Tom Hiddleston on The Night Manager twist that turns ‘everything upside down’

Tom Hiddleston on The Night Manager twist that turns 'everything upside down'The One Show, BBC

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00:00It's amazing. It's such, it's such a moment of putting the rug out from underneath Jonathan

00:05Pine, putting the rug out from underneath the audience. You know, the show opens with,

00:10um, with Jonathan Pine and Angela Burr, played by Libby Coleman, identifying Richard Roper's

00:17dead body. Like the big bad wolf is out. And, and so, and you, and there's some sort of

00:25satisfaction in that, some sort of closing of a chapter, some sort of relief. And then

00:29at the end of episode three, Jonathan Pine is deep in the jungles of Columbia, trying

00:34to track Teddy Dos Santos, played by the great Diego Calva. He can smell the, the same familiar

00:40scent of corruption, of wrongdoing, of cynicism, um, of bad things happening. And he, and he

00:46follows his trail of breadcrumbs to an isolated restaurant in the middle of the jungle. And

00:52he hears Roper before he sees him. And he realizes that Roper has been running this whole operation,

00:57that he's back from the dead. And the sense of shock, disillusionment, surprise, grief,

01:06disenchantment, like it's a, it's so profound that you think what his whole world is turned

01:11upside down. Yeah.