Tom Hiddleston's Guinea field diary: Back in London Tom Hiddleston, Fri, Feb 1 2013 3:08 PM (UNICEF UK BLOG)

Actor Tom Hiddleston has just returned home from his trip with UNICEF UK to Guinea in West Africa. Read his first, second, third, fourth and fifth posts or follow Tom on Twitter at #tom_UNICEFUK and @twhiddleston

BY TOM HIDDLESTON

Learning about life for mums and children in Guinea © UNICEF 2013/Harry Borden

So that’s it.

I’m back in London. I am back in my home. Back amid the hustle and the bustle. Back amid the humdrum and the mayhem and the madness. Back to running water and the warmth of central heating. Back to a bed without a mosquito net. Back to food in the fridge and food in the cupboard and food around the corner in the supermarket.

I’ve seen things I have never seen before.

When I started writing this blog, I talked of life in Guinea as a "jigsaw puzzle, one where the pieces keep moving or changing shape, which in turn alters the picture. You might be looking at it from a different angle, or at a different time of day". On my first night, Julien had suggested an idea of reality in Guinea as "open to interpretation". In so many respects, that is true of all life. The view always changes with the viewer. That’s the law of relativity.

Here’s what’s not open to interpretation. Every year in the world more than two million children die of hunger. It shouldn’t be like this. Children in Guinea start life at a severe disadvantage. Those that are malnourished may survive in the end. If they are caught in time. If their mothers respond to symptoms early enough; if they make it to the centre de santé, which is often miles away; if they respond to the therapeutic peanut paste, and special therapeutic feeding milk. If their parents are able to grow crops and feed them with enough nutritious foods so they can keep healthy. If they win the fight against malaria. If they live near a good school. If they can get work. If their parents can protect them from exploitation by the military. If they are lucky. Previously malnourished children can make it. It sounds paradoxical to say it, but they are the lucky ones.


READ MORE: http://blogs.unicef.org.uk/authentic_voices/archive/2013/02/01/tom-hiddleston-s-guinea-field-diary-back-in-london.aspx

Tom Hiddleston getting ready for Shakespeare (Hello Magazine)

Thor star Tom Hiddleston has been practising his Shakespeare for his upcoming role as Henry V.

"My head is full of him. I've been learning it because we're about to start shooting," he admitted.

He went on: "With film, there's an element of freefall - of preparing appropriately and then allowing yourself to play on the day.

"But with Shakespeare, you really have to know it and you can't forget it. There are all these long speeches and 30-line soliloquies."

He added: "We are doing it for the BBC to be broadcast alongside the Olympics and we won't have long to shoot it, so I've got to be really ready. So I've just been learning the whole thing inside out."

Read more:  http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities-news-in-pics/02-02-2012/58636/celebrities/

Tom Hiddleston Announces Thor 2 Will Start Shooting In London This Spring (Hey U Guys)

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January 30, 2012 By Kenji Lloyd

 

Becoming an increasingly well-known name both here and across the Atlantic, Tom Hiddleston will soon be returning to the big screen to reprise his role as Loki from Thor in Joss Whedon’s upcoming The Avengers.

Hiddleston has been speaking to the Belfast Telegraph, via ComicBookMovie, and has said that the sequel to last year’s Thor will be going before cameras a little earlier than expected, and will start shooting this spring rather than the summer.

Just after Christmas, we heard that Marvel had finally found its director in Alan Taylor, best known for his work handling directing duties on Game of Thrones, and it looks like they’ll be ready to press on with the film very soon.

“There is a Thor 2. It’s been green-lit, and I think it will start shooting in London in the spring. Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman are coming back. I haven’t seen the script. This is where I feel the Marvel snipers are waiting and watching across the street…”


Read more:  http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/2012/01/30/tom-hiddleston-announces-thor-2-will-start-shooting-in-london-this-spring/