This is @kristychan88, she was our Second Assistant Director on #loki and the reason I made it through a four month lock-down on my own last year.
It’s part of Kristina’s job to work with the cast,be a great communicator and keep the ship moving. During the shut-down Kristina continued to do all these things (and then some), going above and beyond and checking we were okay, even though her job had temporarily stopped.
A big part of me being okay, is that she lent me one of her dogs, Potato.
Kristina had ended taking care of Potato, it was his third home and she thought I’d be wanting a playmate. She was not wrong. Potato and Kristina are 100% the reason I got through the lockdown last year and on my birthday she asked if I wanted to keep him.
I can’t stress what a big heart Kristina has and I feel so honoured to call her my friend, to have her talent on the show and to have met her.
If you see any warmth on screen in #loki it’s Kristina’s heart shining through the camera through having made us all feel safe, in a time when it was easy not to feel that.
Potato and I just said goodbye and I promise Kristina to love this wonderful big-eared gremlin with all my heart. 💚 https://www.instagram.com/p/CQFSiBCh5UA/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
What do you remember about the day you shot Tom’s emotional time file scene?
We created a very intimate atmosphere on set when he filmed that because it’s quite a thing to ask an actor to dig in and give a performance like that. I had a supercut of all the memories on my computer, and I remember almost DJ-ing them from my laptop for Tom and Owen as they were performing. There were a lot of people on set and since it’s very secretive, they don’t necessarily all have a script. And I remember Tom was like, “I felt like there were moments in these days where only you and I knew what was going on.” (Laughs.) Playing out these moments was deceptively complicated because, rhythmically, so much of their dialogue plays into the dialogue on screen. But in terms of when Tom played Loki seeing his own death, it was really just about creating the right atmosphere for Tom and making him feel safe so that he could go to that place. His performance in that moment is really beautiful, and I even love the little shift of focus as he jumps back. It sounds pretentious, but Loki’s shift on reality has changed. It’s such a wonderful performance, and I’m so glad that he went that deep for us.