It seems Avengers’ nefarious villain Loki has cleaned up his act and switched to the good side. Actor Tom Hiddleston, who garnered a lot of fan following as the long-haired, beady-eyed antagonist Loki in the first installment of The Avengers, has chopped off his long hair and cleaned the bad boy image to turn into ex-British soldier/ secret intelligence operative Jonathan Pine in BBC’s The Night Manager.
It seems Avengers’ nefarious villain Loki has cleaned up his act and switched to the good side. Actor Tom Hiddleston, who garnered a lot of fan following as the long-haired, beady-eyed antagonist Loki in the first installment of The Avengers, has chopped off his long hair and cleaned the bad boy image to turn into ex-British soldier/ secret intelligence operative Jonathan Pine in BBC’s The Night Manager.
The TV series that premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last Thursday, made an outstanding debut on television over the weekend with 6.14 million viewers tuning in at the time it aired. The six-part thriller has received rave reviews from critics with Stephen Dalton of The Hollywood Reporter calling it “a superior genre piece, methodically engineered for mainstream audience appeal”.
The Night Manager is an adaptation of John Le Carre’s 1993 best-seller of the same name and follows the story of Pine, “who is recruited by an intelligence operative to navigate an unholy alliance between the intelligence community” and the secret arms trade. In order to penetrate into the circle of lethal arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper (played by Hugh Laurie), Pine must become a criminal. The series also stars Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Debicki, Tom Hollander and David Harewood and is directed by Sussane Bier.
