Tom Hiddleston Says It's 'Exotic To Be An Actor In London,' Talks New Movie 'High-Rise'

(Photo : Getty Images - Juan Naharro Gimenez) Tom Hiddleston at the 63rd San Sebastian Film Festival on September 22, 2015.

Tom Hiddleston says actors are a somewhat rare breed in London.

"London has always been my home, it's where I was born, it's where my friends are and my family," the 34-year-old, who still lives in North West London, told Hello! magazine (via the Guelph Mercury). "I also like it because it's still a little bit exotic to be an actor in London, whereas being an actor in Los Angeles is the norm."

Hiddleston is currently without a girlfriend, although he's on the lookout for one. He said, "I like strong women. My mothers and sisters are very strong women, immensely independent and very capable and that's what I feel comfortable with. My mother places a huge importance on decency and kindness and always has -- and the older I get the more I realize how rare that is."

One of Hiddleston's New Year's resolutions was to interact "more with people" and less with technology. Speaking with Interview Magazine, he explained, "That sounds quite technical, but literally face time. Not FaceTime, because that's a thing now, but to be in the room with someone. To turn your phone off. To sit and have dinner and just be there with somebody. If you can run around the corner and say hello to someone do that instead of emailing. It's always more rewarding; the connection is always more authentic. If you've got something to say and you can say it someone's face, it's so much better -- healthier. I don't know why that should be. Maybe that's just a personal point of view."

Hiddleston's new film "High-Rise," based on the  J.G. Ballard's 1975 novel of the same name, about residents of a London high-rise who separate into violent tribes, explores themes of technological alienation, Hiddleston said.

"J.G. Ballard always talked about our attachment to technology and how it was only going to continue and advance at an incredible velocity; it was going to become so embedded in the culture that it would actually create psychological shifts in how we conceive of ourselves," Hiddleston told Variety. "The way he talked about the industrialization of the moving image, he sort of predicted YouTube and Instagram and social media. I think he saw in the '70s that we were becoming increasingly reliant on machines to provide services where in the past human beings were your access, and he was just interested in where that takes you. So I suppose I see 'High-Rise' in that context. It's a warning. It's who we might become."