We’re only two episodes into Loki’s six-episode run, and the timey-wimey Disney+ series has already thrown a lot of the audience – from the introduction of the surprisingly powerful Time Variance Authority to Mobius recruiting Tom Hiddleston’s mercurial trickster to help catch another Loki variant, and, as of episode 2, the revelation that Sophia Di Martino is playing that elusive Variant.
When I worked in an office, I was definitely using a computer that should’ve been long gone over a decade ago but wasn’t because it wasn’t broken so they weren’t going to fix it.
I thought that would be something interesting to take for the moments in the Time Theatre because then I could frame the room with Mobius and Loki while he’s almost watching this play of his life on stage.
The practical way of doing that I thought would be quite simple, but it’s actually quite complicated because actually the way we designed those scenes, there’s like a call-and-response: You hear a line on stage, and then you hear a line from Loki in the room or Mobius in the room.
When I pitched to Marvel, a big thing about the style and the look of the show was that I was so excited reading script because I was like, “This is great! It reads like a detective story.” I always thought of episode 1 as the prologue and episode 2 as our chapter 1 for Loki.
I think that moment in the shelter with the people, you really feel for those people, I hope, because it is scary and like, “These apocalypses are actually quite horrible.” I never wanted the time travel to feel glossy.
The salad metaphor, that’s something that came out of us cutting together and seeing the playfulness in Loki and being like, “Let’s push the playfulness here,” like when he’s trying to explain his theory.
One of the songs from my playlist that I pitched with pitched on it, and she was just sending me bits of music, and I think that really helped me shape the tone of the show because I love music.
When we were looking for people for this character, I was like, “This is an actor we should get to read for it.” And we were all very excited about what she did.
I think the exciting thing about Gugu, who is an actor I loved and pitched for this role, is that what we’re doing with the character is an origin story and it is different from the comics.
But yeah, I would say the show digs more into the inner workings of the place and how does it work as we spend more time with our characters there.