Loki Is Confirmed To Be Genderfluid In The Disney+ Series And Here's What The Director Had To Say About It
"It felt like an important thing."
It's been confirmed that Loki is genderfluid ā but for most major Marvel fans, that won't come as a big surprise.
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Loki's gender fluidity has long been speculated, and in a promo for the new Disney+ series, it was finally referenced.
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In a recent teaser for the show, a file shown with information about Loki listed sex as "fluid."
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āI would say that details are marked in but it is something acknowledged," director Kate Herron told Insider about the inclusion.
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She continued, "He's gender fluid in the Norse mythology and the comics and it felt like an important thing to, as you say, make sure it's canon."
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Meanwhile, Tom Hiddleston, who plays Loki in the MCU, says he's always known about Loki's gender.
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"It's always been there in the comics for some time and in the history of the character for hundreds, if not thousands of years," Tom recently told Inverse.
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He added, "Breadth and range of identity contained in the character has been emphasized and is something I was always aware of when I was first cast 10 years ago...We were very aware, this is something we felt responsible for."
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