Tom Hiddleston: Why We All Need Monsters also Myths
Written byTimes Magazine
Tom Hiddleston said he "felt so wild" playing a village vicar afraid of mythical sea creatures on Apple TV's The Essex Serpent.
Set on the Victorian coast of Essex and London, the series is based on the award-winning book by Sarah Perry and her partner Claire Danes from Homeland.
Hiddleston's protagonist Will Ransom tries to allay the locals' fears by telling them that the creature is "an invention, a symptom of the junctures we live in."
Dines stars as London's widow Cora Seaburn, who goes to the village to investigate reports that the snake has been collecting fossils in rural Essex after an earthquake.
This made the devout locals wonder if it wouldn't have been awakened otherwise. Rumors of a ferocious sea monster increased after a local girl was presumed dead. Some villagers went crazy, saying that he would "wash away his sins from the black water beast."
Hiddleston described the scenario as "brilliant" and told the BBC: "It's for complex people in difficult times with conflicting ideas."
He said the production of the series felt very wild and reflects the spirit of the stories we tell. I am very excited to do it." "We want to be humble."
Hiddleston is no stranger to monsters, of course, having hosted "Hulk-Smash" like Loki in the Marvel movies.
He believes that this seemingly endless fascination with mythical creatures is part of our need to explain things we don't understand.
"I think people need or are interested in solving those mysteries. We like to be humbled by forces in nature and our world that seem inexplicable.
Because "maybe we know that we don't know everything," he believes, "We still have so many questions."
"And sometimes those problems come together in tame monsters and other monsters."
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