The MCU’s original version of Loki may have died a brutal death at the beginning of "Avengers: Infinity War," but his variant from the "Loki" series accessible to Disney+ subscribers is finally and truly “burdened with glorious purpose,” albeit not the one he originally envisioned for himself. Falling into the latter category of the Season 2 finale’s wacky and emotional elements, Tom Hiddleston’s character capped off the season, and possibly the show as a whole since Season 3 is up in the air, by becoming the new guardian of the Marvel multiverse. Now Hiddleston himself has shared with CinemaBlend how he really feels about this Loki’s fate.
The actor chatted with our own Erik Swann following the arrival of the "Loki" Season 2 finale, titled “Glorious Purpose,” and along with giving clarity on his comments about concluding Loki’s journey and addressing whether he’d return to the MCU, Hiddleston opened up about how that “glorious purpose” line from 2012’s "The Avengers" has defined what we’ve seen from the character for more than a decade.
The actor chatted with our own Erik Swann following the arrival of the "Loki" Season 2 finale, titled “Glorious Purpose,” and along with giving clarity on his comments about concluding Loki’s journey and addressing whether he’d return to the MCU, Hiddleston opened up about how that “glorious purpose” line from 2012’s "The Avengers" has defined what we’ve seen from the character for more than a decade.
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00:00So I want to start with this. Years ago in the Avengers, Tony Stark told Loki,
00:05There's no throne. There is no version of this where you come out on top.
00:10Well, he has a throne now. But in your mind, is he on top?
00:15Eric, can I just say no one, no one else has mentioned that or pulled that quote.
00:22That's a deep cut. And I just need to pay my respects out aloud.
00:28Wow. Yes, he does say that. And it's really going back to something
00:33that he learns across both seasons of this series, which is, he's always defined himself
00:39by that iconic line, I am Loki of Asgard and I am burdened with glorious purpose.
00:45And the lesson, you know, this variant, the guy who picked up the Tesseract
00:50in Avengers Endgame, because Hulk took the stairs or Tony had a cardiac arrest,
00:56is ripped out of time and reality and processed by the TVA.
00:59And through his experiences with Mobius and with Sylvie and his relationships with them, and
01:05he's given a second chance because he's shown that his idea of a glorious purpose is
01:10fraudulent and meaningless, that he was destined to lose.
01:14So to make others look good, there was no glory in it ever.
01:18And the whole of these 12 episodes are actually about rethinking and redefining
01:23that sense of purpose. Most purpose is more burden than glory.
01:28And I haven't said this yet, but you just really made me think of it.
01:32We talked a lot about this absolutely great poem or series of poems by T.S. Eliot called
01:39The Four Quartets, an absolutely extraordinary piece of writing.
01:44And the poem is about time and grief and the past and making peace with the past so you can
01:51move forward through the present and into the future.
01:54And there's a line in it which actually goes like this.
01:57And what you thought you came for is only a shell, a husk of meaning
02:04from which the purpose breaks only when it is fulfilled, if at all.
02:10Either you had no purpose or the purpose is beyond the end you figured
02:15and is altered in fulfillment.
02:18And your point is like, is he on, is it the throne he always wanted and is he on top?
02:24I think it's that he didn't realize, he would never have known that the purpose he thought
02:31he had was going to come in a different shape at a different time and from a different lens.
02:37And so I think it's a kind of surprise to him that that is where he's supposed to be.
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