“Here’s the thing a wise man once said : ‘The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference.’ And Loki is not indifferent to Thor. He hates him. And in order to hate someone, you must still, therefore, love them. So I think there is, somewhere down the line, the possibility of redemption for him, because he is just in real need of self-esteem.”
This is absolutely my favorite thing about how Tom purposely plays Loki. He’s so very aware of how, no matter what way you look at this relationship, Loki canonically revolves around Thor, and it’s visibly obvious.
That once belonged to Laurence Olivier, who gave it to Peter O’Toole, who gave it to Derek Jacobi, who gave it to Kenneth Branagh, who gave it to Tom Hiddleston. [twitter]
Loki is the Philosopher King 