Thread to talk about the actor Tom Hiddleston
>>348 I believe it. He dated Taylor Swift after all. There had to be some common ground there.
>>350 I don't think it's Tayto induced. I think it's part of his normal personality. It really showed during his earlier Thor 1 interviews but he learned to reign it in after that.
>>352 Do you mean those very old interviews where he was joking about having Moljnr in his pants? I don’t recall many from those days (pre fandom..!)
I could believe every word of this “tea” except him bragging about being the next Bond. He wouldn’t brag about it unless the contract has been signed already. He wanted it too badly to risk jinxing it. I could see him downplaying his interest/hopes of playing Bond for fear of losing yet another role after casting, or being bitter after finding out that DC will continue as Bond, but bragging, no.
Your friend should have kept her tea simpler. The man has been several time to Africa and visited his sister in India often enough when she lived there, he would never whine about the hot sun.
This board posters are so Tayto induced now, they can't even spot bullshit anymore, you are as reliable as Toby.
>>353 No, I was talking about the ones from Comic Con 2010. The one on one interviews where he's sitting with a group of reporters. I think he says the pole dancing line in it. You can see glimpses of that guy Anonon's friend was taking about. Though I do think he might have been bragging more about how everyone keeps calling him the new Bond rather than saying he is the new Bond, just because it's a set and ppl know ppl.
>>354 >>355 You sound like a recent lurker more than an old time visitor of the board and probably have no idea about Anonon. No wonder you are quick to disregard everything. Even though what she said isn't really that damning at all, just funny. Maybe look elsewhere for flattering "tea" on Tom. Sorry to burst your bubble about Tom's perfection.
Well, anonon has been posting on here for a long time - about 18 months at least, if not longer. If she has been waiting to build up to posting this one piece of tea then she has been playing a very long game indeed.
We have had the odd visitor offering not especially convincing stories. They usually appear and post a few times before producing their tea, then disappear again.
PS when Tom visited Africa/India, was he wearing his 30lb leather Loki consume?
>>358 Maybe Anonon can give pointers to Tom on playing the long game to prep for s2 of TNM lol
Using the word “butthurt” in an argument on the Internet is only one step up from Godwin’s Law.
Also glad to see that as per usual the moaners claim to think what we write is shite, simultaneously with revealing that they come here and read it all, and care enough to comment.
Fake Couch with a VPN, if you would care to lurk thoroughly and read back through the boards when TR was being shot, I mentioned then that I knew colleagues on the crew. I said back then that it would take time until they felt safe enough to talk and I would endeavour to report back if there was any mention of Tom.
There's nothing like an away job with a pub meal to get tongues a wagging.
This isn't tea, it's one crew members opinion and I'd rather you walk away and ignore it or go back to Tumblr to complain. I don't come here to bullshit or to be called a bullshitter, I come here to enjoy friendly banter.
To be honest I was really shocked. I expected adoration or mention of charm. He can obviously turn on the charm when required.
One day I hope I can work with Taika. Apparently there were bean bags for crew to chill and he blasted hip hop between takes. She said he's a genius. Organised chaos. She adored Idris, he was her fav.
Also we don't have an ozone layer here so the sun is punishing and they were shooting through the Qld blistering hot summer.
Anywho, I'm not responding to the unhinged lurker any more.
Nice to see old 'faces' here, hi all x
I can't remember when I started posting. I was certainly around for pursegategate, those were such good times
>>363 It’s good to see you back. Should have said earlier.
Pursegate! That was summer 2015. You’ve been around a lot longer than 18 months.
>>361 I don't even get all indignation and rage. What Anonon shared isn't shady or salacious at all. It's not even that offensive. I thought it was funny. Would've loved to see the co-worker's impression of TH lol
>>362 >>363 Glad to hear from you again! I can't even remember when I started posting tbh so I'm gonna be terrible at remembering others but I remember you being a seasoned member when I began posting. Anonsy used to be here back then too until Tayto put her off. I was definitely here for pursegate and all the extraness TH and EO gave us for ISTL.
Taika sounds like a fun director, he certainly brought a more fun and livelier element to the Thor series. I used to find it a snoozefest out of all the Marvel Avengers series and I didn't watch the 2nd one but hopefully I'll get around to Ragnarok during the holiday downtime.
>>365 I first became aware of TH as what the lawyers call a “person of interest” in summer 14 when I watched Thor (which was ages after I had seen him in Coriolanus!!). Found this board fairly soon after but didn’t really start posting until about Feb the following year - in response to some rubbish put about on the nw3anon blog. I was more sceptical about tea then, before Tayto (joke). I started posting regularly at Pursegate - happy days! So many of us became regulars at that point. That’s when Anon. also started as a regular visitor.
