“I’d love to be a vampire. It’d be lovely to be a vampire, wouldn’t it? You’d get to be ancient and eternal, a creature of the night. And vampires get away with murder, quite literally.” — Tom Hiddleston
He tweeted this when he was in the middle of shooting Thor 2.
There had already been rumours that Thor 2 would contain a “major character death”, and this clued me in to the fact that this character was probably going to be Frigga, because this is one of the many big regrets I have about my mother. Turns out, I was right.
To this day I’m convinced that Tom tweeted this the day they filmed her death/funeral/Loki’s breakdown in his cell.
We were creating this kind of cocktail of Gothic romance,“ says Hiddleston. "And once all those elements were there, we just shook it up and started shooting.” Picture a post-millennial version of that glory-hog Lestat.