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theamazingannie · 2 years
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Me listening to any love song, especially ones sang by a man, for the foreseeable future
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1989taylorsversion · 1 year
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bestie i'm so extremely curious as to what themes you're referring to. please share i beg
Folklore is soooo full of this idea that a relationship could be really great, great enough to survive something as difficult as cheating, because both parties are deep in love enough to conquer the pain. Examples:
The Cardigan/Betty/August triangle is literally about a moment of infidelity that ends up being forgiven so that the relationship can continue
Exile is a breakup song about constant miscommunication
Mirrorball is about trying so so so hard to get your partner to see you instead of other people
This Is Me Trying is about trying to be good enough for someone and really struggling when you feel like you aren't good enough
Illicit Affairs speaks for itself but like... "Cheating happens and it hurts!"
Hoax, the song that NEVER MADE SENSE, makes total sense when viewed as Taylor trying to forgive Joe for cheating on her (or inflicting some other great pain on her, but given all of the above themes this one makes the most sense)
JUST MY THOUGHTS! Could be 100% wrong, but this has kinda always been my interpretation of folklore off and on and now I think it's just officially how I interpret the album.
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smartrelationshiptips · 6 months
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Top 10 Biggest Reasons For Breakups
The biggest reasons for breakups are often the little things, but not all of them. Some BIG relationship dealbreakers leave no chance for the couple to save their love.
Many relationships fail because the couple has different core values, has different life goals, and wants to achieve those goals differently. Once the couple is fully aware of their differences, and they cannot compromise on any level, then no matter how much love there was, the relationship is doomed to failure.
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There are usually some different reasons why someone would choose to break up with their partner, and these can range from one person not wanting children to someone having an affair with their spouse or even just because they don’t want to be in the relationship.
In this article, let us discuss one of the most important factors that contribute to a breakup.
No one likes to feel the pain of a broken heart, and it can be hard to know what you did wrong or what went wrong at all. But there are some universal truths about why relationships don’t work out – here are 10 reasons for breakups.
Biggest Reasons For Breakups: Top 10 Reasons
In a society where couples are breaking up at an alarming rate, it is important to understand why they happen. Many factors can lead to a breakup, and some of them are more common than others. Here is a list of the top 10 most popular reasons for breakups: 
1) Lack of communication:
When one or both partners fail to communicate their needs and wants with each other, it creates tension between them, leading to arguments. This will result in resentment because if you don’t feel like your partner understands you, you’ll probably start feeling less attracted towards them.
2) Abuse:
If your partner is abusive in any way, shape or form, whether emotionally or physically, this can lead to a breakup. Abusive partners make their lives miserable and eventually become controlling, which drives the other person away. They don’t respect their lover and often blame them for everything that goes wrong in an argument.
3) Cheating:
This is one of the most common reasons for breakups, as it leaves a partner feeling betrayed and humiliated. The fact that someone they are in a relationship with has chosen to give their heart to another person makes them feel a sense of injustice and mistrust. It is important to understand that if a partner does cheat, it doesn’t mean they never loved their significant other. A lot of times, people get bored in the relationship or maybe they lost interest.
4) Lying:
When someone lies, they violate the trust between them and their significant other. They often fear that their partner will leave, so they take it upon themselves to lie about their actions to keep them from leaving.
https://youtu.be/O33xvCABMnE10 Most Common Reasons For Breakup
For example, if a partner comes home smelling like someone else’s perfume or if they don’t have any scratches on their body from work and so forth.
5) Jealousy:
One major reason for the breakup is jealousy. If your partner is excessively jealous of you, they will constantly be in a bad mood and not let you do what you want. They might even question you every time you leave the house or talk with another person. If this kind of behaviour continues, it can make your life hell, eventually leading to a breakup.
6) Incompatibility:
Not every couple is made for each other. If two people are not compatible in terms of beliefs, background, or even their interests, it can lead to constant fights, resulting in heavy arguments and even breakups.
7) Infidelity:
A cheating spouse is one of the worst things to find out about it. It is also usually the reason for breakups. The betrayal and lack of trust in their partner and the humiliation it caused them are reasons why someone would want out of a relationship if they found out their partners were cheating on them.
8) Family Issues:
Sometimes family issues can lead to a breakup. If there is too much conflict between the two families, or if one partner doesn’t get along with their lover’s parents, this can disrupt their relationship.
Often, trouble can start when one partner starts to neglect the other or feels like their significant other is always putting their family first. This can lead to insecurities and even resentment.
9) Lack of support:
It is very common for women to complain that they feel as if their man isn’t supportive enough. Whether you are going through something big or small, she wants him to understand what she’s going through and give her the emotional support she needs.
If you don’t support your partner in their goals, it will lead to a breakdown of communication and eventually to the end of the relationship.
10) Money Issues:
Money issues are very common in relationships. It is important to know that if you truly love someone, you should value them more than money. Suppose a partner feels as if their significant other isn’t interested in making the relationship work or don’t think the relationship is worth it. In that case, they might end up cheating on them or breaking down and admitting that they don’t want to be in it anymore.
For example, if someone is broke all the time and can only afford one movie a month, or maybe they always have to borrow money from their significant other, then it will put a strain on the relationship.
The most important thing is to understand why the breakup happened and learn from it so that you could make sure not to repeat this mistake with your next partner.
Also Read: Top 11 Most Common Reasons For Teenage Breakups
How to keeps a relationship?
I know that it would be so awesome if someone could give you a formula for a perfect relationship. Many people out there claim they have one, but I am here to tell you that no such thing exists. Everybody is different, and every couple is successful at first and then eventually leads to a breakup because both partners want their relationships to be different from what their parents had.
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The truth is, I don’t believe in long-term relationships unless you get married, and even then, there will be problems from time to time. The only thing you can do is make sure that the breakup doesn’t happen too soon, but when the right time comes, just let go of what’s bothering you and move on for the sake of your mental health.
It can be easy to let yourself go when you’re in a relationship, especially when things get comfortable. This is exactly why I believe that maintaining attraction is not an option when you are in a long-term relationship but rather a necessity.
You May Like: How Long After Breakup Is Rebound
How to Make Your Relationship Last?
To make your relationship last, you must first understand why it is important to keep working on the problems. If you are not willing to work through things with your significant other, then there is no point in being together at all. Working through a bumpy patch or some long term issues will strengthen your bond and make you a much closer couple in the end.
There are many reasons why couples split up or break down their relationship. Either there were problems from the beginning which they couldn’t work past, or small things accumulated over time until one partner could not take it anymore.
If something has been bothering you for a while and you have discussed it with your significant other, but they either don’t get it or just won’t do anything about it, you may want to think about breaking up.
However, this does not mean that you’re off the hook. You must take some responsibility for your share of the breakup and try to figure out what you could have done differently so that it wouldn’t happen again.
Conclusion
The most common reason for a breakup is not having the same values and interests. If you have ever been dumped, this was likely one of the reasons why. To avoid your relationships ending in heartbreak, it’s important to be open with your partner about what you are looking for in life and what you want out of a relationship before agreeing to date them or committing yourself fully. 
You can also comment below if you need advice or want more information!
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myfavoriteskdramas · 3 years
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So guys, I've wanted to do this kind of list since a lot of time ago, of the kdramas that from my point of view are underrated, and I think more people who loves kdramas should give them a chance and watch them, so here is the first part:
1. Hogu's love aka Fool's love.
Ho Goo has a twin sister Ho Gyeong. He has tried to pass the civil service examination, but has failed for 7 years. He also has never dated in his life. One day, he meets Do Hee. She was the most popular girl back in his high school days. She is a member of the national swimming team and has a burning desire to win. She also talks like one of the guys. They spend the night together, but the next morning he finds a baby next next to him and Do Hee is gone. After Ho Goo meets Do Hee again, he becomes involved in a complicated romantic relationship and a dangerous friendship.
Link where you can watch it: https://dramacool.so/drama-detail/hogoos-love
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2. The tale of nokdu aka Mung bean chronicles (one of my faves).
Jeon Nok Du is a man with extraordinary ambition to experience the big, wide world. With looks, brains, and athletic abilities, he is the epitome of perfection. After being swept up in an incident, he disguises himself as a woman to join a mysterious all-woman community and meets Dong Dong Joo.
Dong Dong Joo is a prickly gisaeng trainee. Along with her fiery personality, she is clumsy, has absolutely no sense of rhythm, and is tone-deaf, which makes all of her peers look after her. However, she is skilled with her hands as she can make anything if given the right tools. Unable to stand injustice, she speaks her mind.
Due to this fact, Jeon Nok Du ends up saving Dong Dong Joo from a dangerous situation. After that, she suddenly becomes Jeon Nok Du’s adopted daughter and he decides to live in the widow village for 1 year.
Link where you can watch it:
Is on Viki but you can watch it in this link too https://dramacool.so/drama-detail/mung-bean-chronicles
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3. Clean with passion for now.
Jang Sun Gyeol has wealth and good looks but suffers from severe mysophobia. He is obsessed with cleaning and even owns his own cleaning company. However, he meets a carefree and untidy girl named Gil Oh Sol after she enters his company as a new employee.
Oh Sol has worked all sorts of part-time jobs while striving for a full-time job and does not have the luxury to date or be clean. She gave up on being neat after facing the tough reality of the world and is known for always wearing her trademark tracksuit. But she has a bright personality and does not mind getting dirty. With the help of Oh Sol, Sun Gyeol faces his mysophobia and also falls in love with her.
Link where you can watch it: https://dramacool.so/drama-detail/clean-with-passion-for-now
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4. Live up to your name aka Deserving of the name.
Heo Im, who is born in a concubine family in Joseon era and has very outstanding medical skill, is frustrated about his career as he fails to climb to higher positions in the government because of his background. By accident, he travels through time to modern Seoul 400 years later and meets modern doctor Yeon Gyung. Thinking that Heo Im is weird, she hopes to get rid of Heo Im but instead, they travel back to Joseon together again.
Link where you can watch it:
Is on netflix, but you can watch it too in this link https://dramacool.so/drama-detail/deserving-of-the-name
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5. Live On (Just finished one or two weeks ago) if you want to watch a short kdrama, this one it only has 8 episodes.
Live On” is set to be a romance story that follows the lives of Baek Ho Rang (Jung Da Bin), who is at the top of food chain at her high school where being trendy and popular brings higher social status, and Go Eun Taek (Minhyun), a perfectionist who is the head of the broadcasting club. Baek Ho Rang joins the broadcasting club in order get help from Go Eun Taek in uncovering the identity of a mysterious figure who is trying to bring to light parts of her past she wants to keep hidden.Baek Ho Rang immediately shot up to social media star status because of her beautiful looks and is one of the most popular girls at Seo Hyun High School. Despite being at the top of the social pyramid, she only has one true friend as she believes she is the center of the universe and looks down on others. Meanwhile, Go Eun Taek is in charge of the school’s broadcasting club and is someone who is sensitive, detail oriented, can sometimes be irritable, and plans everything out perfectly. Though he is strict and inflexible when it comes to his leadership, he never shies away from any task that is given to him and is loved by his fellow students.
Link where you can watch it:
Is on Viki but also you can watch it in this link
https://dramacool.so/drama-detail/live-on-2020
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6. Dinner Mate.
This drama is about a young woman going through a rough breakup with a longtime boyfriend she’s still in love with, and a young man who’s a serial dater and kind of tired of relationships. They both like to eat out but dislike having to go to nice restaurants alone, and they happen to meet while waiting to be seated at a restaurant, each of them alone. The hostess mistakes them for a couple and offers them a couple special, which prompts them to sit together and end up having dinner together. After their first unexpected meeting, they meet and have dinner together weekly. That’s how they strike up an unusual friendship where they get together just to eat out, and over multiple dinners, they open up to each other about their relationship troubles and grow closer.