It really is funny although my mouth was hugely agape while she told me. The Bond thing is unexpected and the fact that he bragged about what a great Bond he would be does not at all mean he has been promised the role, it just means that the whole time he complained in interviews about the Bond hype, he was milking it hard from behind the scenes. He's obviously hangry for the role. We all knew that anyway.
Being called a ponce is in no way flattering but it's also not that unusual a nickname for an Eton educated Brit in Australia.
It's the whingeing that really got me and I so wish I could send you a voicemail imitation.
I think Tayto put us all off- such a rapid decline from peak hot to peak tit.
EO was pure entertainment and brought out the sleuth in all of us.
What was the term used for the great door banging session witnessed by the neighbour?
>>367 I wonder if his ego wasn't all over the place during the TR shoot thanks to Tayto and its aftermath, and that might have brought out the less flattering aspects of his personality. (If I remember rightly, Anonon, you're in the biz; so as you know, it can take a heck of a lot less stress for an actor to start "acting out"!)
The hot-sun whingeing explains that pap photo from the Brisbane shoot in which he's standing around in the black suit, frowning, while some poor crew member is holding a giant umbrella to shade him!
I’ve been here since thread 1, so idk whom you are trying to impress with your longevity. Pursegate! Pfft. How about Jane Arthy? Ever thought that maybe some people here have different perceptions of Tom because they became interested in him BEFORE Tayto?
>>366 I started getting into him because of the Hollow Crown. I thought he was a handsome actor who really had some serious acting chops which is why I'm so surprised at how much he struggles to land a decent project and of course, his current drought of projects.
>>367 My American understanding of ponce was someone trying to act super cultured and intellectual and coming off obnoxious af. Is that what the main connotation behind what general public thinks of posh Brits in UK and Aus?
Tayto was such a misstep...it should have been fun like THEO but it was just sad. I love the "anonymous neighbors" (read angry fans) that always come out on twitter after he's been photographed with a girlfriend to yell at him about loud sex. Happened with both JA and EO. We should really have a word for ppl like that.
>>368 It doesn't like he was acting out though. It just sounds like he was whining about the hot weather and buying into his own hype with the Bond thing. I mean we all know Tom isn't really some super modest "aww shucks who me" kinda guy. He always humblebrags in his interviews and name drops when it's not necessary. He's just extra like that. He's always been extra. The way he'd make such a big deal about his privacy when really he's like any other ambitious celebrity and is ready to negotiate his privacy spiel if the price is right. I really think he doesn't listen to the professionals in the industry because honestly, seasoned pros in the industry (all of whom he has access to and hangs around quite a bit) have great advice that's guaranteed to give you respectable success if you have the talent. But that's only if you listen to it. I don't think Tom listens to his team or his mentors that much. ISTL is a great proof of that.
>>368 I'm American too, but I think "ponce" means (in its politest use) "effeminate."
I absolutely agree that he doesn't listen to his team or take advice much if at all, at least until (perhaps) quite recently. Tayto is even better proof of that. Here's hoping that Kenneth Branagh knocked some sense into him while they were planning and doing RadHam. And the lack of work might get through to him too....
>>368 These aktorrs do tend to be more fragile than us normal humans although some are allround solid. As its not my personal opinion that he's a whingeing bragging ponce I won't hang him by it. If I hear similar feedback from others that worked with TH then I'll struggle to be impartial.
It's impossible to hide annoying personality traits on film sets, its like camping together for months. Personality clashes are rife. I also dropped a big clue; this person HEARS MORE than other crew members.For instance I thought everyone got along famously on the shoot we just finished but she informed me the DP and director were fighting.
Holding an umbrella over an actor is actually normal. If they burn the makeup dept will hate you and if they sweat wardrobe will hate you as well
>>370 A ponce here is usually a posh effete whinger. Also known as a twat. According to urban dictionary: would live off a prostitutes earnings.
>>372 Ah, I know which department your friend worked in then.
Makes sense about the umbrella; it was just funny because the crew member wasn't even wearing a hat. (But then, neither did he have to spend several hours in makeup in the wee hours of the AM.)
I saw that other definition of ponce - pimps where you are must be much more upscale than ours!
>>371 Effeminate? Really? That's interesting. Tbh, I have only one British friend and whenever they have used ponce it's usually been with those hipster dude bros who are up their own ass with the mansplaining. Effeminate they are not lol
Let's hope so he's listening to the professionals around him now.
