Despite his demise in Avengers: Infinity War, it seems you can’t keep a good trickster down as Tom Hiddleston reprises his role as the God of Mischief for Marvel Studios’ Loki series, where we’ll pick up with the alternate – and still evil – Loki we saw escaping from the Battle of new York with the Tesseract in Avengers: Endgame.
And, ahead of its premiere on Disney+ this June, Hiddleston has been chatting to Empire Magazine about the series and its themes, stating that the show is ultimately about “identity”.
“I want to preserve the freshness of the show for when it emerges, but something to think about is the [show’s] logo, which seems to refresh and restore,” states Hiddleston. “The font of how Loki is spelled out seems to keep changing shape. Loki is the quintessential shapeshifter. His mercurial nature is that you don’t know whether, across the MCU, he’s a hero or a villain or an anti-hero. You don’t know whether you can trust him. He literally and physically changes shape into an Asgardian guard, or into Captain America repeatedly. Thor talks about how he could change into a snake.”
“I think that shapeshifting logo might give you an idea that Loki, the show, is about identity, and about integrating the disparate fragments of the many selves that he can be, and perhaps the many selves that we are,” he continued. “I thought it was very exciting because I’ve always found Loki a very complex construct. Who is this character who can wear so many masks, and changes shape, and seems to change his external feeling on a sixpence?”
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Marvel Studios’ “Loki” features the God of Mischief as he steps out of his brother’s shadow in a new series that takes place after the events of “Avengers: Endgame.”
Loki features a cast that includes Tom Hiddleston, Sophia Di Martino, Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sasha Lane and Richard E. Grant. It is set to premiere on Disney+ on June 11th 2021.
