The Night Manager: Tom Hiddleston also sees the similarities between Jonathan Pine and James Bond
'I don’t know if Pine is a 00 just yet'
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Your support makes all the difference.The Night Manager is taking the nation by storm, with the BBC adaptation of John le Carre’s novel gripping Sunday night TV viewers across the country.
Many have seen Tom Hiddleston’s role almost as an audition for James Bond, a role no one is sure if Daniel Craig will be returning to or not.
The similarities between Jonathan Pine and 007 have not gone unnoticed by the actor, but he isn’t sure Pine is quite as extreme as Bond… yet.
“I’ve been getting a lot of that,” he told The Telegraph. “There are similarities insofar as Pine and Bond are granted a licence above and beyond the law to do bad things for the greater good. Bond has a 00 licence to kill. I don’t know if Pine is a 00 just yet…”
“Nobody would say no to Bond!” Director Susanne Bier added. “Even if you ask Olivia Colman, she’s going to want to play Bond. Or any director. It’s part of the air we breathe.”
Will he ever make the jump to be the next Bond? Well, he’ll have to see off competition form the likes of Tom Hardy and Henry Cavil first.
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