It all began with an odd moment on the set of Loki Season 1. Kevin Wright, the executive producer of Loki who had shepherded the show alongside head writer Michael Waldron and director Kate Herron, was preparing an episode that would bring Loki to Pompeii right before the explosion of Mount Vesuvius. The scene involved Loki bursting into a loud rant in Latin about the oncoming cataclysm, before a crowd of frightened onlookers. But little did Wright know that Hiddleston had been preparing for this moment almost his entire life.
“We had translations of what the Latin was going to be. Tom corrected us on it,” Wright recalls to Inverse. “And then so that made me go, huh.”
