sits on some steps underneath the clock tower, there’s no delorian, there’s no hot tub time machine but a very old car just sidles up the street and in he gets and he gets he goes back in time to his dream world to the world he wished he lived in which, is Paris of the 1920’s, with all these iconic figures dancing around together. He’s in love with that whole golden age of American literature when Hemmingway and Fitzgerald were living in Paris with Picasso and Gertrude stein and all these people swimming around in the same place…at midnight he. “Owen Wilson plays this contempary Hollywood screen writer, he’s a self confessed hack, he doesn’t like his own work and he writes screen plays for movies and he wishes that as a younger man had gone to live in Paris to write the great American novel. Midnight In Paris is a fantasy film set in the romance of 1920’s Paris, Tom explained the plot further, I do feel a responsibility to try and get as close as I can to a representation to who this man might have been.I felt as though for 3 weeks in Paris I lived in Fitzgerald’s shoes and seems like he had a good time.” and there’ll be Fitzgerald fans out there. There are so many enthusiasts in the world. “Certainly there’s a integrity that you need to adhere too. On the realisation of playing a real person, never mind one of the greatest American Writers of the 20 th Century, did he approach the part differently? I was sitting in my rented house in Venice Beach and a letter arrived via courier and on the top of this letter it simply said Woody Allen on headed paper and it said ‘Dear Tom I’m shooting a movie in Paris in the summer and I have enclosed some pages and Id love you to take a look at the role of Scott and let me know what you think and I hope Ill see you there.’Īnd then I looked at the pages and realised the character of Scott was interacting with a character called Zelda and a character called Bernard and after about 5 minutes I realised the Woody Allen was asking me to play F Scott Fitzgerald.” I didn’t have to audition, it’s the first time in my life that I didn’t have to audition or meet a director before getting a job. “He is amazing, I was in Los Angeles finishing up filming Thor, I didn’t even meet him. Tom told us how he found out he would be working with Woody Allen Midnight in Paris is a romantic comedy/fantasy both written and directed by Woody Allen and sees a return to the charisma of his classic movies like Annie Hall. Now Tom has worked with movie legend Woody Allen in the new film ‘Midnight in Paris’ in which Tom plays the famous American author F Scott Fitzgerald His career has also included starring opposite Kenneth Brannagh as a series regular on Wallander. His forthcoming releases include reprising the role of Loki to be the centre of the new film ‘The Avengers’ and as Captain Nichols in Steven Spielberg’s much anticipated ‘Warhorse’. Tom Hiddleston may be best known to you for his role in the blockbuster ‘Thor’, where he played baddie Loki.
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