It was so fun because there was something of a showman’s elegance about it. (..) It was all going to be set to this amazing piece of Schubert, as it was. Joss’s script described: Loki flips his staff. And in the same beat, forehands a security guard across the face. And we did it in one take. I felt like I was seven years old when I was doing it. (x)
Fine. I guess I’ll just have to go it alone. Like I’ve always done.
I’ve talked about Loki’s response before, but I like this part too because in the first gif, Loki looks like he’s about to be like, “Now wait a minute, that’s totally not what happened,” but by the third gif, his face is more of a resigned, “You’re not going to believe me anyway, so why would I try to defend myself?”
Poor Loki. 😦
I think Tom Hiddleston included more of Loki’s POV and emotional depth in his facial expressions than were in the script.
This will probably reinforce the notion (popular among Thor*/TR stans) that I’m one of those stereotypical straight Loki fangirls who’s just wet for “bad boy” Hiddleston in leather and wants him to dominate me or some shit (I don’t), but I do think The Avengers was peak Loki hotness (except for the spiky Christmas tree hair… that was not great). Maybe it’s just that he was given good dialogue… but I also like the way he struck a balance between swagger and vulnerability; you could tell it was desperation you were seeing, not actual sadism or psychopathy. I also think that 2011 (when this was filmed) showed Hiddleston’s bone structure to best advantage. He still had a little too much baby fat in Thor, and afterward he got a little craggier (not that I think he looks *old*, mind you, just a little off-peak). His jaw and cheekbones have never looked better than they did in The Avengers.
Despite the horrible greasy hair, I can’t help thinking that this was peak Hiddles hotness. He’s lost the baby face but his skin is still very smooth, and the combination of swagger and looking like death warmed over is strangely difficult to resist.
the MCU is never gonna let an honest to god gay character played by a gay person into its lineup not in this decade at least but no matter how much I want to emphasize that this is the bottom line and headcanons are useless towards representation…i have to say. that somehow. tom heterosexual posh boy hiddleston managed to squeeze a deeply unreasonable amount of chaotic gay energy into the like 3 collective minutes he was onscreen in infinity war and i have to hand it to him for that one much as I’d like to do otherwise
>when you know the studio has been trying to get rid of your weird character for like three movies now because he’s focus group poison so you incorporate a truly legendary combination of Theatrical Gay Head Movements into your final performance even though your wig is held together with superglue and wouldn’t flutter if you stepped in front of an industrial fan
Loki is the Philosopher King 