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tona_0803: "Tom at SDCC Marvel stage, how come he can always looks soft when facing toward his fans 🥺🥺🥺"

tona_0803: "I was watching the competition with Tom at the same time from my home 🥰"

Tom Hiddleston encouragingly gives a thumbs up to the little kid, who is about to make his professional debut on stage.

While the kid, who has been looking straight at Tom all this time, gives a priceless reaction.

It was my very first time to get to see Tom in person, and it made me wish to see him more performing on stage. The evening was way too much fun for something involving dead Russian novelists, I must say. :)

The advocates and the small company of actors were full of enthusiasm and it was a remarkably friendly debate with lots of respect paid to both literary giants.

There were shorter-longer excerpts from different novels played out by the five invited actors, so it was a bit like getting a sneak peek of a reading rehearsal or something. They were terrific, all I had expected was one or another person standing up and reading a few paragraphs to illustrate an argument, but it was a playfully presented theater experience with a world-class cast.

Actually, Tom was reading a couple of descriptive passages alone at first, but then he got to play a fine selection of  tragic Russian guys , among them a worried husband during the birth of his first child. I mean, everything we saw was fantastic tonight, but that one scene was absolute delight. Watch out for the video podcast! :D 

I can share a few snapshots of the event, but I must apologize for the quality. Phone cameras are not much good against stage lighting at best, but with maximum optical zoom the result is truly appalling. :/

Edit:

For those who want to watch the video podcast or listen to the audio recording, this is the place to keep a watchful eye on: https://www.intelligencesquared.com/category/videos/art-culture/

Dickens vs Tolstoy: The Battle Of The Great 19th-century Novelists  

Dickens vs Tolstoy: The Battle Of The Great 19th-century Novelists

Dickens. Tolstoy. Their names and reputations shake the ground - and so do their books, if you drop one. They are the two greatest novelists from the century when novels were really great. They captured their countries' very soul and, as vastly influential social reformers, savagely critised them as well. But whose legacy is more enduring? Whose vision truer and more relevant today? Should you embark on War and Peace or Our Mutual Friend?

Tom Hiddleston, being Tom Hiddleston, goes off stage to put his 'military' coat on, before re-entering the stage, to enact the part of Vronsky, a character from Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, who is a cavalry officer.