I remember when I first heard him being interviewed after Thor first opened and I was pleasantly surprised by how well-spoken he was and lacked any affectation which is so rare.

Yeah, unaffected is totally it. If he's not genuine, he's fucking good at faking it. Mr and Mrs Hiddleston raised a very nice boy.

Randomly, listening to him talk about his passions and what he used to do as a kid, with using different voices and recording his own radio show and stuff, made me realize I wasn't and am not as weird as I thought I was. I've been noticing that lately when I listen to interviews with writers and actors. All my life I've thought I was completely alone in my weirdness, and it turns out that I was just isolated in it. It's been quite comforting to find out that being geeky about Shakespeare and history, and really liking foreign languages, and singing and dancing all the time, aren't as weird as I thought. Or at least stand me in good company.