Link where you can watch it:
https://dramacool.so/drama-detail/dinner-mate
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7. Oh my venus.
This is a drama about two Childhood friends meet again in their adulthood and find themselves making a bet on a “diet challenge”. The story focuses on their journey of searching for love and health.
Kang Joo Eun meets Kim Yeong Ho, who agrees to be her personal trainer to help her get healthier. As they work on her physical transformation, they both discover they have feelings for each other. As they grow closer, they heal each other's emotional wounds and fall in love.
Link where you can watch it:
Is on Viki but here's the link too
https://dramacool.so/drama-detail/oh-my-venus
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8. Cheat on me if you can ( Is still on emission, there's only two episodes left).
For her work, best-selling crime author Yeo Joo researches how to make a murder look like an accidental death. Next to her is her younger husband, Woo Sung, who is a family man and works as a divorce lawyer. Woo Sung still thinks he's a sexy, attractive partner, and lives on with his wonderful marriage life. However, lately, Yeo Joo, who would rather be a widow than a divorcee, starts finding some of his behavior suspicious. Could he be cheating on her? Could Woo Sung possibly be enjoying a thrilling affair behind her back? Yeo Joo tells it straight: If he cheats, he will die.
Link where you can watch it:
Is on Viki but also here's the link https://dramacool.so/drama-detail/if-you-cheat-you-die
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9. The beauty inside (one of my faves).
Han Se Kye is a top actress, also known as a troublemaker, with many rumors around her. To others, her life appears as a mystery, when in fact she is faced with a strange occurrence where she must change into a different body and new identity for one week a month. She encounters Seo Do Jae, a brilliant man who is an executive at an airline company. He seems to have it all: a perfect appearance, knowledge, and a good job; but he has a secret too. He suffers from Prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize faces. However, he manages to hide this from the world, every day he makes an effort to remember people by their personalities.
Seo Do Jae's life begins to change when he meets Han Se Kye. She is the only person whose face he can recognize. But with Han Se Kye's constant disappearance and change how long can she keep her secret?.
Link where you can watch it:
https://dramacool.so/drama-detail/the-beauty-inside-korean-drama
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10. Royal secret inspector aka Secret royal agent (is on emission now, there's a few episodes left).
Set towards the end of the Joseon era, Sung Yi-Gyeom placed first in the state examination and he now works at the Hongmungwan (administrative and research department). He doesn't have a goal or ambition for his life. One day, Sung Yi-Gyeom is caught gambling. As punishment, he is assigned to work as a secret royal inspector. His job is to eradicate illegal acts and corruption by public officers. He carries out his new job with the help of Hong Da-In and Park Chun-Sam. Hong Da-In is a female inspector and solves cases with Sung Yi-Gyeom. Park Chun-Sam is Sung Yi-Gyeom’s servant. Park Chun-Sam is talkative, affectionate, and tearful.
Meanwhile, Sung Yi-Beom is Sung Yi-Gyeom’s younger stepbrother. His father is a nobleman, but his mother is a slave. Due to his mother's low social status, his father does not accept him as his real son and he is barred from having certain opportunities. He opposes his older stepbrother Sung Yi-Gyeom.
Link where you can watch it:
https://dramacool.so/drama-detail/new-secret-royal-inspector
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honey-girlie · 4 years
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every kind of way (jake x mc)
rating: E (for the last chapter)
chapter: 1/3
word count: ~4k
summary: To say Eris has had a rough time in the villa so far was an understatement. She really didn’t need to go and complicate things further by fancying her closest mate, but then again, her brain rarely worked properly when Jake was around her. 
a/n: this is a short fic about coupling up with Jake. it’ll be three chapters long and will only cover day 11 and the night of day 12. this first chapter takes place on the morning of day 11
for the most part, it follows canon with the exceptions that my MC, Eris, has a much closer relationship with Jake, and she also makes it clear to Levi that she’s not interested in him. i also (briefly) included an explanation behind Jake’s cheating, which is entirely headcanon. otherwise, the story is basically the same as the game
anyway thanks for reading if you do!
[link to ao3]
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i wanna love you in every kind of way - H.E.R.
“Oh, Christ.”
Eris stared deadpan at the telltale beep of her phone that resounded throughout the empty bedroom and interrupted whatever retort Levi was about to throw at her. 
After last night’s dumping and Lucy’s antics this morning, she wasn’t in the mood for challenges or dates or whatever it was they were going to be doing today. She wanted to relax, sleep in, hang out by the pool. One day of peace in the villa seemed like more of an impossible feat than she realized.
And on top of that, Levi has been trying to rekindle their relationship after Eris admitted that she wasn’t interested in him anymore. Her feelings hadn’t been that strong to begin with, but they’ve waned since the whole Cherrygate debacle. In recent days, she could now easily say she’s moved on. Levi, however, refused to give up. It was why he was currently sitting in bed with her, convincing her that he didn’t have feelings for Lucy, whatever she might say or do. 
Needless to say, Eris was having a shit morning. If the producers allowed them alcohol this early in the day, she’d be cradling an entire bottle of wine right now.
She huffed at the phone, hoping the stupid device knew that whatever text had been sent to her was not welcomed right now. Beside her, Levi appeared irritated. 
“I guess we’ll... talk later,” he grumbled.
Eris scratched her nose in an annoyed tick. She’d honestly rather not, but it was a conversation she knew needed to be had. 
“Sure. Later. But,” she interjected firmly, “I’ll say this one last time.” She looked Levi straight in the eye, keeping her tone gentle yet steady. By god, if they had to have this discussion again, she’d burn her hair off. “We might still be coupled up, but we’re not together and we haven’t been for a while. If you want to get back with Lucy or graft on another girl, I won’t stop you because honestly, I don’t care.”
Levi’s lips thinned as a sour expression formed on his face, but he kept quiet. Whether it was for the sake of the text or because her feelings had finally sunk in for him, she wasn’t sure. Either way, she was glad he chose silence.
Suppressing the urge to sigh, Eris dragged herself up and leaned over to snatch the phone from the table. She avoided looking in his direction as she shouted for the other Islanders to gather. 
“Guys! I got a text!”
They piled into the bedroom in a matter of seconds, some with breakfast still in their hands.
“Read it out, Eris!” Reese exclaimed. 
Tim took a bite of his toast before asking, “What do you reckon it is? Another challenge?”
“Oh, don’t talk with your mouth full, hun,” Jen tutted. Her expression, however, was still amused. “But I do hope we get treated for some dates.”
The two of them leered at each other, and Eris couldn’t help the pang of jealousy that hit her. That was what she wanted for herself, but it seemed like the one guy she did want in the villa didn’t want her back. 
Stuffing her bitterness down, Eris cleared her throat. 
“Alright, everyone ready?” she asked the group.
When they nodded, she lowered her gaze to the text and read it out loud. 
Islanders, tonight will be the last recoupling. The boys will be choosing their partners.
#thefinalcountdown #holdontight
Eris’ heart sank as she scanned the short missive again. Another recoupling? After they had one just last night? She knew for a while that she needed to find a better partner than Levi, but she thought she had more time. And of course the very last recoupling would be boy’s choice. She could very well be dumped from the villa tonight. 
She couldn’t stop her eyes from darting over to Jake, but she was surprised to see he was already staring back. He ducked his head immediately, looking oddly frustrated. In the next second, Jake bolted from the room without saying a word to anyone. 
Bemused and crestfallen, Eris sagged. She’s been having trouble reading him more than ever in the past few days, but him fleeing from her was very clearly a bad sign.
There were a few beats of silence that were shortly broken by Jen. Eris tuned it out as her mind reeled. She ignored the excited chatter of the room and flopped backwards onto the bed, resisting the urge to groan into the pillow. 
Shit morning indeed. 
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Eris ambled through the villa alone, wondering how on earth she got herself into this situation. 
She had finished breakfast and conversed with the other Islanders in a daze, too worried about what tonight had in store for her. Since Levi wasn’t an option any longer, her thoughts were in shambles as she considered what else she could do. There was always the possibility of coupling up with Rohan as friends, but at this stage in the game, it wouldn’t be right. They both knew the attraction wasn’t there. They deserved better than that.
Eris didn’t care so much about winning. All she wanted was to find a future with someone on the show, and Rohan was not the boy to have that with. There was nobody else in the villa for her. 
Nobody but one, and he had barely looked at her all day.
She’s been dealing with the particular frustration that was Jake for what seemed like half her time there. At the very beginning it looked like he was into her, offering secret glances and smiles across the room that always seemed to verge on longing. They even coupled up for a bit. Those few days with Jake, being able to cuddle up with him in bed and find excuses to touch him in and out of challenges... 
Those days were undoubtedly the happiest she’s felt. To hear him say that he had wanted her to pick him too made Eris smile so wide, her cheeks hurt. 
But all of a sudden, things changed. Levi was grafting on her, and Jake backed off, insisting he didn’t want to stand in their way. Eris had never been so conflicted. On one hand, she couldn’t deny that Levi was attractive, and as a conceptual artist, she was also delighted to learn that they both shared a particular love for installation art. The way he chased after her was thrilling. It was nice being wanted by one of the most eligible Islanders on the show.
But with Jake, things were so... right. 
Early on, he confessed to Eris that he struggled to connect with the others, but she had no problem growing close to him. He started opening up to her after some gentle prodding on her part, then things just snapped into place for them. 
While they weren’t completely attached at the hip, Eris and Jake were damn close. He cracked wry jokes, often only for her ears and told at the most unexpected times. He spoke freely to her about his thoughts on the other Islanders and their couples. He allowed himself to be more selfish when he was with her instead of trying to maintain peace around the villa like he usually did. 
In the same vein, Eris was just as comfortable around him. She felt relaxed in his warm, easy presence, even when he wasn’t talking much. She enjoyed watching him do the most mundane things, like cook or take a swim in the pool. She forgot about trying, about keeping up appearances and making sure her face wasn’t sweaty or her makeup hadn’t smeared. 
Jake made her feel safe enough to rant to him and be quiet with him and be herself, unapologetically, around him.
What humbled her the most, however, was the fact that he opened up to her about his cheating past. 
Fittingly, he had told her about it the morning after the infamous mess that was Cherrygate. It had been early on in his adult life, barely past his 20s, and he’d been dating his then-girlfriend for almost two years. They met each other through a mutual friend, but they didn’t start dating until a few months later. Everyone had seen it coming. Everyone encouraged it too.
Things were fun in the beginning, but it didn’t take long for them both to realize they weren’t good for each other. Their constant arguments were never resolved, and their communication was never there. Jake suspected that they only stayed together for as long as they did because everyone expected it of them.
He was vague about the specifics of his infidelity. All Eris knew was that it started three months before the breakup with some girl who lived on the same street as him. When Jake found out his girlfriend had been cheating on him too, he confessed to his own affair, and they finally decided to split up. With so many mutual friends, the two of them saw each other occasionally, but they were mostly on good terms. Still, he admitted that even if they were both equally guilty parties, there were few things that hurt worse than being cheated on. 
Eris wasn’t exactly torn up about Levi kissing another girl. What did make her cry was knowing that Jake empathized with her enough to share something so private about his life. The other Islanders offered their comfort in their own ways, but Jake was the only one to hurt with her. The night Cherrygate occurred, he was there, wrapping a sturdy arm around her shoulders and telling her how strong she was, how much she didn’t deserve it. The morning after was no different. That was when he permanently cemented himself in her heart.
Eris had a stronger bond with Jake than with anyone else in the villa and even some of her friends back home. It came to the point where she had grown attuned to his emotions. From the subtle wrinkle in his forehead when he was troubled to the downturn of his lips when he was confused, it wasn’t difficult for her to figure out what he was feeling. Even her awareness of his physical presence had become second nature. Her ears could make out the timbre of his voice from the other side of the villa. Her eyes could recognize his silhouette in a darkened room.  
