Sometimes I still can't believe that Jonathan really did this, being so bold and went to kiss Teddy on his cheek before he discarded his Matthew's persona, he even looked saddened that he was saying goodbye to their "little game" it was fun while it last but now he has to return to his real self, no more Matthew Ellis for Teddy to play with.
With that kiss he was leaving behind a bit of Matthew’s bold and whorish persona for Teddy to remember, Teddy was waiting for him to whisper some important secret, or maybe a snarky remark that would jab his heart, that’s why he was baffled to get a kiss instead?
He wasn’t expecting the kiss, that's why the realization was delayed that he registered that indeed Jonathan just kissed him a bit late, like that was really a gentle kiss from Jonathan without any malicious intent, a praying for your soul that he said wasn't to mock but apparently a sincere wish from Jonathan.
I also saw this kiss as the last attempt Jonathan did to resurrect “Eduardo”, he wanted Teddy to remember that side of him and to take that control back to be his real self instead of letting himself be controlled by Roper's greed.
THAT BASHFUL ALMOST BOYISH WONDER IN TEDDY’s eyes processing What just happened like a BOY JUST GOT HIS FIrst kiss from his crush. Fucking hell their romance is so full of angst, I feel so sick looking at the way teddy walk after that kiss like he was floating, he was happy for a moment that his weird fascination for Matthew might not be one sided because Matthew kissed him, like it was an acknowledgment from Matthew ..he knew what he felt about him and he felt the same.
Jonathan himself was a bit..shy after kissing Teddy, I feel like that kiss was a confession too about things he couldn’t said, and yet revealed to Teddy about everything that he knew about him, about his pain, probably a bit of apology too, for playing with Teddy’s heart, apparently after he brought him to the church and let him see that part of him, that breakfast together, so much thing he learned about Teddy and his prejudices toward him crumble even more, he thought he was just a mere criminal but the more he learned about him the more fascinating he became, ..he just wished they both didn’t have to lie.
Teddy completely got disarmed by that kiss, he could only shake that kiss away after he closed his eyes and then put that cold mask on to call his subordinate.he didn’t even process that it truly happened I guess probably only later when he laid on his bed that night he could recall about this moment again and trying to understand what the hell did it mean 😭
Oh how I wish this spy story can ignore the spy plotline for a bit and just indulge in the relationship and romance of these two characters just a little more, I don’t care about the weapon dealing tell me how Teddy feels after Matthew kiss him goodbye at the airport. Show me how he struggle to sleep that night because he can’t stop thinking about that kiss
And we also see Jonathan while doing briefing with angela keep thinking about “why the hell did I kiss him before we part way?? What is the reason pine?” Both were trying to process their own feelings in their own ways.
If only it wasn't spy thriller genre we could have it all 😢
The idea of returning for a second season of The Night Manager was challenging, if not downright impossible, the stars and creators say.
Of all the things Tom Hiddleston remembers about the 2016 release of The Night Manager, a moment with Joe Biden immediately comes to mind.
The actor, who played Jonathan Pine in the original BBC One/AMC production and its subsequent season on Prime Video, remembers how the 46th president approached him at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to say how much he loved the John Le Carré adaptation about an undercover night porter who spies on Hugh Laurie’s arms-dealing Richard Roper.
“All sorts of extraordinary people would approach me to say how much they loved it, like President Joe Biden,” remembered Hiddleston. “It’s 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.”
Hiddleston was joined by his The Night Manager co-star Diego Calva, director/executive producer Georgi Banks-Davies, executive producer Stephen Garrett and creator/executive producer David Carr for a conversation at Deadline Studio @ Prime Experience. Watch their conversation below and scroll down for photos from the event.
As compelling (and Emmy-winning) as the first season was, Farr unwittingly “painted ourselves rightly into a narrative corner,” admitted Garrett. That made the idea of returning for a second season challenging, if not downright impossible, because “we’d actually ended the story.”
“We’d done what so many shows now that come back don’t do, leaving audiences frustrated because they’re setting up a second season,” he added. “We had no intention of setting up a second season. It’s a difficult story to tell and all credit to David and everyone else involved that [Season 2] turned out the way it did.”
Credit for the success of Season 2 – which launched on Prime in January – goes to the “fresh ignition” that is Calva (Babylon, Bird Box: Barcelona). He plays Teddy Dos Santos, Roper’s illegitimate son who has taken up the family business.
“I had a thought about Teddy as a character, this very strange, lonely, other son who’s sexually fluid, odd,” says Farr. “Then 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.”
What 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’s 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.
One of the more provocative moments of the six-episode second season is when Pine and Teddy perform a seductive dance with Camila Morrone’s Roxana, who ends up looking like a bit of a third wheel.
“It’s about power,” explained Banks-Davies. “It’s 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’s quite complicated.”
“It’s really dangerous,” continued Hiddleston. “So much of what Diego and I talked about with Teddy and Pine wasn’t necessarily about their physicality. It was about their spiritual bond that they connected through so many shared experiences, even though they’ve had very different lives. They both recognize each other. They’re both orphans and perhaps not literally, but they feel as though they are. They’re 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…”
“Como el que sabe sabe,” says Calva.
“There’s almost a brotherhood between them,” continues Hiddleston, to which Calvo responds, “and a common enemy.”
The Night Manager, which also marked the return of Laurie and Olivia Colman as Angela Burr, will return for a third season.
deadline: ‘The Night Manager’ team - Tom Hiddleston, Diego Calva, David Farr, Georgi Banks-Davies, and Stephen Garrett - joined us in the Deadline Studio at Prime Experience
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