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Movies/TV
I'll be honest the best way I can describe how he is represented in films is by doing a ranking list, otherwise you'd have been here all day and I don't want to waste 60 minutes of your life on Tom Hiddleston... well I don't mind but I'm only doing this for your sake. So for movie representations here's a little ranking I'm calling 'Top 8 Hiddles' Films In Order Of Posh-ness' {because why not?}.
With his predilection for three-piece suits and his perfectly coiffed bed-head, the sight of Tom Hiddleston wearing so much as a t-shirt sends social media followers into paroxysms. He does appear at home among the debonair, and he's got the pedigree to back it up: He graduated with a Double First (sort of the British version of the American "Cum Laude" system of honors) in Classics from the University of Cambridge. Hiddleston's roles also frequently reflect a stiff-upper-lip gallantry; he plays as many, if not more, noblemen and society men as he does laypeople. So believe me, ranking these eight Tom Hiddleston movies in order of posh-ness was no easy task {especially for me, I love all his films}. And whether ranking member of the military or land-holding gentry, Hiddleston's roles tend to exhibit some unadulterated upper-class fantasies. Perhaps it's his pallid complexion, his hooded gaze, or his self-deprecating smile, but there's something really posh, and a little bit mysterious, about him that he can't quite disguise. It's not just his Brit movies — his turn as F. Scott Fitzgerald in Midnight in Paris makes the cut too.
So let's get this over with...
8 - Hank Williams - I Saw The Light
Williams was born to a railroad engineer, and he and his family struggled through the Great Depression. While Williams ultimately went on to musical fame, his humble origins followed him for the rest of his life. Though he's the least posh character on the list, it's a role Hiddleston can sink his teeth into.
{And daaaaammmn that boy can sing! I was not emotionally prepared for it - he is now one of my favorite singers - Hollywood should cast him in more musicals he clearly has the voice talent for it}.
7 - Freddie Page - The Deep Blue Sea
A rakish, daring Royal Air Force pilot embarks on an affair with the young wife of a British judge. Though class distinctions are on display — it's something of a hardship for Rachel Weisz's character to leave her life of comfort for the cramped quarters of her lover — Hiddleston's on the lower end in this movie. {😥}.
6 - Only Lovers Left Alive
As Adam, a vampire, Hiddleston has a kind of old-school charm about him, even though he portrays a grungy musician. Tilda Swinton plays his lover, Eve — and if playing vampirical representations of the Biblical couple isn't posh, I don't know what is.
5. High-Rise — Dr. Robert Laing
There's admittedly a pretty big jump between seventh and sixth place on this list — in High-Rise, Hiddleston plays a young doctor who's swept up in an elite society that inhabits a high rise building. Adapted from the J.G. Ballard novel of the same name, High-Rise is also a reflexive meta-criticism of class distinctions. Luke Evans plays a documentary filmmaker determined to expose the cloistered societies within the residence.
4. War Horse — Captain Nicholls
{Hehe he's got my surname.... but he's not in it long enough 😭}
A step up from the military service of The Deep Blue Sea, Hiddleston's character (spoiler!) doesn't last too long in War Horse. Still pretty posh.
3. Midnight In Paris — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best known for The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald's work remains a quintessential commentary on the opulence of high society in the 1920s. Hiddleston portrays a rose-tinted, nostalgic Fitzgerald accompanied by Alison Pill as Zelda in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, itself a commentary on how everything looks just that much more appealing in hindsight.
2. Crimson Peak — Thomas Sharpe
A member of the gentry, but a fallen one — Hiddleston plays the nobleman Sir Thomas Sharpe, who inhabits Allerdale Hall with his sister Lucille. What it lacks in upkeep, the mansion more than makes up for historical haunts.
1. Thor Series/MCU— Loki
{You knew this was gonna be number one}
Loki also appears, resplendent in cape and scepter, in Thor: Ragnarok, Thor: The Dark World, and The Avengers films. Once the usurper of the throne of Asgard, he's practically royalty. It doesn't get posh-er than that.
