Sudden Waves

I guess, as an actor I start from the inside out. Like the costume is enormously helpful but I always think like.. What makes him tick? What is human about this character? I don’t want to play a cipher. I look at someone who is damaged, broken, alone, isolated from his family, doesn’t feel like he belongs. Someone who’s been lost, abandoned. And there are physiological tropes for those things, you know?

You see the lost and damaged and abandoned children of our world. It’s no accident that they grow up to be, to fill our prisons, you know? And that’s kind of who Loki is. He’s just really clever, you know? So he’s good at hiding his own intents I think.

So I think the process of living through those emotions, or feeling so angry with people because they don’t trust him, and feeling angry with Thor because he gets everything. He’s the favorite son. I think just the process of living inside that anger, that rage, that hurt, every day creates an intensity on my face which I’m not aware of.

So it’s not like I’m creating expressions but absolutely there’s a kind of a raw intensity that Ken said from the word go he said I want to see you every day with a layer of skin peeled away. I want to see that ticker tape machine inside your head like working at 1,000 miles per minute.

—Tom Hiddleston, talking about Loki (via miaowy)

(via tomhiddlestonappreciationblog)