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one of the great things tom of course about

writing about Theatre in London as I do is seeing the sorta

beginnings the people's careers and their careers developing all sorts of

ways

as jurors obviously has but it seems like most British actors begin

you're pretty much most that the major ones I'm

and then they do it don't go on to cinema when you work in the theater

early on what did you think about a film career to date seem totally remote

or you always buying your teacher had some a/c

gosh I'm it's so hard to

retroactively go back

I went to drama school ready to train to be a theater actor

because I knew that that drama school really gave you tools

four states Croft that you needed I thought

am and it gave you a kind of physical

rigor and professionalism in the way of attacking

different texts and characters in and methodologies and I wanted seven mas

myself n

learning accents and states fighting

and see everything from 6 p-8 a Miller to Tennessee Williams

ways wonderful am kinda the weather theater in

when I started in the theater seem very remote this movie world seem like you

have to get

is like being picked to play for Manchester United or Real Madrid

possible you know like am it and it seemed very

you know I would I would be in productions

like the ones you saw I'm at the Donmar or whatever and

and I don't listen for films and he was a great audition

not this time my god okay and

and i actually I had a I started making a list I wanted to say to make a list of

Directors I'm excited to get them from it man

and I had stopped making the list and because I

would never pick an effect have and

people would always call my agent and say you know tom's

terrific a whose is like became same in the play

I'm there was always this question to finance and funding needed

you know it just seems I was like well forget it am it's never gonna happen

and then I kind of am Spurs I kinda broke my own rules a bit

and I became fascinated by I was very lucky in the theater to work with them

very established film names I suppose

I worked with them Ewan McGregor and two Italian

as your foreign a feller and then I at on television thing with that dainty

dance

and them obviously with kenneth browner and and

I found their stories are quite interesting

and based they kinda demystified the whole thing for me

they they serve said I don't listen to what they tell you know it's nonsense

you know

am and there was a received wisdom said in my generation

that to go to America and try and stop

the film career was you had to go off the back at some enormous home-grown

success like

I'm ice like UN in Trainspotting

for example so where so that's the I was signed by

am an agent in Los Angeles who came to see a fellow

and that never happens and LA agent comes to see

shakespeare and goes that like it looks good okay

and I

and I said it took upon and when I was a LAN

and and just when with an open mind and an open heart and

them I got lucky I and distressed me of course

low-key does have a theatrical thread because Thor was directed

by somebody with who YouTube peered on-screen many times

and actually on stage yeah kinda brenna

and your wonderful performance in circle serve on a from the west and

when you were doing play with with can

was he sort of taking backstage going actually the school blockbuster public

up

shut quite like you to do when you finish this China staff truly truly

truly

when when it was announced that he was directing the film

in the interval I run up to his dressing room

with an enormous empty water cooler

I'm pretending it was for

the hammer of Thor he in costume

aunts hair and you got the job right yeah I brought it because it was so in

my own mind it was so

outrageously I'm on available

you know it was just not gonna there was no way I was going to be considered

and then so happened I was talking to my

LA agent to see me a fellow it off to them

and I was in Los Angeles kinda nearly around just seducing

was there and he was that to any guy said he asked me to come in addition

for the role offshore because at that time

i misses an amazing character anyway because

it's like on one level Chris Hemsworth you end up getting and who is

monumental in the rock have to say and his dear friend

so this absolutely no bad blood between the two he p.m.

