Tom Hiddleston Talks About His Heroic Character in KONG: SKULL ISLAND

It's going to take a while for Tom Hiddleston to become known as anything other than the villainous Loki to the general public (that's what happens when you're in one of the highest-grossing films of all time), but the actor's certainly trying to expand his range. In the past few years, he's played a vampire, an Air Force pilot, and a country music superstar, and soon he'll play a hero in the upcoming Kong: Skull Island.

In a recent interview with Collider, Hiddleston spoke briefly about his character and director Jordan Vogt-Roberts' ideas for the film:

Well, Kong: Skull Island is the next thing on the books. It’s so exciting. I’ve been digging around in some dark material, to be honest. There’s something very heroic about my character in Skull Island. He’s an adventurer, he’s an explorer. I mean, it’s a King Kong film. There we go. [laughs]

The way Jordan Vogt-Roberts has conceived of it, there’s something in there which I find very compelling about King Kong as an emblem of the power of nature in some way, and man’s relationship to it. I think he’s got just brilliant ideas about exploring that. Incredible sequences, a particular context they put King Kong in that you’ve never see him in before, so I’m really excited.

Amazing actors. I’m working with Brie Larson, Corey Hawkins, and Jason Mitchell from Straight Outta Compton are going to be in it.

When J.K. Simmons was attached to the movie, he mentioned that the movie would be set in Detroit in 1971, but Hiddleston wouldn't confirm that, saying he wasn't sure if he was supposed to reveal whether or not it's a period piece. We'll find out for sure when it arrives in theaters on March 20th, 2017.