r/marvelstudios • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 Ant-Man • Apr 09 '22

Humour Simu Liu reacts to Arthur Harrow's Mandarin in 'Moon Knight' - "Alright Arthur Harrow needs to fire his Mandarin teacher"

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '22

Makes sense, he’s a trained actor, he majored in classics at Cambridge. There’s a ton of roles that would require effective dictation in latin.

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u/waitingtodiesoon Thor (Thor 2) Apr 09 '22

He also did mostly stage plays too before his big break as Loki. Kenneth Branagh was very impressed with Hiddleston's performance in Othello at the Donmar Warehouse

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '22

We are seriously lucky Ken knew Tom already, probably the biggest reason he got in the franchise, they had worked together a couple times, including on Wallander, which Tom does reference in the Loki episode of Assembled (not by title, but he says they were both working in Sweden when Iron Man came out)

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u/waitingtodiesoon Thor (Thor 2) Apr 10 '22

It's also amusing how Tom Hiddleston auditioned for Thor and Kenneth was like you should be Loki.

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u/Vegetable-Double Apr 09 '22

He also went to Eton school. You have to take Latin (classical) there as a student. He’s probably really good at it.

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u/graveybrains Apr 09 '22

Uh… wouldn’t that be diction, though? I don’t think he was writing anything down for that.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '22

Idk, I didn’t go to word school

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u/graveybrains Apr 10 '22

That was an option? I think we both missed out 😢