I tell him that’s very sensible, but he risks saying nothing at all. I would never be so bold as to make a big public statement without making sure I fully believed in it.” I think it’s very easy to adhere quite loosely to generalised opinions these days. “The way I was taught was it’s just untenable to have an opinion you can’t back up. “I think people should be rigorous about what they believe in,” he says. working through sibling rivalry, abandonment and dreams of world domination. He says his education (Eton, then double first in classics from Cambridge, then Rada) taught him to take care when speaking out. But for one so effusive, he’s also extremely precise – as cautious as he is courteous. He is deeply sincere in his love – of which he has a lot – for his co-stars, his director, his family, Roger Federer, the Rolling Stones, the idea of having kids, The Tree of Life, The Great Beauty, the Guardian, “the other place” (the Telegraph), the beer we’re drinking and the garden we’re sitting in. You would expect Hiddleston to share some of their darkness, but as well as being clever, funny and energetic, he’s also careful. It’s just unfortunate that world domination is also in the mix. As such, Hiddleston’s god of mischief is working through a jumble of relatable ills: sibling rivalry, abandonment, estrangement. Hiddleston and Kenneth Branagh, director of Thor, in which Loki made his debut, were keen to give the character the complexity of a Shakespeare villain. Even Loki, the Marvel universe demigod that rocketed him to international stardom, has a gentlemanly veneer. In Joanna Hogg’s Unrelated and Archipelago, his characters – boyish, rash and, sporadically, thoughtlessly nasty – are the small sparks that ignite the tinder. Many of his roles – from reckless Freddie in Terence Davies’s The Deep Blue Sea to Dr Robert Laing in Ben Wheatley’s upcoming adaptation of JG Ballard’s High-Rise – play off this. The film team review Crimson Peak GuardianĪs Sharpe, Hiddleston’s performance hints at a savagery just beneath the surface. But then, every day, there are so many things that are delightful. It’s impossible to go through life without experiencing its random cruelty. Sometimes the brutality is humbling, and sometimes the beauty is surprising. “You just have to respond the best way you can. “You come into contact with both,” he says. What does Hiddleston think: is life beautiful or brutal? She believes life is harsh, but her brother is more of a romantic. Jessica Chastain plays Sharpe’s fearsome sister, Lucille. It’s big on shocks, even if the plot gets spirited away. Crimson Peak has ghouls in the brickwork, skeletons in the closet and a gremlin or two in its execution. Scarlet gunk squelches up through the floorboards and slicks down the walls. The spooky house squats on a hill of red clay. Hiddleston stars in Crimson Peak, Guillermo del Toro’s romantic horror about an innocent beauty (Mia Wasikowska) who is wooed by Sir Thomas Sharpe (Hiddleston), a handsome baronet who secures his new bride in his crumbling family pile. But that’s the reason I’m sitting in front of you.” And I’ve never been dispassionate for as long as I can remember. “Is that right? Perhaps that’s not quite right. “There’s just something very uncool about emotion,” he says. Very careful to use the right words, very aware of their potential to be misconstrued. He’ll attempt – with some prodding – to untangle Tom Hiddleston, the actor, from “Tom Hiddleston”, the heart-throb. He’ll quote Shakespeare, JG Ballard, Dylan Thomas, Eminem and his own sister. Over the next two hours, he will talk unabashedly about the power of storytelling in his craft. This, it transpires, is a key Hiddleston trait: a dogged, almost comical, enthusiasm for seeing the best in everything.
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