>>372 Okay so basically colloquially it's a similar definition to someone being an obnoxious pretentious ass. That makes more sense. Yeah, to me Tom can come off like that with his humblebrags and the overexplained academia talk. I know some fans like it when he does that but I find him so extra when he goes overboard with it in interviews that don't need answers like that. Some of the CP interviews got like that -_-
Welcome back Anonon. I think I get the gist of where your friend worked.
I've never heard the term 'ponce.' The report of whinging fits in with some gossip at the end of the relationship that TS's stylist hated TH because they thought he was a stuck up know-it-all. Said stylist was later attributed in the same gossip site as saying that it wasn't true.
>>355 Visitor - never say "never" again (see what I did there? lol) when you're talking about TH. Example 1: Tayto. Who would have guessed that relationship was going to happen.
>>374, >>375 I guess my understanding of the word was an older usage (sorry in advance, word geek here!)- see the 2nd part of this definition:
Word Origin and History for ponce (n.)
slang term, chiefly British, 1872, originally "a pimp, a man supported by women" (pouncey in same sense is attested from 1861), of unknown origin, perhaps from French pensionnaire "boarder, lodger, person living without working." Meaning "male homosexual" first attested 1932 in Auden [OED]. Also as a verb. Related: Poncey. [Online Etymology Dictionary]
>>375 There was also some gossip mid- or near the end of Tayto that he'd gone on to her squad about his double first, and he'd made fun of TS for not knowing Latin or having read certain books. Oddly, the Gossip Cop denied the first two but not the bit about the books.... He has a surprising ability to rub people the wrong way.
>>376 In Withnail and I, our heroes head to the pub after “I” (Paul McGann) has had a bath into which he has unwisely poured a whole jar of bath salts. They are approached by a drunken Irishman spoiling for a fight, who calls “I” a “perfumed ponce.” There isn’t much doubt what he means by this.
But that’s the 60s English meaning (when Withnail is set). When I was a kid it meant, more generally, someone who was a bit of a twat. Not necessarily a posh twat, as in Australia. I guess the posh part may hark back to its original meaning in the sense of an underlying stereotype of the posh man being effeminate or gay.
All these posts! I thought he'd gotten engaged...or gotten an actual job. I see neither is the case. Instead a board regular has come along and posted something completely believable and it's set a hare running through the lurking nannies.
Why I trust Anonon: when the Met Ball epileptic fit dance off happened, she was the only one on the board that raised the warning flag about a future sham-mance. She was right. I believe she was also right about the lil HIddles. She, like many on this board, has a good head on her and something sorely lacking in this world: observational skills.
Lurkers who only delurk to huff and puff: A large part of why I no longer go looking for Hiddleston nuggets on twitter or instagram is because I no longer have the time or inclination. The other part is because of lurkers. This board was for a long time the place to get the good stuff. Coach, anonsy, anon1, Anon - somehow they all managed to get the links, pics, info that no one else did. I enjoyed joining that team and doing my part. But when lurkers started to come here and snuffle around like incompetent truffle pigs, I was happy to stop reporting my finds. My hope was that if this board didn't get the scoops, you'd go away and delete the bookmark. You come, you take info away to other sites, you contribute nothing, but complain mightily when you encounter something you don’t like or disagree with - it's the very definition of internet uselessness. And I don’t care if you’ve been here since word one, when you contribute nothing but complaints, you can do one. Scram, or at the very least, go back to silent lurking.
It's beyond me why so many even bother with this board since we're all 'trolling haters' according to them.
Why I believe Anonon’s friend: Humblebragging - it’s a thing TH knows intimately, as NewAnon said. He’s always done it, even before the humblebrag to end all: his GG speech. I can imagine him doing his version of Bond humblebragging. The rumor mill tells us he did a tape with Mendes that maybe got to Broccoli, maybe he spoke to her regarding it, everyone was hyping him as the next Bond, his face was everywhere because of Tayto. He’s going to talk about those. He’s going to humblebrag about them - because if he can do it in a room full of Hollywood elite on national television, he can do it standing around set. No he’s not going to flat out say that he’s going to be the next Bond, but he’s going to imply it like it’s part of some crazy wish fulfilment process.
As to his weather complaints. Okay, he’s gone to India and Africa. So that means he wouldn’t complain about the sun. Huh??? As arguments go, ehhh, that’s not a very good one.
