist was going to be Edith Bowman, neighbour and occasional lunch companion.
>>91 At least he didn't say "some things are sacred".
>>97 Well! It might be the first time for taytay where it's her ex being the stalker! (I'm kidding, Ed probably invited him. For the good times in Rome.)
>>100 Tough promo tour for him, together with tiredness he never knows when someone is going to ask Tayto questions. And he'll have to go through it again in October with Thor3 because Taytay will be releasing her new album at the end of the year.
>>103 if her album drops around the same time there will be plenty of speculation about 'which song is him'. I honestly doubt any of them will be.
Sensible things Tom said: "I'd rather not talk about this if that's alright" (words he should have uttered a long time ago).
Silly things Tom said: all the stuff about having a publicity and private life which are separate.
I still don't think he gets it. Nobody would deny him the right to a private life if, like Adele, he said "oh by the way I got married and I didn't tell any of you!" Oddly for a classicist he doesn't not understand that when you lift the lid off Pandora's box, that is IT. Use your private life for publicity once and the press will hound you forever.
BTW I did mean to say a "publicity life". It seemed to me he was talking about something other than a public life here - the fact that he is forced to do interviews etc.
Anyone else sense he has been phoning it in for this tour? Apart from the unenthusiastic expressed to the Telegraph, someone said after AOL Build that they had never heard him talk so little in a group interview....
>>105 Nailed it with the Pandora's Box reference. If only someone warned old mate in terms he'd understand.
>>101 The pics of him outside the AOL Build studio show the same stocky, grey-haired guy who was with him at the Emmys in LA, who was identified as someone from the LA managerial team.
Can one of you take a look and confirm this?
Captcha: rude
>>108 Forgot to add - pics are on Torrilla's site. The man is wearing a pink, dark blue and light blue criss-crossed tie.
>>106 Yes, I commented earlier that he seems really subdued on this tour. It's probably a combination of having seen the movie (which, according to an LA interview vid that popped up yesterday, happened before he came to LA); the mixed reviews, including at best "meh" for his role and performance; and the ongoing tayto questions that he though he'd quelled.
Even his body language is different (>>99).
>>108 I don't think that's Beardy, he looks like a security person.
Still waiting for the day when the DM just reports on Tom, and no this summer. Blah.
>>105,106 I don't think he doesn't get it, since he used to be a little more private before. I think he decided to not keep it in mind because it was more convenient (or to go along to taytay requests).
I agree that he was referring to having to promote and having to subject himself to questions, even ones he doesn't like (because apparently his PR can't veto those questions). Of course it's because there's something negative to ask him about, in the past he didn't mind the attention. Luckily for him, once he leaves the US, he should be fine, it's unlikely journalists will ask in Japan.
Go here to watch the AOL Build interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGI-hiBvNqA
>>112 How's never - is never good for you? (To quote that great cartoon.
And the article made a point of calling out the difference in TH's and Taytay's ages several times.
>>101 The LA stop was also where he was when his did the Aussie interview. Which means he had to deal with a good amount of direct Tayto questions and indirect ones, I.e., how he was dealing with increased press scrutiny, fame, etc.
Agree with everyone saying things are off with him. He's a puppy still but one that's gotten a newspaper to the nose. I saw where a reporter asked him and BL to read out Stormzy lyrics. In the past, that would have tickled his mischievous side. He was going through the motions this time, balked at saying fuck and wouldn't say fudging as the interviewer suggested. At the end, he looked at the interviewer as if to say, 'Are you happy? I've jumped through the hoop.' Before he loved jumping through hoops. He's not having fun anymore.
In another interview the reporter mentioned how wonderful and supportive his fans were, and he very quickly turned it into an answer about the WORK.
I wonder if he's resentful at the press for not buying Tayto and raking him over the coals and for then continuing to bring it up. You didn't give me the support I needed with my fauxmance so I'm not giving you what you need.