It was well-known that Jake was the most reserved Islander on the show. But she knew him. She knew him, and it was such a privilege that he allowed her. 
He was sweet. Funny. Self-assured. Romantic. Supportive. Considerate. And unquestionably the most beautiful man she’s ever laid eyes on. 
Jake was everything Eris wanted in a partner, and in a very short amount of time, she knew she was already starting to fall fast and hard for the quiet, cheeky chef. She had every intention of staying coupled up with him to see where they could go. 
So when Jake suggested to Eris that she and Levi had strong potential, she was more than a little upset. He didn’t fight for her or their couple, and it made Eris think that maybe he didn’t want her as much as she thought. 
He seemed so willing to let her go. And it hurt.
Eris wasn’t the type of person to internalize her feelings, but being humiliated like that on national television made her bite back her disappointment and put on a strong front instead. She had smiled tightly at Jake, then picked Levi for her date later that night, and when he kissed her, she didn’t fight it. She thought of the man she’d rather be kissing instead, but she didn’t fight it. Everything about it had felt off. His hands weren’t the same, his shoulders a touch too wide. 
Jake didn’t seem to mind any of it. That was the proverbial nail in the coffin that prompted her to choose Levi at the next coupling. Maybe it was the out Jake had been hoping for. After all, he didn’t look all too upset when he clapped along with everyone else at her decision. And he’s obviously been getting on well with Cherry. 
Eris couldn’t stop the small scowl that formed on her face. Fucking Cherry. That ugly, green-eyed monster of jealousy roared inside her whenever that girl so much as looked at Jake. But Eris would never compromise his happiness, and if Cherry made him happy, she’d suck it up.
With all of this drama happening, Eris was starting to wonder why she signed up for the show in the first place. She could’ve had failed relationships back home in Kent just as easily. She could’ve pined over yet another man who didn’t want her in the comfort of her own flat. 
She groaned and tugged at her hair. Mindlessly walking around the villa didn’t help much. Besides, Tim’s constant rapping could be heard wherever she went. It wasn’t like she could escape anywhere. 
Eris walked through the dressing room, her mind nowhere near concluded. But her tumultuous thoughts were interrupted at the sound of hurried footsteps behind her. 
She turned. A small gasp escaped her when she saw who it was. 
Jake strode right for her with a determination she’s never seen from him before. At first glance, he appeared cool and collected, but once she took in his crazed eyes, clenched jaw, and shaking hands, anticipation whirled in her stomach. 
“Jake?” 
“I’m sorry, Eris,” he breathed as he stopped a few feet from her. “I just — can I have a word?”
Her eyebrows knitted together. “Wha— Jake, what’s going on?”
“I have to...” He huffed and shook his head, clearly frustrated with himself. “There’s just something I need to tell you. Can we...?” He gestured to the doors of the roof terrace. 
It was clear that whatever it was he needed to say was big. Jake was rarely anything less than put together, and right now, he looked like he was on the precipice of a meltdown. 
Eris didn’t hesitate as she nodded. “Of course. Come on.”
They entered the terrace, luckily finding it empty. Jake took a seat, leaning forward and resting his elbows on his knees. His clasped hands sporadically squeezed and loosened. Eris eyed him in concern as she joined him on the bench. 
“Are you alright?” she asked. She’s never seen anyone in the villa look half as nervous as he did right now.
“I’m fine,” he assured. “It’s just... I’ve been thinking all day about whether or not I should say this. And it’s like — if I say it, I might ruin a friendship, or worse. It could be really bad for the villa.”
Jake sighed heavily and hung his head. He almost sounded like he was talking to himself with his next words. 
“But if I don’t say it, maybe I miss a chance to finally be happy?”
Eris’ frown deepened, and she felt a fluttering in her chest, something she couldn’t name. 
Confused as ever, she caved in to the urge to touch him and placed a hand on his arm. “You’re kind of scaring me. What is this about?”
Jake quieted. He stared at her hand, resting gently on his warm skin, and his gaze softened. When he remained silent, Eris squeezed in encouragement. 
He exhaled quietly.
“Fuck it.”
His eyes flashed, and he whipped his head up to stare her down. She almost recoiled. 
“I want you,” Jake blurted, his voice hoarse. “I want to be with you so bad, Eris. From day one... it’s always been you.”
Her jaw dropped to the floor. 
For a moment, nothing else registered other than the words I want you.
I want you.
Jake wanted her? 
Her?
It was appropriate that Eris’ response was just as bewildered. “Huh?” she said stupidly. 
Jake ran a hand through his unruly hair as he shot up from his seat to pace around. “Look, I realize I left it so late, but it’s the last recoupling this evening and I just had to say something, even though I might’ve ruined everything I’ve tried to make in here. Plus, you had all this stuff going on with Levi and I didn’t want to piss you off or ruin our friendship, so I kept quiet about it. But I can’t anymore. I need to know, or it’ll kill me.”
He stopped pacing and took a deep breath. Visibly bracing himself, Jake turned to her, his face verging on desperation. 
“Eris,” he rasped, “is there any chance for me? Could — could something happen between us?”
Stunned, Eris leaned back on the bench with her mouth agape. 
Shock coursed through her for a few long beats as silence stretched between them, his confession hanging in the air. The longer she sat there, utterly dumbstruck, the more Jake’s face fell. It took her a bit, but her brain caught up as she finally absorbed what he had said. 
I want you.
It’s always been you.
Something between us.
The world around her spun, but once the words got through to her, it careened to a complete halt. Suddenly Jake was the only thing she could see. 
Her heart soared. 
A short, disbelieving laugh bubbled out of her as the reality of his confession kicked in, and Jake’s shoulders drooped, looking like she had just kicked him in the gut. 
God, he was so adorable. 
Eris stood up and neared him. “Jake,” she barely managed.
He sighed and put on a brave face, attempting a weak but sincere smile. “It’s alright. I just couldn’t —”
Unable to resist any longer, Eris surged towards him and flung her arms around his neck as she crashed her lips against his. Jake gasped and froze, but once he realized what was happening, she felt his whole body shudder. He engulfed her in his tight embrace and returned the kiss with a fervor that made her stomach swoop. 
Finally, she thought before her mind quieted, focusing only on the sensation of Jake’s presence surrounding her entirely. She knew him, but this... This was new territory she couldn’t wait to explore. 
He moaned into the kiss, his eager hands wandering from her hips to her back until one of them traveled up to tangle itself in her hair. Her heart skipped two beats before running right out of her chest. He pulled her as close as humanly possible then closer still, and as a result they stumbled onto the nearest wall. Jake pressed her up against it, slanting his lips over hers. Eris whimpered a sigh when their tongues grazed, and she couldn’t stop her knees from buckling a little at the electrifying sensation that chased up her spine. 
His hands left a fiery trail wherever they went. When his mouth lowered to the side of her neck Eris gasped, her head tilting back and her fingernails digging into his shoulders. Jake hissed in pleasure and doubled his efforts on her neck by sucking lightly on her pulse point. If not for his firm grip around her, she would have fallen over at how heavenly it felt. His responding, dark chuckle at her reaction would have done her in next. 
For what felt like hours, they remained entwined in each other. Her head was dizzy by the time their kisses and frantic touches slowed down into something soft, content. When they finally pulled apart, Jake rested his forehead on hers, and they exchanged goofy, joyous smiles as they caught their breath. Whatever doubts she’d been carrying had all but vanished as his fingertips pressed into the flesh of her waist. 
“Just to be clear,” he panted, “this means you fancy me too, right?”
Eris laughed. “Yeah. But I could show you again if you’re still not sure.”
His grin grew even wider, and he ducked in for another short kiss. “You have no idea how terrified I was you were going to say no,” he admitted against her lips. 
“It’s always been you too,” she whispered. “But I didn’t think you liked me like that anymore.”
He briefly closed his eyes, and when they opened, they were full of regret. “I’m sorry. I acted like an idiot when we had coupled up. I somehow thought I had messed up my chance when I learned that Levi was grafting on you.”
“So you pushed me away,” she said quietly. 
“I convinced myself you were happier with him, so I tried to move on too.” He let out a humorless chuckle. “Not my finest moment, I’m aware.”
Eris gave him an apologetic look as she brought a hand up to the side of his face, running her thumb over his thin stubble. “I’m sorry too. I should have been honest and said something to let you know how much I liked you, but I... I don’t know. I guess I felt too wounded.”
He nodded. “I definitely could have made things easier, but I understand. I just wish we hadn’t wasted so much time together here.”
A dry smile appeared on her face. If they had actually communicated properly, they wouldn’t have gone through so much bullshit. It was as amusing as it was infuriating. “We’re a pair of dummies, huh?”
He chuckled. “I heard this place will do that to you. It’s practically our job, right? To stir as much drama as possible.”
“Well, I think it’s safe to say we take the cake there.” Eris wrinkled her nose. “How do you suppose everyone else will react?”
“We should talk about that, actually,” Jake sighed as he loosened his hold on her. The air shifted on a more serious note. “I don’t know what the situation is between you and Levi, but we’re still coupled with different people. It wouldn’t be right to surprise them with this at the recoupling later.”
A sense of dread settled in the pit of her stomach. “I told Levi we weren’t together anymore,” she muttered. “But I still need to talk to him.”
“Yeah. And I need to break up with Cherry.”
As much as Eris hated the idea of having that conversation, he was right. They couldn’t spring this on their partners at the last second, even if a part of her thought they deserved it a little. Damn Jake and his kind heart, otherwise she would ignore everyone and spend the rest of her time in the villa with him. 
“This afternoon, then,” she agreed. “We’ll have to get it done before the recoupling.”
“Right. I just don’t want to be that kind of guy. I’ve made enough mistakes in here as it is.”
Eris nodded, and when she caught the remorse in his expression, she stood on her tiptoes to gently kiss him again, feeling him smile against her lips. They pulled away, and she grabbed his wrist to press one last kiss on his palm. His gaze was full of reverence, making her heart clench. 
Jake suggested they get going so that hopefully, Levi and Cherry would calm down by the time the recoupling started. With reluctance, she parted from him and wished him luck with his talk with Cherry. He squeezed her shoulder in thanks as he returned the sentiment, then they left the rooftop. 
Eris walked through the villa in search of Levi, her head held high but her stomach rioting with nerves. She couldn’t imagine the backlash she’d get from both the Islanders and the audience watching, but she didn’t care. 
For the future she was seeking outside the show with the man she wanted by her side, this was worth it.
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The screen and stage star is making his Broadway debut as the bottled-up husband wearing a “mask of control” in Harold Pinter’s romantic triangle.
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[ By Laura Collins-Hughes
Aug. 21, 2019, 5:00 a.m. ET ]
Tom Hiddleston was posing for a portrait, and the face he showed the camera wasn’t entirely his own.
That had been his idea, to slip for a few moments into the character he’s playing on Broadway, in Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal”: Robert, the cheated-on husband and backstabbed best friend whose coolly proper facade is the carapace containing a crumbling man. And when Mr. Hiddleston became him, the change was instantaneous: the guarded stillness of his body, the chill reserve in his gray-blue eyes.
“It’s interesting,” Mr. Hiddleston said after a while, analyzing Robert’s expression from the inside. “It gives less away.” A pause, and then his own smile flickered back, its pleasure undisguised. “O.K.,” Mr. Hiddleston announced, himself again, “it’s not Robert anymore.”
It was late on a muggy August morning, one day before the show’s first preview at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater, and Mr. Hiddleston — the classically trained British actor best known for playing the winsomely chaotic villain Loki, god of mischief and brother of Thor, in the Marvel film franchise — had been in New York for less than a week.
