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Tom Hiddleston and Genden Phuntsok talk to us about bringing the extraordinary story of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to the screen in Apple's Tenzing.

Genden reveals whether he has his own “Mr Amazing” nickname, his new-found love of climbing and what it was like working alongside Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe - before we ask whether Tom could help get him into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Tom talks about the friendship at the heart of the film, why being out in nature with his dog makes him feel alive, and what kind of adventure he’d like to tackle after Everest.

And after facing Thanos, the multiverse and now the world’s highest mountain, which challenge does Loki himself think is toughest?

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Transcript
00:00I love walking the dog. I'd love to work with the pooch. Just being plugged into the natural
00:05world is a very important part of the experience of being alive.
00:08Amazing. The brown suit is everything.
00:10Yeah, I'm Mr. Amazing.
00:12Love it.
00:13Nicknames, Mr. Amazing in this.
00:15It's a pretty good nickname.
00:16And he still uses it now?
00:17He does.
00:19Have you got one that you've made still for you or that you've got yourself?
00:24Oh, I don't have a nickname. It's usually some variation of my last name. It's like
00:29HID. HID. Sometimes it's TARS. I don't know where that came from. T HIDs. Tomo.
00:40You know, pretty standard. No, it's always the HIDD. Never the end. That always gets...
00:47Hiddles happens a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. HIDs. The HIDster.
00:52Love it. So, Edmund in this has a hobby of making honey from bees.
00:57Yeah. What makes you switch off? What hobbies have you got away from a film?
01:06Hi, for me, I think I'm a little bit boring man. And I just like to read books and get
01:13in a coffee
01:13shop. And I will especially find a very quiet coffee shop for just quiet. And I would like to
01:19think so much everything very deeply. Yeah. Sort of these days. And otherwise, I also like
01:24mountain and natural approach to natural before I let this. But after this movie, I will love more.
01:32I love the way that Edmund was passionate about this. Yeah. But he also loved making honey.
01:37He did. Yeah. Have you got something that switches you off that you like doing
01:40extracurricular outside of all this madness? I love walking the dog.
01:44Yeah. But it's similar in a way to Hillary's passions. It's like I've always loved being outside.
01:53I love being in mountains and I love being in high mountains, but I also just love being in the
01:57park
01:58and being surrounded by nature. Even if it's like just an ordinary day in London and it's raining,
02:06you get a coffee and take the dog for a walk, do a look. That's for me, just being plugged
02:14into
02:15the natural world is a very important part of the experience of being alive.
02:18From filming on a mountain, is there maybe a field next? You know?
02:22A field. A field. It could be a field. Yeah. Yeah.
02:26We could picture it. Walk a dog around a field.
02:28I love it. There's some great movies about dogs.
02:33I haven't seen that yet. Can you see yourself working with more pooches, animals?
02:38I'd love to work with a pooch. I'd love to. I've worked with horses. Horses.
02:42Have I worked with dogs? Snow. Mountains.
02:44The ocean maybe is next. Okay. Do you think?
02:47Yeah. Maybe. You know what I'm going to say, don't you?
02:49Coming out the sea. A mermaid? What happened next?
02:54I'm going to get you in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
03:00Yeah. Yeah. Many people just recommend me to tell Tom about this.
03:05But I don't know. If they need me, I think they will call me. But I also like Jock told
03:11Tom,
03:12hey, I want to join with you in that movie. Make it happen. I want to see you in the
03:17Lycra.
03:19Okay. Thank you. Next time.
03:21You've faced the multiverse. Is this the toughest opponent you've faced so far?
03:25Do you think it's a mountain? Well, I don't think Everest is an opponent.
03:32Very well. How are you?
03:33And actually, the film, in a way, is about that.
03:35Hillary said a beautiful thing at the end of it. He said,
03:38we didn't conquer the mountain. The mountain accepted us.
03:42You're here to pray the myth and go to the United States.
03:42I thinkativas are filled with me.
03:42We're having a baby.

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