Tom Hiddleston will return to the role of Jonathan Pine in 2025 with 'Night Manager.' Everett Collection Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment When Tom Hiddleston returns as Jonathan Pine in the second season of The Night Manager on Prime Video, he says the character begins from a place he can no longer retreat from. "I felt that the lights had been switched on inside him," he says, describing Pine's psychological state after the events of the first season. Fully recruited into the intelligence, Pine is no longer operating on instinct or moral panic. "There's a curiosity about seeing behind the curtain, about seeing the world as it really is, not the world as it appears to be," Hiddleston says, adding that Pine is now driven by "a desire to understand the truth, to have the courage to see every truth." Related Stories Movies Rotterdam Positions Itself as a Safe Haven for Indie Cinema Music Juno Awards: Justin Bieber, Tate McRae Lead With Six Nominations That awareness, he says, makes it impossible for Pine to return to an ordinary life. "After the events of the first series, he cannot go back," Hiddleston says. "He has to stay in the intelligence community because he needs to keep searching." But the courage and clarity Pine displays come at a cost. Hiddleston is careful not to frame the character as healed or resolved. "I believe he's somebody who was asked to undergo extraordinary suffering and solitude," he says, "and withstood a lot of danger and personal pain." The result, he suggests, is a man whose identity has shifted in ways that are not immediately visible. "I think his identity has changed and he has suppressed that trauma," Hiddleston says. "It sits within him like an unexploded bomb." What interested him most about returning to the role was playing those contradictions at once. Pine, he explains, possesses "real courage, real moral clarity, real competence," and on the surface appears "calm and capable and elegant and immaculate." Internally, however, "he's turbulent and vulnerable and passionate," Hiddleston says. "His soul is on fire." The tension between that composed exterior and the chaos beneath it is, for him, where the character truly begins this season. "So I would say he starts from a place of trauma," he says, before adding, almost as an afterthought, "and courage." A dangerous man, then, by definition. The conversation also touches on Hiddleston's relationship with international filmmaking and the global reach of The Night Manager franchise, which recently wrapped production on a Chinese remake in Hong Kong, Macau and Thailand, following an earlier Indian adaptation. He confirms that he has watched the Indian adaptation of the series. "I do. I've seen it," he says simply. Hiddleston also reflects on his recent experience working in South Asia on a project that functioned as an international co-production. "It was an Indian production company, India Take One Productions," he says, recalling that much of the crew came from the Indian film community. "It was my first time working with a largely Indian crew, and I had the best time." THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day Subscribe Sign Up Live Feed After 'RHOSLC' Season 6 Reunion, Bronwyn Newport Is Walking Into a New Era Live Feed Stephen Colbert Says 'Late Show' End "Feels Real Now" With 4 Months Left on Air Live Feed 'Shrinking' Wraps Up Early Season 4 Renewal at Apple TV Live Feed 'Skyscraper Live' Doesn't Quite Climb to the Top of Netflix Charts Live Feed Michael Rapaport Says He's Spoken to Colton Underwood After Explosive 'Traitors' Exit, and Thinks the Show Helped His NYC Mayoral Bid Live Feed Stephen Colbert Reveals Final 'Late Show' Date Live Feed After 'RHOSLC' Season 6 Reunion, Bronwyn Newport Is Walking Into a New Era Live Feed Stephen Colbert Says 'Late Show' End "Feels Real Now" With 4 Months Left on Air Live Feed 'Shrinking' Wraps Up Early Season 4 Renewal at Apple TV Live Feed 'Skyscraper Live' Doesn't Quite Climb to the Top of Netflix Charts Live Feed Michael Rapaport Says He's Spoken to Colton Underwood After Explosive 'Traitors' Exit, and Thinks the Show Helped His NYC Mayoral Bid Live Feed Stephen Colbert Reveals Final 'Late Show' Date