Wright says that only Hiddleston knew about the actual end of “Loki” season 2, episode 4 — presumably, that Timely got annihilated by temporal radiation and the Temporal Loom exploded — and about how the rest of the season would unfold with repeating echoes of the same scene. The scene also features Owen Wilson, Sophia di Martino, Wunmi Mosaku, Eugene Cordero, and Ke Huy Quan (plus Majors in what would be his last major appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe), and according to the producer, it sounds like they weren’t clued in about certain aspects of the storyline related to the end of episode 4.

“I would say the way that episode 4 ended, the way it was shot, our cast, outside of Tom, thought something very different was happening,” Wright explained. “We kind of lied to them about what was happening to sell a really insane performance.” The characters portray various levels of shell shock in the scene, with Wilson’s good-natured TVA agent Mobius repeatedly asking what happened and Mosaku’s Hunter B-15 looking as if she might cry. “Up until I think they had all seen the episodes, they had thought something very different was going to happen at the end of 4,” Wright hinted.