Tom Hiddleston confirms that Loki is totally into making sweet love to animals

If you thought there was too much Tom Hiddleston around these parts for the past few months, you haven’t seen anything yet. Thor: The Dark World is about to come out and I’m absolutely positive that Tommy is going to promote it like his life depends on it, probably because Chris Hemsworth can’t be bothered. Hiddles has two new interviews this morning – one is funny and one is just… Classic Hiddles. The funny one is for Tom’s new Total Film interview. Some highlights:

Total Film: Is Loki ever going to get it on with the Enchantress?
Tom: Ooh!

Is he ever going to get a love interest? Does he have to remain a celibate God?
He certainly is not, though. I mean, Sleipnir is one of his children. Did you know that? Odin’s eight-legged horse in the mythology is one of Loki’s children. As is Fenrir the wolf.

Right, so he likes animals. He’s into bestiality…
Yep. I don’t know (laughs). When I was first reading the comics, the relationship with the Enchantress was one of the really fun things I thought would be good to explore, and may have even pitched it to Kevin Feige at some point. Because she is as sneaky and as untrustworthy as he was. They basically had a really fantastic and twisted relationship until they both say, “You know what? I don’t trust you as far as I can throw you. It’s over.” Because they keep betraying each other, in a way. So it could be good.

Is there any likelihood of him turning up in another Iron Man or in a Captain America?
I really don’t know. I wish I could say. I think it would be hilarious, but I don’t know. Wouldn’t it?

[From Total Film]

I do like Tom’s geeky side when you can tell that he’s done his research into the mythology of Loki, and I enjoy how gracefully he confirmed the bestiality issue and then moved on, although I wish he had given in and discussed it thoroughly, the horsef—ker. I would prefer to hear Tom discuss Loki rather than… Shakespeare. Because that’s what happened when Tom sat down with The AV Club for their “Fan Up” feature. Basically, they just asked Tom to fan-girl the crap out of Shakespeare in general and The Hollow Crown and Much Ado About Nothing specifically. You can read the full piece here, and here are some highlights:

The A.V. Club: Do you have a favorite Shakespeare play you haven’t been in?
Tom Hiddleston: Immediately the one that comes to my head is Much Ado About Nothing. I think it’s the most beautiful, warm, redemptive, compassionate play that he ever wrote. I suppose the reason I say that is because it’s full of such deft, fine, subtle, brilliant comedy. I mean, really amazing bravura moments of setpiece, laugh-out-loud moments. When you get actors who have digested and studied and thought about and understood the verse and the characterizations, it feels as though it was written yesterday, or it sounds like it’s being made up on the spot. I’ve seen so many adaptations of it. I saw Joss Whedon’s film most recently. I grew up on Kenneth Branagh’s film. I’ve seen amazing productions on stage in London. I saw Simon Russell Beale play Benedick and it was hilarious, at the National Theatre with Zoë Wanamaker. David Tennant did it with Catherine Tate playing Beatrice. I’ve seen it set in ’30s Italy. I’ve seen it set in contemporary Los Angeles. I’ve seen it set 400 years ago. It never fails to delight. It just leaves people with a very, very happy feeling in their heart, I think.

And I think the reason is that it’s about love. It’s about your last chance. You might have sworn off finding the right person and think, “Love’s not for me. Marriage isn’t for me. I will die a bachelor, or I will die a maid. None of your romance, none of your love poems.” It’s about these two old cynics who are like, “Nah, it’s not going to happen for me.” And it does. I think that’s just very redemptive and sweet. And there’s one extraordinary aspect of the play, which is that when Hero’s chastity is in doubt—it’s called into question because of the plot of Don John—an extraordinary thing happens, which is almost unique in all of Shakespeare, which is the man, Benedick, takes the side of the women in blind faith. So he says to Claudio and Don Pedro, I think, “What you’ve done is appalling. This is an act of brutality.” He doesn’t explicitly say that, but it’s an amazing thing where the leading male character takes the side of the women, and I think it’s, yet again, evidence of Shakespeare’s extraordinary compassion and understanding of human nature.

AVC: In Much Ado there are three parts for men of different ages. Of those parts, which would you most like to play?
TH: I would love to play Benedick. Absolutely. It’s very much on my wish list. He’s so funny. He’s such an old dog. And there’s such fine wit in the way he speaks. And he’s a warrior, too. I think if you embrace the idea of a classical career, in the old sense of the word “career,” you have a good stab at all the big ones, at the moment I’m playing a lot of soldiers. I’ve played Posthumus in Cymbeline, Cassio in Othello, Prince Hal, Henry V, I’m about to play Coriolanus. They’re all soldiers. They’re all warriors. And what’s nice about Benedick is he is a warrior, but he’s a warrior who falls in love. So I feel it’s sort of a logical progression. There are some other princes I haven’t played yet, too.

[From The AV Club]

There SO MUCH more. He quotes Shakespeare extensively and he even says the word “vapors,” which pleased me more than it should. I also enjoyed the part where he wonders aloud if Prince Hal is a psychopath. It’s a good piece for the Shakespeare geeks, I guess. Anyway, gird your loins. I’m sure next week will have even more HIDDLES. I want him to talk more about his daddy issues.

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