What Co-Stars and Colleagues have said about Tom Hiddleston:
He's prepared and that's important for me. He's open to what the other actors are doing, very complementary to the other talent around him. A lot of actors are like blank pages: you write on them and nothing happens. Tom is very responsive.
Tom is my absolute hero, she giggles. He's clinically enthusiastic. Doing a scene with him is like playing tennis with Venus Williams. He's just always there to hit the ball back no matter which direction it's coming from. He's got a powerful serve!
Tom is just so, so awesome. He’s one of the great people to work with. He’s so fun and funny and smart and talented and he’s just phenomenal.
I think he’s an incredible actor. He’s a brilliant man, you know. I think to be a great actor like him you have to be pretty smart, you have to know your stuff, you have to have a good penetrating mind and I think that’s what he’s got.
He’s such a lovely happy puppy, a tall puppy
Tom never stops running. Before work, after work, during work. Every time someone yawns, or scratches their arse, the crew leaks a little energy — Tom’s the one who tops it up... he’s much brighter than a good-looking man ought to be.
He’s a generous spirit.. As an actor, he always says, ‘you don’t think about yourself. You think about who’s in front of you. You’re trying to get them to respond.’ He’s a deeply kind person.
He understood all my references, to English rock ’n’ roll in the ’60s, to Hamlet. His character is very sophisticated, which he also is, but I also wanted him to have an animalistic quality, which he found. You could throw anything at him, he would incorporate it.
Tom is just wonderful. He's got a period face. He was wonderful in Thor, as well. [Laughs.] He's just very alive and sexy and passionate. He's very bright, really smart and really easygoing. We had a really easy rapport. We just clicked.
Tom has a timeless leading man quality, he seems both vulnerable and magnetic, he is uncommonly intelligent and fluent when discussing all literary implications or mythological roots of a character — a dream of a collaborator.