>>379 I believe Anonon's friend, but agree with you and another poster above that he's more likely to have been bragging about all the talk about his being the next Bond rather than about actually having gotten the role. From my past experience, many actors are highly superstitious about talking about a role for which they're being considered until they're signed, for fear of jinxing it. And if he had been in discussions for Bond, wouldn't he have had to sign an NDA? All that said, I can see him being silly enough to humblebrag about being in the running for it between takes when he thought he couldn't be overheard.
He apparently still hasn't got much more of a filter between thought and speech than he did in those 2010 interviews in >>356. (Example: he prefaced that 'pole dancing' response to the interview question "What's the first thing you would do if you became a woman?" with 'Get implants!' Classy.)
I don't think there would be an NDA if it only went as far as TH sending BB his tape, BB acknowledging the receipt of it and saying something along the lines of 'we'll be in touch.' Of course that in TH's brain (well-practiced in cognitive dissonance and soaked in all the crazy of those Tayto days) would equal 'I've auditioned for Bond and Babs and I are in talks about it.'
I believe Anonon because like everyone else said he has a history of humblebragging and being an overly conceited braggert. I always suspected it and the GG speech confirmed it.
I didn't find him that bad in the Thor 1 promo. As a matter of fact, he was more natural in a way. Its when Avengers promo started he started his overly artificial Disney Prince routine that i couldn't stand.
I hate Hiddle Nannies. That's why i barely post in any TH related forum. His fandom is filled with Nannies who actually believe he's a stereotype gentleman prince schtick.
>>378 'Incompetent truffle pigs'. Dotty you always nail it.
As is the case with secondhand information, it is likely I'm not relaying it correctly. We were all laughing quite hard throughout the imitations. I recall she said he annoyed the fuck out of the whole crew with his Bond bragging (he could have just been imitating Bond, who knows) and then she imitated him imitating being Bond and threw in an imitation of him whingeing about the sun.
The overall impression given was that he bragged and whinged his way throughout the shoot. but of course I wasn't there and this is her riling up a crew after a few bevvies.
Its possible that the sun whinge imitation was just for entertainment to prove a point but it actually didn't seem that way. She would have heard such things if they were being said.
The word ponce was mentioned many times and she definitely didn't think very highly of him amongst what sounded like a stellar cast (aside from CH's steroid mood swings).
>>383 One thing that supports the sun whingeing - he started shooting right after the infamous July 4 party. Remember the pictures of Tayto arriving at the Sydney airport and his face was lobster-red? He might literally have been sensitive to any more sun exposure after that. Doesn't excuse the whingeing, though.
>>384 He should have been flushed red from embarrassment after that parade.
It's also highly likely that the reason he had such a long makeup call each morning was to camouflage his tan.
Most actors would deliberately avoid sun before a pale shoot to help things along. The ones that do the opposite with the attitude 'this is how I am, deal with it' for obvious reasons are never my favs and I am prone to giving them a sermon. Sunburnt skin is the hardest to cover. What an arse.
It all seems to back my impression that he rocked up to the Thor set after his summer of twatting about completely out of shape, sunburnt and having done little to no prep. Thus the morning jogs and 3am gym sessions and the lack of sleep and the real/ fake girlfriend who no doubt was losing her shit all over the place probably contributed to the excessive whingeing.
>>383 This just proves what Barbara Broccoli said about Tom; that he's too smug and too weak to play Bond.
He sounds like an egomaniac. He honestly thought he had the Bond role. But his over ambition really got the best of him after his little height of fame and praise with The Night Manager. I could only imagine if he was up for an Oscar or any other sought after role.
He already sounds incredibly snobby with the cold fish way he's been treating some of his fans as of late. Like if he's better then everyone when not realizing he had lowered himself to Kardashian levels of desperation and famewhoreness with the summer of 2016.
He sounds like a child rather then a 36 year old man. Is that why he goes after young women who are almost a decade younger then him and are more famous then him? Is this why he's using a puppy as a security blanket for his fragile ego?
His fans always proclaim he's really mature simply because he went to the most prestigious schools in London and because of Shakespeare or some nonsense. But he really is probably emotionally and mentally stunted. That GQ interview confirmed that.
And duh Australia is hot during that time. He sounds obnoxious and insufferably arrogant. His lack of self-awareness and how he comes off to people who aren't from Tumblr is cringe inducing.
>>385 Maybe he's so jaded being known for Loki for so long that he doesn't feel the need to make any effort since the fangirls eat it up no matter what. That wig he's wearing in Ragnarok is awful.
