#the-night-manager

#the-night-manager

Series one of The Night Manager had the nation hooked when it hit TV screens in 2016. The series, based on the 1993 novel by John le Carré, took us on a jet-setting adventure as former British soldier Jonathan Pine (played by Tom Hiddleston) went from becoming the night manager of a Cairo hotel to infiltrating the inner circle of arms dealer Richard Roper.

It was in a market square in the Colombian city of Cartagena when Georgi Banks-Davies wondered if she had bitten off more than she could chew. The director of The Night Manager's second series was shooting a scene in the bustling location, with just a few minutes to capture the action. Her lead actors, Tom Hiddleston, who returns as the traumatised spy Jonathan Pine, and Diego Calva, his new nemesis, had to walk among market-goers who at first were peering down the camera lens.

Having not thought about the show for five years, a vivid image came to me in bed one night, he says. I saw a boy in a Colombian monastery, waiting for a black car to come over the hill. For some bizarre reason, I knew who those characters were. Suddenly, I was half-awake and the rest came flying out of me. I wrote it all down in case I forgot. In the morning, I looked at my notes and thought: This is good, actually.'