You know one of the things I love about Tom Hiddleston? Sometimes Tom is all like :
“He is a combination of mercurial intellectual ability, emotional ambiguity, charisma and provocative wit. He has a wicked inclination to mischief, underneath which is a well of spiritual pain. Both these aspects are central to his depth as a character : his unashamed and perverse delight in creating chaos and his capacity for raw emotional expression.”
Then sometimes Tom is all like :
“Loki is loco. Completamente loco. People go loco for Loki. Livin’ la vida Loki.”
That may just be the difference between Tom demonstrating his mastery of English and running up against the limits of his Spanish.
“The thing with Loki is that, if he’s afraid, he won’t show it. He’s been highly trained, through the experience of his slightly traumatic life, to shield his fears.”
Tom Hiddleston on Loki.
“his slightly traumatic life”, I’m not crying, you’re crying 😭
Loki is someone, as I built him, that I found interesting because…
We all know Hiddleston is the ultimate Loki stan, nothing new here— except I felt like drawing attention to the fact that in this quote, he could have easily called Loki a nerd/geek/bookworm/etc as a foil to Thor’s quarterback. Yet Tom specifically uses the word “artist.” (Don’t apologise, its a perfect word!)
I especially enjoy this because of the way we tend to first define whether one is “artful” or “artless” predominately by measuring their cunning, cleverness and guile— which then becomes an indicator of their creativity, skill, and taste.
And now I want to dig out my copy of Lewis Hyde’s Trickster Makes This World and ignore all the other things I’m supposed to be working on today.
Loki is the Philosopher King 