7 things you probably didn't know about Tom Hiddleston
- Tom Hiddleston is a British actor recognized for roles in the MCU, "The Night Manager," and more.
- There are some things fans might not know about the "Loki" star.
He had his first kiss when he was 10 years old.
"She was a huge crush, we were in the same class, a lot of note-swapping, and eventually it all went down in a cricket pavilion on an autumn night," Hiddleston told Elle UK in 2014. "It was very thrilling."
"Heat," starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, is one of his favorite movies.
In Hiddleston's 2017 cover story for GQ, writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner noted that his home included a big canvas photo of the movie's famous coffee shop scene between the two main characters.
The actor also had a poster of the 1995 film in his library.
Hiddleston once played the front-right leg of an elephant in a school production of E.M. Forster's "A Passage to India," alongside Eddie Redmayne.
Long before Hollywood fame, Hiddleston and Redmayne were classmates at an all-boys school.
"He was a great talent, even then," Hiddleston said during an appearance on "The Graham Norton Show" in 2017. "He was a huge star."
While Redmayne starred as the female lead of the production, Hiddleston played one of the elephant's legs during a scene in which his costar rode the animal on a journey to the Marabar Caves.
Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film adaptation of "The Shining" is the scariest movie he's ever seen.
The movie, which starred Jack Nicholson, is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel of the same name.
Hiddleston mentioned "The Shining" while answering rapid-fire questions during the promotional tour for the 2015 film "Crimson Peak."
If he wasn't an actor, Hiddleston would probably be a teacher.
"I think there would be something very rewarding about teaching," Hiddleston told The Guardian in 2022. "I would teach drama or Shakespeare."
He's been mistaken for "X-Men" star Michael Fassbender.
"There was a moment when 'Prometheus' came out that people congratulated me on my performance in 'Prometheus,'" he told Vulture in 2016.
Years later, in an interview with The Guardian, Hiddleston recalled a passerby in New York making the same mistake.
"The guy who stopped me was really disappointed — it was just so awkward and embarrassing," Hiddleston said.
Hiddleston owns Loki's scarf from the first "Thor" movie.
"For my birthday they sent me the scarf that Loki wears in the trailer scene in Thor," Hiddleston told Collider in 2012. "Remember when he turns up in a nice suit and overcoat? He is wearing a scarf and so now I am in possession of my Loki scarf."
Years later, the actor still has the accessory. In fact, he showed it off during a virtual appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" in 2021.
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