>>385 I read this and then remembered that he had only been twatting around for THREE weeks at this point. Felt like an eternity, didn't it? He had to pick between contracts. Either stay out of the sun and fulfill his Marvel contract or romp in the surf to fulfill his Tayto contract.
>>386 I never got smug off of him but it might have been a result of his ambitiousness. He's a hustler. He's always working, or was always working. That was one of his better qualities. People tend to like go-getters. But his version of it often strayed into sycophancy and over-ambitiousness.
>>386 What have you seen about how he's been treating some of his fans lately? I've only read anecdotes about him politely refusing to have his picture taken with random people who approach him. But they've all said some variant of how nice he was in chatting with them.
Wow! Quite a discussion. Cool article on all of the costumes of Thor 3, by the costume desigenr Mayes C Rubeo, including why Loki's costume changes colour in the film due to his emotional arc, and how Chris Hemsworth's body armor was sculpted to fit his body!
I think it's thoroughly possible that Tom complained about the sun. We all get cranky, and we all have emotional limits. He can't be courteous/charming/amenable in any situation. And mannered Englishmen aren't everyone's cup of tea. I have a good gal pal who thinks that the sort of refined countenance of most British male actors (Eddie Redmayne, Matt Smith, Tom, etc) makes them all come off as effeminate, due to their posture, vocal quality, and hand gestures! I'd find it fascinating if Tom actually thought he could land Bond, even as the whole fauxmance with TS went tits up! Or whether Taffy (the GQ article authoress) was correct in her assessment that Tom enjoys doing impressions not to entertain others, but rather to personally revel in his own systematically developed performance capabilities?
https://fashionista.com/2017/11/thor-ragnarok-movie-costumes?utm_source=site&utm_campaign=related
>>391 Nice picture of him! Wonder if that's his sister Emma, who's also listed as a reader. (Compare their noses.)
>>392 I don’t think it is. Have a look at the pics of her in that article by her I posted a few weeks ago.
>>393 Sorry I thought you meant Sarah. Emma is quite a lot younger than that lady.
>>396 I had that impression as well. There was an article recently-ish which describes Emma as a midwife. It came from one of those round table press junket interviews so it could have been someone making a mistake - as people have pointed out you get 10 slightly different versions of the same quote. But I thought it was an oddly specific mistake to make, meaning hard to mishear for something else.
I thought it was in GQ. I can't bear to look or give that article another click but wasn't it when he was gushing about his solidly middle class upbringing. Eyes set to roll.
Surely Taff wouldn't get that wrong. Eyes commencing roll maneuver.
Good to see gossip sites haven't forgotten our sun-hating recluse. Right?
http://dlisted.com/2017/12/06/we-almost-had-a-james-bond-film-starring-hugh-jackman/
>>400 The commenters are proposing every other actor you can think of for Bond - except Tom....
At the 2017 BFI Luminous Gala:
https://twitter
.com/mydaddyjay/status/938486406242095104
I took a look at our favorite anon site over the weekend. He or she claims he has a second home. The rest was cryptic, back to implying a secret gf. At least that was my take on it.
>>403 my take on that was that the “second home of sorts” was referring to visiting the GF out of London. FWIW.
Snippet of Tom recording a Hamlet speech in this vid: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n3dWiOYnXpE
>>405 I can't watch the video where I am but let me take a stab in the dark: he looks like the most earnest man ever.
Was it for Rada pr? Is he holding a 🐶 while doing it?
>>406 I think something happened with the original link. They are both for this Dragon School audio poetry anthology, but the one with Tom is here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eJp1q7BI7tc&feature=youtu.be
Not too much earnestness actually. He seemed pretty comfortable with it. No dog but terrible beard and homeless person hair.
>>407 I'm glad i'm not the only one who finds that look of his terrible. Every fangirl who saw pix of him at the Thor Ragnarok premiere was saying how good he looked. He looked incredibly old with bed hair and a dad beard.
Who wants to bet this is the speech he 'gifted' to the newlyweds? Re-gifter! He's like a really crap Oprah: 'You get my Hamlet speech! You get my Hamlet speech! Everyone gets my Hamlet speech!'
I venture that he'll grab a few copies and they'll find their way under a few Christmas trees. Luke knows what he's getting! Olly's probably off the list, along with Tay, his American team and his speech writer.
>>406, >>407 Sorry about the link - I was trying not to use one that went through Tumblr, and didn't look closely at the result.
Interesting reading of the speech; I'd love to hear more of it. The hair doesn't bother me too much (at that length, mine would do much the same), but he'd look much tidier if he dealt with the patchy cheek fuzz! And the unflattering lighting doesn't help.
