Does Tom Hiddleston Know Lines From His Most Famous Movies & TV Shows?

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00:00 Ooh, now we're into deep water here.

00:04 Oh, I know this one.

00:05 The heartbreak.

00:08 How did I get that wrong?

00:09 I'm so distressed.

00:10 You are all of you beneath me.

00:20 I am a god, you dull creature.

00:22 This is Loki in the Avengers.

00:27 His last immortal line to "The Hulk,"

00:31 unforgettably played by Mark Ruffalo.

00:33 And it's the beginning of a fight,

00:36 which I think it's safe to say Loki definitively loses.

00:41 Enough!

00:42 You are all of you beneath me.

00:45 I am a god, you dull creature.

00:47 I felt insane and foolish,

00:50 and I alternated between insanity and folly all day.

00:54 The effects team and the art department

00:59 had dug out little Loki-shaped trenches in the set.

01:03 My job was to jump in and out of these trenches

01:07 as hard as I can and as high as I can

01:10 to replicate the effect of being smashed.

01:13 I remember specifically after saying this line,

01:16 I am a god, you dull creature,

01:17 and I will not be bullied by an animal,

01:20 we wanted to create the effect of absolute spontaneity.

01:25 Loki had no idea what was coming.

01:26 He was puffed up with all his sense of superiority and status

01:31 and that that would be completely undercut

01:33 by him just being wrenched out of frame.

01:36 And that's exactly what happened.

01:38 Puny god.

01:46 I never wanted the throne.

01:49 I only ever wanted to be your equal.

01:52 This is Loki in Thor.

01:55 I never wanted the throne.

01:59 I only ever wanted to be your equal.

02:03 How would I describe the relationship

02:04 between Loki and Thor?

02:05 Enormously complex and deep.

02:09 Yeah, how long have you got?

02:11 It's been a journey, a journey of a thousand miles.

02:15 Two brothers in the palace of Asgard,

02:18 very close, at the same time opposite.

02:21 I think they probably define themselves

02:22 as brothers as opposites,

02:24 but have grown up with great trust and affection.

02:28 And the heartbreak of the emotional fallout

02:32 between Thor and Loki is that actually,

02:34 as brothers, they were great friends,

02:36 and they're separated by circumstance.

02:38 That circumstance initially is Loki's discovery

02:41 that he is not in fact Thor's brother.

02:44 He was adopted and was an orphan who was left to die.

02:48 And I think Loki feels stricken with grief about that.

02:53 I was cast in 2009 when I was 28.

02:56 So it's been 15 years for both of us,

02:59 and it's been such a pleasure to sit alongside him

03:04 on the rollercoaster of this journey.

03:09 Being cast as Thor and Loki changed our lives forever

03:14 in the most extraordinary and unexpected ways.

03:16 And to be able to have someone

03:18 who was going through the same experience

03:20 has just been in such a comfort, actually.

03:23 Over the years, we've shared so much.

03:24 We've shared so many memories.

03:26 We've made the films in different locations,

03:28 different cities, different states.

03:30 We're good old mates.

03:31 [laughs]

03:33 Now put your shield before your hearts

03:36 and fight with hearts more proof than shields.

03:39 Advance my fellows.

03:41 Henry V.

03:43 [buzzer]

03:44 No.

03:46 Wait.

03:47 Coriolanus.

03:48 [ding]

03:49 How did I get that wrong?

03:50 I'm so distressed.

03:51 I feel like I've let Shakespeare down.

03:55 It's fine.

03:55 He's fine.

03:56 He's long gone.

03:57 Now put your shield before your hearts

04:00 and fight with hearts more proof than shields.

04:03 The biggest difference between acting on film and theater,

04:06 the primary difference is that on stage,

04:11 we are afforded the opportunity

04:14 to play out the entire story,

04:17 the whole alphabet, as it were,

04:19 from A to Z or A to Z.

04:21 And you get to track the arc of the character

04:25 through the story every night.

04:27 And you can feel the propulsive momentum

04:30 that actually drives you consequentially

04:33 through the narrative.

04:36 In film, as an actor, you are drilling down precisely

04:40 and forensically into the detail of a moment every day.

04:44 So you don't experience the whole of the arc

04:48 until you finally see the edit.

04:50 But then also, if you go on stage,

04:53 there's something about the liveness of the event,

04:56 that you're doing it live, and it's all happening now.

05:01 And it won't be the same tomorrow.

05:03 And that also keeps you sharp in a different way.

05:05 So I love being able to do both.

05:07 I feel like it keeps me honest, in a way, as an actor.

05:11 I promise you, man to man, that I'll look after him

05:16 as closely as you've done.

05:17 I'll respect him and all the care you've taken with him.

05:21 And if I can, I'll return him to your care.

05:24 That's the second bit.

05:26 That is Captain James Nichols in "War Horse."

05:30 Yeah, love that scene.

05:31 I promise you, man to man, that I'll look after him

05:35 as closely as you've done.

05:37 I'll respect him and all the care that you've taken with him.

05:41 That experience was one of the most special

05:44 and one of the most memorable of my working life.

05:48 And I'll just never forget being

05:51 on this magnificent Spanish stallion in uniform

05:55 with a double rein and a single hand,

06:00 calling the orders of the charge

06:02 as they would have done back in 1914.

06:05 [men shouting]

06:07 Leading a phalanx of horses.

06:13 It was the most electrifying and thrilling experience

06:15 of my whole life.

06:16 I assure you, brother, the sun will shine on us again.

06:22 The heartbreak.

06:27 That's Loki in "Avengers Infinity War,"

06:30 in the opening scene where Loki tries to distract.

06:34 Thanos.

