Here are some of the prettiest photos I could find of Tom Hiddleston from the past few days. These are just extra pics from the Paris and Berlin photocalls. There was some kind of fan-event for Crimson Peak in Berlin last night, but we don’t have those photos (I don’t think there was a red carpet, actually). Anyway, Tom has a new interview with the Wall Street Journal. He chats about Crimson Peak and I Saw the Light mostly. While none of these quotes are amazeballs, he’s pretty charming here.
His inspiration for Crimson Peak: “We talked about Rochester in ‘Jane Eyre,’ we talked about Bluebeard, and this idea of the Byronic hero. There were archetypes we needed to present, to create expectations which we could subvert and confound. Guillermo and I were always trying to find the subtlety and the precision of that very complex psychology. He’s very trapped, struggling to free himself from the bonds of the past.”
Preparing for ISTL while working on CP: “There were weekends when I was filming ‘Crimson Peak’ when I could spend some time on the chord progressions of Hank Williams. Mercifully they’re quite simple melodically.”
Living with Rodney Crowell to prepare for ISTL: “He was my tutor in the ways of the blues. We would get up in the morning and make a bowl of porridge and start singing. We would sing for seven or eight hours a day.”
Singing “Your Cold Cold Heart” a cappella in the film: “Why can’t I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart….We wanted people to hear the words of that song and understand that the film is a portrait of a marriage, a fractious and turbulent relationship, out of which came these incredibly soulful songs.”
I know Tom is proud of ISTL, but most critics really didn’t like that movie and it has nothing to do with Tom. If anything, they said he did an admirable job with the material, but the film is sub-par. But I believe in Crimson Peak. Guillermo del Toro has so many die-hard fan-boys and I really do think CP is going to be a huge movie for Tom’s career. And yes… Rochester in Jane Eyre. I can actually see that. That’s the reference I’m getting from the trailers, that the creepy house is part of the drama, that a man is haunted by his past and it infects everything in his life.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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