Loki is everything that’s right about the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Think about it: how many actors get the opportunity to explore a role for 10 …
Loki is everything that’s right about the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Think about it: how many actors get the opportunity to explore a role for 10 years and then, after doing all that work, get the chance to cut loose in their own TV series? That’s the opportunity Tom Hiddleston has with Disney+’s Loki. The series, premiering on June 9, allows the accomplished actor to investigate and interrogate a character that he thought he knew inside and out. The doubt stems from the fact that Loki doesn’t star the same Loki that Hiddleston spent the better part of a decade developing. Instead, Hiddleston’s returning to the character’s roots, planted in 2012’s Marvel’s The Avengers, and branching off into thoroughly weird territory. He’s the God of Mischief, dropped into the mundane, sterile order of the Time Variance Authority (think: the DMV, but much higher stakes). The series pits Loki against the TVA’s top investigator, Mobius (Owen Wilson)—and that’s barely the beginning. Ahead of Loki’s premiere on Disney+, Decider chatted with Tom Hiddleston about returning to an older version Loki, sharing the metaphorical stage with Owen Wilson, and merging the trickster god with American folklore. Decider: This series, one scene in particular, really analyzes Loki’s character and his motivations to a meticulous degree. How did you approach playing this version of the character, one who hasn’t undergone the events of the last 9 years? Hiddleston: It was a fascinating sequence to plan and then to perform, because I had to unstitch the evolution of the character from The Dark World and Ragnarok and Infinity War. So Loki doesn’t have that information, but I was there. I did these things.
