#archipelago press

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Joanna Hogg and Tom Hiddleston on Archipelago:

‘Edward, desperately wants to break out of that mould that’s been created for him, and he’s created himself in a way… Edward is indecisive, he knows what he wants on the one hand but he’s not allowed to do those things. He’s at the opposite spectrum from Cynthia, but I think, in all of us exists contradictions.’

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Tom Hiddleston promoting Archipelago, March 2011

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Tom Hiddleston on filming Archipelago:

‘I think the hardest scene in the film that’s there was the scene in the restaurant where the partridge is sent back because it’s undercooked. Because I think, as a person, as Tom, I would never be as quiet as that. Probably to my own sisters, I would say, ‘Just eat the partridge and shut up.’ Like, ‘Get with the programme!’ I would probably be a bit more confrontational myself. And Joanna had instructed me before the scene, she said, “Whatever happens, you are not allowed to say anything, you have to let it happen. No matter how uncomfortable it gets, you literally have to sit there and take it.” And as an actor, I found it excruciating just to even be in the room.’