Hello.
I'm Tom Hiddleston, and I'm here to talk
about some essential Loki moments.
You were an innocent child.
No, you took me for a purpose.
What was it?
Even in the script, I knew this was an important scene.
It seemed to be the turning point for the character.
It was such a revelation for Loki,
such an emotional and profound reversal of fortune--
So I am no more than another stolen relic, locked up here
until you might have use of me.
--and a sense within me at the time of going, I've got
to step up to the plate here.
I've got to take a big swing at this.
I think that impatience-- he just needs to know.
And I don't know if it was a conscious choice
so much as something that just came out of me.
Tell me!
I want to know what you've done to Agent Barton.
I'd say I've expanded his mind.
We both knew it was a great scene.
And it was quite a long scene.
It was like, 4 or 5 pages, maybe.
We met up and just ran the lines.
We just ran them and ran them and ran them around.
Because we wanted to be so on top of the material
that we had space to play.
This is love, Agent Romanoff?
Love is for children.
I owe him a debt.
And it was such a well-written scene because it's almost
a game of chess.
And you think Loki's winning, but really, it's Black
Widow who's got the upper hand.
And she's outsmarted him.
So Banner, that's your play.
What?
Enough.
No more illusions.
I love that scene because when Thor comes down
to visit Loki in the dungeons, he has quite literally created
the illusion of being OK.
And Thor calls him on it.
I did not come here to share our grief.
Instead, I offer you the chance of a far richer sacrament.
Thor and Loki seem to exist at this moment.
They're at completely opposite ends of the spectrum.
And yet they have both somehow been united
by grief for their mother.
What makes you think you can trust me?
I don't.
Mother did.
- What? - Get help.
- No. - Come on.
You love it. - I hate it.
It's great. It works every time.
It's humiliating.
Do you have a better plan?
You know, it all came from Taika
Waititi's brilliant and inventive imagination.
Taika came in in the morning and said,
I think it'd be really fun if, instead of walking
into the room, you pretended it'd be like a game
that you played when you were kids.
Get help, please!
My brother he's dying.
Get help.
Help him.
And then, as we were working it out,
it was something completely improvised.
But it was an amazing--
I mean, it gives you such an insight into the way
that the Taika works.
Oh, classic.
I still hate it.
It's humiliating.
Well, not for me it's not.
The tesseract or your brother's head.
I assume you have a preference.
Oh, I do.
Two months before I started filming Thor: Ragnarok,
I knew what was going to happen at the beginning of Avengers:
Infinity War.
I found that very moving actually because I suppose
Loki's journey through the four movies and the first Avengers
is about the complexity of being an Odinson.
I, Loki, Prince of Asgard Odinson.
And it was just the fact, that he referred to himself
in that way in front of his brother
and tries to save his life, I found was a kind of really
touching way to go out.
And it kind of closed the book on all
of that trauma, the trauma of not
being a part of this family.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Those are some essential Loki moments.
Now you know what to watch.
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