So, I've just finished watching the AOL Build video, I don't think he looked subdued or anything, at least in this particular case. It's just that he was in the company of two other people that can and will take control of the conversation and interact with each other before an audience that is not only interested in him. He rarely had that in recent years.
Tom Hiddleston on ‘Kong: Skull Island,’ relationship with Taylor Swift
http://www.today.com/video/tom-hiddleston-on-kong-skull-island-relationship-with-taylor-swift-891977795573
where nothing interested is said and he repeats the telegraph's answer about separating work and private life
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39197012
Is this the 'maybe I have something lined up' project? If this happens, I see OC's character as the hold over, not TH's, but I could be wrong.
>>117 My goodness. Tom's long pause was terrifying. And Savannah Guthrie concluding that the Swift media situation must have felt disconcerting to him, was slightly hysterical. Please, someone help Tom to craft a better answer that assumes some responsibility for his participation in the madness of the press attention, and a renewed desire to be guarded in future relationships. This is not going to away until he owns up in some way, or until he just says no comment, period, although it's a bit Kate for that. And kudos to Guthrie for asking a direct question in a professional way. My oh my.
I was wrong about the Telegraph article being fodder for gossip sites...because everyone has picked it up: USA Today >>119, Vanity Fair, People, even Tiger Beat.
This boat feels very rudderless.
>>118 Me too, if not that's a terrible idea.
>>120 I think the answer he gives towards the end of the USA article might work. He still doesn't own any responsibility for his choices, and it kind of comes off as blaming his fans (does anyone else feel that?) But at least he avoided the unsolicited pictures line, and clearly says he's going to separate his professional and personal (I.e., love) lives.
>>122 Tagline: he took down the worst man in the world. Now he's taking down the second worst.
Maybe they make Pine the handler this second time. I just can't see him being the operative again. Maybe it's like Broadchurch and the second season is about Roper's trial. So many possibilities. I guess I can see TH in it, but hopefully with less annoying chuckling.
>>122 Bier's remark about the script being slowly developed = this won't be happening this year. And have to admit I'm meh about this idea for TH anyway; I'd rather see him in a really good character role or sophisticated comedy.
>>121 The Telegraph thing is everywhere (including CB but not dlisted, yet). Will be interesting to see if other outlets pick up on the USA Today article and his longer explication.
At one point it seemed like Tom Hiddleston’s official job title was “Taylor Swift’s PR Stunt Partner,” but now one of the thirstiest hos on the stroll wants everyone to respect the “privacy please” sign that is hanging on his door.
HAHAHAHA!
And a quick look at twitter:
- It is everywhere, yes >>125
- Savannah Guthrie is getting it in the neck for daring to ask that question...totally classless, intrusive, rookie, shameful, etc. The fan girls have brought out their pocket thesauri. Frighteningly, they are parroting TH by saying that his private life is private! They seem as clueless as he.
- This will go down as TH's 'bristle' moment. This seems to be the word most favored by articles.
Is this his team's secondary (GQ was primary) way of dealing with Tayto: get angry, get testy, bristle a bit and then it will explode - no one will ask you after that. I hope not.
I read this very interesting comment on the CB thread about the testiness: it casts a new light on why he/Luke/studio PR is allowing interviewers to ask about Tayto.
As a former PR practitioner. The studio PR do have the clout to shut this down and I doubt they would object if he requested they enforce a NO list. Its in their interests to ensure that their macho star isnt constantly being reduced to a pop star groupie.
Serious outlets like BBC and Channel 4 will probably not interview you with a NO list. They dont see themselves as promotional outlets, so if you give them a list they simply wont have you on. Thats what happened with RDJ. The interviewer doesnt do puff pieces and doesnt take NO lists. RDJs PR probably assumed a corner had been turned on the drug stories and nobody would bother going there, but this guy did.
Toms solution is easy. Request the studio PR to enforce a NO list. This means s/he must be glued to his side for every interview ready to shut it down should it go south. They MUST get him off the serious publications, the ones less likely to do puff pieces. Why is he promoting King Kong on the Telegraph of all places? Alternatively, get Samuel L or one of the other co-stars to do the prestigous outlets.