His thin lips and never-seen-the-sun complexion give him the aura of a Victorian gentleman; his expression can turn cold and calculating with the change of the wind, making him the ideal supervillain. Tom Hiddleston is one posh dude, and these eight roles are just the tip of an excellent career — portraying lords and their ilk.
{Loki is the best thing that's ever come out of his career it's going to be soooo tragic when the day comes when he stops playing him. Tom will always be the real Loki to us Marvel and Hiddleston fans!}.
He's not just be in movies though however, he has been a couple of tv shows: Casualty {I'm desperately trying to find this episode, especially because it was when Tom was really young and he has young Justin Timberlake hair, hehe. That and I've seen clips on Youtube and he literally kills a woman... ON ACCIDENT though}, The Essex Serpent {a recent one, I have no idea what it's about all I know is Tom's in it and I'm going to try desperately find a way to watch it},.....
He did a skit on MTV'S After Hours program which is, as many Hiddlestoners knows, iconic. I'll let you watch it yourself;
{LOKI'D}
{It's so funny yet sad though because I remember him saying to an interviewer once that he so wants to play a more comedic character one day... I'll be waiting for that day to come}.
He's been nominated and received many awards over the past few years - he's getting there boys - He is known well for his performances in film, television and theatre. In 2012, he received a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination. He has received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Award nominations for producing and acting in the AMC limited series The Night Manager (2016), winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film.
He has also received awards for his work on the London stage, earning three Laurence Olivier Award nominations winning Best Newcomer in a Play for his performance as Posthumus Leonatus & Cloten in William Shakespeare play Cymbeline in 2008. In 2020, he was nominated for his Broadway debut for Best Actor in a Play for his performance as Robert in the revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal. In fact in the past month he received one of the best and highest awards an actor can be bestowed, 'People's Choice Award for The Male TV Star of 2021' {he literally beat The Rock!}.
He's actually given a couple of rewards out too. Like this year's Bafta Awards {True story; My parents and I were watching the Baftas, just minding our own business then all of a sudden I thought I heard the presenter say "Loki" and for a split second I thought I'd just misheard him, but then my parents said they heard them say Loki too. And then the next second, Tom's just there on the telly, giving off an award with some other girl I'd never heard of before. It was funny because I didn't know until then that whenever Tom just appears out of nowhere on tv I blush, my mum pointed it out to me that I was turning a very bright shade of red... So that was fun}.
Adverts
Recently there's been a new advert for some medicine or some thing for women that Tom's been in that has gained questionable and confusing attention/reactions from people. It's for a product called Centrum. People have been describing it as "Creepy, uncomfortable and downright weird are just some things an advertisement starring Tom Hiddleston has been called, but none of that will matter as it's found success with its intended audience - Chinese women".
Imagine waking up in the morning, walking down to your stylish kitchen and finding actor Tom Hiddleston making breakfast for you. {Ah a girl can dream}.
It's a fantasy vitamin company Centrum is cashing in on for its new Chinese advertisement.
It may have been widely mocked in the Western media, but the made-for-mobile ad has been remarkably well-received in China.
Honestly watching it for the first now though, I don't see what people are fussing about. I mean China commercials are really crazy, creepy and weird most of the time - but this seems ordinary like one we'd show over here. I don't know... What Do You Think?
Although there was one other ad that comes to mind that is really cinematic and just amazing in general. Jaguar's #GoodToBeBad ad from the early 2010s where it features Tom alongside Ben Kinglsey and Mark Strong as supervillains. Three amazing British actors for a car commercial what could be better than that, surely it would get the car lovers at their doorstep in no time. Or it would if they hadn't banned it!
