One of the more deviously intriguing projects in Marvel’s Phase 4 future isLoki, the Disney+ streaming series starringTom Hiddlestonas Agard’s favorite trickster god. At San Diego Comic-Con, the studio confirmed the show would, in fact, pick up right after Loki’s theft of the Tesseract inAvengers: Endgameand follow the much-beloved deity through time. (Including, at some point,1975.) Now, thanks to an interview Hiddleston sat down for withMTV News, we know the first season of that centuries-hopping adventure will consist of six episodes.
Hiddleston casually mentioned the episode count while opining on the chance to play the character, who first debuted in 2011 and Hiddleston thought he was done playing as far back asThor: The Dark World, for another “six hours.” The actor also noted there’d be humor throughout the series—unsurprising when you haveRick & MortyalumMichael Waldronrunning the show—and that Loki starts the story in the villainous headspace he was in duringJoss Whedon’sAvengersbefore being presented with an entirely new evolution.
That’s been the most interesting part of the process, Hiddleston says, essentially taking a character he’s put through an arc over nearly a decade and morphing him all over again. That challenge apparently involves some “formidable opponents.”
“I feel like I know him, I’ve been playing him for 10 years now, and that’s crazy to me. By the time it’s out, I’ll be 40. When I was cast I was 29, which is a great chunk of my life…but the point is, there’s a sense of ‘I know this character now, I feel the audience knows him.' Playing him, and playing him truthfully, but presenting him with new challenges which then have to change him in different ways is the most exciting aspect of it. You have his specific gifts, his intelligence, his treachery, his mischief, his magic, and then seeing him come up against more formidable opponents the like of which he has never seen or known.”
Check out the full interview below. TheLokibit starts around 13:26 and also includes an extremely charming anecdote aboutJosh Brolinapologizing for murdering Loki.
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