Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton’s Relationship Timeline

Loki’s in love! Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton performed a married couple within the 2019 revival of the play Betrayal — and a real-life romance shortly blossomed between the 2.

The play, which facilities on a lady having an affair along with her husband’s greatest good friend and the assorted betrayals that end result, opened in London in March 2019. Ashton, Hiddleston and their costar Charlie Cox transferred with the manufacturing to Broadway in August of that 12 months.

“We had been actually fortunate that we, on day one, had an unbelievable belief,” the Contemporary Meat alum mentioned throughout a dialog with AOL’s BUILD collection in November 2019 about working with Hiddleston and Cox. “I really feel a core connection to those folks and it’s as a result of I can really feel how open we’re. I can really feel the belief that we’ve got.”

Although the couple have been effusive about each other’s expertise and work, Hiddleston has spoken about how his very public whirlwind romance with Taylor Swift from June to September 2016 taught him to be extra protecting over his personal life.

“Everyone seems to be entitled to a personal life,” the Avengers star instructed The Telegraph in March 2017, six months after he and the Grammy winner known as it quits. “I really like what I do and I dedicate myself with absolute dedication to creating nice artwork and nice leisure, and in my thoughts I don’t battle the 2.”

He continued: “My work is within the public sphere and I’ve a personal life. And people two issues are separate.”

The Crimson Peak actor echoed these sentiments two years later when he and Ashton had been starring reverse each other on Broadway. “I’m protecting about my inside world now in most likely a special method,” Hiddleston instructed The New York Instances in August 2019. “For those who undergo life with out connecting to folks, how a lot may you name {that a} life? As a result of you need to combat for love. You possibly can’t stay in worry of what folks may say.”

After Betrayal closed, the Character Breakdown writer and Hiddleston reportedly moved in collectively in Atlanta, Georgia. Nonetheless, it wasn’t till the Tony Awards in September 2021 that the pair confirmed their relationship as they walked the purple carpet arm-in-arm and posed collectively inside Radio Metropolis Music Corridor. In March 2022, the Night time Supervisor alum escorted Ashton to the BAFTA Awards, the place they held fingers and smiled at each other.

Three days after the awards ceremony, TV presenter AJ Odudu posted a selfie with the duo from the large night time on Instagram that appeared to point out a big, oval-shaped diamond ring on Ashton’s finger. The photograph sparked hypothesis that Hiddleston and the Velvet Buzzsaw actress had been engaged. Us Weekly confirmed the engagement in March 2022.