14 DAY TRIAL // Last November, Idris Elba, who starred as Heimdall in both “Thor” movies from Marvel, let it slip in an interview that both he and Tom Hiddleston (aka the villain everyone loves to hate, Loki) had shot cameos for “Avengers: Age of Ultron.”
Much was said about Loki’s cameo, since fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe are still rooting for him to get even more screentime, but when the film dropped in April 2015, there was no single trace of Loki in it.
Director Joss Whedon later said that the explanation for that was that Elba had misspoken and no one wanted to embarrass him by issuing a public correction. Basically, he claimed that the cameo was never planned, never shot, never happened.
Hiddleston is here to finally let the cat out of the bag. Speaking with Digital Spy to promote the upcoming Guillermo del Toro pic “Crimson Peak” (video below), the actor reveals that he did shoot a cameo as Loki, for a Thor dream sequence, but it was cut later, after test screenings.
“Audiences had overemphasised Loki’s role, so they thought that because I was in it, I was controlling Ultron, and it was actually imbalancing people’s expectations,” he explains.
Since Ultron was the main villain, it made no sense to mislead fans by including Loki in a cameo and thus encouraging false expectations. So now we know.