Name: He Stands For The Best Of Us And He Resists The Worst In Us - Tom Hiddleston On "The Night Manager”
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Ladies and gentlemen, my first guest tonight is an actor from stage and screen.

You see him in War Horse, the Avengers, the Night Manager and the Life of Chuck.

He now stars in season two of the Night Manager.

Let's just say it's getting more complex to work with our Chinese friends.

Welcome back to the Late Show, Tom Hiddleston.

But I'm so excited about this next thing because, I mean, I first got to really know your work in the Night Manager.

I sort of burst onto the American scene over here in the Night Manager 10 years ago.

Reviews are glowing, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes season one.

I love any series that can make Hugh Laurie seem like a monster.

But the story seemed complete in season one.

And you are the best question asker there is.

We had John Le Carre's blessing to make an adaptation of the novel, a brilliant novel that he wrote in 1993.

It was a great highlight of my working life that he approved of what we made.

And we opened the first season at the Berlin film festival in 2016.

It was the first time we'd screened the Night Manager to the public.

Hugh, Olivia, Susanna Beer, Elizabeth Debicki, Tom Hollander.

And we got back to the hotel afterwards and we gathered in the foyer and people had a drink and a sigh of relief, I suppose.

And then David Cornwell, which is the real name of John Le Carre, leant forward across the table with a twinkle in his eye and a glint of mischief in his tone and said, perhaps there might be more.

I thought, okay, well, you haven't written another book, though, David, so I wonder how we go about that.

It's been an interesting decade of development.

You know, we started thinking about it, and

then actually the world almost overtook what we were thinking about.

It's been an interesting 10 years in the world.

What's it like to get the stuffings kicked out of you on set 10 years later?

It's, you know, it's a mystery, suspense, but it's also action, for sure.

The world of the night manager that it is.

It's a world of mystery and intrigue, of spies and the characters.

So he's a former British soldier turned luxury hotelier who's recruited to become a field agent in the intelligence service MI6 in the first season to infiltrate the crew of Richard Roper, played by the great Hugh Laurie.

The most charming man in the world, playing the worst man in the world.

He sells terrible destructive weapons illegally to the highest bidder.

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He Stands For The Best Of Us And He Resists The Worst In Us - Tom Hiddleston On "The Night Manager”

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