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He’ll be here all autumn for the limited run of the production, a hit in London earlier this year, but he wasn’t going to pretend that he’d settled in. “I literally have never sat in this room before,” he’d said at the top of the photo shoot, in his cramped auxiliary dressing room, next door to the similarly tiny one he had been occupying.
He’d had nothing to do with the space’s camera-ready décor. So there was no use making a metaphor of the handsome clock with its hands stopped at 12 (“Betrayal” is famous for its reverse chronology; far more apt if the clock had run backward), or of the compact stack of pristine books that looked like journals, with pretty covers and presumably empty pages: a bit off-brand for Mr. Hiddleston, who at 38 has a model-perfect exterior with quite a lot inscribed inside.
Take the matter-of-fact way he said, in explaining that he’d first encountered Pinter’s work when he studied for his A-levels in English literature, theater, Latin and Greek: “It was a real tossup between French and Spanish or Latin and Greek. I thought, I can always speak French and Spanish, I can’t always read Latin and Greek, so I’ll study that and I’ll speak the other two.”
Though, to be fair, he only said that because I’d teased him slightly about the Latin and Greek, and I’d teased him — not a recommended journalistic technique — because he was so disarmingly good-humored and resolutely down to earth, chatting away as he waited for the photographer to set up a shot. It didn’t seem like it would ruffle him. He laughed, actually.
From a one-night reading to Broadway
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In this country, Mr. Hiddleston is mainly a screen star, known also for playing Jonathan Pine in the John le Carré series “The Night Manager” on AMC. There are plans, too, for him to bring Loki to Disney’s streaming service in a stand-alone series.
But at home in London, he has amassed some impressive Shakespearean credits, including the title roles in Kenneth Branagh’s “Hamlet” and Josie Rourke’s “Coriolanus,” and a turn as Cassio in Michael Grandage’s “Othello” — a production that Pinter, saw some months before he died in 2008. That was the year Mr. Hiddleston won a best newcomer Olivier Award for Cheek by Jowl’s “Cymbeline.”
Jamie Lloyd’s “Betrayal,” which has a staging to match the spareness of Pinter’s language and a roiling well of squelched emotion to feed its comedy, is Mr. Hiddleston’s Broadway debut. Likewise for his co-stars, Zawe Ashton (of Netflix’s “Velvet Buzzsaw”), who plays Emma, Robert’s wife; and Charlie Cox (of Netflix’s “Daredevil”), who plays Emma’s lover, Jerry, Robert’s oldest friend.
Beginning at what appears to be the end of Robert and Emma’s marriage, after her yearslong affair with Jerry has sputtered to a stop, it’s a drama of cascading double-crosses. First staged by Peter Hall in London in 1978 — and in 1980 on Broadway, where it starred Roy Scheider, Blythe Danner and Raul Julia — it rewinds through time to the sozzled evening when Emma and Jerry overstep the line.
The most recent Broadway revival was just six years ago, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Daniel Craig as Robert, Rachel Weisz as Emma and Rafe Spall as Jerry. It might seem too soon for another, let alone one with sexiness to spare — except that Mr. Lloyd’s production is also marked by a palpable hauntedness and a profound sense of loss.
Reviewing the London staging in The New York Times, Matt Wolf called it “a benchmark achievement for everyone involved,” showing the play “in a revealing, even radical, new light.” Michael Billington, in The Guardian, called Mr. Hiddleston’s performance “superb.”
What’s curious is that Mr. Hiddleston, so good at bad boys, isn’t playing Jerry, the more glamorous role: the cad, the pursuer, the best man who goes after the bride. But Mr. Lloyd said that casting him that way was never part of their discussions.
Last fall, when Mr. Lloyd persuaded Mr. Hiddleston to read a scene with Ms. Ashton for a one-night gala celebration of Pinter in London, part of the season-long Pinter at the Pinter series, there was no grand plan. Having asked Mr. Hiddleston about a possible collaboration for years, since “just before he became ridiculously famous,” Mr. Lloyd said, this was the first time he got a yes.
“I just really admired his craft of acting, the precision of his acting, as well as his real emotional depth and his real wit,” Mr. Lloyd said. “And he’s turned into what I think is the epitome of a great Pinter actor. Because if you’re in a Pinter play, you have to dig really deep and connect to terrible loss or excruciating pain, often massive volcanic emotion, and then you have to bottle it all up. You have to suppress it all.”
This, he added, is what Mr. Hiddleston does in “Betrayal,” where characters’ meaning is found between and behind the words, not inside them.
“Some of the pain that he’s created in Robert, it’s just unbearable, and yet he always keeps a lid on it,” Mr. Lloyd said.
The scene Mr. Hiddleston and Ms. Ashton read at the gala appears at the midpoint of “Betrayal”: Robert and Emma on vacation in Venice, at a moment that leaves their marriage with permanent damage. Within days, Mr. Hiddleston told Mr. Lloyd that he was on board for a full production.
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‘What remains private’
Photos taken, back in the faintly more lived-in of his Broadway dressing rooms, Mr. Hiddleston opened the window to let in some Midtown air — and when you’re as tall as he is, 6 feet 2 inches, opening it from the top of the window frame is easy enough to do. Then, making himself an espresso with his countertop machine, he sat down to talk at length.
“I’m always curious about the presentation of a character’s external persona versus the interior,“ he said. “What remains private, hidden, concealed, protected, and what does the character allow to be seen? We all have a very complex internal world, and not all of that is on display in our external reality.”
He can tick off the ways that various characters of his conceal what’s inside: Loki, with all that rage and vulnerability “tucked away”; the ultra-proper spy Jonathan Pine, in “The Night Manager,” “hiding behind his politeness”; Robert, a lonely man wearing “a mask of control” that renders him “confident, powerful, polished,” at least as far as any onlookers can tell.
In “Betrayal,” each of the three principals has an enormous amount to hide from the people who are meant to be their closest intimates. It’s a play about power and manipulation, duplicity and misplaced trust, and what’s so threatening about it is the very ordinariness of its privileged milieu. This snug little world that once seemed so safe and ideal — the happiest of families, the oldest of friends — has long since fallen apart.
But to Mr. Hiddleston, Pinter’s drama contains two themes just as significant as betrayal: isolation and loneliness.
“The sadness in the play — it’s not only sadness; because it’s Pinter, there’s wit and levity as well — but if there is sadness in the play,” he said, “I think it comes from the fact that these betrayals render Robert, Emma and Jerry more alone than they were before.”
Trust and self-protection
One-on-one, Mr. Hiddleston was more cautious than he’d been during the photo shoot, surrounded then by a gaggle of people affiliated with the show. Still, when I asked him about betrayal, lowercase, he went straight to the condition it violates.
“To trust is a profound commitment, and to trust is to make oneself vulnerable,” he said, fidgeting with a red rubber band and choosing his words with care. “It’s such an optimistic act, because you’re putting your faith in the hands of someone or something which you expect to remain constant, even if the circumstances change.”
“I’m disappearing down a rabbit hole here,” he said, “but I think about it a lot. I think about certainty and uncertainty. Trust is a way of managing uncertainty. It’s a way of finding security in saying, ‘Perhaps all of this is uncertain, but I trust you.’ Or, ‘I trust this.’ And there’s a lot of uncertainty in the world at the moment, so it becomes harder to trust, I suppose.”
An interview itself is an act of trust, albeit often a wary one. And there was one stipulated no-go zone in this encounter, a condition mentioned by a publicist only after I’d arrived: No talk of Taylor Swift, with whom Mr. Hiddleston had a brief, intense, headline-generating romance that, post-breakup, she evidently spun into song lyrics.
That was three years ago, and I hadn’t been planning to bring her up; given the context of the play, though, make of that prohibition what you will. Mr. Hiddleston, who once had a tendency to pour his heart out to reporters, knows that he can’t stop you.
“It’s not possible, and nor should it be possible, to control what anyone thinks about you,” he said. “Especially if it’s not based in any, um —” he gave a soft, joyless laugh — “if it’s not based in any reality.”
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That’s something he’s learned about navigating fame — about being put on a pedestal that’s then kicked out from under him. He knows now “to let go of the energy that comes toward me, be it good or bad,” he said. “Because naturally in the early days I took responsibility for it.”
“And yes, I’m protective about my internal world now in probably a different way,” he added, his tone as restrained as his words. He took a beat, and so much went unsaid in what he said next: “That’s because I didn’t realize it needed protecting before.”
Even so, he doesn’t give the impression of having closed himself off. When something genuinely made him laugh, he smiled a smile that cracked his face wide open.
And the way he treated the people around him at work — with a fundamental respect, regardless of rank, and no whiff of flattery — made him seem sincere about what he called “staying true to the part of myself that’s quite simple, that’s quite ordinary.”
That investment in his ordinariness, as he put it, is a hedge against the destabilizing trappings of fame, but it doubles as a way of protecting his craft.
It’s also of a piece with his insistence that vulnerability is a necessary risk to take, at least sometimes.
“If you go through life without connecting to people,” he asked, “how much could you call that a life?”
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Tom Hiddleston was posing for a portrait, and the face he showed the camera wasn’t entirely his own.
That had been his idea, to slip for a few moments into the character he’s playing on Broadway, in Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal”: Robert, the cheated-on husband and backstabbed best friend whose coolly proper facade is the carapace containing a crumbling man. And when Mr. Hiddleston became him, the change was instantaneous: the guarded stillness of his body, the chill reserve in his gray-blue eyes.
“It’s interesting,” Mr. Hiddleston said after a while, analyzing Robert’s expression from the inside. “It gives less away.” A pause, and then his own smile flickered back, its pleasure undisguised. “O.K.,” Mr. Hiddleston announced, himself again, “it’s not Robert anymore.”
It was late on a muggy August morning, one day before the show’s first preview at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater, and Mr. Hiddleston — the classically trained British actor best known for playing the winsomely chaotic villain Loki, god of mischief and brother of Thor, in the Marvel film franchise — had been in New York for less than a week.
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He’ll be here all autumn for the limited run of the production, a hit in London earlier this year, but he wasn’t going to pretend that he’d settled in. “I literally have never sat in this room before,” he’d said at the top of the photo shoot, in his cramped auxiliary dressing room, next door to the similarly tiny one he had been occupying.
He’d had nothing to do with the space’s camera-ready décor. So there was no use making a metaphor of the handsome clock with its hands stopped at 12 (“Betrayal” is famous for its reverse chronology; far more apt if the clock had run backward), or of the compact stack of pristine books that looked like journals, with pretty covers and presumably empty pages: a bit off-brand for Mr. Hiddleston, who at 38 has a model-perfect exterior with quite a lot inscribed inside.
Take the matter-of-fact way he said, in explaining that he’d first encountered Pinter’s work when he studied for his A-levels in English literature, theater, Latin and Greek: “It was a real tossup between French and Spanish or Latin and Greek. I thought, I can always speak French and Spanish, I can’t always read Latin and Greek, so I’ll study that and I’ll speak the other two.”
Though, to be fair, he only said that because I’d teased him slightly about the Latin and Greek, and I’d teased him — not a recommended journalistic technique — because he was so disarmingly good-humored and resolutely down to earth, chatting away as he waited for the photographer to set up a shot. It didn’t seem like it would ruffle him. He laughed, actually.
From a one-night reading to Broadway
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In this country, Mr. Hiddleston is mainly a screen star, known also for playing Jonathan Pine in the John le Carré series “The Night Manager” on AMC. There are plans, too, for him to bring Loki to Disney’s streaming service in a stand-alone series.
But at home in London, he has amassed some impressive Shakespearean credits, including the title roles in Kenneth Branagh’s “Hamlet” and Josie Rourke’s “Coriolanus,” and a turn as Cassio in Michael Grandage’s “Othello” — a production that Pinter, saw some months before he died in 2008. That was the year Mr. Hiddleston won a best newcomer Olivier Award for Cheek by Jowl’s “Cymbeline.”
