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Tom Hiddleston Was 'Inspired' by Alan Rickman's 'Playfulness' in 'Die Hard' When Playing Loki

Tom Hiddleston discussed during a panel at PaleyFest 2024 how he prepared to play the character of Loki more than 13 years ago. The actor studied several bad guy characters, including Alan Rickman's character in 'Die Hard.'

During PaleyFest 2024's Loki cast panel on Saturday, Hiddleston, 43, opened up about how he prepared to play the iconic role, which included studying Alan Rickman ’s memorable turn portraying Hans Gruber in the 1988 movie Die Hard.He also examined James Mason's master spy Phillip Vandamm in the 1959 classic thriller North by Northwest. In season 2, which costarred Ke Huy Quan, Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Sophia Di Martino, Loki became a living temporal loom to preserve the different timelines. “That was the very basis of the season I set out to write, and seeing that all culminate in that and Tom, just bringing every last bit of emotion to it, it just made everything [worthwhile],” executive producer and writer Eric Martin told PEOPLE at the event.

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