Seven New Stills from The Avengers

New stills featuring Tom as Loki have been released, check them out below;



First photo from The Avengers Premier in LA

There will be more to come;

New Avengers Clip

A new clip from The Avengers has been released featuring Tom as Loki and Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark. Check it out below.

(Keep in mind this is a clip from the film, if you do not wish for possible spoilers you may want to avoid)

Photo Shoot by Richard Grassie

Photos from a shoot by Richard Grassie have been added to the Gallery. Check them out below;

‘Noises Off’ Opening

Tom recently attended the opening and press night for ‘Noises Off’, we’ve added a few photos of the event to the gallery.

Loki Desktop Wallpapers

Two desktop wallpapers featuring Loki have surfaced. Check them out below;


Avengers Set Visit Interview

Collider.com‘s Steve Weintraub got to visit the set of the Avengers as they were filming last year and has shared interviews with the cast. There is a full transcript of the interview as well as an Audio file (27:51). Along with photos from the set as well.

Here is a snippet of the interview; (for the full interview please click here)

Q: When you were on the set of Thor you already knew that you were going to be a part of this movie. How does it feel like to finally be on the set of The Avengers?

TOM HIDDLESTON: It’s pretty spectacular. It’s a funny one because I really am a piece of a huge jigsaw puzzle that Kevin Feige is in charge of. I suspected that I might be in The Avengers, but I didn’t know in what way, in what capacity, to what extent, or how big my role was going to be really until I read a draft that Joss Whedon had written, printed, and sent out in February or March of this year. But it feels great, honestly. It is so exciting. It is so rare as an actor to be allowed the chance to revisit a role and to go back to a character that you already built, and lived inside, and understood. To take it further to another stage is a huge privilege.

Q: When Joss talked to you about coming back what was his explanation to you for why Loki would be the perfect villain for this movie? Did he talk to you about why he chose Loki?

TOM HIDDLESTON: Well, I think Joss loves Loki because he loves complexity and the great thing about Loki is that there is almost no ceiling to his complexity as a character. He is a shape shifter, he’s intelligent, and he has strategic gifts but he also has reservoirs of pain. I think when you’ve got so much color and heroism in a film like The Avengers it needs to be balanced by a degree of pain, I think. Joss and I sat down for a long time at the end of Thor and he said, “Tell me everything about living inside of this man for 6 months. Tell me what makes him tick, what keeps him up at night. What are the nightmares of his soul?” We just shared all of our ideas from Norse mythology, the comics, and things that I developed with Kenneth Branagh. He loved it and he loved all of those ideas. He loved all of Loki’s damage and that somewhere at the bottom of Loki’s credentials as a bad guy he is a searching spirit. He is a damaged soul searching for the answers to something. Why he exists, what is his role in this universe, that he isn’t just somebody who is evil for the sake of being evil. He has complicated reasons for that.

So I think in terms of how The Avengers come together…when you are making a film, there are so many superhero films, and there are so many films about the end of the world, and you have to think, “How can we make this distinctive and unique?” I think what Joss has done so brilliantly is that he has made it about the healing power of being part of a team. So each of The Avengers: Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Nick Fury, have their own individual pain. Loki, too, has his own pain and somehow by bringing them together their pain is eased by being part of a team, which I think is a unique selling point for this particular film.

(Source: Collider)

Tom talks stunt training for The Avengers

In The Avengers, Tom Hiddleston’s Loki will square off against each member of the superhero team, meaning that he had the most fight sequences of any cast member to learn. For that reason, the British actor knew he would have to spend a lot of time in the stunt gym. “I have bruises all over my body, but it’s called ‘The Avengers’ and if it wasn’t action- packed, we’ve failed to do our jobs,” the actor reveals. “We have the greatest stunt team in the world led by R.A. Rondell and Jon Eusebio, so the first thing I did when I got to Albuquerque was hit the stunt gym. I started going through the movements and as I did more and more, I started reconnecting to the character because I believe how you move informs everyone of who you are.”

“I love shooting action because my brain switches off and it’s almost like a dance once you get the moves down,” he continues. “All you have to do then is add in the emotion of throwing or catching a punch and it almost becomes a very Zen-like experience. So by the time you get to the day of shooting a fight between Loki and Captain America, hopefully the preparation and training kick in and it becomes about the simplicity of execution.”

However, the biggest challenge for Hiddleston wasn’t just the preparation for his fight scenes. Wearing Loki’s iconic helmet and costume presented enough difficulties of its own. “The stunt training was my way of evolving Loki from who he was in ‘Thor’ and creating a new sense of danger in that he is physically stronger and more dangerous. I did all kinds of martial arts training: Wushu, boxing, lots of stick and staff work, knife work and hand-to-hand combat. There were also a lot of daily repetition drills that condition your body and muscle memory. That’s how you learn to jump off a building, fly through the air, barely miss Chris Hemsworth’s head and get slammed to the ground on your back, pick yourself up and repeat the same motion 12 times over the course of a day in a costume of leather and metal that weighs forty pounds.”

One of the biggest battles in the film is the clash between Thor and Loki on the top of Stark Tower. “We were trying to design the fight so it had big brother-versus-little brother mentality,” says fight choreographer Jonathan Eusebio. “Thor wants to take Loki home without harming him, while Loki wants to approach the fight with deadly intentions. As the fight continues, emotions escalate and the stakes get bigger. Thor becomes really angry and the fight becomes very brutal at its conclusion.” Tom Hiddleston adds, “Each of us has a particular weapon and skill and in this fight it’s Loki’s scepter up against Thor’s hammer. Thor uses his hammer like a boxing glove and Loki uses his scepter in more of a Wushu way. But after a little bit, Thor drops his hammer, Loki drops his scepter, and it’s just two brothers fighting sloppy and nasty.”

However, despite the difficulties that came with performing many of his own stunts and training for the various battles Loki faces throughout The Avengers, it was an experience that the actor enjoyed. “As a cinephile and movie lover, I get such a kick when you see an actor flying across the screen and you know that it’s the real actor who’s done the stunt. I hate when they just cut around a stunt double and you just see the back of the actor’s head. I don’t want to see the back of my head, so I am always ready to get in there and mix it up with the stunt team.”

(Source: comicbookmovie)

Two New Avengers TV Spots

Two new TV spots for The Avengers have arrived online. One from the USA and the other from Brazil. Check them out below;

Jameson Empire Awards 2012

A big congratulations to Tom on his win for best male newcomer at the Jameson Empire Awards 2012. The award was fan voted, so thank you also, to those who put in their votes that helped give Tom his much deserved award.

New photos from the event are being added to the gallery: