Hiddleston pleased that Marvel’s Loki addresses gender fluidity

LONDON —  Loki actor Tom Hiddleston said he welcomed Marvel Studios’ decision to address the popular villain’s gender fluidity in a new Disney+ streaming series that debuted on Wednesday. At a screening in London on Tuesday, Hiddleston noted that Loki had been portrayed as gender-fluid in Marvel comic books as well as in Norse mythology, where the character originated. On Sunday, Walt Disney Co. released a clip from the new series and briefly showed a prisoner file that listed Loki’s sex as “fluid.” “It’s always been there,” Mr. Hiddleston said in an interview at the screening. “Loki as a character has had such a broad-ranging and wide-ranging identity. He’s always been a character you could never put in a box, you could never pin down.” The British actor added, “I was really pleased we were able to touch on that in the series.” Mr. Hiddleston has played Loki, the god of mischief, since his appearance in the 2010 movie Thor. The new six-episode series takes place after events depicted in the 2019 film Avengers: Endgame. It catches up with Loki just after the Battle of New York when he escapes from Avengers custody and steals a time stone known as the Tesseract. — Reuters