{"id":337891,"date":"2025-12-11T00:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/337891\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T00:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:24:08","slug":"tom-hiddleston-on-the-night-manager-season-2-ive-lived-more-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/337891\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hiddleston on ‘The Night Manager’ Season 2: ‘I’ve Lived More Life’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIt was a star-spangled affair at the BFI Southbank Wednesday night as Tom Hiddleston<\/a> and Hugh Laurie<\/a> ushered in a new era for The Night Manager<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe British actors were in attendance at the London venue for the season two premiere of the hit BBC show, arriving nearly 10 years after it\u2019s Emmy-winning predecessor.<\/p>\n

\n\tNew cast members Camila Morrone<\/a>, Diego Calva<\/a>, Indira Varma, Paul Chahidi and director Georgi Banks-Davies took to the carpet, as did Hiddleston, who made a point of shaking each photographer\u2019s hand before the flashes went wild.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m 10 years older, [I\u2019ve got] a few more scars on the inside, a few more scars on the outside,\u201d Hiddleston told The Hollywood Reporter about returning to the Bond-esque role of Jonathan Pine. \u201cI love the fact that I feel I\u2019ve lived more life, and I encouraged everyone I came into contact with to lean into that. I\u2019ve more life experience and more of my own curiosity about the world and the way it is, and I want it to be more courageous, actually, [and] about investigating the soul of this man.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a departure from John le Carr\u00e9\u2019s work, creator-writer David Farr reinvents the espionage thriller with Pine now living as Alex Goodwin, a low-level MI6 officer running a quiet surveillance unit in London. But one night a chance sighting of an old Roper mercenary prompts a call to action and leads him to a violent encounter with a new player: Colombian businessman Teddy Dos Santos (Calva).<\/p>\n

\n\tOn this perilous new journey, Pine meets Roxana Bola\u00f1os (Morrone) a businesswoman who reluctantly helps him infiltrate Teddy\u2019s Colombian arms operation. Once in Colombia, Pine is plunged deep into a deadly plot involving arms and the training of a guerrilla army.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe fascinates me,\u201d Hiddleston continues about the character. \u201cThat extraordinary courage and conviction, which is a kind of moral clarity that he simply believes in, resisting corruption and the people [who] might be wrestling control of this country and where it\u2019s going. That\u2019s what the first series was about. That\u2019s what Roper was, you know? Roper was a British man selling illegal weapons under the counter to the highest bidder. And [Pine] doesn\u2019t want that version of Britain to flourish. I don\u2019t think Le Carr\u00e9 wants that version of Britain to flourish \u2014 that kind of cynicism, that corruption \u2014\u00a0but also I think Pine\u2019s got this extraordinary capacity for sacrifice and an extraordinary capacity for risk, and his determination not to get lost in the maze is one I find extraordinary, because I need my real life. I need my people. I love my attachments and my relationships. I\u2019m really happy being me. As a field agent for MI6, you have to live almost at the fringes of our society and in the shadows, and it takes a courage that I find immensely inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe jokingly adds, \u201cI would also say at 44, it\u2019s definitely different sprinting down the Southbank to how it was at 34, but I did it!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOlivia Colman<\/a>, Alistair Petrie and Noah Jupe all reprise their roles in the show. Executive producer Stephen Garret told THR it\u2019s a \u201cvery different series\u201d to the first. Discussing how to honor the first installment while acknowledging how the world has changed over the last decade, he said: \u201cWhen [Hiddleston] made the first season, that was kind of the boy Tom Hiddleston, and the boy has become a man and it\u2019s 10 years on. We\u2019ve all changed. That\u2019s fine for me. I\u2019m behind the camera, but everyone\u2019s grown up, and the world is so different. On the U.K. terms, it was pre-Brexit, pre-Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. So we just have to, in a way, mature with it. So I think it\u2019s a much more emotional show. Hopefully it\u2019s just as tense and terrifying and riveting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s terrifying,\u201d Garrett continued, \u201cbecause here\u2019s the thing: You obviously set out to make something good, and when we made the first season, we were reasonably confident it was good. But that weird thing that happens, where it captures everyone\u2019s imagination\u2026 It\u2019s like magic, and the magic did happen, so it was great, and we take huge pride and pleasure in that. But it\u2019s terrifying to have the second one coming out, because you set a high bar, and we didn\u2019t go into it cynically, which is partly also why it took so long. You want to be sure that it\u2019s at least as good, and ideally better.\u201d Is it better? \u201cI don\u2019t know. It\u2019s different. I think it might be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCalva said about joining The Night Manager crew: \u201cI watched the first season before getting the casting, and [it was] a total \u2018Yes.\u2019 I mean working with [Hiddleston] and Olivia [Colman] and this is just an amazing franchise. I think it\u2019s pretty unusual to have a second season after almost 10 years, right? So that, for me, was also really exciting \u2014 to bring it back. And I know it was a big show over here [in the U.K.]\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMorrone added about her character: \u201cRoxana is a really tough, resilient, stoic woman. She\u2019s carries herself in a very mature and sophisticated way, and she\u2019s a woman operating in a man\u2019s world, and she\u2019s very much an equal to the men that she works with and that she surrounds herself with and she does business with.\u201d Three words to describe the new season is a tougher ask: \u201cThere\u2019s adrenaline. There\u2019s a lot of unexpected twists and turns\u2026 And sexy. We\u2019re in Colombia, we\u2019re arms dealers, it gets quite messy and sexy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Night Manager returns on Jan. 11 on the BBC and Amazon Prime Video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a star-spangled affair at the BFI Southbank Wednesday night as Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie ushered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,148210,48,148211,75,148212,77,2123,29964,123036,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-337891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-camila-morrone","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-diego-calva","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-hugh-laurie","14":"tag-international","15":"tag-olivia-colman","16":"tag-the-night-manager","17":"tag-tom-hiddleston","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}