For the first 10 minutes after you meet them, they have the wattage and charisma of movie stars. Then you have a coffee with them and you realize we're all the same, we're all just people. All of the actors in The Avengers are so nice. Marvel has these code names for projects and the code name for The Avengers was Group Hug. It felt very much like a group hug on set.
Tom HiddlestonTruth in drama is elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive.
Tom HiddlestonI always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'
Tom HiddlestonNurture your own confidence and make it real; don't pretend to be someone you're not.
Tom HiddlestonI had huge fun with Chris Evans, as Captain America, because super-soldier though he may be, he's still a man, up against a God who in his own mind is infinitely superior. Then, in the ring with The Hulk, we've got this silver tongued, lightening quick mind up against the embodiment of rage..Loki has this mercurial, transformative ability, not just physically but intellectually, so not all the fights are purely physical. Mind games? Maybe.
Tom HiddlestonNever stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. And donโt be afraid of wearing your heart on your sleeve - in declaring the films that you love, the films that you want to make, the life that youโve had, and the lives you can help reflect in cinema. For myself, for a long timeโฆ maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasnโt worth hearing, and I think everyoneโs voice is worth hearing. So if youโve got something to say, say it from the rooftops.
Tom Hiddleston