Jamie Lloyd’s “Betrayal,” which has a staging to match the spareness of Pinter’s language and a roiling well of squelched emotion to feed its comedy, is Mr. Hiddleston’s Broadway debut. Likewise for his co-stars, Zawe Ashton (of Netflix’s “Velvet Buzzsaw”), who plays Emma, Robert’s wife; and Charlie Cox (of Netflix’s “Daredevil”), who plays Emma’s lover, Jerry, Robert’s oldest friend.
Beginning at what appears to be the end of Robert and Emma’s marriage, after her yearslong affair with Jerry has sputtered to a stop, it’s a drama of cascading double-crosses. First staged by Peter Hall in London in 1978 — and in 1980 on Broadway, where it starred Roy Scheider, Blythe Danner and Raul Julia — it rewinds through time to the sozzled evening when Emma and Jerry overstep the line.
The most recent Broadway revival was just six years ago, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Daniel Craig as Robert, Rachel Weisz as Emma and Rafe Spall as Jerry. It might seem too soon for another, let alone one with sexiness to spare — except that Mr. Lloyd’s production is also marked by a palpable hauntedness and a profound sense of loss.
Reviewing the London staging in The New York Times, Matt Wolf called it “a benchmark achievement for everyone involved,” showing the play “in a revealing, even radical, new light.” Michael Billington, in The Guardian, called Mr. Hiddleston’s performance “superb.”
What’s curious is that Mr. Hiddleston, so good at bad boys, isn’t playing Jerry, the more glamorous role: the cad, the pursuer, the best man who goes after the bride. But Mr. Lloyd said that casting him that way was never part of their discussions.
Last fall, when Mr. Lloyd persuaded Mr. Hiddleston to read a scene with Ms. Ashton for a one-night gala celebration of Pinter in London, part of the season-long Pinter at the Pinter series, there was no grand plan. Having asked Mr. Hiddleston about a possible collaboration for years, since “just before he became ridiculously famous,” Mr. Lloyd said, this was the first time he got a yes.
“I just really admired his craft of acting, the precision of his acting, as well as his real emotional depth and his real wit,” Mr. Lloyd said. “And he’s turned into what I think is the epitome of a great Pinter actor. Because if you’re in a Pinter play, you have to dig really deep and connect to terrible loss or excruciating pain, often massive volcanic emotion, and then you have to bottle it all up. You have to suppress it all.”
This, he added, is what Mr. Hiddleston does in “Betrayal,” where characters’ meaning is found between and behind the words, not inside them.
“Some of the pain that he’s created in Robert, it’s just unbearable, and yet he always keeps a lid on it,” Mr. Lloyd said.
The scene Mr. Hiddleston and Ms. Ashton read at the gala appears at the midpoint of “Betrayal”: Robert and Emma on vacation in Venice, at a moment that leaves their marriage with permanent damage. Within days, Mr. Hiddleston told Mr. Lloyd that he was on board for a full production.
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‘What remains private’
Photos taken, back in the faintly more lived-in of his Broadway dressing rooms, Mr. Hiddleston opened the window to let in some Midtown air — and when you’re as tall as he is, 6 feet 2 inches, opening it from the top of the window frame is easy enough to do. Then, making himself an espresso with his countertop machine, he sat down to talk at length.
“I’m always curious about the presentation of a character’s external persona versus the interior,“ he said. “What remains private, hidden, concealed, protected, and what does the character allow to be seen? We all have a very complex internal world, and not all of that is on display in our external reality.”
He can tick off the ways that various characters of his conceal what’s inside: Loki, with all that rage and vulnerability “tucked away”; the ultra-proper spy Jonathan Pine, in “The Night Manager,” “hiding behind his politeness”; Robert, a lonely man wearing “a mask of control” that renders him “confident, powerful, polished,” at least as far as any onlookers can tell.
In “Betrayal,” each of the three principals has an enormous amount to hide from the people who are meant to be their closest intimates. It’s a play about power and manipulation, duplicity and misplaced trust, and what’s so threatening about it is the very ordinariness of its privileged milieu. This snug little world that once seemed so safe and ideal — the happiest of families, the oldest of friends — has long since fallen apart.
But to Mr. Hiddleston, Pinter’s drama contains two themes just as significant as betrayal: isolation and loneliness.
“The sadness in the play — it’s not only sadness; because it’s Pinter, there’s wit and levity as well — but if there is sadness in the play,” he said, “I think it comes from the fact that these betrayals render Robert, Emma and Jerry more alone than they were before.”
Trust and self-protection
One-on-one, Mr. Hiddleston was more cautious than he’d been during the photo shoot, surrounded then by a gaggle of people affiliated with the show. Still, when I asked him about betrayal, lowercase, he went straight to the condition it violates.
“To trust is a profound commitment, and to trust is to make oneself vulnerable,” he said, fidgeting with a red rubber band and choosing his words with care. “It’s such an optimistic act, because you’re putting your faith in the hands of someone or something which you expect to remain constant, even if the circumstances change.”
“I’m disappearing down a rabbit hole here,” he said, “but I think about it a lot. I think about certainty and uncertainty. Trust is a way of managing uncertainty. It’s a way of finding security in saying, ‘Perhaps all of this is uncertain, but I trust you.’ Or, ‘I trust this.’ And there’s a lot of uncertainty in the world at the moment, so it becomes harder to trust, I suppose.”
An interview itself is an act of trust, albeit often a wary one. And there was one stipulated no-go zone in this encounter, a condition mentioned by a publicist only after I’d arrived: No talk of Taylor Swift, with whom Mr. Hiddleston had a brief, intense, headline-generating romance that, post-breakup, she evidently spun into song lyrics.
That was three years ago, and I hadn’t been planning to bring her up; given the context of the play, though, make of that prohibition what you will. Mr. Hiddleston, who once had a tendency to pour his heart out to reporters, knows that he can’t stop you.
“It’s not possible, and nor should it be possible, to control what anyone thinks about you,” he said. “Especially if it’s not based in any, um —” he gave a soft, joyless laugh — “if it’s not based in any reality.”
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That’s something he’s learned about navigating fame — about being put on a pedestal that’s then kicked out from under him. He knows now “to let go of the energy that comes toward me, be it good or bad,” he said. “Because naturally in the early days I took responsibility for it.”
“And yes, I’m protective about my internal world now in probably a different way,” he added, his tone as restrained as his words. He took a beat, and so much went unsaid in what he said next: “That’s because I didn’t realize it needed protecting before.”
Even so, he doesn’t give the impression of having closed himself off. When something genuinely made him laugh, he smiled a smile that cracked his face wide open.
And the way he treated the people around him at work — with a fundamental respect, regardless of rank, and no whiff of flattery — made him seem sincere about what he called “staying true to the part of myself that’s quite simple, that’s quite ordinary.”
That investment in his ordinariness, as he put it, is a hedge against the destabilizing trappings of fame, but it doubles as a way of protecting his craft.
It’s also of a piece with his insistence that vulnerability is a necessary risk to take, at least sometimes.
“If you go through life without connecting to people,” he asked, “how much could you call that a life?”
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maryxglz · 5 years
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Tom Hiddleston was posing for a portrait, and the face he showed the camera wasn’t entirely his own.
That had been his idea, to slip for a few moments into the character he’s playing on Broadway, in Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal”: Robert, the cheated-on husband and backstabbed best friend whose coolly proper facade is the carapace containing a crumbling man. And when Mr. Hiddleston became him, the change was instantaneous: the guarded stillness of his body, the chill reserve in his gray-blue eyes.
“It’s interesting,” Mr. Hiddleston said after a while, analyzing Robert’s expression from the inside. “It gives less away.” A pause, and then his own smile flickered back, its pleasure undisguised. “O.K.,” Mr. Hiddleston announced, himself again, “it’s not Robert anymore.”
It was late on a muggy August morning, one day before the show’s first preview at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater, and Mr. Hiddleston — the classically trained British actor best known for playing the winsomely chaotic villain Loki, god of mischief and brother of Thor, in the Marvel film franchise — had been in New York for less than a week.
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He’ll be here all autumn for the limited run of the production, a hit in London earlier this year, but he wasn’t going to pretend that he’d settled in. “I literally have never sat in this room before,” he’d said at the top of the photo shoot, in his cramped auxiliary dressing room, next door to the similarly tiny one he had been occupying.
He’d had nothing to do with the space’s camera-ready décor. So there was no use making a metaphor of the handsome clock with its hands stopped at 12 (“Betrayal” is famous for its reverse chronology; far more apt if the clock had run backward), or of the compact stack of pristine books that looked like journals, with pretty covers and presumably empty pages: a bit off-brand for Mr. Hiddleston, who at 38 has a model-perfect exterior with quite a lot inscribed inside.
Take the matter-of-fact way he said, in explaining that he’d first encountered Pinter’s work when he studied for his A-levels in English literature, theater, Latin and Greek: “It was a real tossup between French and Spanish or Latin and Greek. I thought, I can always speak French and Spanish, I can’t always read Latin and Greek, so I’ll study that and I’ll speak the other two.”
Though, to be fair, he only said that because I’d teased him slightly about the Latin and Greek, and I’d teased him — not a recommended journalistic technique — because he was so disarmingly good-humored and resolutely down to earth, chatting away as he waited for the photographer to set up a shot. It didn’t seem like it would ruffle him. He laughed, actually.
From a one-night reading to Broadway
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In this country, Mr. Hiddleston is mainly a screen star, known also for playing Jonathan Pine in the John le Carré series “The Night Manager” on AMC. There are plans, too, for him to bring Loki to Disney’s streaming service in a stand-alone series.
But at home in London, he has amassed some impressive Shakespearean credits, including the title roles in Kenneth Branagh’s “Hamlet” and Josie Rourke’s “Coriolanus,” and a turn as Cassio in Michael Grandage’s “Othello” — a production that Pinter, saw some months before he died in 2008. That was the year Mr. Hiddleston won a best newcomer Olivier Award for Cheek by Jowl’s “Cymbeline.”
Jamie Lloyd’s “Betrayal,” which has a staging to match the spareness of Pinter’s language and a roiling well of squelched emotion to feed its comedy, is Mr. Hiddleston’s Broadway debut. Likewise for his co-stars, Zawe Ashton (of Netflix’s “Velvet Buzzsaw”), who plays Emma, Robert’s wife; and Charlie Cox (of Netflix’s “Daredevil”), who plays Emma’s lover, Jerry, Robert’s oldest friend.
Beginning at what appears to be the end of Robert and Emma’s marriage, after her yearslong affair with Jerry has sputtered to a stop, it’s a drama of cascading double-crosses. First staged by Peter Hall in London in 1978 — and in 1980 on Broadway, where it starred Roy Scheider, Blythe Danner and Raul Julia — it rewinds through time to the sozzled evening when Emma and Jerry overstep the line.
The most recent Broadway revival was just six years ago, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Daniel Craig as Robert, Rachel Weisz as Emma and Rafe Spall as Jerry. It might seem too soon for another, let alone one with sexiness to spare — except that Mr. Lloyd’s production is also marked by a palpable hauntedness and a profound sense of loss.
Reviewing the London staging in The New York Times, Matt Wolf called it “a benchmark achievement for everyone involved,” showing the play “in a revealing, even radical, new light.” Michael Billington, in The Guardian, called Mr. Hiddleston’s performance “superb.”
What’s curious is that Mr. Hiddleston, so good at bad boys, isn’t playing Jerry, the more glamorous role: the cad, the pursuer, the best man who goes after the bride. But Mr. Lloyd said that casting him that way was never part of their discussions.
