Tom Hiddleston was nominated for Olivier Award for his work in Coriolanus: yay?

Dragonflies have proven time and time again that their Dragonfly King, Tommy Hiddleston, is the ultimate click-bait. So click away, my loves. As I’ve said before, I really do miss Tommy. We were so lucky to have so much Hiddleston last year. His promotional tour on behalf of Thor 2: The Dancing Loki went on for months and months and it was the gift that keep on giving. 2014 has been quieter for Tommy – he did Coriolanus on stage in London, and now he’s filming a new movie in Canada. We have to ration out the small morsels of Hiddleston news these days. So sad.

As I mentioned last week – when the Dragonflies went wild in the comments of the link post – Tommy did not get an MTV Movie Award nomination for Thor 2. So sad. No Tommy at the MTV Movie Awards!! BOOO! But it’s also good news, because now we won’t get a repeat of last year’s awfulness, when Tommy misread the room, wrestled the mic away from Samuel L. Jackson and gave one of the longest speeches of the night. It was like he thought he was at the Oscars. There were many cringes. It was bad. Hiddles had to dance and dance and dance some more to make us forget.

But everything is coming up dragonflies for Hiddles in the long-run. While he got shut out of the MTV Movie Awards, he did get a nomination for an Olivier Award. The Olivier Awards are sort of like the Tonys in America – a major theater (“theatre”) award that can make or break a career on the stage. Hiddles was nominated for Coriolanus, obviously. He’ll be up against Jude Law (in Henry V) and Rory Kinnear (in Othello). The UK papers are saying that Daniel Radcliffe was unfairly shut out for his performance in The Cripple of Inishmaan. The ceremony is April 13th! Yay, so we’re get some Tommy in April, for sure. Right? Hopefully.

By the way, I know there’s a lot of consternation about Tom and whether his career will survive post-Marvel. First of all, I think Marvel will take care of him for a bit longer. He’s shown Marvel that he will do anything they want him to do, so I would think that Tommy and Marvel will probably figure something out. But even if they don’t… Tommy will survive. I’m sure he will. Any actor who can handle a difficult Shakespeare play live, night after night…? He will be fine. He’s a white dude who can do accents and he’s more than willing to play the game. He’ll find lots of work in the years to come.

PS… here’s a new trailer for Only Lovers Left Alive. For me, this film is all about Tilda, but Tommy looks interesting.

Photos courtesy of the Donmar Warehouse Twitter, WENN.

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