‘The Night Manager’ Star Tom Hiddleston Dishes On Preparing For Role Of Jonathan Pine

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(Photo : Getty Images/Mark Davis) Tom Hiddleston recently sat down to discuss playing the role of Jonathan Pine in AMC's upcoming series "The Night Manager" and gave a few interesting tidbits about his new film "Kong: Skull Island."

Tom Hiddleston recently sat down to discuss what it was like portraying the soldier turned hotelier Jonathan Pine in AMC's "The Night Manager" and also gave a few tidbits about his upcoming film "Kong: Skull Island."

In AMC's new series "The Night Manager," Hiddleston plays an ex-soldier named Jonathan Pine who starts working at a hotel. Unfortunately, his character gets wrapped up in a plot to take down an international arms dealer named Richard Onslow Roper, who is nicknamed "the worst man in the world."

Hiddleston told Variety that in order to prepare for his role, he shadowed the night manager at the Rosewood Hotel in London and compared it to working in a theater.

"There's an upfront and a backstage, and it is chaos backstage," he explained. "The whole thing is being run so precisely in a way that I never could have conceived. There was a wedding going on in the ballroom in the basement and there were people on the first floor complaining about the music, and we had to keep both parties happy. They keep notes on everybody, and everybody's got a psychological profile."

Hiddleston added that he also asked stunt coordinator Julian Spencer, who previously worked as a British paratrooper, for very specific training in order to accurately portray Jonathan's past as a soldier.

"As much as Jonathan Pine is a hotelier, he's also a former soldier and it is so much part of the engine that motivates him," the actor said. "I remember asking Spencer for very specific training, and you'll see that Pine's soldiership comes into play later on in the series. I was fascinated by the duality because he's a man who is in hiding and concealed behind the anonymity of a uniform. Going under Julian's tutelage and the way he trained me, I learned the capacity to improvise in a situation that is physically dangerous. I found that very fascinating."

Hiddleston also discussed the "King Kong" reboot "Kong: Skull Island" with Entertainment Weekly and hinted that the upcoming film will be more of a drama than an action movie.

"I don't want to spoil it too much," he said. "But it is a whole new re-conception of the mythology. It essentially follows a group of disparate travelers and explorers and soldiers who travel to an undiscovered island in the South Pacific. It's set in a time period where you could conceive that there are still undiscovered places on Earth. What the find on the island is surprising, and then every character has a different response to it. It's going to be spectacular and epic, but also the human drama is interesting as well."

"The Night Manager" is slated to premiere on Tuesday, April 19, at 10 p.m. ET on AMC.

Tom Hiddleston fans, are you excited to watch "The Night Manager" and "Kong: Skull Island?" Let us know your thoughts by leaving a comment.

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Apr 11, 2016 11:40 AM EDT


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