[ SECRET POST #4398 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4398 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Am I the only one utterly unsurprised by this news??? Tom Hiddleson is a film actor, and at least in the US, going to TV is often seen as going backwards. He's also aging, and having him in his own series set after Endgame doesn't make sense - he'd continue in the movies, logically, or he's really really dead.

As long as the cast young!Loki well, I'm good with it.

[(Anonymous)]

Is Hiddleston actually a Serious Film Actor? I mean, does he want to be, is he still? Since 2015, he's done 3 MCU movies, a King Kong movie, and a voice role in an animated movie. And he's also done TV work over the period (the Le Carre thing he was in). So IDK it doesn't seem implausible that he'd do a Marvel TV thing, it would depend on how serious the project was.

[(Anonymous)]

He rocked three movie-length episodes of The Hollow Crown, and it doesn't get much more serious than Shakespeare. Also, the Hank Williams biopic.

[(Anonymous)]

And there’s his stage work and the fact he’s worked with a lot of prestigious directors like Guillermo Del Toro, Ben Wheatley, Kenneth Branagh and Jim Jarmusch. I’d say he’s considered more of a serious British actor who takes the occasional Hollywood pay check. The reasons for his post 2015 career might be more about the backlash against him than a career choice.

[(Anonymous)]

Going from movies to TV is no longer going backwards if it's ~*Prestige Television*~ and not a regular show, and even a regular show is not considered a step down for actors with a history of regular TV roles but who have done some movies. Not everyone "graduates" from TV to movies or is an "I only do theater" person, but they continue to do both/all. It's unlikely a Loki series would ever be considered Prestige Television, no matter how good it could turn out to be, but on the other hand I couldn't say how Hiddleston feels about doing TV. At the end of the day, an acting role is a job and actors can pursue or decline jobs as they wish, and they will have a variety of different reasons for their decisions that may not be obvious to audiences.

[greghousesgf]

this. The idea that movies are somehow superior to TV is pretty outdated.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, as soon as I heard about the show I figured they would recast unless it was like a really short miniseries.

[(Anonymous)]

Nope. That used to be true, but the lines between film and TV are very blurred these days. Film has gotten rather conservative in terms of wanting low risk projects, while TV has gotten more daring. The term "prestige TV" is a thing, and plenty of people understand that getting on board the superhero bandwagon means $$$$$. And remember, Hiddleston's other highly acclaimed role was The Night Manager, which is TV, not film.

Also keep in mind that the British aren't as snobby as Americans are about the supposed line between TV and film. (And as previously noted, Americans aren't as picky about this as they used to be, with good reason.) As a working actor, you do TV, you do film, you do theater, etc. There's no "go into films and avoid TV forever".

[sparklywalls]

Definitely true regarding your snobby comment imo. Most British actors start out on TV first and then get a breakthrough film role. Hiddleston would definitely fit this pattern, though he also has his theatre stuff (and I feel like theatre is probably his favourite) - British actors who have been in film will go back to TV quite happily more often than not. And continue to switch between the two. Or three if they do the stage as well.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. I'm not a Brit, but just looking at their well known actors you can see that people switch back and forth between all three mediums without a second thought. There doesn't seem to be any stigma about it, and in the U.S., there's increasingly little stigma about the practice, too. Times have changed.

[(Anonymous)]

It's true that prestige TV is a thing, but at the same time, let's be honest, the Marvel streaming-only Loki show probably is not going to be anywhere close to "prestige TV" in any meaningful sense

[(Anonymous)]

Sure, but the anon I responded to was speaking in general terms about going from movies to TV, which is easily refuted. And secondly... I don't know, to be honest. Remember, before Netflix became a huge thing, landing a role on a Netflix-only streaming show wasn't considered a prize, either. This series might not be prestigious at all, but you can't discount the reach Disney's streaming service will have or the money involved, nor can you predict that it won't turn out to be bigger than expected.

Somebody had better tell actors this.

[(Anonymous)]

Ben Whishaw keeps going back to TV. And there's Michael Douglas and Julia Roberts. Steve Carell is going to do something called Space Force. Chris Pine, Don Cheadle, and Idris Elba have all seemed to have missed this memo, too.

Re: Somebody had better tell actors this.

[(Anonymous)]

Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Amy Adams... the list goes on.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, what everyone else said. You're working off some pretty old attitudes about film vs. television that no longer apply. Hiddleston being British also changes things. Plenty of British actors move between film and television all the time and don't consider it anything to be ashamed of, because it isn't.