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8:22 pm - 11/06/2012

Actual Disney prince Tom Hiddleston talks about acting 'normal'

Playing ‘normal’ was War Horse actor Tom Hiddleston's biggest challenge



After a year playing a vampire, a Shakespearean king and a supervillain, War Horse star Tom Hiddleston relished his new “incredibly normal” role.
The star of Thor and the BBC’s Henry V has just finished shooting a cameo role in the as-yet unnamed new film by Joanna Hogg.


The London director gave Hiddleston his first big-screen break in low-budget drama Unrelated, which scooped her the most promising newcomer Evening Standard British Film award in 2009.
They made Archipelago together, a tale of middle-class family angst, and when Hogg embarked on her third movie Hiddleston came to Kensington, where it is set, from a volcano in Iceland, where he played villainous Norse god Loki in the third Thor film adventure, The Dark World.
“My film career started with her,” he said. “I wanted to be part of the third.” It stars one-time Turner Prize nominee Liam Gillick and Viv Albertine, formerly of punk band The Slits, in the tale of a middle-aged couple considering leaving the city.
London-born Hiddleston, who played a vampire in Only Lovers Left Alive this summer, said: “I play someone incredibly normal. There’s a time in every Londoner’s life when you feel Soho, or the parks, or a certain social life, belongs to you, then it is taken over by the generation behind you. In the film, I’m part of the generation behind.”
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verschreibsel 6th-Nov-2012 08:43 pm (UTC)
I hate how everything I read about Only Lovers Left Alive is either people feeling superior about having known the director before he cast Tom and how all the Tom fans will hate the film because it's deep. Or they're gushing about Tom being a vampire and making crappy manips. OR they they're talking about how they hate Twilight which is not related to anything.

I probably won't like the movie but I don't like deep movies in general. Probably because I don't get them but I freely admit to that. I have accepted that.
grapefruitzzz 6th-Nov-2012 08:54 pm (UTC)
I like Jim Jarmusch and his sort of odd deadpan humour. And Tilda Swinton, so I think the film will be interesting in that quiet way he has.
verschreibsel 6th-Nov-2012 08:56 pm (UTC)
I haven't seen any of his films so I still have hope but I'm bad with quiet, deep movies.
Like I like Midnight in Paris. That's as much of a quiet, deep movie as I'll get I suppose. I didn't get the Lost in Translation hype at all. Watched it twice to make sure.
whiskybars 6th-Nov-2012 09:01 pm (UTC)
lol you'll probably hate jarmusch's films then
verschreibsel 6th-Nov-2012 09:02 pm (UTC)
I'm aware of that. That's why I said I probably won't like it.
grapefruitzzz 6th-Nov-2012 09:03 pm (UTC)
"Night On Earth" is pretty cute and made of five little stories. His stuff is more about 'people who don't talk much' rather than actually deep :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_On_Earth

I quite liked "Midnight In Paris", but it helped that I watched it in thirty-minute sections over a week or so.
verschreibsel 6th-Nov-2012 09:05 pm (UTC)
I really loved the scenery in Midnight in Paris and normally I hate scenery stuff (it's why I didn't like Brokeback Mountain). It was too quiet and too much scenery. I like a mix of action and romance and comedy. Easy entertainment. With exceptions. Or romcoms.

I'll check that out thanks! I just got the Midnight in Paris DVD and I've already re-watched it five times. I just love the beginning with the movies and showing Paris. The movie was the reason I went to Paris recently and it's great to recognize places.
grapefruitzzz 6th-Nov-2012 10:11 pm (UTC)
If you liked the scenery pron in 'Midnight in Paris', you should check out the intro to 'Manhattan'. It's utterly amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyaj2P-dSi8

I was in Vienna recently, but I haven't rewatched 'Before Sunrise' yet as it'll just make me remember My Amazing Weekend Crush.
bronxdawn 7th-Nov-2012 06:49 pm (UTC)
I really enjoyed Mystery Train and Down by Law.

I really hated Dead Man (although I loved the black & white, it was a beautiful looking film.)

I'll see this one with a totally open mind, I'm looking forward to it!
grapefruitzzz 7th-Nov-2012 07:15 pm (UTC)
I realised I'm really looking forward to it and quite apart from the pretty people. It seems like ages since he made a film.

I didn't like 'Dead Man' much, but I think I wasn't in the right mood when I saw it.
bronxdawn 7th-Nov-2012 07:56 pm (UTC)
I'm such a huge Johnny Depp stan I *wanted* to love it and it left me completely cold. I should probably see it again, I saw it when it was in theatres--that was a century ago ;)

Edited at 2012-11-07 07:57 pm (UTC)
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