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Royal Television Society Loki Panel (Photos + Videos)

Royal Television Society Loki Panel (Photos + Videos)

Last week, Tom attended a panel for Loki at the Royal Television Society, here are photos and video:



Tom Hiddleston would be in a lot of trouble if he were to talk any more about plans for the second series of Disney+ original series Loki.

Hiddleston left the sell out crowd at a panel discussion hosted by the Royal Television Society Wednesday evening (March 2) hungry for more details but the star of the Marvel show about the god of mischief and chaos, couldn’t and wouldn’t be drawn. “There is going to be a series two,” Hiddleston smiled mischievously. “That’s a complete sentence I think. I’ll get into real trouble if I say more.”

Hiddleston, who is also executive producer of Loki, was joined on stage in London by co-star Sophia Di Martino who plays Sylvie, series writer and exec producer Michael Waldron and director Kate Herron [who appeared via Zoom after the RTS fixed it so her “covid self” could join the event live.]

Hosted by film critic and broadcaster Rhianna Dhillon, they pulled back the curtain on the first series, delivering a detailed behind the scenes look at all things Loki.

Marvel Studios’ Loki features Hiddleston’s mischief making god as he steps of his brother’s shadow Thor in a Disney+ series that takes place after the events of Avengers: Endgame.

Starring opposite an eye-catching cast including Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sophia Di Martino, Wunmi Mosaku and Richard E. Grant, Herron directed all six episodes. Waldron is the show’s head writer and executive producer of the Marvel universe spin off.

Waldron, an Emmy award winning writer for his work on animated sci-fi dark comedy Rick and Morty, said when he first landed the Loki gig, he wanted to push the envelope with what they could do with the character and story.

“You’ve got to test the fences,” Waldron, who has also penned the upcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness feature film for Marvel. “With [Marvel Studios president] Kevin Feige, you get to see how far you can go,” Waldron noted. “So you write in Sylvie soccer kicking an armadillo with a laser mounted on its back and they tell you ‘OK, that’s too much. I like the mind invasion but maybe pull back on the laser armadillo.’”

RTS members were treated to other insights including the moment Herron (whose previous credits include comedy drama Sex Education for Netflix) landed Owen Wilson to play Mobius in Loki. Studio reps had been on casting calls but word came from Wilson’s people that he wanted only to talk to Herron.

“I had all this weight on my shoulders,” Herron said. “I just remember he said something to me that made me so excited. ‘I want to play something outside of myself and that no one’s ever seen.'”

Hiddleston said working with Waldron’s intense wordy scripts and Herron’s favoured long takes opposite Wilson was rewarding.

“Owen actually turned to me at one point said, ‘this feels like a play,’” Hiddleston smiled.

Di Martino, who had just given birth and relocated to the US with her family for the shoot, said she coped with playing a starring role opposite Hiddleston and company by pretending it was just another job, albeit a big one.

“And then there’s a moment where you’re on the stage in the studio with, you know, Gugu [Mbatha-Raw] and Tom, and we’re doing this huge fight scene,” Di Martino laughed. “And there was a moment towards the end of filming where I was like, ‘Shit. I’m doing a Marvel show.’”

Di Martino and company is readying to do it all again soon.

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Tom Hiddleston attends Dune Screening in London

Tom Hiddleston attends Dune Screening in London

Tom Hiddleston attended a screening of Dune in London this evening, here are some photos:



Variety’s Virtual TV Fest – Full Panel

Variety’s Virtual TV Fest – Full Panel

Variety hosted a panel on the Virtual TV Fest with Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bethany, Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan. Watch the full panel below:



Here’s the article from Variety

‘WandaVision,’ ‘Falcon and Winter Soldier’ and ‘Loki’ Stars on Missing Tom Hiddleston’s Lectures and Who Texts Kevin Feige the Most

Being a superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe equips its stars with unique powers both on-screen and off.

“We all have a number sign above our heads when we make independent films [for] whether or not we can sell them internationally to help get financing,” says Elizabeth Olsen. “If we want to do that, it does allow us to be able to do that. So, I think that’s a great benefit to being a part of such a huge international franchise.”

Olsen first appeared as Wanda Maximoff, aka the Scarlet Witch, in Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Age of Ultron” in 2015 before going onto such films as “Captain America: Civil War” and “Avengers: Endgame.” In-between she worked on indies including “Ingrid Goes West” and the television series “Sorry for Your Loss” for Facebook Watch. This past television season, though, she brought her big-screen superhero to Disney Plus, headlining “WandaVision” alongside Paul Bettany.

The ability to flit between platforms at all can be special for actors, but to do so with the same character is a testament to the power of the MCU. And Olsen and Bettany were only the first to move from film to TV under the Marvel Studios banner. Soon they were followed by Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan in “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” and Tom Hiddleston in “Loki,” all of whom are taking part in a special panel at Variety’s Virtual TV Fest.

Despite the long and wide travels these performers take on with their Marvel roles, they are usually kept in the dark about the fates of their characters. After 2011’s “Captain America: The First Avenger,” Stan was not sure if he would be in another Marvel movie — until he got a call from a friend at San Diego Comic-Con, who told him that his character was in the title of the next film that had just been announced.

Stan and Mackie found out about “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” in a similarly surprising way. The two were separately called to Los Angeles for meetings and ended up crossing paths in the hotel lobby.

“I had an idea of what was cooking, but I didn’t think it was going to be a TV show,” Mackie says of bumping into Stan. Initially, he admits, he was “horrified” by the idea of taking his character to Disney Plus.

