Last week's season finale of Loki saw the uneasy alliance between our God of Mischief (Tom Hiddleston) and female Variant Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) come to an end when they once again crossed blades after disagreeing over how to deal with "He Who Remains" (Jonathan Majors).
Sylvie was intent on killing the Kang the Conqueror Variant for his actions, while Loki believed his warning that something much worse would emerge in his place. Determined to get through to his counterpart, Loki gave an impassioned speech before the two shared a kiss... but Sylvie used the opportunity to push the distracted Asgardian through a portal before going through with the murder.
So, was Sylvie simply manipulating Loki in order to take advantage of the situation, or were her feelings genuine? Director Kate Herron has now confirmed that, at least from her perspective, it was the latter.
"I think for me the kiss was really beautiful because I don't think it was a deception, and I don't think it was a trick necessarily," she told EW. "I think for her, it was almost a goodbye. I think she does care about him, but it's just her feelings toward having to complete the mission overtook because she's not emotionally in the same place he was. I always think of Sylvie in this episode almost like how Loki was in Thor. She has all this anger and pain, and she isn't necessarily going to make the best decision with it."
Herron also revealed that Loki's speech was the trickiest moments to get right in the series.
"Me, the [finale] writer Eric [Martin], Tom, and Sophia, we were working on that speech that Loki says to her right up until the day before shooting, because we just wanted to get it right. I think those words — and this came from Tom, 'I just want you to be okay' — were so key because there's pain in that, right? Because he's evolved in ways and he's moved beyond his pain and anger, and he doesn't want that for her. You don't want that for someone you care about. But, she's just not quite on that path yet and she does still have that."
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