It was meant to be a heartfelt acceptance speech paying tribute to those who work hard to make the lives of people living in South Sudan better.
But, that’s not the way the world saw it, and Tom Hiddleston has been forced to issue an online apology after he was mocked mercilessly online.
After thanking those he worked with on The Night Manager, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries/Television Film, Hiddleston said he wanted to tell the audience a “quick story”.
“I recently went to South Sudan…with the United Nations Children’s Fund…there’s a terrible situation happening for children,” he said.
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Poor guy, I feel sorry for him - you could SEE he was super nervous and also, I believe, just trying to genuinely draw attention to something he cares about. Yes, the way it came out ended up sounding rather self-congratulatory - which I'm sure was the last thing he intended, and clearly he is now feeling mortified about it. As anon says below, it seems people are incapable of giving anyone the benefit of doubt these days and instead take delight in ripping into them for anything that is not expressed perfectly eloquently in accepted PC terminology.
I watched the video of his speech later on via Facebook, and I immediately thought about how it was going to be taken by people. All he was trying to say was that he was so glad that he could have been involved in something that gave entertainment to people who are doing unbelievably difficult work in some of the darkest areas of the whole world.
Hiddlestone's such a nice guy (and totes my best friend), I can't imagine even for a second that he was suggesting that he thinks that acting in a movie makes him on the same level as someone who is working in the area that he was speaking about.