Just like his Marvel character Loki, Tom Hiddleston is rather adept at keeping secrets.
In a recent interview with MTV, the actor revealed he knew Loki would be getting his own spin-off series on Disney+ six weeks before the worldwide release of Avengers: Infinity War, meaning he had to keep it to himself for several months.
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Not only that, he said he also knew two years in advance that Loki would be killed off in the opening scene of Infinity War.
“The death scene at the beginning of Infinity War was final,” he said. “That was pitched to me two years before we filmed it when I went to see Kevin [Feige] about Thor Ragnarok.”
The God of Mischief had his neck effortlessly snapped by Thanos during an attack on the Asgardian’s ship. Hiddleston thought that was the last time he’d ever play Loki, but he would later appear for a cameo in Avengers: Endgame.
And now, of course, he’ll be playing the character more than ever before in his very own Disney+ series.
“I know this character now,” he said. “I feel that the audience knows him. And playing him truthfully, but presenting him with new challenges, when then I’d have to change him in different ways, is the most exciting aspect of it.
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“You’ve got his very specific gifts: his intelligence, treachery, his mischief, his magic, and then seeing him come up against more formidable opponents, the like of which he has never seen or known.”
Following Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki will be the second Marvel TV show to hit Disney+ when it debuts in spring 2021.