He plays Mobius, an agent within a sprawling entity know as the Time Variance Authority, an inter-dimensional bureaucracy tasked with the awesome — and formidable — responsibility of maintaining a single, sacred timeline and pruning away all “variants” that could lead to the multiverse.
But my sense of it, I guess, was a little bit like working with Pixar, that they seem to really exercise a lot of quality control, and like Pixar, everything that they release seems to really connect — not just with a big audience, but it seems to be pretty well received critically.
But it was really talking with the director, Kate , and reading the script, and then, you know, going over it with Tom Hiddleston before we started filming, and him explaining all this mythology and letting me ask questions about what Loki thought about this or that, his relationship with his brother.
You’re describing this to me and I don’t really have much of a memory of it, so I don’t know if I blocked it out of my mind the way you would math class.
Sometimes there would be logic stuff that I didn’t quite follow, and Kate was always very good about letting us talk about it.
I think that that’s in the character and then people have, I don’t know, extrapolated that into, ‘Yeah, you didn’t know anything about the MCU, did you?’ Maybe I didn’t know as much as a really rabid MCU fan, but I certainly was aware of everything — pretty much.
They were, I think, a little bit nervous, just because it’s different than maybe not what they were expecting, but it’s funny now, I think that they would all say that they couldn’t imagine Mobius not looking like that, because it really did become that character.