And though she be but little, she is fierce!

The Essex Serpent (2022)

‘And, sir, it is no small achievement to make me cry tears of compassion.’

‘You cry in this play, could you cry on command right now? I’ll set you up. Baby Yoda is so cute.’

‘There is a scene in Jamie Lloyd’s production of Harold Pinter’s reverse chronology adultery drama ‘Betrayal’ in which [Tom Hiddleston’s] character, Robert, is told by Zawe Ashton’s character Emma - his wife - that she has been having an affair with his best friend Jerry (Charlie Cox) for years. Posh, self-assured Robert’s language would suggest he is savagely sanguine about this: but Hiddleston’s eyes are heartbreakingly wet. Maybe he’s got some sort of clever trick or whatnot, but it’s a genuinely remarkable piece of acting, and a genuinely remarkable performance.’   

Tom Hiddleston in Betrayal Teaser, 14th November 2018 

‘I know I seem like a clown…’

There are no hard distinctions between what is real, and what is unreal. Nor between what is true, and what is false. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand.  And it slips through your fingers. Our beginnings never know our ends.

An emotional Tom Hiddleston wraps series one of Marvel Studios’ Loki (2021)

‘I just want to go to a party!’

‘I just want to go to a party!’

‘I just want to go to a party!’

‘You can’t watch that movie and not burst into tears, because the central premise of that film is that actually life is a mixture of joy and sadness. And learning to accept that is growing up.’

Tom Hiddleston for Betrayal Broadway, 2019

There are no hard distinctions between what is real, and what is unreal. Nor between what is true, and what is false. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand.  And it slips through your fingers. Our beginnings never know our ends.