“As Loki, for example, it was always about how do I best express this mischief and vulnerability at the same time? There’s a scene in the first Thor film where Loki finds out that he’s been adopted for the first time, and it’s just a two hander with myself and Sir Anthony Hopkins. But it was quite a vulnerable scene, and Patrick Doyle scored the picture beautifully, and every time Loki is on screen it’s all minor, it sounds duplicitous somehow. That even his raw vulnerability sounds like it has a side to it which contrasts the redemptive major key of Thor’s theme. It’s so fascinating how the music becomes the prism through which the emotional light is shone. There’s a piece, actually, that I used to listen to called Mind Heist by Zach Hemsey, I don’t know if you’ve ever come across it, it has a kind of ticking clock momentum which always reminded me of the speed of his mind. An extraordinary kind of grandiose brass and percussion, which, it just feels immediately epic.” - Tom Hiddleston, Only Artists Series 7, Actor Tom Hiddleston talks to composer Nicholas Britell.
