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Tom Hiddleston interview in the Thor: Ragnarok Movie Special Magazine

How does it feel, playing Loki for the fourth time? 

I feel like every time I play him I have to be better for myself and just take it on to another level. I have to honour my responsibility to the character, the affection that he is held in by the audience and be at least as interesting and complex and charismatic and all the things that Loki is, and just take it to another level. Otherwise, what are we all doing? Every time I play Loki, I feel like the challenge is to find new ways of playing him. He’s slippery and transformative and changeable, and will do everything he can to survive. He’s the lord of mischief. The challenge is that I’m constantly trying to make sure that the next chapter of Loki’s journey honours what has come before but can still be surprising for the audience in terms of what to expect next. 

How does it feel knowing Loki is such a popular villain? 

I’ve tried asking myself this question. People ask me that repeatedly. And it still, truthfully amazes me., the popularity of this character. I never expected it. It still makes me wonder, to this day, even coming onto this film, when people say how much they love Loki. I say why? Tell me. And I think it’s because people can relate to him in some way, which I find flattering. There’s something in his story that people connect to. He’s an outsider. He’s a misfit. Even though he’s an antagonist, even though in Avengers, he’s basically a tyrant, even though he constantly lies to hurt those he loves the most, people relate to his emotional vulnerability. He just feels a bit lost and is trying to make his way, even though he makes consistently bad choices. And he’s just a bad boy, and people love bad boys. 

Tell us about Valkyrie

The Valkyrie were a legendary, ancient race of warriors, exclusively women, who are the stuff of myth even for Thor and Loki. And they were wiped out and never heard from again. But as children, Thor and Loki worshiped the Valkyrie.  

How does Loki discover who Valkyrie is? 

Loki finds out that Valkyrie is helping Thor escape from Sakaar with Hulk. And Loki challenges Valkyrie and says why would you help my brother escape? And what ensues is a fast and furious, kinetic knife fight between two people who recognize each other. They’re both solitary cats that walk alone. And they are damaged on the inside. They’ve left a lot of that damage behind. And they’re trying to move past it, but it still defines them. So the fight is imbued with all this ferocity. 

Why do people keep coming back to Marvel films?

I think Marvel has the gift of chasing the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I don’t think anyone who works at Marvel ever feels like they’ve cracked it. They’re not complacent. They’re constantly striving to push boundaries, to reinvent the wheel in new colors, in new shapes. And they have the gift of their inheritance, which is a stable of 7,000 characters. And somehow every film feels different. Yet they have this unique brand of humour and playfulness. People know Marvel delivers spectacle, action, great characters, wit, drama, comedy, and a great time. And it rewards investment because the movies talk to each other. And if you get inside that world it’s like a labyrinth of interconnecting corridors. And you have the best time in there. I think that’s why Marvel has inspired so much affection. 

“Solitary cats that walk alone,” eh? Aside from the redundancy, that’s kind of a nice image… Loki and Valkyrie as solitary hunters uncomfortably roped into a pack by Thor, who’s very much a dog, a pack hunter.

Now I’m envisioning both of them as actual cats. Lokitty and Valkitty.