#2008 tom

[porkyporker]

all toms are mexican (headcanon)

maybe on rare occasions tom teaches tord a few spanish words and vice versa with tord teaching tom norwegian

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[thehumming6ird]

‘How hard it is to find words to express one’s deepest feelings!’

Miss Austen Regrets, Dir. Jeremy Lovering (2008)

[porkyporker]

lineup for these silly guys.

as well as my mexican tom headcanon coming back lol.

i actually want to do some kind of asks/dares for these guys if possible. so maybe you guys could give asks or something.

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[porkyporker]

the 3rd image is for my tt.

i love tord and tom.

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[thehumming6ird]

Tom Hiddleston as Eugene Lvov in Ivanov at Wyndham’s as part of the Donmar’s season (2008)

[thehumming6ird]

BBC Radio 3's Cyrano de Bergerac (2008)

(adapted for radio by John Tydeman) First broadcast 23rd March 2008

Cast:

Cyrano - Kenneth Branagh 

Roxane - Jodhi May

De Guiche - John Shrapnel

Christian - Tom Hiddleston

Rageuneau - Jimmy Yuill

Montfleury - Stephen Critchlow

Bellerose/Capuc - Hugh Dickson

Le Bret - Gerard Horan

Carbon/Cuigy - John McAndrew

Ligniere - Steve Hodson

Duenna/Marthe - Frances Jeater

Mother Superior - Susan Jamieson

Sister Claire - Joannah Tincey

Valvert - Oliver Le Sueur

Cyrano de Bergerac is, perhaps, the greatest classic romance. Set in 17th century France, it features the eponymous poet-swordsman with a misshapen nose but abundant panache who falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful Roxane. She, alas, loves another, the dashing Gascon soldier Christian de Neuvillette and Cyrano finds himself acting as the young suitor's ghost writer, pouring out exquisite love poems to win the day. This production uses Anthony Burgess's fine verse translation of Rostand's ever-popular play. Cyrano is played by Kenneth Branagh, Roxane by Jodhi May and Christian by Tom Hiddleston. They make the most not only of the passion and poetry and the famously moving conclusion, but also the humour which threads through the play.

Director: David Timson Engineer: Norman Goodman Producer: Nicolas Soames  (An Ukemi production for Radio 3.)  

[thehumming6ird]

Wallander: Firewall (2008)

[thehumming6ird]

Kenneth Branagh is said to have remarked that 2008 has been Tom Hiddleston's year. He should know: he has had a double helping. First in the sell-out production of Ivanov where Hiddleston was brilliant, alongside Branagh, as Lvov, the irritating doctor. And then again in Wallander, the three-part BBC series, where Hiddleston played a junior detective. This role involved a persistent, energetically suppressed reluctance to do the menial detective duties assigned to him. And watching Hiddleston react to Branagh's gloomy Swedish inspector was a pleasure in itself: he has an exceptionally expressive, often quizzical, face - even his eyebrows are capable of looking aspirational.

Tom is tall, fair and handsome - engaging and engaged (with his career). When I met him, I suggested that both roles, detective and doctor, involve being frustrated. And I wondered whether there might be a parallel with his situation as an actor - the longing for the defining role? He is far too smart to deny his appetite for work. But he points out that there has been more to his career than these keen wannabes. It was his performances as Cassio in Othello at the Donmar and Posthumous in a Cheek by Jowl Cymbeline that gave him the greatest thrill - and he would love to do more Shakespeare. This year, he also shone as a cocksure Etonian in Joanna Hogg's acclaimed debut film, Unrelated.

He was born in London. Aged seven, his family moved to a Cotswold village and when he was 12, his parents divorced. He went on to read classics at Cambridge rather than the nearby Oxford - partly, he says lightly, to dodge any difficulty about which parent to go to for Sunday lunch.

Before he got to Cambridge, he took part in an amateur production of Journey's End that went to the Edinburgh festival and won five stars from the Scotsman. "It was a life-changer to be involved in that show," he says. Soon afterwards, he was spotted by casting agent Gilly Poole in an undergraduate production of A Streetcar Named Desire and, by 2000, had talked his tutors into allowing him to miss most of his second term to act in a film of Nicholas Nickleby

His greatest fault as an actor is trying to do too much - on screen, in particular, he has had to learn to "do less". But I have the feeling that "doing less" will continue to be a challenge.

by Kate Kellaway, 21st December 2008