It looks like Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander have managed to have a baby without anyone knowing, so it can be done! If Tom has people looking up his planning applications then I'm not surprised he's kept his relationships out of the public eye. I agree. Zawe us a fine actress. If she only got the Marvel role because of Tom ( unlikely) it was probably because he put in a good word for her, so he must think a lot of her.
I don't think that TH had anything to do with her landing the role. I mean, it's possible that he put a good word on her behalf but the audition was all her doing and her talent displayed. Unless you want to believe, which I don't, that the MCU is a buddy-buddy niche.
The only difference between ZA and TH in comparison with MF and AV is that they are a confirmed couple, married and all. Even when they were dating some photos surfaced back in 2014 when they started dating.
Granted TH owes nothing but we can all agree, as stated by multiple posters, that the lack of photographs is what planted the seed of doubt in all of our minds.
Now that I come to think about it, the only pictures we have from them (out in the city, at the restaurant, any picture that fueled the rumours of them being together), official or stolen, are from New York or Atlanta. Nothing since he came back to England.
True. Nothing can be traced to England a side of that photos where they were together (with another hundred people) in an Art Gallery before the premier from Betrayal.
The other photos that I just remember of were the US Open in 2019 but again, it was the Betrayal era and the match was in NY
I think you can understand a lot about where Tom is in his head now by looking at this quote from Just before the Betrayal run in NYC:
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"And yes, I'm protective about my internal world now in probably a different way," he added, his tone as restrained as his words. He took a beat, and so much went unsaid in what he said next: "That's because I didn't realize it needed protecting before."
He found this out the hard way with what happened with
the one that shall not be named though he might have had that self-protection instinct as all his previous relationships were kept in the DL a side of some public appearances.
I still believe that he was ill advised on how to deal with that situation. I don't think Luke is ripe enough to carry the PR for a celebrity like him, but that's just my opinion