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At a screening in London on Tuesday, Hiddleston
noted that Loki had been portrayed as gender-fluid in Marvel
comic books as well as in Norse mythology, where the character
originated.
On Sunday, Walt Disney Co released a clip from the new series
and briefly showed a prisoner file that listed Loki's sex as
"fluid."
"It's always been there," Hiddleston said in an interview at the
screening. "Loki as a character has had such a broad-ranging and
wide-ranging identity. He's always been a character you could
never put in a box, you could never pin down."
"I was really pleased we were able to touch on that in the
series," the British actor added.
Hiddleston has played Loki, the god of mischief, since his
appearance in the 2010 movie "Thor."
The new six-episode series takes place after events depicted in
the 2019 film "Avengers: Endgame." It catches up with Loki just
after the Battle of New York when he escapes from Avengers
custody and steals a time stone known as the Tesseract.
A group known as the Time Variance Authority (TVA), which keeps
events from various universes in proper sequence, places Loki
under arrest for abusing time travel and he is stripped of his
shape-shifting powers.
"You take Loki, who seems to always be in control, and you put
him in an environment where he has no control at all, no power,
no potency," Hiddleston said in an interview earlier this week.
Owen Wilson co-stars as TVA agent Mobius M. Mobius, who enlists
Loki's help in finding a killer who is disrupting the timeline.
Wilson said he had not watched many Marvel films and relied on
"Loki Lectures" from Hiddleston to help him understand the
character.
"A lot of the way that we sort of play off each other sort of
began in kind of just talking about stuff in those early days,"
Wilson said.
(Reporting by Sarah Mills in London and Rollo Ross and Lisa
Richwine in Los AngelesEditing by Matthew Lewis)
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