ARGH THE AVENGERS ASSEMBLE UK PREMIERE WAS AMAZING. I have too many feels. Here’s our little Loki’s Army!
Let’s end this night/morning on a happy note, yes? It actually was a pretty fun day, and our little group was fabulous. And also A LOKI COSPLAYER MADE OF AWESOME spotted us and said hello and we took pictures. So much geeky win. :’)
Undoubtedly you’re all seeing the London premiere pictures after tonight. I wish I had a few of my own, but I was too busy holding up this Loki’s Army sign we painstakingly made so he could see it and know that there were people there who weren’t just looking forward to seeing RDJ in person….
I’m sad to hear that it was overall not a great experience for you regarding Tom, and I’m sort of hoping that we’re all just reading too much into this. I don’t think he was DELIBERATELY turning his back on you guys tho. It may be that he’s been told by whoever to refrain from spending that much time with the fans anymore or something, but RDJ just doesn’t give a rat’s ass what the handlers think. I’m not trying to paint Tom flawless again, but we all know things like this happen, where the handlers and the publicists have had enough of the celebrities having fun with the fans because it DOES make their job harder. I’ve heard similar stories around as well. That, and maybe all the flying has made Tom a little tired or jetlagged already and just wanted to settle in. Or maybe he’s got something bigger in the works, idk, that’s a left-field kind of thought. But I definitely understand where you’re coming from, the disappointment after being treated so coldly when you took the effort to go see him and show him your support. Hopefully this doesn’t happen to anyone else who might go to see him at the premieres, but if it does, then we’ll know something’s up. We COULD reach him on Twitter, you know, maybe let him know about these grievances, I’m sure he could explain.
Being told by handlers to not spend as much time with the fans is actually highly likely, I do agree. After all, he was the most popular cast member there, and he could’ve stolen everyone else’s thunder. Sure, I can believe that; what studio wants Loki to be the most popular character in the Avengers premiere? Surely it’s like we’re missing the point of the movie? (Although to this I have to counter with: it’s London, and he’s from here, and he should at least be allowed to enjoy the popularity he’s garnered in his own home town and country. Js.)
Jetlag is also plausible. Idk, I hope that’s all there is to it. I really do.
Hopefully this doesn’t happen to anyone else who might go to see him at the premieres, but if it does, then we’ll know something’s up.
THIS! Idk if he even really looks at his mentions past a brief glance, but getting through to him on Twitter is perchance possible. I highly doubt anything would come of trying to pester him though. It all comes down to his own decisions.
[also, thank you for this level-headed comment :’) I honestly expected to be bashed from left and right.]
Undoubtedly you’re all seeing the London premiere pictures after tonight. I wish I had a few of my own, but I was too busy holding up this Loki’s Army sign we painstakingly made so he could see it and know that there were people there who weren’t just looking forward to seeing RDJ in person. There were people there who went to see him. And yet he never even cast a single glance towards our entire section, even when he rode the escalator up to the cinema right across from us. He actually turned his back on us. I was left speechless.
It was like he was making a point. Never before has he seemed so cool and methodical, almost calculating. I might be reading too much into this, but throughout the evening he felt different. Somehow, he isn’t the Tom we all knew and loved from the beginning. There’s been a silent shift sometime since the Avengers tour began; gone is the power stance and the goofy smile from his pictures, gone is the endless energy with which he met his fans. Sure, he signed a few things, and took a few pictures with fans, but only the ones standing strategically close to the stage and the cameras. The ones standing further back, the ones with the Loki’s Army signs and the hand-painted flags and the Kermit dolls, he passed by with nary a glance, except for a promise to come back, which he later broke to go hang out idly by the stage and watch others be interviewed.
Now, before the defensive “but he was busy giving interviews!” and “he just didn’t look YOUR way, stop being a self-obsessed drama queen” comments begin, let me just say this: I didn’t go there to get an autograph, or to talk to him, or to hog his time and attention from anyone else more worthy than me, like people who spent three weeks painting a flag with Loki’s face on it, or people who traveled all the way from France to see him. All we wanted was a glance of acknowledgement, a smile, an indistinct wave in our direction. A vague ‘thank you’ for our support. We’d have been perfectly happy with just that. But not only did he not wave or smile at us, he never even looked.We stood right behind him as the photographers snapped his pictures; called his name as he walked away (and caught the attention of Luke, his publicist, but not his own); and when the premiere was over and the cast was escorted up the escalator into the cinema, he was across the hall from us. Instead of looking down at the crowd, he talked to Scarlett Johansson and actually turned his back on us. All evening, he never shot us one look. And we were there for him.
This here is the difference between him and the man of the hour, RDJ, for whom most of the spectators had assembled. RDJ stood at the same spot as his pictures were taken, but he constantly kept looking towards the fans behind him, pulling faces, striking a pose. Later he even came back after his interviews were done and signed people’s stuff. He took the time and the effort to extend a simple hello, a thank you, a momentary pause for a picture, not to mention incessantly waving at all the Iron Man fans. This simple gesture can mean the world to some people, and RDJ knows this. Signing autographs, waving at fans, it comes with the package of being a celebrity, an A-list actor. If you want the success, the fame, the glory and the paycheck, you have to slap on your A-game face and spend an hour being everyone’s favourite superhero.
Tom evidently knows this too. On this Avengers tour, he’s shown he knows how important it is to look dapper for the photographers, to say the right things at the interviews, to make a couple of adorable gestures in front of the cameras. Yet on the day his big movie premiers in London, his own home town, with him the only Brit on the Avengers cast, he ignores the Loki fans huddled in the corner of the hall, having already made a promise to come back and talk to some of them, in favour of wasting the evening standing in front of the cameras and looking pretty.
It’s not like he didn’t have the time to come wave at us or sign a couple of papers; he could’ve just turned around while his pictures were taken and given us a thumbs up, or something - he wholeheartedly didn’t seem to want to acknowledge we were there. Maybe his usual goofy excitedness wasn’t deemed appropriate for this kind of event; maybe he was advised against doing what he usually does in light of keeping his appearances on the dapper and elegant side; maybe it’s all part of a new image Luke might be trying to push. He might even feel overwhelmed with all this premiere shenanigans day after day after day. I get that. But as an actor with such a huge following, one of his duties is to be upstanding to his fans. And that he was definitely not tonight.
TL;DR: I don’t doubt his brilliance as an actor, his exuberance at life and everything that is beautiful, or his incredible and unparalleled intellectual propensity. However, the way he treated his fans tonight was simply not right, and it definitely made no sense. Suffice it to say I lost a little bit of faith in him tonight, and might refrain from tagging him as a flawless human being, at least for a little while. Perhaps he isn’t as flawless as we make him out to be.
HE DIDN’T EVEN LOOK AT US ;____; In fact, he turned his back on us on several occasions, like he was making a point of not looking at our entire section, which included us and also some girls from France who had Kermit dolls and a hand-drawn Loki flag that took them 3 weeks to make. I found that… incredibly unlike him.
But anyway. LOKI PRIDE! and gjfkdgjkfl thank you so humbly for your compliment on my cosplays <333
From tonight’s Avengers premiere in London. I don’t have everyone’s tumblr right now but L to R: Shaun (@smbaber), Meg (@megsauce/littlemargaret), me, Catherine (@biohazard_cat), Wethrin (@eyesthatiown/theprophetwethrin).
The Team Loki shirts were designed by me & Wethrin while Catherine made the half-moon design from Loki’s costume, and the Loki’s Army sign was made by all of us while waiting for the premiere. We also made Tom Hiddleston a card which we never got to give him because he never even walked by our section. But more on that later.
