I did a production of Journeys End, an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, You know, you could really do this if you wanted to. – Tom Hiddleston

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They dont have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out. – Tom Hiddleston