Loki star Sophia Di Martino has been waiting for a year and a half to talk about her biggest role to date as the Loki variant, Sylvie, who’s forced to work with Tom Hiddleston’s Loki to escape the apocalypse on the planet Lamentis.
I’d worked with her before, so she knew that I wasn’t some weirdo or strange lady,” Di Martino tells The Hollywood Reporter.
While the character names were changed to “Bob” and “Sarah,” Di Martino’s self-tape was an early version of what would become the train conversation that confirmed long-running speculation about Loki being bisexual.
But I don’t think I realized how much engagement that scene would have and how excited and pleased people would be with it.
So it was a very quick process, but I think she was pretty keen on me doing it after I read for the part.
Well, the names were fake, but the scene itself would come to be the train scene, where we sat down and had a chat on the train.
So we just enjoyed getting onto a deeper level with the characters, but I don’t think I realized how much engagement that scene would have and how excited and pleased people would be with it.
And talking to Tom about his experience of playing the character and how he feels about Loki and what he enjoys playing, that was really helpful in building Sylvie.
There were lots of different factors at play: explosions, special effects people, stunt people and lots of people who are just exceptional at their jobs.
Yeah, there were explosions that they probably made bigger in VFX afterwards.
Oh my goodness, that’s such a difficult question, especially since I’m really bad at grammar.
Tom did a very good job of learning all of that in a completely new language, basically overnight.
So I’m just so relieved and excited to finally share it and engage with people and watch people enjoy what we did.