Personally, I suspect that these options have been laid out to him but HE insists on continuing on with the prestigous outlets because he isn’t just trying to promote the movie, he wants to promote himself. If I am right, he deserves all the ridicule they are heaping on him.
TL:DR
Prestigious publications like the Telegraph won't interview a star with no go subjects. Second string publications that need the clicks will. But TH wants to be interviewed by the big boys so he takes the risk.
>>129 'Personally, I suspect that these options have been laid out to him but HE insists on continuing on with the prestigous outlets because he isn’t just trying to promote the movie, he wants to promote himself.'
This sounds like him, exactly like him. Do we think he's risking the broadsheets because he wants to claw back the respect and admiration that they used to have for him? Because he is just desperate enough to try a 'take me seriously' offensive with a Kong movie. He really is.
>>131 Yes, I thought it was very perceptive. Of course verandah lady saw fit to pooh-pooh these sensible remarks (!).
Can he still believe that all publicity is good publicity? I feel he is thinking "thank god I have Kong as any movie that people want to talk about will get me back in the public eye."
I rather think it is the other way around: Shit Island has gained more traction than it might because publications know that Hiddleswift means clicks and "what Tom thought about Hiddleswift" means even more clicks. (I am not saying that that made Tayto worth the collateral damage to his credibility.)
>>123 The author brings up his fans in the narrative, TH doesn't, so I don't think he's blaming fans. But he might indeed blame us to some extent. Many of us didn't buy it either, and many called him out on it.
Maybe he has to blame someone other than himself just for the sake of his sanity. He fucked up big time, and it's always easier to blame mistakes on others.
>>126, >>127 Dlisted seems particularly pointer this time round, especially about Tom's PR (or woeful lack thereof).
>>128 I think this "secondary" approach could also backfire, because some interviewers will want to provoke another outburst to get the clicks. (Look how the discussion changed so quickly from the SI reviews to the Aussie and Telegraph interviews over the last day.)
>>131 It has to hurt that he went so quickly from golden boy of TNM to PR-stunt-ho, especially with pubs like the Guardian. And the Guardian's slash-and-burn review of him in Kong was probably salt in the wound.
>>129 That was a helpful comment on the CB. And that must be another stinger for him, that he doesn't have enough clout to enforce a NO list on his own. Mind you, not that it would have to have a studio PR flack at his side - if the GG video is any indication, TH seems to think he can handle any awkward situation.
>>132 What have really gotten more publicity, from what I've seen in Google results the last few days, are the GQ article and the Wash Post article dissecting the GQ one.
>>133 That's a good point about why he might be putting the blame so heavily on others. He may not even be ready yet to acknowledge to himself, let alone others, how badly he eff'd up (and is continuing to do so). Not that it would help, probably, but where the heck is Luke or TH's US agents?
>>134 "...not that it would help to have a studio PR flack..."
Captcha: pup (love whoever said above that he's still a puppy but one that's been whacked on the nose!)
Luke, please make this stop. My head hearts.
http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/03/tom-hiddleston-does-not-regret-taylor-swift.html?mid=twitter_cut
Brie and Tom looked tuckered out arriving for the paps at JFK. At least it's a Kong article.
And the comments on CB: http://www.celebitchy.com/526708/tom_hiddleston_got_testy_while_explaining_his_super-private_romantic_life/
I agree with the comment that says the press who are asking him about HS are trying to get him to slip and say the summer was a stunt. I'm ready for them to give up.
Here's the MTV interview with Josh. I haven't seen all the videos linked in this thread the past 2 days, but of the main ones, this is the least contentious, most relaxed and has the most non-standard questions than all the others. Dare I say, it was fun.
https://www.facebook.com/MTV/videos/10154525236041701/
>>139 and he says that he grew a thick skin now.
