Films > Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) > Production Stills

Cannes has released four new production stills from Only Lovers Left Alive!

Tom Hiddleston, the British actor who has become a global star thanks to his performances as Loki in Thor and Avengers Assembler, will return to the stage at London’s tiny Donmar Warehouse in this autumn’s production of Coriolanus.

Taking the role of the autocratic Roman general in one of Shakespeare’s most visceral tragedies is a homecoming for Hiddleston in more ways than one since he made his name in Shakespeare, breaking through in Cheek by Jowl’s production of Cymbeline and giving a brilliant performance as Cassio in the Donmar’s own production of Othello in 2007. He more recently starred as Henry V in BBC Two’s 2012 award-winning Shakespearean adaptation, The Hollow Crown.
The new production of Coriolanus will be directed by the Donmar’s artistic director Josie Rourke, and will be broadcast live into cinemas on 30 January 2014 in partnership with National Theatre Live. It also features Mark Gatiss as Menenius.
In a strong autumn season, Call the Midwife star Jessica Raine will star in a revival of Arnold Wesker’s Roots, playing working class farm girl Beattie Bryant in the play, which is set in rural Norfolk in 1958 and will be directed by James Macdonald.

The season opens with a new play by Nick Payne, The Same Deep Water As Me, directed by John Crowley. Payne, who wrote the prize winning Constellations, has based the production around a pair of personal injury laywers from Luton. The cast includes Olivier award winner Nigel Lindsay, Daniel Mays and Monica Dolan.

Source: Telegraph.Co.Uk

The official Cannes website has posted sneak peeks of Only Lovers Left Alive. Links below.

Videos:
Sneak Peek 01
Sneak Peek 2

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Only Lovers Left Alive was recently added to the Cannes Film Festival! The film is scheduled to be shown on May 25th.

Source: Cannes Film Festival

Public Appearances > 2013 > 2013 The Laurence Olivier Awards

Public Appearances > 2013 > 2013 The Laurence Olivier Awards – Show

Public Appearances > 2013 > 2013 The Laurence Olivier Awards – Press Room

As announced Tom is a presenter at tonight’s Olivier Awards!

Public Appearances > 2013 > Los Angeles Premiere of ‘Iron Man 3′

Public Appearances > 2013 > Afterparty for ‘Iron Man 3′

Tom was in attendance for last night’s Iron Man 3 premiere in Los Angeles. He was also spotted at the afterparty!

Studio Photoshoots > Empire Awards 2013 Portraits

Empire has released their 2013 portraits, and Tom is featured!

As Loki in Thor and The Avengers, he has been responsible for one of the finest celluloid villains in recent memory. But when he’s not antagonising superheroes, Tom Hiddleston is a tireless charity worker. When ShortList phoned the 32-year-old, he was midway through Unicef’s ‘Live Below The Line’ challenge, surviving on £1 per day for a week to get a glimpse of the poverty afflicting billions across the planet.

How’s the challenge going?

It’s been tough but it’s taught me humility. One-billion children in the world live on less than £1 every day of their lives, so that’s made me incredibly appreciative of every crumb I get.

Have you ever had to endure anything similar to this challenge before? Any ‘struggling actor’ period where you were living on Pot Noodles?

Super Noodles, actually [laughs]. I lived in a hostel for a short time when I was at Rada. It wasn’t great, but it was luxury compared to the poverty of some children.

From the photos of the trip, we see you enjoyed a kick-about with the kids…

I did, though they quickly realised I wasn’t Lionel Messi or David Beckham.

Have you managed to rope any Hollywood stars into following the sport?

Chris Evans told me how good the US team was after their 2010 World Cup run, all the while dressed head to toe as Captain America.

Yourself, Benedict Cumberbatch and Eddie Redmayne are flying the flag for British high society in Hollywood. All pals?

Benedict’s a dear friend – I was chatting with him this morning, mainly to grill him for information on the new Star Trek film, not that he told me anything. Eddie and I are friends, too. We went to Koreatown for karaoke. He has the voice of an angel.

Can you hold a note?

I’m told that when I sing in the car I sound like a cat being sick.

What can you tell us about the latest Thor film?

All I can tell you is it goes to other worlds and Christopher Eccleston is Malekith, Lord Of The Dark Elves Of Svartalfheim, who fans of the comic books love to hate.

You asked Chris Hemsworth to punch you for real during filming. Did it hurt?

It did, but just as a camera captures the truth, it captures falsities and sometimes I take one for the team. It was the same for the cavalry charge in War Horse. If I’d fallen it would’ve been the end, but it brought me closer to my character.

Do you get any crazy fan mail from Loki obsessives?

Lots, mostly personal fan art… very personal. There’s a moment in Thor where I jump on a spear lodged in the ground, and kick Chris Hemsworth in the chest, and some people have seen this as emblematic of my hidden talent as a pole dancer. So I get lots of pictures of me in character, exotic dancing.

Are you pining to play a hero now?

Sure, in fact my next role is playing war photographer Robert Capa in a film about his life. I see his life in heroic terms: a Hungarian kicked out of Hungary for writing against fascism, kicked out of Germany for being Jewish.

How was working with Woody Allen in Midnight In Paris?

I didn’t know it was a time- travel film until I arrived on set. Woody wrote me a letter, about four lines long, asking me to play F Scott Fitzgerald, and attached pages with my lines. I thought the whole film was set in the Twenties. So I’m dressed up in costume when I meet Owen Wilson, who I assume isn’t in costume yet. I ask what writer he’s playing, and he replies [freakishly good impression] “No, man, I’m from the future.”

You’ve just finished filming a Jim Jarmusch vampire film, alongside Tilda Swinton. Is she as intense as she seems?

The opposite. She’s so fun, just a hoot. I’d be in the make-up chair every morning while she showed me stupid YouTube videos. She introduced me to Gangnam Style. Seriously, she was into K-pop long before anyone else. She threw a party for me. Tilda Swinton on the dance floor is a force of nature. She knows how to get down.

Take the Live Below The Line Challenge for Unicef UK 29 Apr-3 May; livebelowtheline.co.uk/unicef

Films > Thor: The Dark World (2013) > Thor: The Dark World Trailer UK

Marvel UK has released the UK trailer for Thor: The Dark World, and yes we finally get our first glimpse of Loki!