Marvel Movie Universe: Tom Hiddleston Wrote Joss Whedon Am Ecstatic Letter After Reading 'The Avengers' Script [VIDEO]
History has shown that The Avengers went on to become one of the highest grossing films of all-time, but when it was in the beginning stages, it was still bringing immense joy to those reading the script -- or at least for Tom Hiddleston.
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Playing the film's villain, Loki, was a joy for Hiddleston and while he consistently gives the more popular performances in any Marvel movie, it seemed like he was more excited than any of us when he first saw the script for The Avengers. In return, he wrote a letter to writer/director Joss Whedon, which was published in Business Insider.
"I am so excited I can hardly speak. The first time I read it I grabbed at it like Charlie Bucket snatching for a golden ticket somewhere behind the chocolate in the wrapper of a Wonka Bar. I didn't know where to start," Hiddleston wrote.
"Like a classic actor I jumped in looking for LOKI on every page, jumping back and forth, reading words in no particular order, utterances imprinting themselves like flash-cuts of newspaper headlines in my mind."
He went on to talk about how he saw the character of Loki in Whedon's eyes.
"I love how throughout you continue to put Loki on some kind of pedestal of regal magnificence and then consistently tear him down. He gets battered, punched, blasted, side-swiped, roared at, sent tumbling on his back, and every time he gets back up smiling, wickedly, never for a second losing his eloquence, style, wit, self-aggrandisement or grandeur, and you never send him up or deny him his real intelligence," Hiddleston continued.
"That he loves to make an entrance; that he has a taste for the grand gesture, the big speech, the spectacle. I might be biased, but I do feel as though you have written me the coolest part."
Whedon responded with a short letter of his own and was humbled by Hiddleston's response.
"Tom, this is one of those emails you keep forever. Thanks so much. It's more articulate (and possibly longer) than the script," Whedon wrote.
"I couldn't be more pleased at your reaction, but I'll also tell you I'm still working on it ... Thank you again. I'm so glad you're pleased. Absurd fun to ensue."
