Writer-director Joss Whedon's The Avengers production has been relatively safe from the prying eyes — and camera lenses — of the kinds of scoopers, amateur photographers, and paparazzi that swarmed the L.A. and N.Y.C. sets of The Amazing Spider-Man due to it having set up shop in remote Albuquerque, N.M., much to the chagrin of the countless comic book movie fans who are just dying for some news about Marvel's super-team movie. Thankfully, several of the stars of the movie were given leave from the production to attend recent events in L.A., which allowed MTV to pick their brains about The Avengers, giving us our first little glimpses into what it must be like to work on such an ambitious project.
Actor Chris Evans, who reprises the role of Steve Rogers from his upcoming movie, Captain America: The First Avenger, in The Avengers, said at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards that he "geeked out a bit" from being on a set with other superheroes like Robert Downey, Jr. as Iron Man and Chris Hemsworth as Thor, versus on The First Avenger set where he was the only superhero. Now, another cast member has opened up about what it's like to be a part of such a star-studded movie, though this actor plays a far less noble character. Tom Hiddleston, who reprises the role of Loki from Thor in The Avengers, told MTV at the premiere of Super 8 that he has "seen everybody in costume" and that it is "everything everyone has been imagining except it's better."
"It's funny how everybody looks so entirely iconic in their own individual way, but then together there's a whole different level of iconography. It really is happening. It's very exciting."
Hiddleston went on to say that he has "not been excluded from the group party" that Evans alluded to in his interview, despite the fact that he is playing one of the villains, if not the villain, in a movie that contains so many heroes.
"I'm in the fold. I'm in the fold of the family."
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