--- title: Tom Hiddleston Gorilla Suit Jimmy Kimmel Watch VIDEO description: Watch the 'Thor' actor don a giant gorilla suit to introduce the brand-new trailer for 'Kong: Skull Island,' out in March. canonical: https://time.com/4574766/tom-hiddleston-gorilla-suit/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-17T15:45:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:45.983Z og:title: Tom Hiddleston Gets in Character as Kong for Jimmy Kimmel og:description: Watch the actor show up in a full gorilla suit to premiere the movie's trailer. og:url: https://time.com/4574766/tom-hiddleston-gorilla-suit/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tom Hiddleston Gets in Character as Kong for Jimmy Kimmel twitter:description: Watch the actor show up in a full gorilla suit to premiere the movie's trailer. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Tom Hiddleston March in a Gorilla Suit Like the Committed Actor He Is  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Nov 17, 2016 3:45 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Nov 17, 2016 3:45 PM UTC Tom Hiddleston has been laying low recently [following a tabloid-filled summer](http://time.com/4499314/emmys-2016-tom-hiddleston-taylor-swift/?iid=sr-link6), but we’re about to see much more of the British actor as publicity ramps up for [_Kong: Skull Island_.](http://time.com/4419776/kong-skull-island-king-kong-poster/?iid=sr-link1) To debut the action movie’s fiery new trailer on Wednesday night, Hiddleston made a stop at _Jimmy Kimmel Live_ in character, although it wasn’t quite _his_ character. Marching boldly onto the stage in a giant, furry gorilla suit, Hiddleston removed the head to reveal himself beneath it. Even host Kimmel seemed confused as to why the normally dapper Hiddleston had eschewed his usual sharp suits for the outsized costume. “They told me to,” Hiddleston explains, confused. “Like when Leonardo DiCaprio came on here for _The Revenant_, he dressed as a bear.” Kimmel then had to admit that [Oscar winner DiCaprio](http://time.com/4237169/the-revenant-leonardo-dicaprio-doctor/?iid=sr-link1) has actually never been on his show; someone was clearly lying to Hiddleston to make him look pretty foolish. And a gorilla-clad Hiddleston stomped off to find the culprit. The [_Thor_ actor](http://time.com/4445102/tom-hiddleston-instagram-thor-loki/?iid=sr-link1) stars in the new giant primate remake, which from the looks of the trailer seems to be a Jurassic-Park-meets-Pacific-Rim tropical thriller. It’s out in March. Watch it in the clip. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4574766/tom-hiddleston-gorilla-suit/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4574766/tom-hiddleston-gorilla-suit/"},"headline":"Watch Tom Hiddleston March in a Gorilla Suit Like the Committed Actor He Is","datePublished":"2016-11-17T15:45:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:45.983Z","description":"Like Leonardo DiCaprio, except not","url":"https://time.com/4574766/tom-hiddleston-gorilla-suit/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","movies","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4574766/tom-hiddleston-gorilla-suit/","name":"Watch Tom Hiddleston March in a Gorilla Suit Like the Committed Actor He Is"}}]}] ```