‘The Night Manager’: Tom Hiddleston meets his Indian counterpart Aditya Roy Kapur via video call during screening in London

Tom Hiddleston hit his night driver Counterpart Aditya Roy Kapur for the first time last night.

Hiddleston, who played Jonathan Pine The night manager for the BBC and AMC in 2016, engaged in a video call with Kapur while attending a live screening of Disney+ Hotstar The Night Driver India in London.

We received exclusive footage from the demonstration.

was there too Night Driver India Director Priyanka Ghose and series creator/director Sandeep Modi, who started the conversation when Hiddleston turned up unexpectedly with David Farr, writer of the original BBC and AMC series.

“We went to the London screening with no hope of seeing Tom, but to our great surprise he walked in with David Farr,” Modi told Deadline. “I remember going to the theater and telling them it felt like an ambush because I was showing the people who originally created it one of the most popular shows in the world.”

Modi said the two-hour show felt “endless”, followed by applause and a long chat with Hiddleston and Farr. Loki Star Hiddleston told Modi it was “surreal” to see someone play the role of Pine, an ex-soldier turned hotel manager pitted against a ruthless arms dealer. “He thought Aditya was nuanced, good-looking, and was impressed by the character’s layers,” Modi added.

Kaupr later took to Instagram to write: “The OG Night Manager saw our show yesterday!” and included screenshots of the conversation.

The Night Driver India launched on streamer Disney+ Hotstar last month and instantly became one of the most popular streaming series in the country, according to ratings analyst Ormax Media. Roy and Anil Kapoor, who play the Indian version of Hugh Laurie’s Richard Roper, also became cover stars in a reissue of the John le Carre original. night driver Book.

We revealed it a few weeks ago The night manager returns for a highly anticipated second season in which Hiddleston returns to his role and Farr writes.

Under the code name steel mills, Deadline expects season two to begin filming in London and South America later this year. While Amazon and the BBC have yet to officially greenlight it, it will get a two-season order. AMC is no longer based in the US.