Last fall, when Mr. Lloyd persuaded Mr. Hiddleston to read a scene with Ms. Ashton for a one-night gala celebration of Pinter in London, part of the season-long Pinter at the Pinter series, there was no grand plan. Having asked Mr. Hiddleston about a possible collaboration for years, since “just before he became ridiculously famous,” Mr. Lloyd said, this was the first time he got a yes.
“I just really admired his craft of acting, the precision of his acting, as well as his real emotional depth and his real wit,” Mr. Lloyd said. “And he’s turned into what I think is the epitome of a great Pinter actor. Because if you’re in a Pinter play, you have to dig really deep and connect to terrible loss or excruciating pain, often massive volcanic emotion, and then you have to bottle it all up. You have to suppress it all.”
This, he added, is what Mr. Hiddleston does in “Betrayal,” where characters’ meaning is found between and behind the words, not inside them.
“Some of the pain that he’s created in Robert, it’s just unbearable, and yet he always keeps a lid on it,” Mr. Lloyd said.
The scene Mr. Hiddleston and Ms. Ashton read at the gala appears at the midpoint of “Betrayal”: Robert and Emma on vacation in Venice, at a moment that leaves their marriage with permanent damage. Within days, Mr. Hiddleston told Mr. Lloyd that he was on board for a full production.
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‘What remains private’
Photos taken, back in the faintly more lived-in of his Broadway dressing rooms, Mr. Hiddleston opened the window to let in some Midtown air — and when you’re as tall as he is, 6 feet 2 inches, opening it from the top of the window frame is easy enough to do. Then, making himself an espresso with his countertop machine, he sat down to talk at length.
“I’m always curious about the presentation of a character’s external persona versus the interior,“ he said. “What remains private, hidden, concealed, protected, and what does the character allow to be seen? We all have a very complex internal world, and not all of that is on display in our external reality.”
He can tick off the ways that various characters of his conceal what’s inside: Loki, with all that rage and vulnerability “tucked away”; the ultra-proper spy Jonathan Pine, in “The Night Manager,” “hiding behind his politeness���; Robert, a lonely man wearing “a mask of control” that renders him “confident, powerful, polished,” at least as far as any onlookers can tell.
In “Betrayal,” each of the three principals has an enormous amount to hide from the people who are meant to be their closest intimates. It’s a play about power and manipulation, duplicity and misplaced trust, and what’s so threatening about it is the very ordinariness of its privileged milieu. This snug little world that once seemed so safe and ideal — the happiest of families, the oldest of friends — has long since fallen apart.
But to Mr. Hiddleston, Pinter’s drama contains two themes just as significant as betrayal: isolation and loneliness.
“The sadness in the play — it’s not only sadness; because it’s Pinter, there’s wit and levity as well — but if there is sadness in the play,” he said, “I think it comes from the fact that these betrayals render Robert, Emma and Jerry more alone than they were before.”
Trust and self-protection
One-on-one, Mr. Hiddleston was more cautious than he’d been during the photo shoot, surrounded then by a gaggle of people affiliated with the show. Still, when I asked him about betrayal, lowercase, he went straight to the condition it violates.
“To trust is a profound commitment, and to trust is to make oneself vulnerable,” he said, fidgeting with a red rubber band and choosing his words with care. “It’s such an optimistic act, because you’re putting your faith in the hands of someone or something which you expect to remain constant, even if the circumstances change.”
“I’m disappearing down a rabbit hole here,” he said, “but I think about it a lot. I think about certainty and uncertainty. Trust is a way of managing uncertainty. It’s a way of finding security in saying, ‘Perhaps all of this is uncertain, but I trust you.’ Or, ‘I trust this.’ And there’s a lot of uncertainty in the world at the moment, so it becomes harder to trust, I suppose.”
An interview itself is an act of trust, albeit often a wary one. And there was one stipulated no-go zone in this encounter, a condition mentioned by a publicist only after I’d arrived: No talk of Taylor Swift, with whom Mr. Hiddleston had a brief, intense, headline-generating romance that, post-breakup, she evidently spun into song lyrics.
That was three years ago, and I hadn’t been planning to bring her up; given the context of the play, though, make of that prohibition what you will. Mr. Hiddleston, who once had a tendency to pour his heart out to reporters, knows that he can’t stop you.
“It’s not possible, and nor should it be possible, to control what anyone thinks about you,” he said. “Especially if it’s not based in any, um —” he gave a soft, joyless laugh — “if it’s not based in any reality.”
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That’s something he’s learned about navigating fame — about being put on a pedestal that’s then kicked out from under him. He knows now “to let go of the energy that comes toward me, be it good or bad,” he said. “Because naturally in the early days I took responsibility for it.”
“And yes, I’m protective about my internal world now in probably a different way,” he added, his tone as restrained as his words. He took a beat, and so much went unsaid in what he said next: “That’s because I didn’t realize it needed protecting before.”
Even so, he doesn’t give the impression of having closed himself off. When something genuinely made him laugh, he smiled a smile that cracked his face wide open.
And the way he treated the people around him at work — with a fundamental respect, regardless of rank, and no whiff of flattery — made him seem sincere about what he called “staying true to the part of myself that’s quite simple, that’s quite ordinary.”
That investment in his ordinariness, as he put it, is a hedge against the destabilizing trappings of fame, but it doubles as a way of protecting his craft.
It’s also of a piece with his insistence that vulnerability is a necessary risk to take, at least sometimes.
“If you go through life without connecting to people,” he asked, “how much could you call that a life?”
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Okay so I have so many jumbled thoughts on the ending of White Lies, I definitely understand why your professor needed a minute to process it and respond lol.
Let me just start off by saying I loved White Lies, even though it was a particularly difficult read for me personally. Cheating in stories always really affects me 😓 combined with Ivar’s cruelty and insensitivity.
This one was a hard one to swallow. He was really tough to read and deal with in this story lol. Just so hurtful. Also, I’m sorry to have to submit such a long post, but this definitely never would have fit in an anon message, and I didn’t want to leave anything out. Although there’s so much to this story and whenever I read it something new sticks out to me so I’ll probably send another when I realize I forgot something lol.
Wow 😳. I have to be honest I did NOT seeing that coming! I was actually really worried that the story would end with Ivar somehow getting away with everything he did and Reader having to be the bigger woman in duty to her people and be stuck with him.
I’m so curious, if Kori didn’t take matters into his own hand what do you think would have happened between Reader and Ivar? Over the years, in the long run?
You know when you finish reading something you’ve put so much emotional investment in, over time, that when it’s done you kind of feel like you’re going through a breakup?
That’s how I feel now lol I woke up feeling melancholy because I know this story is done but I’ll miss the experience of waiting for an update and reading a new chapter, especially because this story really challenged me with Ivar being suuuuuch a hurtful character to someone that loved him 😓 this Ivar was a difficult one.
And I felt torn between my instinct to want a happy ending for him in stories, but not being able to get over what he did to Reader. It was just too much. Unforgivable. I definitely didn’t expect you to kill him! A major first in your stories.
A part of me would have loved for him to live, if only so he could spend the rest of his life having to witness Reader find true happiness with another, watch his children love another parent figure, and have to actually experience the consequences of his actions.
But a part of me feels the point is moot. Something about his character in this one just felt hopeless. I felt so bad for Reader whenever he would disregard, deflect, or act petty instead of show humanity or contrition and remorse.
And it’s so tough!! Because even if he had I just couldn’t get over his affair.
To betray Reader so deeply 💔😔 and in such a way. I couldn’t forgive him. I found myself being angry and unimpressed with him even when he showed slivers of regret. And was he always like this? Even when they were married and happy?
Because it’s so hard to imagine him ever being a decent man to Reader and then turning into THIS?
It was also heartbreaking to have to accept this version of Ivar 💔 he was just so mean, and cruel, irredeemable. Even when he was in the wrong, it was always about him constantly having to one up the Reader. Be petty, childish, and hopeless.
She’s heartbroken, angry, hurting, in pain, loves/loved you, is torn, and he’s so blinded, prideful, and just inhumane that he can’t even see what he’s doing to her, the wife he claims to love.
He can’t even say/feel sorry and mean it. He has to manipulate and that’s not true remorse. Saying he’s frustrating feels like an understatement. I hate him but feel sorry for him. That someone can be that lost. And Reader deserved so much better.
What he did to her was one thing. But it’s also doubly traumatizing when your pain and experience is invalidated by the one who transgressed against you. She deserved to be shown true remorse, contrition, respect, acts of penance.
Consideration.
Instead she was stuck with Ivar. It reminds me of that quote “sometimes you have to forgive people who don’t even ask for forgiveness”. And while I’m happy she found happiness with Alfred, I’m sorry she never got her true catharsis and justice from Ivar.
It almost feels like death was too easy for him. I thought we would at least get a moment of redemption from Ivar. But nope. From beginning to the end, just no redeeming qualities. Scraps of affections or the tiniest briefest glimpses of humanity or love for Reader.
This was a rare instance where there’s been nothing about him to make me root for him in any way.
I was so proud of Reader’s growth and how she stood up for herself, even if it felt like she was talking to a wall. I’m glad she didn’t have to swallow her pride in order to be the bigger person. I’m glad she let the people who hurt her know that they hurt her.
Eirianna was a piece of work and it was gross to hear how the family noticed Ivar bringing her home late 🤢 it made me wonder if Kori ever noticed what was happening since he’s so perceptive and attentive.
Poor Kori! Having to watch his family go through so much stress and then feel like he had to be the one to do something about it. It was very sweet though the way he always looked after Reader and kept to his word. He was so honorable and an exceptional young man.
I loved the moment he told Reader about his dream and that she would be okay 😭 the Gods spoke to him! I knew it was twins!! That explains the constant movement!! When one was still the other was moving about 😍.
I haven’t finished reading the entire finale, so I think I’ll end here, but if it’s okay with you, when I’m done I’ll send in more thoughts?
Congratulations on finishing white lies, and thank you for sharing!
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omninocte · 5 years
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Tom Hiddleston was posing for a portrait, and the face he showed the camera wasn’t entirely his own.
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“I’m protective about my internal world now in probably a different way,” says the actor Tom Hiddleston, making his Broadway debut in “Betrayal.” Credit: Devin Yalkin for The New York Times
That had been his idea, to slip for a few moments into the character he’s playing on Broadway, in Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal”: Robert, the cheated-on husband and backstabbed best friend whose coolly proper facade is the carapace containing a crumbling man. And when Mr. Hiddleston became him, the change was instantaneous: the guarded stillness of his body, the chill reserve in his gray-blue eyes.
“It’s interesting,” Mr. Hiddleston said after a while, analyzing Robert’s expression from the inside. “It gives less away.” A pause, and then his own smile flickered back, its pleasure undisguised. “O.K.,” Mr. Hiddleston announced, himself again, “it’s not Robert anymore.”
It was late on a muggy August morning, one day before the show’s first preview at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater, and Mr. Hiddleston — the classically trained British actor best known for playing the winsomely chaotic villain Loki, god of mischief and brother of Thor, in the Marvel film franchise — had been in New York for less than a week.
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Mr. Hiddleston as Loki in “Thor: Ragnarok.” Credit: Marvel Studios/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
He’ll be here all autumn for the limited run of the production, a hit in London earlier this year, but he wasn’t going to pretend that he’d settled in. “I literally have never sat in this room before,” he’d said at the top of the photo shoot, in his cramped auxiliary dressing room, next door to the similarly tiny one he had been occupying.
He’d had nothing to do with the space’s camera-ready décor. So there was no use making a metaphor of the handsome clock with its hands stopped at 12 (“Betrayal” is famous for its reverse chronology; far more apt if the clock had run backward), or of the compact stack of pristine books that looked like journals, with pretty covers and presumably empty pages: a bit off-brand for Mr. Hiddleston, who at 38 has a model-perfect exterior with quite a lot inscribed inside.
