Going Behind The Scenes of the ‘Loki’ Season 2 Finale
The Season 2 finale of Loki saw the God of Mischief using his time-slipping ability to replay the day that the TVA’s Temporal Loom overloaded again and again and again.
Because Loki keeps returning to the pivotal moment in Episode 4, the cast of Loki had to keep filming the same scenes over and over.


The Temporal Loom. Photo: Marvel
“I think the funniest part of all of that, though, was as we were shooting it, you are essentially replaying that Episode 4 over and over and over again, as performers, as actors, they just start to lose track of days, and where we are in the story and what’s actually happening,” Executive Producer Kevin Wright explained to Marvel.com.
The Cast of ‘Loki’ Was Kept in the Dark
In order to create a sense of realism, only Tom Hiddleston was clued into what was happening with the Episode 4 replay. The rest of the Loki cast was left in the dark.


The cast of Loki. Photo: Marvel
“I would say the way that Episode 4 ended, the way it was shot, our cast, outside of Tom, thought something very different was happening,” Wright adds with a laugh. “We kind of lied to them about what was happening to sell a really insane performance. Up until I think they had all seen the episodes, they had thought something very different was going to happen at the end of 4. I think there was all this extra level of confusion for them, as we’re repeating this moment over and over and over again, trying to figure out why that is happening and what is going on.”
While season 1 of Loki was filmed in order, season 2 was not. Because of this, the Loki cast just went along with the constant Episode 4 replays.


Sophia di Martino as Sylvie. Source: cbr.com
“Sometimes we’re the end before we’ve shot the beginning before we’ve shot the middle before we’ve shot the beginning of the middle and then the end of the middle and then the end of the beginning,” Star Sophia Di Martino jokes. “It’s already a head melt trying to get your head around this series and all the time slipping and to-ing and fro-ing between universes but then shooting out of sequence is like a hat on a hat and the hat is really confusing.”
Hiddleston Kept Everyone’s Spirit Up
For Di Martino, it didn’t matter how many times they reshort the scene because that meant that she got to see her friends on set.


The Temporal Loom scene. Photo: Marvel
“We did a lot of days in [Temporal Core] room, over and over again. There were some really fun times when we were all going a little bit stir crazy, Cabin fever on the edge, but it was really lovely knowing I was going to come to work every and see all those guys every day.”
According to Wunmi Mosaku, who portrays Hunter B-15 / Dr. Willis in the series, Tom Hiddleston kept everyone’s spirits up.
“He has the whole script in his head at every moment and he can tell you exactly where you were just coming from and where you’re going,” she said.


Loki. Photo: Marvel
“He’s always reminding us like, this is the first time even though we’ve shot this a thousand times, this is the first time we’ve done this. The repetition of the scenes was really, really hard to keep the intensity equal as well because it’s a repeated scene. Honestly, some people are just magicians, and I would say Tom Hiddleston is one of those, I don’t know how he keeps happy, and chirpy, he doesn’t dream about [filming] it all night. He keeps the joy in the room.”
Maintaining the Mystery
Hiddleston not only encouraged his cast mates, but he also worked extra hard to keep the air of mystery around the Temporal Loom scene. The actor even went as far as to continue filming while the rest of the cast had left.


Tom Hiddleston as Loki. Photo: Marvel
“Oftentimes, a lot of that with Tom specifically was shot when the cast would go on their lunch breaks,” Wright adds. “They would all go away, and Tom would stay back with our directors and our camera operator and everybody and kind of just like churn through so many different versions of these. It was weirdly a thing that I think we all had the same idea of what it was going to be, but only Tom kind of had it in his head of how it would end up.”


Mobius and Loki. Photo: Marvel
In the end, the effort of Hiddleston and the rest of the Loki cast paid off.
Loki is now streaming on Disney+.
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