Visit to wartorn nation helped Tom
TOM Hiddleston used anger fuelled by a visit to war-torn South Sudan to help him in his role as spy Jonathan Pine in The Night Manager, he has revealed.
The London-born actor visited the African country to make a documentary on child soldiers a week before filming began for the BBC drama.
Hiddleston admitted he felt “powerless” and “helpless” during his trip in an interview with friend and fellow actor Benedict Cumberbatch in Interview Magazine.
“There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped,” he said.
Hiddleston, who recently split with singer Taylor Swift after a whirlwind three- month relationship, said when visiting South Sudan he “witnessed first hand the violence from which a man like Richard Roper in The Night Manager profits”.
The Night Manager, based on John le Carre’s 1993 novel of the same name, starred Hugh Laurie as arms dealer Roper.
The interview featured just a passing mention of Swift.
Cumberbatch said: “... I’m not going to ask questions about my friend’s personal life just because there are unsolicited photographs of him and a certain someone, in a relationship or together.”