I'm posting the youtube link too since some people might not have fb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6kXNtfaqEA
If only journalist would read bustle they'll know now why tayto ended (for any lurker, I'm kidding)
"Tom Hiddleston likes to eat dessert before lunch. I know this because I've just watched him finish a piece of chocolate cake before diving into a plate of chicken and vegetables."
https://www.bustle.com/p/the-frustrating-perfection-of-tom-hiddleston-39619
Nobody would ever be able to watch a guy do this and have lustful thoughts.
>>129 I don't know about this, I agree that now he got irritated the press might going to try more to get him to slip - although his promo tour in the US ends tomorrow with the LA premiere - but I disagree that a no list only works with small outlet, I remember that during the ISTL promo (I think) he did an interview in LA and the journalist mentioned that TH went through the list of questions banning some (the journalist said he apologised about it).
I think Anon. was right when she said this was probably a group interview where it more unlikely one could oversee questions.
And I think RDJ example is the wrong one, the journalist interviewing RDJ wasn't a cinema or gossip one, but someone that covers politics, grilling people it's his style. RDJ's team claimed that they told him not to do some kind of questions, but he denied ever being said that otherwise he would have refused to do the interview.
>>141 I don't recall being aroused by the RI faux romantic dinner night, with the entree followed by swan cream pastries, either. I find desserts in animal form to be deeply confusing : )
ONTD's take on TNM 2.
Comment: Is this worth watching?
Response: Yes, it literary saved the lives of doctors in Sudan.
He and his team somehow managed to fuck up the winning of an award. We really should not be surprised by anything that happens on this promo tour.
>>145 haha!
Suggestions for this new series: TH's character has to become a night manager again for MI6, so he sends out plenty of applications, but everyone tells him that he doesn't have any recent experience and he's too old and if he would be ok with a zero hour contract.
Or,
there's no TH character, MI6 has a meeting where they decide that infiltrating agents as night managers into five starts hotel is good for intelligence gathering, so they put their men in all the Four Seasons of the globe and OC gets to tour all of them. Crappy plot but great photography! Plus, if they go to BoraBora, we can have a TH's Pine cameo as a connoisseur of the islands.
>>136 NY Mag was really hard on TH during TayTo and continues that tradition: "Noted tank top model...."
>>138 Though at least NYM didn't call him a "Golden Glove" winner as the DM just did. (Let's not encourage any pugilistic tendencies Tom may be developing!) Brie's comments on how women and men are treated differently for fashion suits were interesting, I thought.
>>139 I haven't watched all of the MTV video, but thought he did look tired and comparatively subdued. And gun-shy: Tom gets flustered when Josh asks him what he did last night. The bit with Tom reproducing the expression of his Mme. Tussaud's wax figure was funny, though.
>>141 The Bustle article, while fan-girly/Taffy imitating, is worth it for Tom's mantra while filming SI - "It's only forever." Now if only he'd kept that in mind while letting himself be papped during TayTo!
>>144 That swan pastry was disconcertingly phallic for such a publicly chaste romance....
I would be interested in TNM 2 if and only if LeCarre wrote every word of the script. And even then, I'm still confused. I love Olivia Coleman, but I'm not so interested in her continuing the story of her character in a sequel as a new Mommy/Spy handler, as she chases other baddies. Jonathan Pine has defeated Roper, and unlike the ending of the book which keeps Jed and Pine together, Tom was quite clear that he didn't know where his character would end up. They're retreading the same water unnecessarily. Just do another LeCarre adaptation (The Patriot would rock) or think like thre Disney film Frozen and 'Let It Go.' Tom would be good in The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, as well.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4292830/The-Night-Manager-return-second-series.html
Of all the articles on The Bristle, People's is my favorite. Have a look and see if you can tell if they're in the business of serious entertainment journalism or if they're one step up from Gossip Cop.
http://people.com/celebrity/tom-hiddleston-no-regrets-taylor-swift-romance/
Speaking of GC, where is our article about how TH definitely did not bristle at reporters? Or about how he definitely does not regret...anything, ever.
