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[william-loki]

“Sometimes I’ll be reading a script and I’ll hold myself in a different way while reading it… I picture a certain thing. Sometimes a director is a huge influence, just the way they move. But the twitch was this idea that… first of all, Loki was asking so many questions. The hardest thing for me as an actor is to ask questions. It always implies some sort out of overload somewhere else; you have to multitask. As a detective, you have to hold the mind of a psycho killer, the mind of a father who just had his father abducted, etc. I just had a feeling of what would someone do if they were overloaded.” 

— Jake Gyllenhaal of Prisoners (2013), interpreting Detective Loki’s blinking tic