And now TS's paid flunkie, broadway actor Todrick Hall, has stated that Tom turned TS into a hunchback like Quasimodo! Todrick alleges that TS would slump over and hunch every time he brought up Tom's name. Maybe this is b/c Tom and TS had a fauxmance which Tom managed to miraculouly extricate himself from, months ahead of schedule! Her new faux bf (who is sadly in the closet) is happy to hide in hoodies at airports, and color coordinate clothes with TS during hand holding pap walks as long as he books hollywood acting jobs. Hard to argue that Tom is a famehore when he's in London, performing Shakespeare for 2 roomfuls of people, MIA with his puppy, and not mentioning her name at all.
>>411 I read that mess, where Hall never positively IDs who the ex is, which leaves it open to interpretation - TH or CH - the speculation of which seems designed to only hurt TH, but for what reason? As a bday present for TS? He has nothing coming up except Early Man.
>>411 Hahahah. I eagerly await the GC denials. 'No, Taylor does not slump her shoulders. Miss Swift's shoulders and posture are second to none.' The public donation to an osteoporosis charity will follow.
Just more proof that Tayto was a Mess-o and Fail-o. Your pop-up relationship didn't manage to avert peoples' attentions from your lies and hypocrisy. Better luck next time, Taylor.
It's not hard to argue that TH is a famewhore. He was one: Tayto. Vestiges linger: pup-stroll. For me, the jury is still out regarding whether lessons have been learned.
OTT: a recent new hire is in the office next to mine. Her laugh is like nails on a blackboard and EVERYTHING is funny.
We should open up bets for when he'll actually announce something or IF he'll announce something. Is Tumblr still using the 'Marvel Excuse,' I.e., he's been too busy with Loki to do another film?
Will he show at the site of his most recent triumph/PR disaster: the GGs? Do previous winners usually present? Attend?
Was Kong nominated for anything?
>>413 Yep. I should have said that Tom was not the sole famewhore of the situation. He did not use and abuse the delicate flower that Taylor Swfit pretends to be for the public. HS was a mutual use, and Baby Joe has next.
>>414 I don't see any GG nominations for King Kong. But Tom could win a Teen Choice Award for best Actor in a Sci-Fi film to add to his awards cache. Dear me. We've gone from Olivier award best newcomer, and Golden Globe best actor limited series back to teen awards like MTV and Teen Choice. Hmmm...Must process this.
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Tom seems to be losing by almost ten percentage points to Shawn Mendes in the GQ Most Stylish Man of 2017. Voting is still going on, if anyone is interested. Tom made it to the finals before he lost to Prince Federer, last year.
https://www.gq.com/story/most-stylish-man-of-2017-quarterfinals-voting
>>418 Guess the Tumblr please to vote him up aren't working!
Hard to muster up any concern over stuff like this when he seems to be MIA. His out of sight, out of mind campaign is successful.
Shows how desperate some Tumblrinas are getting.
Maybe his campaign has been a little too successful, with no new project announcements?
10 second TH video introducing the Early Man trailer.
https://m.weibo.cn/status/4186450280924206
Despsite being MIA from the world of pop culture, TH has made it to the finals of GQ's Most Stylish of 2017 versus Harry Styles. Tom is beating Harry by only 1.8%. Harry fauxmanced with Swift long ago, but he co-starred in the golden-globe nominated Dunkirk movie and he has a brand new album out this year, whereas Tom starred in Hamlet (sadly performing it for only a few drawing rooms full of people) and he only has an animated film coming out this winter. So dollars to donuts, GQ must be hoping that Harry will win.
https://www.gq.com/story/most-stylish-man-of-2017-finals-voting
Apparently Taffy Akner, the authoress of TH's GQ article about heartbreak and bolognese sauce, is still using Tom for clicks on twitter. She urged voters to vote for Tom over Harry Styles for 2017's Most Stylish Man. Tom just won, btw. Craziness.
Taffy AknerVerified account @taffyakner
16h16 hours ago
Taffy Akner Retweeted GQ Magazine
Will my 491 followers that have @twhiddleston's face as their avatar please educate the kind people at GQ as to what is what, no offense to Harry Styles.
Taffy really needs to stop. She's sounding like unrequited lovestruck teenager everytime she mentions Tom. It's embarrassing.
>>426 “Now he’s one of the most in demand actors.”
I want what they’re smoking.
She has a IV drip straight into her vein with nothing but Tom's Kool-Aid. A grown woman, whose married with kids btw, acting like a lovestruck teen.
