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Tom Hiddleston on fame: I dont actually attach any significance to it

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If 2014 was the Year of Benedict Cumberbatch, I’m hoping that 2016 is the Year of Tom Hiddleston. We haven’t achieved Peak Hiddles yet, but maybe by the end of April? Because he still has to do more promotion for High Rise and The Night Manager in America. Speaking of High Rise, Tom just won a British National Film Award for Best Actor for his role. Those awards are like Britain’s People’s Choice, and “the people” get to vote. And so I think we can safely assume that the Dragonflies flooded the polls. There are a few other Hiddles stories out there, so enjoy:

Tommy and Ethan Hawke talk about musical bio-pics. Ethan Hawke plays Chet Baker in a new bio-pic and Tom is obviously talking about Hank Williams. This Time Mag video is actually why I’m always an Ethan Hawke Apologist – Ethan LOVES actors. He loves to talk to other actors about process and how they work. And Ethan just loves to talk – I’ve started to think of him as a wonderful gossip. Putting Ethan and Tom in a room could have ended badly, but it strangely works, mostly because Ethan loves to chat and you can see Tom turning off his need to be a performing, dancing, singing bear. I love this video.

Tom chats with Esquire. You can read the full piece here – it’s just a piece about I Saw the Light, and Tom is nice but not really noteworthy in it. He’s been working on a soundbyte during his American promotional tour and it’s been landing pretty well – he always says something about how Americans don’t realize how American films and music have a very far reach around the world. He’s been saying versions of that in nearly every interview, including this Esquire piece: “The thing Americans don’t realize is that the British and Europeans grow up watching American movies. So the soundtrack of America and the raw material of American culture was very exotic to me growing up, because it was foreign.”

Tom chats with The Verge. This one is also a good read, especially if you enjoy soaking up all of Tom’s words. He was especially chatty with The Verge, but again, he stays on-topic and there’s no major pull quote. He does talk about fame, saying: “I don’t actually attach any significance to it. And I should qualify that by saying, the only thing that matters to me is the work. Other people’s opinions of me are things I can’t control, and that’s all fame really is, is a collection of other people’s opinions.” Sigh… I miss the old Tommy.

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Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

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