Name: How Tom Hiddleston came up with Loki's last line
Uploaded: 2024-07-09T16:14:02.000Z
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Past simple

What was the specific additions that you had on set that were important to you?

A specific line or two, as I understand it?

Yeah, I remember so well, Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson.

It was like a Thursday morning or a Friday morning, and they were, it was an extraordinarily elaborate set.

The temporal core control room, or the loom room for short.

But basically, they're all standing, looking out through the observation window at the loom.

I mean, we were all there for weeks and weeks and weeks, playing these loops, playing these repetitions, and it felt like this extraordinary company team effort every time.

And then, but it was built on two or three stories, and below the room was a real staircase that went into an airlock, and then these blast doors would open onto the gangway.

And early morning, and Aaron Moorhead said to me, I think in about 40 minutes, we're gonna be on you in the airlock, so have a think about what you feel you need to say.

We had a version of it in the script, but it was like, they knew it was gonna be significant for me, for the character.

And I went, I left the stage, and I went out onto the lot at Pinewood Studios in London, in Buckinghamshire, and I went for a little jog just around the lot.

And I was listening to some film scores, one of which was actually the score from Thor by Patrick Doyle.

And actually, I was just thinking, I became actually overtaken by the significance of it being the last thing I was gonna say, and the length of the journey, and how significant it's been for me in my life, and thinking of all the people that had helped me along the way, and people who'd created this character with me and stuff.

And it just, just the line came to me in a, just, you know, that's how creativity works, I guess.

And I went in, and I found Kevin Wright and Justin and Aaron, and I was like, I've got it, I think.

And they shut their eyes, and I said, it goes like this.

I know what kind of God I need to be for you, for all of us.

And it's the line that Loki says to Odin at the end of Thor, and he is, it's a desperate plea for approval and validation.

It's the, a cry for help from a son who feels he doesn't belong.

And it doesn't work, and it's heartbreaking.

And this time, it's, this Loki has lived through that moment, and understands something much deeper.

And it just felt like a kind of, I actually understand, now I understand.