-You're on Broadway.
Congrats on the great reviews for this play.
I want to get to talking about that, but you walked
through Times Square to get to the theater,
and you ran into some of your Avenger friends.
-Yes, they resembled some of my Avengers friends.
-This is not really them? Wait. Let me see.
I think these might be really them.
Can we -- Can we zoom in? I just want to see.
-Yeah. That's definitely Tom Holland.
I think that's definitely Tom Holland.
-I can tell by his exposed thumb
that was coming through his glove there.
-You know, he travels with that suit.
He travels with that suit. -He really does. Yeah.
That was cool that they came out and supported you on Broadway.
I want to talk about the Disney Plus series "Loki."
-Yes. -You're getting own show.
-Unbelievable, yeah. -This is giant.
-This is -- It's happening. -I mean, come on. That's fun.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Thank you.
Thank you. Yeah, it's amazing. I never expected it.
You know, I auditioned for the first "Thor" film
ten years ago in 2009,
and I just thought I was auditioning for a movie.
You know, an interesting part in an interesting movie.
Back then, the Marvel Universe was only --
They'd just made "Iron Man,"
and I thought, "I'll, you know, have a go."
I didn't expect to be casted at all.
So I can't believe I've got my own show. So exciting.
We go into production next year,
and, um, that's about as much as I can tell you.
-Yeah, I was going to say. Yeah. I know the way Marvel plays it.
You're not allowed to tell me anything at all.
But you were telling me backstage that when you
auditioned for "Thor," you actually auditioned for Thor.
-I did. Yes, I did.
Basically at the time, they were, um --
They were looking for sort of less well-established actors
so that the audience didn't have an association.
They just wanted people to see these new characters,
these new actors.
And the agreement was,
if you're over 6'0" and you've got blond hair
and, you know, you can come and have a pop at it.
So I actually auditioned. I never auditioned for Loki.
I only ever auditioned for Thor, which is nuts.
-And how long did the audition process --
-It was about three months.
-Wow. So you thought for a second --
You go, "This is real. I could be Thor."
-I -- For a second. For a time. For a second, yeah.
-We have friends over at Marvel
that sent us the original audition footage of you.
[ Cheers and applause ]
This has never been shown. This has never been shown!
This has never been released. -Okay.
-Here's Tom Hiddleston auditioning for "Thor."
-And, remember.
You chose this.
For...
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Come on!
That's fantastic!
-Thank you very much. You really are too kind.
Um, I think we can all agree that they cast the right actor.
-Let's talk about "Betrayal."
This is -- Only two weeks left in this run.
-Yes. Two weeks left. We've done it over 200 times.
220, I think. -Wow.
[ Cheers and applause ] Fantastic.
-So we close on December the 8th
at the Jacobs Theatre on 45th Street.
-What is the story about? Could we --
-Yeah, loosely, yes.
I play a publisher called Robert.
And married to Emma, a gallerist.
And there's my best friend, Jerry,
who was best man at our wedding.
And Jerry and Emma have been having an affair.
[ Audience oohs ]
-"Betrayal."
-This is very sad, and it's also very funny.
And it's told in reverse order. And it's --
My costars are Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox.
And we've been doing it for a year, and it has been --
It's a masterpiece. It's Harold Pinter's masterpiece.
-I don't know how you -- I mean, you cry,
like, in this play, and you do this every play?
Do you cry every -- -Eight shows a week. Yeah.
We -- There's a -- I mean, it's called "Betrayal."
-Yes, I understand, yeah, but, I mean, you --
I would be like...
-Oh, no. I have seen -- I've seen you do your thing.
-You've seen my -- -I have seen you.
-You've seen me act?
-I think you're a fine actor, yeah.
-You're seeing the wrong person. Yeah, no, no.
-I'm sure you could do it. I'm sure you could.
-Could you cry on command,
like right now if I said please cry for us?
-Oh, God. Okay. I could try.
[ Cheers and applause ]
You know, it depends, um --
-Do you want me to set you up? -Yeah, you know.
You have to think about, what are we talking about?
-All right. I'll do it with you. Am I going to make you laugh?
This is how I act.
-Let's see what we get to. -All right.
-Here we go.
Yeah. Jimmy, is everything okay?
-Yeah, I guess so.
I'm just -- I just can't --
Baby Yoda is so cute.
[ Laughter ]
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-I, uh...
I just, um...
♪♪
Jimmy, the thing -- the thing about Baby --
[ Sighs ]
[ Laughter ]
The t-thing about Baby Yoda is that, um...
♪♪
I, uh...
I-I just love him.
-Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
That is how you do it right there!
Oh, my gosh! Pro! Tom Hiddleston, everybody!