Tom Hiddleston

[Neurochick]

Oct 14, 2016 18:31:00 GMT -4 ladyboy said:

I didn't love the Night Manager; the plot was weak, and I thought Hiddleston was miscast as a "tough guy". He just screams toffee Etonian to me, who thinks it's so subversive to wear a Ramones shirt.

I agree. Those scenes where he was supposed to be tough were laughable.

[chiqui]

Watched an ep of The Night Manager last night, was very impressed! Not so much with Hiddleston, though. He's one of those actors like Tobey Magquire to me, he's fine when you watch him, but he's so much on the razor's edge of disbelief that when, later, you think about what you've watched, you think, "They could have gotten someone better." He's a little repulsive, actually. I was rooting way more for Hugh Laurie.

"Bloodless." That's the best way to describe him. Plus he has those Michael Douglas lizard eyes.

Everyone's probably forgotten it by now, but his "dalliance" with Taylor Swift makes no sense and total sense. Total sense because they are both sexless and passionless. No sense because they are so different.

[waytoocheerful]

His speech last night was was the speech version of an, "I love me!" wall. Self-absorbed is not a good look on anyone, at any time, but especially not when talking about yourself by introducing it with anything involving a humanitarian crisis.

[Ladybug]

The audience reactions were the best part.

[technicolor]

With both this and the Taylor Swift stuff, my question is: Where are his PR people and why don't they stop him? I mean, I'd get it if he had addiction issues etc. or was unmanageable in other ways (think Russel Crowe...), then you just shrug your shoulders and do damage control. But he just seems extremely try-hard and not very self-aware, not unreasonable. Why is no one telling him that these are bad choices that may do damage to his career?

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Why are he and Redmayne so extra about everything? Cumberbatch is downright chilled next to those two.

And to imagine that I used to like Tom so much....*shakes head* What happened, Tom?!

[technicolor]

Jan 9, 2017 10:10:36 GMT -4 @solly79 said:

Why are he and Redmayne so extra about everything? Cumberbatch is downright chilled next to those two.

And to imagine that I sued to like Tom so much....*shakes head* What happened, Tom?!

Tbh, the Cumberbatch example is why I'm asking why no one is staging an intervention with Hiddleston. Around the time he was nominated for that Oscar, Cumberbatch was everywhere and was making a bit of a nuisance of himself. But clearly, he and his people realized that if he kept on like this, he'd have a Hathaway-style backlash on his hands. Once it became clear that he had no chance against Redmayne in the Oscar race, he drastically cut down on the campaigning. And after the Oscars that year, he went away. He's been very careful about media exposure ever since. IMO Cumberbatch has better judgement about his career in general, compared to Hiddleston, but in that instance the thinking process and shift in press management was pretty much a no-brainer to prevent backlash.

It's a no-brainer that Hiddleston shouldn't be doing...the sort of cringeworthy stuff he's been doing in the last few months.

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I agree to an extent with what you say about Cumberbatch during his Oscar campaign. Yet I think (and maybe that's just me being a fan) that he at least has a genuine sense of humor about himself and the silly things he sometimes does. Both Eddie and Tom seem to lack any self-awareness. I don't buy Eddie's faux-humility-act for one second. Boy hustled harder than anyone for his Oscar. And Tom is just desperation personified at this point.

[Ginger]

I don't think Cumberbatch or Redmayne have come anywhere near Hiddleston in terms of embarrassing behavior. Their Oscar campaigning and general extra-ness have always remained in the realm of the appropriate.

Hiddleston got cringeworthy right around the time he did a lengthy and terrible Robert DeNiro impression TO Robert DeNiro on television. And it seems there is no going back after the tone-deaf Taylor Swift relationship.

The Hiddlestans complain about him having an amateurish publicist, but stans always complain about that, so...

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It pains me as a Tom fan that the past year has happened. Stop trying so damn hard man! Cumberbatch - get in there and take that dude for a beer and ask him WTF!? I've watched friends do super embarrassing and cringe-worthy stuff and it is painful. On a global scale it must be brutal.

My Redmayne hate is intense. I just can't with that guy. I can't even fully explain it, but that's for another thread I guess.