Take the matter-of-fact way he said, in explaining that he’d first encountered Pinter’s work when he studied for his A-levels in English literature, theater, Latin and Greek: “It was a real tossup between French and Spanish or Latin and Greek. I thought, I can always speak French and Spanish, I can’t always read Latin and Greek, so I’ll study that and I’ll speak the other two.”
From a one-night reading to Broadway
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Mr. Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton portray a married couple in Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” Credit: Marc Brenner
In this country, Mr. Hiddleston is mainly a screen star, known also for playing Jonathan Pine in the John le Carré series “The Night Manager” on AMC. There are plans, too, for him to bring Loki to Disney’s streaming service in a stand-alone series.
But at home in London, he has amassed some impressive Shakespearean credits, including the title roles in Kenneth Branagh’s “Hamlet” and Josie Rourke’s “Coriolanus,” and a turn as Cassio in Michael Grandage’s “Othello” — a production that Pinter, saw some months before he died in 2008. That was the year Mr. Hiddleston won a best newcomer Olivier Award for Cheek by Jowl’s “Cymbeline.”
Jamie Lloyd’s “Betrayal,” which has a staging to match the spareness of Pinter’s language and a roiling well of squelched emotion to feed its comedy, is Mr. Hiddleston’s Broadway debut. Likewise for his co-stars, Zawe Ashton (of Netflix’s “Velvet Buzzsaw”), who plays Emma, Robert’s wife; and Charlie Cox (of Netflix’s “Daredevil”), who plays Emma’s lover, Jerry, Robert’s oldest friend.
Beginning at what appears to be the end of Robert and Emma’s marriage, after her yearslong affair with Jerry has sputtered to a stop, it’s a drama of cascading double-crosses. First staged by Peter Hall in London in 1978 — and in 1980 on Broadway, where it starred Roy Scheider, Blythe Danner and Raul Julia — it rewinds through time to the sozzled evening when Emma and Jerry overstep the line.
The most recent Broadway revival was just six years ago, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Daniel Craig as Robert, Rachel Weisz as Emma and Rafe Spall as Jerry. It might seem too soon for another, let alone one with sexiness to spare — except that Mr. Lloyd’s production is also marked by a palpable hauntedness and a profound sense of loss.
Reviewing the London staging in The New York Times, Matt Wolf called it “a benchmark achievement for everyone involved,” showing the play “in a revealing, even radical, new light.” Michael Billington, in The Guardian, called Mr. Hiddleston’s performance “superb.”
What’s curious is that Mr. Hiddleston, so good at bad boys, isn’t playing Jerry, the more glamorous role: the cad, the pursuer, the best man who goes after the bride. But Mr. Lloyd said that casting him that way was never part of their discussions.
Last fall, when Mr. Lloyd persuaded Mr. Hiddleston to read a scene with Ms. Ashton for a one-night gala celebration of Pinter in London, part of the season-long Pinter at the Pinter series, there was no grand plan. Having asked Mr. Hiddleston about a possible collaboration for years, since “just before he became ridiculously famous,” Mr. Lloyd said, this was the first time he got a yes.
“I just really admired his craft of acting, the precision of his acting, as well as his real emotional depth and his real wit,” Mr. Lloyd said. “And he’s turned into what I think is the epitome of a great Pinter actor. Because if you’re in a Pinter play, you have to dig really deep and connect to terrible loss or excruciating pain, often massive volcanic emotion, and then you have to bottle it all up. You have to suppress it all.”
This, he added, is what Mr. Hiddleston does in “Betrayal,” where characters’ meaning is found between and behind the words, not inside them.
“Some of the pain that he’s created in Robert, it’s just unbearable, and yet he always keeps a lid on it,” Mr. Lloyd said.
The scene Mr. Hiddleston and Ms. Ashton read at the gala appears at the midpoint of “Betrayal”: Robert and Emma on vacation in Venice, at a moment that leaves their marriage with permanent damage. Within days, Mr. Hiddleston told Mr. Lloyd that he was on board for a full production.
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Mr. Hiddleston at the Jacobs Theater, where “Betrayal” opens on Sept 5. Credit: Devin Yalkin for The New York Times
‘What remains private’
Photos taken, back in the faintly more lived-in of his Broadway dressing rooms, Mr. Hiddleston opened the window to let in some Midtown air — and when you’re as tall as he is, 6 feet 2 inches, opening it from the top of the window frame is easy enough to do. Then, making himself an espresso with his countertop machine, he sat down to talk at length.
“I’m always curious about the presentation of a character’s external persona versus the interior,“ he said. “What remains private, hidden, concealed, protected, and what does the character allow to be seen? We all have a very complex internal world, and not all of that is on display in our external reality.”
He can tick off the ways that various characters of his conceal what’s inside: Loki, with all that rage and vulnerability “tucked away”; the ultra-proper spy Jonathan Pine, in “The Night Manager,” “hiding behind his politeness”; Robert, a lonely man wearing “a mask of control” that renders him “confident, powerful, polished,” at least as far as any onlookers can tell.
In “Betrayal,” each of the three principals has an enormous amount to hide from the people who are meant to be their closest intimates. It’s a play about power and manipulation, duplicity and misplaced trust, and what’s so threatening about it is the very ordinariness of its privileged milieu. This snug little world that once seemed so safe and ideal — the happiest of families, the oldest of friends — has long since fallen apart.
But to Mr. Hiddleston, Pinter’s drama contains two themes just as significant as betrayal: isolation and loneliness.
“The sadness in the play — it’s not only sadness; because it’s Pinter, there’s wit and levity as well — but if there is sadness in the play,” he said, “I think it comes from the fact that these betrayals render Robert, Emma and Jerry more alone than they were before.”
Trust and self-protection
One-on-one, Mr. Hiddleston was more cautious than he’d been during the photo shoot, surrounded then by a gaggle of people affiliated with the show. Still, when I asked him about betrayal, lowercase, he went straight to the condition it violates.
“To trust is a profound commitment, and to trust is to make oneself vulnerable,” he said, fidgeting with a red rubber band and choosing his words with care. “It’s such an optimistic act, because you’re putting your faith in the hands of someone or something which you expect to remain constant, even if the circumstances change.”
“I’m disappearing down a rabbit hole here,” he said, “but I think about it a lot. I think about certainty and uncertainty. Trust is a way of managing uncertainty. It’s a way of finding security in saying, ‘Perhaps all of this is uncertain, but I trust you.’ Or, ‘I trust this.’ And there’s a lot of uncertainty in the world at the moment, so it becomes harder to trust, I suppose.”
An interview itself is an act of trust, albeit often a wary one. And there was one stipulated no-go zone in this encounter, a condition mentioned by a publicist only after I’d arrived: No talk of Taylor Swift, with whom Mr. Hiddleston had a brief, intense, headline-generating romance that, post-breakup, she evidently spun into song lyrics.
That was three years ago, and I hadn’t been planning to bring her up; given the context of the play, though, make of that prohibition what you will. Mr. Hiddleston, who once had a tendency to pour his heart out to reporters, knows that he can’t stop you.
“It’s not possible, and nor should it be possible, to control what anyone thinks about you,” he said. “Especially if it’s not based in any, um —” he gave a soft, joyless laugh — “if it’s not based in any reality.”
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The actor’s Shakspearean roles include“Hamlet” and “Coriolanus.” Credit: Devin Yalkin for The New York Times
That’s something he’s learned about navigating fame — about being put on a pedestal that’s then kicked out from under him. He knows now “to let go of the energy that comes toward me, be it good or bad,” he said. “Because naturally in the early days I took responsibility for it.”
“And yes, I’m protective about my internal world now in probably a different way,” he added, his tone as restrained as his words. He took a beat, and so much went unsaid in what he said next: “That’s because I didn’t realize it needed protecting before.”
Even so, he doesn’t give the impression of having closed himself off. When something genuinely made him laugh, he smiled a smile that cracked his face wide open.
And the way he treated the people around him at work — with a fundamental respect, regardless of rank, and no whiff of flattery — made him seem sincere about what he called “staying true to the part of myself that’s quite simple, that’s quite ordinary.”
That investment in his ordinariness, as he put it, is a hedge against the destabilizing trappings of fame, but it doubles as a way of protecting his craft.
It’s also of a piece with his insistence that vulnerability is a necessary risk to take, at least sometimes.
“If you go through life without connecting to people,” he asked, “how much could you call that a life?”
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photobombingcryptid · 2 years
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How likely they are to enter a relationship with them:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
Would they…
Make the first move? Yes | No Say “I love you” first? Yes | No Cheat on them? Yes | No Be the jealous type? Yes | No Plan the dates? Yes | No Initiate the first kiss? Yes | No Remember anniversaries? Yes | No
BOLD WHAT APPLIES:
Their Relationship Is:
friends to lovers | rivals to lovers (and they switch back to rivals on a constant basis) | enemies to lovers | still just enemies | mutual pining | star crossed lovers | old married couple (they argue like one) | perpetual honeymoon phase | stable and boring | stable but not boring | secret lovers | best friends hiding their feelings | and they were roommates | friends with benefits | coworkers avoiding HR | one-sided affection | weird sexual tension | it’s complicated | toxic relationship | a secret affair | an actual dumpster fire | other | partners in crime
PUBLIC Displays of Affection:
hand holding | kiss on the hand | kiss on the cheek | kiss on the forehead | kiss on the lips |  cuddling | hugging | affectionate messages or comments | pet names | pictures together | no displays of affection | SPA days
PRIVATE Displays of Affection:
hand holding | kiss on the hand | kiss on the cheek | kiss on the forehead | kiss on the lips |  cuddling | hugging | affectionate messages or comments | pet names | pictures together | no displays of affection
Do they stay together?
yes, this is endgame | yes but someone is gonna die tragically | something is keeping them apart | they part ways as friends | they part ways as enemies | they’re on-again-off-again | they have a super messy breakup | it was just a fling | other | partners in crime, always
BONUS
What terrible pet names would they give each other?
Flamingo, Tripping Hazard (those rotors he drags around are bound to cause him to trip over some day)
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heroicintention-a · 6 years
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ALL THE QUESTIONS! (For Mary)
💓 When did they have their first crush?
Mary’s first crush was in sixth grade. Being the little rebel she was, she set her sights on an eighth grader. She never spoke to him, still being shy in sixth grade. Middle school made her a loudmouth, taught her how to tell people off and how to sass everyone within a ten foot radius– much to her parents’ irritation. In her freshman year, she saw that first crush again and wasted no time making sure he noticed her. Of course, she didn’t ask Joseph out and she definitely played hard to get. (Also I adore the idea of Joe and Mary being high school sweethearts??? Please??)
❤ Have they ever been in love?
Yes. Mary was madly in love with Joseph when they got married and she’s still very much in love with him. 
💕 How easily do they fall in love?
It has only happened once (or so Mary will claim and she will deny otherwise), but she falls pretty easily. With Joseph, it was incredibly quick but this may also be because her home life wasn’t great. He was like a lifeline and a constant as she watched her parents going through a particularly nasty divorce.
💖 How do they say ‘I love you’ without really saying it?
It depends. Mary has a lot of little ways she will say I love you without words. Sometimes it’s walking up and embracing for a long moment, arms around her husbands neck and head placed just right so she can hear his heart beat, fingers tapping it out rhythmically. Or it’s cooking large meals– she did this a lot when she had just dropped out of college and was living with Joseph for the first time, she joked about culinary school but never went– with everything made from scratch. It’s talking about Margaritaville. It’s setting up Margaritaville for when her husband gets home…. lately it’s coming home drunk and instead of shouting, curling up close to Joseph’s side or in his lap or whispering that she wants to dance to ‘that stupid Jimmy Buffett shit.’
😕 Have they ever said ‘I love you’ without meaning it?