Jaguar’s “Good to be Bad” ad campaign, starring Tom Hiddleston, had been banned for encouraging irresponsible driving. The campaign, which started with a big-budget US Super Bowl TV ad using the strapline “It’s good to be bad”, features Hiddleston, Ben Kingsley and Mark Strong. The ad, which promoted the F-Type coupe, was titled “The Art of Villainy” and explored why British actors play the best villains. It featured Hiddleston discussing what makes a great villain and revving the car in an underground car park before driving off at speed and quoting Shakespeare’s Richard II. Jaguar's 'The Art of Villainy' ad. The Advertising Standards Authority received a complaint that the YouTube ad encouraged unsafe driving and was therefore socially irresponsible. Advertisement Jaguar Land Rover said that the Hiddleston ad was set almost entirely in the car park and that “during this time the car barely moved”. When the car did leave the car park, it was shown travelling at “normal road speeds”, and “accelerated briefly”, and that police were present at the filming to confirm the speed limit was not breached. The ASA agreed that the “primary focus” of the ad was not speed. The watchdog said that the noise of acceleration and speed with which the car left the basement “appeared to suggest significant speed within an enclosed environment”. This was not helped by Hiddleston saying “now brace yourselves” as the car accelerated through the streets and out of a tunnel leaving other vehicles in its wake. “We considered that the second part of the ad suggested that the car was being driven at excessive speeds and that the ad therefore encouraged irresponsible driving,” the ASA ruled. “We told Jaguar Land Rover not to portray speed of driving behavior that might encourage motorists to drive irresponsibly in future.”
{Imagine hiring and paying 3 highly acclaimed and popular actors in your commercial only to have it be banned. I mean it's just common sense isn't it, WHY WOULD A CAR COMPANY RELEASE A COMMERCIAL IF IT ENCOURAGE IRRESPONSIBLE DRIVING? Man this aggravates me so much, critics need a brain. Oh well, at least someone posted them on Youtube for us to view for ourselves}.
I don't know if this belongs here or another category but he's also a very big supporter of charities. Hiddleston has been a UNICEF UK Ambassador since 2015 and recently travelled to South Sudan for a second time to see the impact of the civil conflict on vulnerable children. As well as the Small Steps Project and The Justice and Equality Fund. This would represent him as a very generous, affectionate, altruistic individual.
{Like omg, he is one of the most humblest, genuinely beautiful celebrities ever!}
Magazines
My word there are so many pictures of him in magazines and just modelling in general, and all of them are just as hot as the other {I mean he didn't win 'Sexiest Man Of The Year' for nothing}. Like there's so many, so I'm just going to put 3 of my favorite ones down.
1} Interview Magazine - {I'm sorry these pictures just hit so different the longer you look at them}.
Well, I don't know about you, but nobody has really seen Tom model anyway remotely like this. Obviously it's representing men in general to be: domineering, sexy, serious, carnal, lustful, alluring, amative, desirable, frisky, giving off a come-hither-ish tone. {And I'm not just saying that to describe Tom alone... nope I'm not 🙄}.
2} M2 Magazine (It's from New Zealand apparently)
This fine specimen clearly represents men as intellectual, intelligent, debonair, dapper, siogne, 'stylin it', with a hint of curiosity from the way he's staring into our soul so intensly inquisitively; that's kind of antsy yet fascinatingly, beguiling, mystifying way. {Ok I need to move on...}
3} Shotlist Magazine
{Omg he's got a kitty on his shoulders, that looks terrified. I must say he is rocking that he is rocking that trench coat. Holding the whiskey hmmm, he looks like a weird pirate}. Anyway, this is reminding me too much of that interview on the Late Late Show with James Corden where he's holding Leopard cubs, Penguins and Bearcats that just start to crawl all over him. The representations in this one are pretty much the same as in the M2 magazine, but adding animal lover to the list.
{Here's that interview btw}
So that's pretty much it - umm here's some clips of Tom showing off his amazing dance moves on Alan Carr's Chatty Man to end this presentation {I have no other idea of how to end this thing}
{I soooo want to dance battle this man so much!}
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