Tom must think Taffy and him are friends, or that Taffy has a shot with him since she loves that the Daily Fail mistook her for his new girlfriend LOL!
No one in their right mind after that embarrassing GQ interview would consider her a friend. Then again, Tom isn't in his right mind. Hasn't been for a very long while.
So Tom's been in two of the biggest box office films this year. He won a Golden Globe for a third production and got great reviews in Hamlet. Only in the minds of the very insane and deluded is he not an in-demand actor. You are all butthurt bitches who can't get over him blocking you on Twitter.
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The phrase 'in-demand' in the film industry means people want to work with you. Since you are in-demand, people send you scripts, they ask for meetings and pitch projects to you, they seek you out. Out of that absolute avalanche of material and work - you're in-demand after all - you take your pick of the best and most promising. You secure work. That work is then announced and produced. Besides for some brief Marvel filming and voice work, Tom has announced nothing and produced nothing in 2017 except a three week run of a play for his alma mater and mentor.
Compare the IMDb pages of TH and James Franco. One is in-demand, the other not so much.
I popped in to say merry Christmas and faecal matter has splattered the board again. Oh the irony of throwing around the words 'insane' and 'deluded'. I don't think you understand that Hamlet wasn't officially reviewed. He may as well have performed it in his mothers loungeroom. I'm not on twitter, never have been. Keep fighting the good fight, I'm sure he will thank you personally.
>>433 I recall the members of this board were alone in predicting the magnitude of the effect on his career. Admittedly I never thought he would fall quite so far, it really has been quite a drought. Its possible he has chosen not to take on new projects, that Tayto broke him and he has selected a lengthy rehabilitation through Branagh, a puppy and an invisibility cloak. As a workaholic with Hollywood stars in his eyes I do not believe for a second he would have refused choice projects in preference to an animation and a school play.
I wonder what the new year will bring. Will we even care?
Lets hope he comes out of hiding with a wife and two year old.
Keep on poncing TH, don't ever change.
Hopefully he is surrounded by friends and family who love him but moreso I hope everyone here is over the silly season, even the unhinged lurkers, you seem like you need lots of love and support. Merry Christmas all xxx
Tom is a one-hit wonder, lets face it. I'd be surprise if we hear about him after his Loki stint is officially over. You have better Brit actors like Tom Hardy securing roles left and right without lowering themselves to be tabloid fodder.
Instead of finding the humor in Hiddleswift, he instead takes himself too seriously and becomes a recluse. You would think for someone whose fans declare he's this great thespian and went to the most prestigious acting schools in England that he could fake and joke about his Hiddleswift stint even if it personally bothered him. But instead he takes himself so seriously that he hides out with this sour expression on his face everytime he's photographs and "woe is me" stunt he's trying to do with the GQ interview and puppy walks.
All of his fans were surprised that he's suddenly so serious and not as cheerful as before. Why is it a surprise? It just makes it more obvious that his so called "personality" from before Hiddleswift was a ruse and when things didn't go his way he became almost cold in a way.
Also his Twitter and his other social media accounts are barely used by him. He only uses them to advertise his projects which I'm sure the studios already have a good handle on what with the millions of dollars that go in advertising. He doesn't interact with anyone but his famous actor friends and other then that he's boring. He only uses his social media account when he messes up and passive aggressively blames others but himself on why things go wrong for him. Is anyone really surprised at this point that he dated Taylor Swift. He is the male version of her but without the money, awards, clout and fame.
The opposite of hate is indifference. You people care. You care entirely too much what happens in his life and his career. You can't let him go. You spend endless hours here celebrating every vicious comment, every negative item, stewing in your own venom. Thread after thread after thread, comment after comment after comment. You are here constantly. It is you who has no life other than to somehow try and do what exactly? Surely you must see that there is no other thread let alone repeated ones for anyone other than Tom. That is obsession, not indifference. If there was a rehab for this sort of thing, I'd suggest that you all book yourselves in pronto. Instead, might I suggest you get the mental health treatment you so obviously need. Losing some weight (I guarantee you there is not a skinny one amongst you) and a makeover would also do you a world of good. Oh, and leave your house once in a decade would be helpful too. I'd wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year but your stewing venom and bile shows me that you've never been Happy or Merry in your miserable lives.
The irony of people wishing merry xmas while spouting venom about another human being. Have you all asked Santa that he would finally disappear from the planet for good? After all he is such a low life. No surprise the old posters don't come here anymore, they are probably embarrassed at the cesspit this place has become.