requires such physical stature but also requires a great actor

who can go from arrogance to phone ability to

am but you can also sell the action a big blockbuster in

you know and so they were really didn't know

what they wanted so they were looking at everybody and damn

I was over six for and blonde so I passed muster there

and I'll addition and eventually said got down to the wire in the produces

said night skies kinda so right

like should put him in the film somewhere in and you I said say

publicly I'm pleased to be able to say I'm

that I II kenneth browner an enormous

desecrated just sigh I'm so much because

because the businesses so often

but thats I did it that the big movie business not the art

not the peeps at the creative people but that the people with the

dollars this so scared investing in something that's you know I'm not gonna

work in

and M and can was able to say to

produces on a film the cost a lot of money Tom

well bike he's got it don't worry im

and and and to do that it's just an amazing thing to do for young actor like

everyone needs a break and like I've said they were many many

people there's a long list of people who didn't give it to me and I ever started

to think that it

you know it was kinda gonna happen person had a completely different

physical transformation to do

the for sequencing your currently shooting the third one

in the series its for I'm so proud to be in that film

because that's part of me I think this pop art have any actor

with basically still a five-year-old child and am

I E grew up watching things like Christopher Reeve as Superman

and them Harrison Ford in indiana Jones and

and in app superheroes its biggest its toilets

it's a toy box and and I'm

I love playing that character because

he's actually really complex for

a super here for this a supervillain and II

part of the appeal is is is is to do with the

physical transformation because I've never wanted to be in that kinda threads

into what we were saying about Britishness

I've never wanted to be boxed in by

by it a type of character that I always play

I find I would get I would term

I just would find it very am interesting and I don't think anyone else would

and part of the reason I'm an actor is I'm interested in

indifferent shades of the truth

indifferent parts have life and how quite often

am where like the human race each is bound together by

by a certain unity in things and and

acting in whatever you're in is about excavating

the things that make us all the same birth death

love grief loss loneliness

gratitude generosity humor solitude I'm

and all those things exists in every

in every story anytime and anyplace

and that's the joy for me sorry and

a joint for me if of of playing different people from different times

in different costumes at different hair color and

you know and different shades is that whether it's the DPC

or ivanoff or I'm the Avengers

ago still kinda digging around in

humanity and the fun stuff

is that United fences I'm you get to

fly through the air and and and be

beaten almost to a pulp by The Incredible Hulk

and

would say not many accident and does not match oh yeah exactly what happened in

Sec off and I'll update you know I

it I loved the fact that time I love the taking this picture

I mean I'm your am I've got blonde hair I was born in London

and I you know it was never in my wildest dreams thought that I would be

playing

the Norse god of mischief I'm

come down to I'm to

tyrannized the human race and takeover

the planet and and because I've got some

you know daddy issues hits

and some brother issues and Sam

and i were quite thrown you know and

you know but also in the in a film like that which is

which is so beautifully tied together actually it's as you very tightly

written

and it's very entertaining very funny I got to work with people like

Robert Downey junior and and somehow Jackson

know it's a great casa people out for look

me what pic you shape it he said what Meyer to be longer shorter

more you know breast plate boots how do you get to the look

well I'm I'm starting to I had a long time initially before the first or film

I simply started with the great thing about the character is actually ancient

he is possible Norse mythology which goes back

s as far if not for that and the greco-roman

quality and your care look at turns up in Scandinavian Mets

everywhere he was like am Diane I sizzle backers he was

he was the spirit who am

people were afraid of you know he was the monster the parents

told their children about tonight's am

and he after four sorry for

have he heat but it's fascinating you read the Norse myths and you realize

that there's actually a huge amount if

if material there and then what Stan Lee and Jack Kirby did when they started

drawing the Marvel Comics in the sixties

is that when invented for and low key in Odin

they borrowing and very honestly kind of

stealing from I'm this this

pantheon of Norse gods and then so I read all the comics &

and it starts off being much sillier than

than them even i'd I dyed it in in the first runs the comics low-key comes down

anytime the whole street ive

cars in New York and ice cream I'm because he thinks it's funny

and it is kinda its I have

and any changes that you know he looks very much like a comic book character

and so there was a thing of trying to be true to the look at the comic book

because that's what we're doing is we're giving

you never making a film of a comic but also trying to make its

palatable to a regular film going audience

he just like movies and and but making it a real story about

January about father and two sons and something that people could connect to

am so can I talked about this experience references

fathers and sons and brothers and units shot through with

with all that stuff and then in terms of creating the look we we just talked

about it and said

know how do we make something that's both Rico

and kind if am

athletic and am

so that majestic and also dock

and but also practical you know cuz you have to get through the day and

and and fighting it so has to move so it's a very complicated

said it's an aria and then as the americans have this work which i think

is kinda untranslatable

which is badass for him to

he's a bad as badass as a ESO like and says Saunders you've been a

the model produces a great cuz they go you know Tom Conti want what you look

like maybe a movie we want you to be able to comment

you basically what you look awesome and badass

you go okay and then he said experiments and it's like it's almost like a mosque

it's like

like any character you need a mosque through which to

project that particular truth locus truth is one of