Loki Season 2 – A Look at Tom Hiddleston’s Loki

Tom Hiddleston is the man behind Marvel’s shady sorcerer Loki, and in 14 years, seven movies and one show he’s made the character his own. He’s also proved to be a formidable actor outside of the MCU, from his roles in Jim Jarmusch’s drama Only Lovers Left Alive and Steven Spielberg’s World War I epic War Horse, to his Oscar-nominated turn in last year’s The Night Manager.

Hiddleston’s training as a classical actor helps him bring a sense of gravitas and urgency to his portrayal of the trickster god. He’s also a lifelong fan of Norse mythology and has read the Poetic Edda, Richard Wagner’s epic four-cycle opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and — most recently — Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

He’s an avid supporter of a number of charities including the Small Steps Project, Comic Relief and Amnesty International. He also works as an ambassador for UNICEF, visiting countries including Guinea and South Sudan to meet children and families. He also narrated an audiobook of the children’s book The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner and voices the character of Statue Griffin on the adult animated Fox sitcom Family Guy.

This season of Loki finds our oh-so-arrogant antihero grappling with a new reality that, in one of the series’ many instances of numbing jargon, seems to have changed everything. But the most interesting changes are those in how our beloved trickster god relates to his co-stars, particularly Mobius (Owen Wilson). Gone is the “will he go bad” dynamic that dominated the first season and has given way to buddy cop vibes that push the duo into Brooklyn 99 territory.