Tom Hiddleston and Lydia Fox photographed together for a Cambridge University Marlowe Society production of Romeo and Juliet in 2001.
Scene from the performance on stage, photographed by Dee Miller.
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" As a young Classics undergraduate, Tom Hiddleston’s rendition of Romeo in the Cambridge Arts Theatre Show was reviewed in a Varsity article back in 2001. The actor is pictured staring lovingly into his Juliet’s (Lydia Fox) eyes and his performance was praised as being “polished and unobtrusive”. While Hiddleston clearly impressed the reviewer as “a Romeo who really can vault over orchard walls as if on the wings of love”, Lydia Fox (also now a professional actor) seemingly left a lot to be desired. The reviewer appeared to find her performance over zealous and almost comical as she wrote of her “chasing Romeo round the bed after their night together”; a line normally laden with emotion, “wherefore art thou Romeo?”, apparently elicited a titter from the audience. "
- Excerpt from Varsity - the independent student newspaper for the University of Cambridge.