“I was very afraid and very disappointed when I heard it was going to be a TV show because I didn’t think we could take the scope of what we had just done in all these movies and then put it on TV and it would work,” he says. “I didn’t want to be the first failed entity of Marvel. You have all this amazing stuff and then this one thing sucks and it just happens to be me. … I thought it was going to be like Batman and Robin — the original one — where it was like, ‘Pow! Bing!’”

It wasn’t until the production on the show started that Mackie says he understood they were maintaining the cinematic scope — and that he would be able to reconnect with all his MCU compatriots.

“When you become a part of the Marvel franchise, it’s almost like summer camp,” he says. “So when you show up to set, it’s everybody and you never miss a beat. Some people have kids, some people bought a car, some people did this, so it’s like you going back to seeing all your same friends over and over.”

As soon as production starts, however, each performer also must carry highly classified secrets. “I tell everyone in my personal life, and I tell no one in the press,” Olsen says, noting you have to have people you can trust.

Having so much information about where the franchise goes makes these actors experts on the material. Continuity can get complicated in a television series that has to serve as a bridge between films, especially if there are new crew members who are not as steeped in the story. That is how Hiddleston found himself hosting a multi-hour symposium on the set of “Loki.”

“There was a whiteboard, I’m afraid,” Hiddleston says. “I said to Kate Herron, our director, ‘Would it be helpful if I gave everybody all the information at the same time?’ And Kate and Kevin Wright, our producer, were like, ‘That’s a brilliant idea.’ Shamefully, it then became a Loki lecture.”

Since each of these shots were shot on the same studio lot in Atlanta, word about the Loki lectures got out to the other actors — who were crestfallen that they couldn’t attend themselves.

“They made us work,” says Mackie. “They scheduled one of our biggest scenes so we could not sneak out and crash the Tom Hiddleston symposium.”

None of these actors take their part in the MCU lightly, though.

“These films mean so much to so many people and that is a privilege,” Hiddleston says.

Perhaps the biggest privilege, it turns out, is who gets to interact the most with Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige — a topic of significant interest to all of the panelists.

“How many times during your shoot did you talk to Kevin Feige, Tom?” Mackie asks Hiddleston.

“A couple of times,” Hiddleston replies. “Because of the pandemic, he was in touch about the shutdown.”

At this point, Stan jumps in. “He’s only asking because Anthony was calling him every Friday night,” Stan says.

Olsen then weighs in and calls out her own co-star. “Paul texts Kevin every other day,” she says.

“I was booking this trip to Greece and I had to know how much I could spend!” Bettany retorts.

Loki Preview Screening in London (+Photos)

Loki Preview Screening in London (+Photos)

Good evening, everyone! I’ve added more photos of Tom Hiddleston at the Loki Fan Preview Screening that happened on London last Tuesday.




Tom attends a preview screening of Loki in London, plus brings a surprise for those attending the event in London and LA

Tom attends a preview screening of Loki in London, plus brings a surprise for those attending the event in London and LA

Today, Tom attended a preview screening of Loki in London, and he made a video appearance on the screening happening in Los Angeles. Photos and videos (videos via @badpostwh) below:



Tom Hiddleston to present at the MTV Movie & TV Awards 2021

Tom Hiddleston to present at the MTV Movie & TV Awards 2021

Tom is going to be a presenter at this year’s MTV Movie & TV Awards.

Via People.com

The 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards are set to be a star-studded affair!

The network has released its full list of presenters for the May 16 event, which will be hosted by Leslie Jones and air live from the Palladium in Los Angeles, as well as the presenters list for the follow-up show, MTV Movie & TV Awards: UNSCRIPTED.

Big names like Anthony Mackie, Addison Rae, Henry Golding, Mandy Moore, Tom Hiddleston, Vera Farmiga, Madelyn Cline, Nasim Pedrad, Patrick Wilson and Jacob Elordi are set to hand out golden-popcorn statues.

They’ll be joined by several other stars, including Justin Hartley, Chase Stokes, Eric Andre, Jonathan Daviss, Antonia Gentry, Rudy Pankow, Tanner Buchanan, Madison Bailey and Yvonne Orji. Zola stars Taylour Paige and Riley Keough will also present.

Betrayal Photocall and Sea Wall/A Life Opening Night

I’ve updated the gallery with the latest pictures of Tom at events in New York a few days ago. Enjoy!



[Photos] Alamo Drafthouse Cinema ‘Kong: Skull Island’ Q&A

On the 6th March, Tom, Brie and Samuel did a Q&A at an advanced screening of Kong: Skull Island at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Brooklyn. I have images of Tom on stage during the Q&A.



[Photos] Tom Supporting John Goodman at His Hollywood Star Unveiling

On Friday, 10 March, Tom accompanied Brie Larson to attend the special unveiling of John Goodman’s Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame. As you may know, John stars alongside the duo in Kong: Skull Island.

I’d also like to say that I was able to finally see a viewing of Kong: Skull Island and it was truly amazing! Very action packed and at times, slightly emotional! It was great seeing Tom playing this character – and I truly hope he shall be back for more.

You can view the HQ images in the gallery using the link below:

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[Photos] Tom Attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Kong: Skull Island

Apologies for the delay in adding these images to the gallery. As you can see, it’s a pretty big update! Although I have more to add, as well as videos and screencaps etc, I have added over 1100 images of Tom at the LA premiere of Skull Island which took place on the 8 March in Hollywood.

You can view the images using the link below, and at a later date I shall add videos of the event to this post, as well as screencaps to the gallery!

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