Inexhaustible List of Mundane Things Tom Hiddleston Makes Indecently Hot: Walking to his Coriolanus dressing room, post warm up.
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Inexhaustible List of Mundane Things Tom Hiddleston Makes Indecently Hot: Walking to his Coriolanus dressing room, post warm up.
Bonus: Want the entire, tortuous walk in one, long painful gif?
‘You common cry of curs! Whose breath I hate
As reek o’ the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my air, I banish you.’
~ Coriolanus Act III, Scene III
‘I have been made aware of an account on Twitter called Hollow Crown Fans which has a huge number of followers now. And they’ve started doing this thing called Shakespeare Sunday. There’s a hashtag, it’s called #ShakespeareSunday, and basically Sunday is a free-for-all for anyone to post their favourite quotes from Shakespeare…. I know it’s the Hollow Crown fans account that runs this thing. And i’ve seen people like Clark Gregg, who was in Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing, and Samuel West, and people chucking things in with their favourite Shakespeare quotes. So I feel like - maybe indirectly - it’s given birth to an appreciation and a passion for Shakespeare that maybe wasn’t there before. So if it has, then that’s my enormous privilege.’
‘No abuse, Ned, i’ th’ world, honest Ned, none. I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall in love with thee; in which doing, I have done the part of a careful friend and a true subject, and thy father is to give me thanks for it. No abuse, Hal.—None, Ned, none. No, faith, boys, none.’
Henry IV Pt 2, Act II Scene IV
Shakespeare Unlocked: Tom Hiddleston on the set of The Hollow Crown, BBC News Air Date: 5th July 2012
Tom Hiddleston as Prince Hal on the set of The Hollow Crown (2012)
‘The king is not to answer it.’
Henry V Act IV Scene I
‘Out there in chainmail, on horseback, shooting battles. My hands were absolutely ruined, my knuckles were split and bleeding from being outside and fighting every day. You think, ‘I am reliving this’… I was on the floor after the shoot.’
Tom Hiddleston on the four-month ‘The Hollow Crown’ shoot, where all three plays were filmed back to back over the winter of 2011/2012.
‘You can really be riding a horse, and really riding into battle. There’s no off stage drums and colours. You’re in an actual battle.’
Tom Hiddleston on the benefits of being able to interpret Shakespeare’s Henriad on screen
Tom Hiddleston as Hamlet (2017)
Harry being majestic AF in The Hollow Crown (2012)
Cheek by Jowl’s Cymbeline Trailer (2007)
Tom Hiddleston as Posthumus/Cloten in rehearsal for Cheek by Jowl’s Cymbeline (2007)
Tom Hiddleston as Posthumus/Cloten in Cheek by Jowl’s Cymbeline (2007)
Tom Hiddleston believes everyone should play Hamlet — even you.
He said as much on the new episode of Stagecraft, Variety’s theater podcast, on which he appeared with Charlie Cox and Zawe Ashton, his costars in the Broadway revival of “Betrayal.” Hiddleston (“Avengers,” “Loki,” “The Night Manager”) knows “Hamlet” from experience: he played the title role in a 2017 production directed by Kenneth Branagh.
“Here’s what I believe about that part, which is: The reason that it’s the greatest part perhaps written in the English language is because there’s very little in the way of character,” he explained. “The demand on the actor is that essentially you have to bring yourself to the play. … You have to connect to grief, family, heaven, your own soul, the afterlife, love, friendship, revenge, the existence of God, courage, depression, loss, sadness and desire.”
Also on Stagecraft, Ashton (“Velvet Buzzsaw”) revealed why she was nervous heading into rehearsals for “Betrayal.”
“There is part of you as a woman, when you know you’re going to be the only female in the room, that you kind of subconsciously put your boxing gloves on … thinking, ‘Right, I’m going to take my space, I’m going to make sure my voice is heard’,” she said. “I needn’t have worried for more than one second. These two men are honestly two of the most open, honest, sweet, tender, caring people and actors that I’ve ever worked with.”
Meanwhile, Cox delved into why he’s always eager to return to the theater, even after success on the small screen (“Daredevil”). “One of the reasons I try to stay as close to it as possible is that I really believe that the theater is an actor’s gym, in that that’s where you get better,” he said. “You’re forced to find new ways to keep it fresh and alive. You’re forced to discover things about the play, and about yourself. I come off plays often feeling like I’ve just lifted the ceiling a little bit to what I’m capable of. That’s the great thrill.”
On the new episode of the Stagecraft podcast, the actors also talk Pinter, dick-swinging and superheroes.
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[You can listen to the full podcast here: http://stagecraft.libsyn.com/why-tom-hiddleston-thinks-everyone-should-play-hamlet]