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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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pipsdixiechick 6th-Nov-2012 09:32 pm (UTC)
Unrelated was so hard to follow because of how low key (yeah I went there) it was. Tom himself was brilliant (and yes the perv in me loved the shirtless and night swimming scenes, I'll admit it, lol) but it played out so much like a home movie it was hard to keep interest.

Edited at 2012-11-06 10:29 pm (UTC)
redhobbit 6th-Nov-2012 11:15 pm (UTC)
I didn't mind Unrelated, he was so young and so blonde and curly, and Italy was just so lovely on film I could ignore it's boring parts. Though I never could understand why Oakley forgave Anna so quickly and right before it was time to leave. At breakfast he was like "ooh look at me, with my fine shades, headset and blonde curls" and she's like "hello" and he acts like nothing happened.
pipsdixiechick 6th-Nov-2012 11:25 pm (UTC)
Oh God that part! So true. It's almost like life imitating art too if you think about it with the crazies-only in real life he seems to let things go altogether with them.
redhobbit 6th-Nov-2012 11:29 pm (UTC)
Never thought of it that way.
pipsdixiechick 6th-Nov-2012 11:33 pm (UTC)
Lol it actually snapped into my head when you mentioned it just now-of course minus the much needed cold glare and 'don't talk to me' from the man himself.
emmakinney 7th-Nov-2012 12:17 pm (UTC)
I know it's late but I think that scene is trying to realistically portray how many British, middle class people respond to each other, even after a huge altercation. They both try to ignore the elephant in the room but secretly resent each other and count down the hours until they never have to see each other again.

Maybe I'm reading into it but I figured that her films are supposed to be about repressed British families (like Archipelago) so that's what I thought.

Anyway, this comment is late and too long so feel free to ignore it!
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