Because i’ve had several anons asking about this since last night...
I’m going to address it in one place, one time and then that’s it. Let me be clear. I don’t ‘do’ fandom drama, gossip of any description. Nor am I a psycho-analyst, and I don’t know Tom Hiddleston personally (more’s the pity). 😉
I have never seen Tom ‘in real life’ before. I have seen many, many, many… (you get the idea) interviews and footage of the man on the red carpet and in interviews. I was lucky enough (as I said here) to be able to watch the man live, in action for several minutes (probably somewhere between 5-10 in total - forgive my Tom-addled brain and lack of stopwatch) as he interacted with fans, and being just as - actually, no. MUCH MORE - accommodating than any other person, actor or otherwise, on that red carpet. (That isn’t a slight on the others by the way, it is just the way it happened to play out yesterday).
Tom was clearly friendly, seemed in good spirits, and appeared to go out of his way to help the fans get the best picture possibly. He is also the only person I saw who took phones from fans in order to position himself and them in an ideal spot, often contorting himself into frankly uncomfortable looking positions to do so! And he chatted with people. And when he was called away he apologised for not getting to us. And perhaps more importantly, looked like he genuinely meant it. Other stars didn’t even come up to our end of the carpet (again, not a slight, i’ve been to enough premieres to know that can happen). It is what it is.
I saw nothing yesterday to suggest that Tom has ‘lost his spark’, ‘was unhappy to be there’, ‘had sad eyes’, ‘was only pretending to smile’ blah blah blah… Was he jumping around like an eager puppy? No. Nor would I have expected him to. He’s got many years under his belt on the red carpet now. Perhaps he doesn’t feel the need to do that any longer? Though it was a child friendly movie, there wasn’t an abundance of children in the crowd. Regardless, it didn’t make Tom appear disingenuous to me. Rather just perhaps a little more mature. Which - shock horror - he is!
But here’s the thing. We don’t know what’s going on inside Tom’s mind, and it’s not our bloody business! I’m certainly not going to get into some amateur psycho-analysis bulls**t about it with people on Tumblr!