It all started with "Thor: Ragnarok" and its climactic fight on the Bifrost Bridge. "... We were doing that run, it was an afternoon, and it was myself and Idris and maybe Taika. I can't remember. Definitely Idris was there, and it was a two-shot of us fighting these fantastic athletes that are the stunt guys," Tom Hiddleston told EW. "And I ran out of choreography. Basically, I think I finished my moves before Idris, and he was still rolling, and I didn't want to just be standing there like a lemon, not doing anything interesting. So I just flipped the knives, and caught them by chance."
Displaying an uncharacteristically humble attitude for a guy that wears as many gold hats as he does, Hiddleston went on to state that stuff-flippery isn't part of his usual bag of tricks, and that he was as surprised as anyone that the maneuver worked out. "I've since tried to do it. Every time I try to do it with wooden spoons, it never works, and I always drop one. So it was one of those things, but lightning never strikes twice." Hear that, kids? Trying to throw cutlery and catch it is the sort of thing that even Loki can't confidently pull off every time. Leave your parents' knife drawer alone and go read a book.
