TCA: Tom Hiddleston on move from 'Avengers' to Shakespeare - Loki is 'quite a Shakespearean villain'

By Tim Molloy NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - As you sat through "Thor," little did you know you were getting a dash of Shakespeare - courtesy of Tom Hiddleston. The British actor stars in the new PBS series "The Hollow Crown," an adaptation of the Bard's Henriad: "King Richard II," "King Henry IV, Part 1," King Henry IV, Part 2," and "King Henry V." Hiddleston's Prince Hal becomes King Henry V over the course of the plays. Hiddleston said in a Television Critics Association panel on Monday that he saw similarities between Hal and Loki, the Norse God of Mischief he played in "Thor" and "The Avengers. ...



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