Tom Hiddleston: Okay, yeah.
Kjersti Flaa: I saw you in Toronto. Hiddleston: Oh, yeah.
Flaa: It was like -- Hiddleston: Yeah.
Flaa: On the InStyle party. Hiddleston: Right.
Flaa: You were leaving. Hiddleston: Yeah, that was nuts.
Flaa: And everyone was screaming at you.
How is that part of the job, you think?
Hiddleston: Well, at Toronto, it was important, you know,
because I had two films there, and --
I felt a responsibility to represent them, so.
So it's what I did. How is it for you?
Flaa: I mean, I like going to events, and stuff like that.
But I don't have to take selfies with people like you do, probably.
Hiddleston: I don't have to, either. But I choose to, sometimes.
Flaa: So this movie's pretty scary, there's ghosts in it, which --
Hiddleston: Yeah. Flaa: I think is really scary.
Do you believe in ghosts?
Hiddleston: You know, it's so interesting.
Um, a lot of people have been asking me that question.
Uh, and I can't think of a concise answer apart from, to say, um --
I'm open to it. I --
'Cause I've had some people explain, sort of give me scientific evidence
as to why they're physically not possible.
Uh -- and --
And I love the Ghostbusters, so -- so --
If there were no ghosts, there'd be no Ghostbusters,
so maybe we need the ghosts. Flaa: That's a good point.
Hiddleston: Maybe -- maybe we need ghosts. Flaa: That's true.
Hiddleston: 'Cause then we get Ghostbusters.
Flaa: But do you believe there's anything after death?
Because if there's ghosts, there must be something after death, too, kind of.
Hiddleston: I don't know.
My hunch is, we just get this one shot, you know?
Um -- at least,
that's the only one I'm conscious of.
So, um --
That's just -- I don't know where that comes from,
apart from just a gut feeling. Uh --
I think --
That's it. The lights go out, they go out,
and you go back into the ground,
Flaa: And that's sad. Hiddleston: Yeah --
So I -- that's -- but it's also, it's a nice feeling, in a way,
it's comforting, 'cause it makes you try and live your life to the fullest, I think.
Flaa: So, another thing I liked about this movie is the romance.
Back then, it was so easy to fall in love.
You can just look at someone, and then you're like, "We're in love."
Hiddleston: That doesn't -- that doesn't happen to you now?
Flaa: Not every day, no. Hiddleston: Not every day.
Flaa: Do you think it has changed? Was it much easier before?
Hiddleston: Oh, I think falling in love is the same as it's always been.
I think it's as, uh --
surprising, and shocking, and, um, chaotic, and beautiful as it's always been.
I think you can't -- you know, you can't --
Uh --
The heart is -- is uncontrollable,
You can't legislate for who you fall in love with.
You just -- it happens.
Uh -- So, I think --
I think the structures for how we try to organize it intellectually have changed.
But evolutionarily, we haven't evolved, um, at that kind of a rate.
I think, you fall in love with somebody, you can't explain why you do it, you just do.
So, there you go. That's my take on it.
What do you think? Flaa: I think --
I mean, I think maybe it changes when you get a little older.
'Cause when you're younger, it's much easier to just --
get that crush on someone, and then --
Hiddleston: Yeah.
Flaa: You know, you think it's something more, maybe, than it is.
Hiddleston: Mm. Flaa: And then -- but when you get older,
you have more of a checklist.
Hiddleston: But is that -- but if you have a checklist, is that really love?
Do you know what I mean? That might be --
someone you're trying to sync up with, and live with,
or someone you're trying to share your life with,
or share something with, I don't know.
You're trying to construct a relationship where you can run in parallel
and work together, but that's -- is that love?
I don't know. I think --
I think real love is about acceptance, and about truth, and about, um --
and about vulnerability, and, uh...
Yeah, and then I think in that --
you know, when you really can accept someone for who they are,
and -- that's what real love is.
Flaa: That's a great answer. Thank you, thank you so much.
Good to see you again.