06:35 I assure you, brother, the sun will shine on us again.

06:40 I knew about this scene, I think,

06:42 three years before I came to be on set.

06:46 I remember going over to Marvel

06:48 and talking to Kevin Feige and Luis D'Esposito.

06:51 In that meeting at Marvel,

06:53 as I was hearing the story of Ragnarok for the first time,

06:56 Joe and Anthony Rousseau came in

06:59 and they were in early development

07:00 for "Avengers Infinity War."

07:02 And they said, "We're still drilling down

07:05 "on the details of the script,

07:06 "but we know what the opening scene is."

07:09 The opening scene is Loki in a 1V1 with Thanos

07:13 and trying to save his brother Thor, who is in diastrates.

07:16 It's the final curtain.

07:21 And the reason we know that's the first scene

07:24 is we know that it will be very shocking to the audience

07:27 and we want the audience to be truly invested

07:31 in Thanos' capacity for evil.

07:33 I understood that, and so I knew that the approach

07:36 through Ragnarok was going to culminate in this moment.

07:39 And it was a big day.

07:42 I checked into my hotel and within an hour or two,

07:45 I run into Josh Brolin, who could not have been kinder.

07:49 He enveloped me in this enormous hug.

07:51 He was like, "I'm so sorry.

07:54 "I'm so sorry."

07:55 Then there was a big round of applause

07:56 and everybody said, "Congratulations and well done

07:59 "and thank you.

07:59 "Come and see us anytime.

08:01 "You'll always be part of the family."

08:03 But, you know, just when you think it's

08:05 never say never again, basically.

08:07 I'm still, I'm like sitting here going,

08:14 "I can't believe I got Coriolanus wrong."

08:16 [laughs]

08:17 I know, I know, I know.

08:19 Let me list all the ways you're gonna die.

08:21 Rain, heat, mud, disease, oh, I know this one.

08:25 Disease carrying flies and mosquitoes.

08:27 James Conrad, "Kong, Skull Island."

08:31 Let me list all the ways you're gonna die.

08:33 Rain, heat, mud, disease carrying flies and mosquitoes.

08:37 I feel like so many movies have explored

08:40 like what would we be like

08:41 if we were stuck on a desert island.

08:43 I love "Cast Away."

08:44 It's one of my favorite films.

08:46 And I think the thrill of watching Tom Hanks in "Cast Away"

08:48 is you think, well, how would I get on?

08:51 Would I be able to spear some fish for food?

08:54 Would I be able to start a fire?

08:57 Would I make a friend of Wilson?

08:59 I mean, I'm worried that I'd be hopeless, actually.

09:03 And I'd get dehydrated and overwhelmed and sunburned

09:07 and then wander into the ocean and get eaten by a shark.

09:10 You're nothing but a spoiled child.

09:12 Ooh.

09:14 Now we're into deep water here.

09:18 You're nothing but a spoiled child.

09:21 [sighs]

09:23 Thomas Sharp, "Crimson Peak."

09:25 [bell dings]

09:26 Phew.

09:27 You're nothing but a spoiled child.

09:29 I just was previously doing Coriolanus

09:33 at the Donmar Warehouse in London.

09:34 He came to London and we worked together

09:38 and he was extraordinary.

09:40 He had written biographies of each character.

09:45 It's like a novella of the character

09:50 and their life before the film.

09:52 So you've suddenly got a biography which is so rich

09:56 and has so much detail.

09:57 Guillermo's gift is total.

09:59 His mastery of the medium is absolute.

10:01 His attention to detail, his precision, his generosity,

10:05 his good humor.

10:06 It's one of the happiest sets I've been on.

10:08 Strangely for a film with so much pain in it,

10:11 we laughed all the time.

10:12 Greetings and salutations.

10:15 You'll forgive me, I've been mixing grain and grappa.

10:18 "Midnight in Paris."

10:19 [bell dings]

10:20 I almost did it in the voice.

10:21 Greetings and salutations.

10:22 F. Scott Fitzgerald.

10:25 Greetings and salutations.

10:26 You'll forgive me, I've been mixing grain and grappa.

10:30 Owen is the best.

10:31 He's just the absolute best.

10:33 We have a similar taste in things.

10:35 We both like tennis and poetry

10:39 and great stories and movies.

10:42 And we kind of just riff around that, I suppose.

10:45 And he's also, I think it was worth saying,

10:47 just a fantastic writer.

10:49 His contribution to "Loki" seasons one and two,

10:53 he brings his own precision and insight to every scene.

10:58 Okay.

10:59 I see a scheme, and in that scheme, I see myself.

11:02 Episode two of season one of "Loki."

11:07 [bell dings]

11:08 I see a scheme, and in that scheme, I see myself.

11:13 My goodness, what have I learned about playing Loki?

11:16 Change is possible.

11:18 The growth is necessary.

11:22 And that in order to become the best version of yourself,

11:27 you have to make peace with your past.

11:29 You have to confront your mistakes,

11:34 acknowledge your failures,

11:36 and only then are you in control of your destiny.

11:40 It feels like we constructed the series

11:42 as a story in two volumes, season one and season two.

11:46 And I feel very happy with the narrative conclusion

11:51 of season two.

11:52 I feel like, as Mobius says,

11:54 sometimes purpose is more burden than glory.

11:57 And Loki's found his purpose after all,

12:01 which is to commit himself to protecting the lives of others

12:06 by holding the timelines together.

12:08 Where we go from here, I don't know.

12:10 I really don't.

12:11 He's listening.

12:12 He's watching.

12:14 That's all I know for now.

12:15 [upbeat music]

12:18 [upbeat music]

12:21 [upbeat music]

12:23 (upbeat music)

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