{"id":515320,"date":"2026-06-02T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/515320\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T20:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:46:11","slug":"the-night-manager-team-on-challenges-of-reviving-their-hit-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/515320\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Night Manager’ Team On Challenges Of Reviving Their Hit Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOf all the things Tom Hiddleston<\/a> remembers about the 2016 release of The Night Manager<\/a>, a moment with Joe Biden immediately comes to mind.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actor, who played Jonathan Pine in the original BBC One\/AMC production and its subsequent season on Prime Video<\/a>, remembers how the 46th president approached him at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner to say how much he loved the John Le Carr\u00e9 adaptation about an undercover night porter who spies on Hugh Laurie\u2019s arms-dealing Richard Roper.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAll sorts of extraordinary people would approach me to say how much they loved it, like President Joe Biden,\u201d remembered Hiddleston. \u201cIt\u2019s an extraordinary privilege to make something that has an impact like that, that the audience really took the show to their hearts, and it seemed to reflect something honest about the state of the world at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHiddleston was joined by his The Night Manager co-star Diego Calva<\/a>, director\/executive producer Georgi Banks-Davies<\/a>, executive producer Stephen Garrett<\/a> and creator\/executive producer David Carr<\/a> for a conversation at Deadline Studio @ Prime Experience. Watch their conversation below and scroll down for photos from the event.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs compelling (and Emmy-winning) as the first season was, Farr unwittingly \u201cpainted ourselves rightly into a narrative corner,\u201d admitted Garrett. That made the idea of returning for a second season challenging, if not downright impossible, because \u201cwe\u2019d actually ended the story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019d done what so many shows now that come back don\u2019t do, leaving audiences frustrated because they\u2019re setting up a second season,\u201d he added. \u201cWe had no intention of setting up a second season. It\u2019s a difficult story to tell and all credit to David and everyone else involved that [Season 2] turned out the way it did.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCredit for the success of Season 2 \u2013 which launched on Prime in January \u2013 goes to the \u201cfresh ignition\u201d that is Calva (Babylon, Bird Box: Barcelona). He plays Teddy Dos Santos, Roper\u2019s illegitimate son who has taken up the family business.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI had a thought about Teddy as a character, this very strange, lonely, other son who\u2019s sexually fluid, odd,\u201d says Farr. \u201cThen the next piece of the jigsaw, just to kind of keep the momentum, was to find an actor who could take that on. Suddenly the show had its own color and feel. It was an exciting moment for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat transpires in Season 2 is an extraordinary journey of two men who become unwitting partners in a quest to destroy Roper once and for all. Now living under the alias Alex Goodwin in London, Hiddleston\u2019s former intelligence officer character finds out that Roper is not only alive and kicking but backing a military coup in Colombia and using an illegal charity to train kid soldiers. Teddy wants to please his absentee father but learns through Pine that daddy will never love him the way he adores his blue-blooded white son back in the UK.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of the more provocative moments of the six-episode second season is when Pine and Teddy perform a seductive dance with Camila Morrone\u2019s Roxana, who ends up looking like a bit of a third wheel.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGeorgi Banks-Davies, Stephen Garrett, David Carr, Tom Hiddleston, and Diego Calva\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnthony Avellano for Deadline\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Hiddleston\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnthony Avellano for Deadline\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDiego Calva\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnthony Avellano for Deadline\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGeorgi Banks-Davies\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnthony Avellano for Deadline\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDavid Carr\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnthony Avellano for Deadline\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStephen Garrett\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnthony Avellano for Deadline\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s about power,\u201d explained Banks-Davies. \u201cIt\u2019s about using sex as power. Roxana is using it against Pine in the first instance and then bringing Teddy in to weaponize the moment. Those shields kind of slip. The connections start to truly come together. Some of that is sexual chemistry, and some of it is just friendship and camaraderie and danger. For one simple dance, it\u2019s quite complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s really dangerous,\u201d continued Hiddleston. \u201cSo much of what Diego and I talked about with Teddy and Pine wasn\u2019t necessarily about their physicality. It was about their spiritual bond that they connected through so many shared experiences, even though they\u2019ve had very different lives. They both recognize each other. They\u2019re both orphans and perhaps not literally, but they feel as though they are. They\u2019re alone in the world. They have deep wells of private pain and deep wells of complex interior life. They understand the tension between the external and the internal and they recognize each other very quickly. We had a phrase which Diego translated from it takes one to know one\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cComo el que sabe sabe,\u201d says Calva.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s almost a brotherhood between them,\u201d continues Hiddleston, to which Calvo responds, \u201cand a common enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Night Manager, which also marked the return of Laurie and Olivia Colman as Angela Burr, will return for a third season.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor more Deadline Studio at Prime Experience<\/a> content,\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of all the things Tom Hiddleston remembers about the 2016 release of The Night Manager, a moment with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,223218,218979,214147,18,117,223219,19,17,3973,223220,96189,23918],"class_list":["post-515320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-david-carr","tag-deadline-studio-at-prime-experience","tag-diego-calva","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-georgi-banks-davies","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-prime-video","tag-stephen-garrett","tag-the-night-manager","tag-tom-hiddleston"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116682475900906401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}