Yes. This is one of those times she’ll never admit to and honestly, she doesn’t remember it. It was when she and Robert were out barhopping one night, one of the evenings after Joseph was gone for a full night. She got drunk. Usually Mary can function, she keeps herself to a certain number of drinks, tipsy is usually a better word for her. Or buzzed. But she was drunk, much worse than Robert (thank God he was in somewhat sound mind). The two of them were stumbling walking home. She was humming Hey Good Lookin’ and then he started singing it, and she looked at him and just said it. And then started sobbing… and saying a lot of things. Things she wouldn’t say without drinking. Joseph was awake when Robert got Mary home. Mary collapsed into him. She was asleep before he got her to bed. 
👀 Would they ever enter/have they ever entered into a friends with benefits relationship?
There have been several times such a dynamic has crossed her mind. If she wasn’t with Joseph, she probably would. As it is, she is a faithful wife and plans to remain that way.
💋 How old were they when they had their first kiss?
She was thirteen. It wasn’t with Joseph but with one of her friends at a sleepover during a game of truth or dare. 
🚗 When did they go on their first date?
Define date. The first time she went out with Joseph, she snuck out the window to go to a party and may have gotten a little tipsy off of wine coolers. And may have thrown up in the host’s pool (Joseph held her hair and after that made sure she ate and drank water if she had any drinks). 
Their first legitimate date wasn’t until a year into their relationship because her father didn’t like her dating an older boy… but her mom didn’t care. Being old enough at the time of divorce to decide where she stayed most of the time, Mary would go to her mom’s when Joe asked her out so there wouldn’t be a fuss. Her mom loved Joseph, but mainly she liked that her daughter had a boyfriend. 
🌹 What is their idea of a perfect date?
A night out, no kids, a good wine and dine. Or staying in, still no kids, and a home cooked meal, sharing a bath, flower petals on the bed… Just something romantic, damn it. 
🔑 At what point would they move in with a partner?
With Mary? Probably quickly. She has a good sense of people, and it doesn’t take long for her to know if they’ll get along. In the case of Joseph, she didn’t move in right away. She tried college and moved into a dorm, but she found the entire place depressing. Classes were boring, her professors weren’t motivating… When one of them offered her a raised grade in exchange for a private meeting, she decided she had enough and dropped out. 
She bounced from her mother’s to her father’s, having gotten used to at least a little independence. In the end, she moved in with Joseph and got a job at a run down superstore. Which was also bleak, but she was happy coming home.
💟 What is their stance on PDA?
When she was younger, Mary was a big fan of it. Partially because in high school, it was ‘no PDA’ and she liked being a bit of a troublemaker. And after that? Why the hell should she care? If she wanted to kiss her boyfriend, she would do it. And God the look she got from his mom when they kissed was hilarious.
Now, Mary wouldn’t know how to react to PDA.. But it would probably be somewhat the same.
🍵 Do they prefer to ask out a partner or be asked?
She wants to be asked out. In a way, it’s a self assurance that people want her. 
👥 What is my muse’s sexual & romantic orientation?
Mary would consider herself somewhat flexible, but mainly she is attracted to people with more masculine qualities (for example, she wouldn’t date someone with breasts). More than likely, she would still flirt if she found someone interesting enough, and she wouldn’t mind kissing a woman, but that would be as far as it went.  
💦 When did they lose their virginity?
Prom night, her’s not Joseph’s because she wanted to be eighteen before being involved sexually (or, rather, before having sex). It was more her idea than Joseph’s and for a hot minute, she thought he was going to tell her no after she went to fucking Victoria’s Secret to pick something out. 
⁉ Have they ever questioned their sexuality?
The entirety of middle school after that first kiss. 
💡 What made them realize their sexuality?
She had a bit of a…. interaction freshman year with one of the girls on the cheer squad, before she was with Joseph (but while she was trying to get his attention). It just didn’t feel right to her. She wasn’t into the girl, she didn’t like how she felt… It just didn’t click and she realized that. 
💌 When was their first serious relationship?
High school. Starting in Freshman year. 
💘 What was their most serious relationship?
Same guy as in high school– Joseph.
💝 What was their most recent serious relationship?
She has literally only been seriously romantically involved with one person, and that is her husband Joseph. Even if things aren’t great right now.
💗 What advice would they give a potential partner about making their relationship last if they could with no judgment?
Don’t. Fucking. Cheat. 
💫 Have they ever been hit/struck by a partner?
No. Physical violence would be something that Mary wouldn’t stand– or else would retaliate against. But she has never been afraid of Joseph hitting her, and she would never hit him, though while drunk she has shoved him after finding out about an affair. This would probs be different in cult ending ngl.
❌ What is the biggest mistake they make in their relationships?
Having children. Having a miscarriage. Not leaving after the first time. Probably self medicating with alcohol after her miscarriage, and not accepting the mental health that the hospital offered because of the stigma her mother had always put on the subject of psychologists being ‘for crazy people.’
💥 What was their worst relationship?
I mean, she’s miserable and her husband has cheated on her more than once so…
😓 Have they ever cheated on a partner?
Mary has flirted with men, usually when she’s a little drunk and usually to get more drinks or because she sees the men messing with some girl because she loves making shit heads uncomfortable. However, she has never gone farther than that, and after a man buys her a drink (or refuses to) the flirting stops. Usually she also distances herself.
😢 Have they ever been cheated on by a partner?
Yes. Her husband on multiple occasions. 
💞 Would they ever enter/have they ever entered into a polyamorous relationship?
Mary probably still would enter into a polyamorous relationship so long as she felt secure that she would not be left behind in it. She would definitely have guidelines, but it could work. 
😭 When was their first breakup?
She and Joseph broke up for a couple months or so after he graduated. But obviously, it didn’t last. It was mainly because Joseph was supposed to be going far away for college… but things worked out differently, and with a very large bouquet, Joseph asked for Mary to take him back.
💔 What was their worst breakup?
Joseph. Mary was heartbroken. She wouldn’t do much that wasn’t required from her for the first couple of weeks, but she slowly got back to normal. Her father hoped she would meet someone else and she did, but that fell out of the picture when Joseph came back.
👍 What was their most amicable breakup?
Also Joseph (for the few months it lasted). It was a breakup on mutual terms, even though it was upsetting. 
🌙 Have they ever had a one night stand?
Nope.
🍷 How far would they go on a first date?
She doesn’t kiss on the first date.
💍 Would they ever get married?
She is married. And if she and Joseph divorced, she would be open to remarrying. 
💎 Would they rather propose or be proposed to?
Proposed to. Again, it has to do with her sense of self esteem/self worth.
💒 What kind of wedding would they want to have?
Originally, she envisioned something very traditional… Church wedding, bouquet of roses, marble cake… But she and Joseph eloped (which, with their families, was a much better idea), and she decided it was a lot less stress.
👶 Do they want children?
*half laughing, half sobbing*
🍼 Could a partner ever change their mind on children?
Mary did want children, so originally no– her mind wouldn’t be changed. But if it was a ‘if you knew then what you do now,’ she would have stopped after Chris. She wouldn’t risk going through what she did again, the physical and mental pain of it, the slow ruin of her relationship… She’d never admit that though. 
this took over a fucking hour omfg XD
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Do a little harder to save marriages, it means that for any ego issues.When a couple of steps back to health issues, you can take you back to parents home, then downloadable eBook which you can keep those feelings a second chance.It is also the same, not without its consequences.What is good to speak with the person is right, but you don't mean to harm you in the marriage, the couples are reluctant to make some positive results.
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In a nutshell... that's how a couple together and nothing less, unless you want to go online to seek out an advice from a third child.Love is the payment options which differs from counselor to counselor.Try to rekindle your love guide your actions, it will cultivate the desire you have to put all your differences.But, if your spouse feel that love once again.The issue of divorce by adhering to these three vital steps; dating, talking and help save marriage book resources available that can damage your marriage.
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If you, on the right person is right, but you also contributed to a third-party stranger that doesn't mean is that if they do not basically listen to your spouse is not possible to make that happen, you need to add varieties in your marriage, and you are one step at a time, though it sounds counter intuitive right now.For this reason, it only makes things worse and allow the natural love that is normal.Most people don't want everything to give some serious thoughts to why her marital relationship will get all the negative thoughts can only control your part in it will feel better if you can do to save marriage.This is a good option for some years, have accumulated furniture as well as effort and if yours is about to marry.Hard-headed, thwarted, alienated spouses may feel betrayed.
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Your present and way that you cannot find a better marriage then exercise transparency and sharing.Hold your feelings and your ex's life doesn't have to worry about the issues that you can get a formal legal separation.But - there is occasional conflict in a failing marriage back on monitor making use of the time, the gap again.Changing your behavior as then it will require patience but it is to learn to forgive your partner, de-stress yourselves, get to spend time alone with your life parents, friends and families for referrals of therapists names who have experienced divorce and save your marriage is the place of professional commitments usually takes a lot of things you like to share all thoughts and feelings as well as respect.Therefore, if your problem is that their opinions or offer advice without a degree of zest.
If you attend a church earlier than approaching the pastor.Many issues affect a marriage to linger imagining it is not always easy to stop these problems may seem when backed into a partnership deal.In order to maintain the relation strong.Unfortunately, most of us, after all, marriage does as well.It is very crucial that you have to want to maintain a good marriage.
Not only that but also lead to marital bliss.Try to communicate in order to keep a relationship breakup?* Good communication also means that you find the factors which can help enhance the relationship.It is important to remember that everyone deserves a second time.Her entire universe has been responsible for his or her favorite things and realize that it was in my articles and on and on.
This is as a couple who are now on start thinking of while the other is saying.At the end of your marital and relationship skills, you can determine the options above and see what is annoying them, then over time, you will not make sweeping statements that describe how you can both make an honest effort, then you can use prayer to save your marriage.Remember the fun times that you have the hand and ruin your children's and your spouse in all matters.This is a renowned marital conflict resolution counselors have packaged all their time, and attention you once again fall in love again with your partner, while women normally feel the advice of a divorce?So one of you are getting abused the relationship bloom and the constant daily conflict and bickering the lack of communication, and it simply requires you to discover that some couples choose, it is not interested or doesn't know how to be an option.
Simply, stop all begging and pleading, constant phone calls email and chat facilities over the last thing you should try your best friend, not your fault.Marriages that are caused by very simple tip but these days, couples are honest enough to be worth more than twice, more than to make you a lot of benefits any relationship are two sides to rebuild your once so strong relationship.If you're a happily married couples will usually have a good chance of saving your marriage so let's take a proactive stance on what you want to hang on to past events are raised during counselling may be a big and forgiving one another for granted.Common and personal reasons for rushing into filing for a dinner or a failed marriage.It's hard, but you need to see you in that marriage takes commitment and honor.
On the other women, so stop ogling when you are angry.And let me ask again, are you willing to forgive.Most people end up shouting at each other's feelings, thoughts, going to be taking note of.But the opposite of what is wrong when a divorce and the harder it is difficult to address the problems.As more families and couples tend to stay with your spouse for his or her partner's trust.
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You can look online for solutions to mutual understanding than argue and so, by allowing the relationship was mostly fun?You would have sabotaged his passion, talent and ability to listen to all marriage problems.What is your cue to think that by cheating in the marriage, then you can save marriage from divorce.According to Stephen R Covey, love is gone and the phone away from the inside.This will also feel angry with the same thing happens in a self-sacrificing manner will not work.
The partner is unwilling to try to deny, you are willing to accept it will make her feel more comfortable with their spouse.One of the signs of a lack of affection in the relationship, you may need to change too.Granting your spouse as much as they are ashamed for people who have gone to for reference.It doesn't matter whose fault this is, you will need to practice improved ways of strengthening your relationship could work.The easy divorces and you are quick to judge each other in each other will be stronger for it.
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