Well, I suppose it wouldn’t be Christmas without a couple of grinches. They might want to think what it says about them that they have never posted here before, but deigned to stop by for the first time ever on 23 December in order to spout vitriolic hate about a board they claim to despise but have plainly read.
Anyone who has actually read the boards will recall that anonsy left because she was almightily fucked off at TH for participating in a famewhorey fake romance. The real Couch Potato, who set up this board, left because TH wasn’t really doing anything of interest any more. Insofar as they still have views on TH, I doubt they’d be materially different from the ones of which the grinches so disapprove.
The Real Couch Potato set this board up back in 2013. I knew her well. She was an easygoing soul but she hated two things above all: 1) people who pretended to be her; and 2) trolls who showed up to spout abuse at the regulars. So in the spirit of the Real Couch Potato: if you don’t like it here, fuck the fuck off, and never come back.
Here here Anon.
She sure did hate couch imposters and trolls.
Surely there's a Tumblr set up for farting in the wind 💨
The grinches sound like that ThiddyAstro TH super nanny. She's been currently going on a TS hate rampage on her blog and cherry picking with her astrology how TS is evil and TH is a victim and saint. The grinches sound exactly like her lunatic self
>>440 That's a bit stabby in the dark.
The Grinch is one person with several personalities, a VPN router and the mental acuity of a 12 year old.
My money is on Zhora, Beagle Bitch, Insanely Dumb, or Shaitana
They aren't satisfied with Tubmlr and want here to
Not all of Tom's nanny's are on Tumblr
Personally, I’m not interested in stirring up any hornet’s nest of speculation as to who the new visitors might be - any debate on that subject is all too easily used against the board by those who visit here and then carry tales elsewhere. I don’t want the attention on this board.
FWIW I don’t think that the queen bees of tumblr visit here - why would they when they have an established circle over there, of which they are the centre?
I don't want them coming here either. Let them have Tumblr. Here we can have honest discussion about Tom's vanishing career.
Very telling that TH's knight in shining armour, rather than rationally disputing my argument concerning his status as an actor, instead chose to go with the time-honored personal attack. Why argue with reason and facts when you can call someone fat and anti-social? That doesn't invalidate your argument at all.
'The opposite of hate is indifference.' You can't even get the quote right. That's because it's been filtered to you through TH's verbal, pseudo-philosophical incontinence. Try reading the book it came from. Quotes tend to have more meaning when directly from the author and in context, rather than from an actor trying to score PR points.
If we care too much (having not left our houses in the past decade), what are you? You've come to a board to which you do not contribute to stand like Cocles on the bridge and defend a man you do not know. You have attempted to diminish verbally strangers while trying to prove your opinions. You know what they say about finger pointing.
As to indifference, I think we are headed in that direction, sadly. This board did brisk, fun, comic business during TH's heyday and during EO and Tayto. We had fun and filled up threads quickly. We got to 'know' each other as well. Now the only topics to discuss usually involve Tayto, superhero movies and online polls about his clothes (cf. previous argument about his in demand status).
Merry and much belated Christmas, y'all.
Did everyone get what they wanted from Santa? The in-laws gave us the usual: a very much appreciated check toward our mortgage. My parents gave us a wine and food box subscription. I sold my hair to buy hubby a watch chain...just kidding. He got new gloves, I got a pair of earrings. We were awful parents as junior got nothing new. We wrapped some of his toys so he could enjoy the experience of unwrapping things, which proved to be a hit with him. We're thinking we can keep that going for two more years. He liked unwrapping and lying under the tree and looking at the lights.
>>448 Merry/Happy belated Christmas and Boxing Day, and early Happy New Year, everyone!
Love the O. Henry reference - another reason this board rocks is that we get stuff like that. We had a small Christmas this year, which is fine; mostly books for me, with a few small surprises.
Is Junior at the age yet where he enjoys the boxes more than the toys?
I do have a few small TH gleanings that I'll post when I have time.
Merry belated Christmas everyone.
I hope you all had a good time. I’m glad Baby Anon. enjoyed his unwrapping. You have the right idea there I think. It all felt very grimly commercial in the UK this year. Maybe I am getting old. We went for the “one gift each” approach. A handbag for me and a home charging point for Dr Anon’s electric car (the cost of which greatly offsets any savings on petrol, I am here to tell you!). We spent 5 days with my widowed father in law. His gift was me cooking every meal and him not having to live on microwave meals for a change.
Now in the countryside, fairly near to Casa Hiddleston Mama as usual. I will keep my eyes peeled, though I believe he usually spends NY in London if twitter is to be believed.