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‘Night Manager’ Stars Diego Calva and Camila Morrone on a Painful Season 2 Ending and Open-Ended Season 3

‘Night Manager’ Stars Diego Calva and Camila Morrone on a Painful Season 2 Ending and Open-Ended Season 3

[This story contains major spoilers from the season two finale of The Night Manager.] Diego Calva always knew that Teddy Dos Santos’ story could only end one way on The Night Manager. In the long-awaited second season of the BBC/Prime Video spy thriller, Calva was introduced as Jonathan Pine’s (Tom Hiddleston) new antagonist, a young Mexican-Colombian arms dealer who turns out to be the biological son of Pine’s archnemesis Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie). Following the suspicious death of his superior Rex Mayhew (Douglas Hodge), who had been investigating a potential high-level leak within MI6 connected to the shipment of weapons to Colombia, Pine secretly infiltrated Teddy’s criminal enterprise under the alias of Matthew Ellis. In Colombia, Pine crossed paths again with Roxana Bolaños (Camila Morrone), the woman he had tracked down and questioned in the wake of Mayhew’s death. Pine learned that Roxana was a Miami-based shipping broker whose company was owned by Teddy’s organization, and she had willingly participated in a suspicious shipment of machine tools between the U.K. and Colombia. Despite the fact …

Diego Calva on playing a villain in The Night Manager: ‘Sometimes silence is more threatening’

Diego Calva on playing a villain in The Night Manager: ‘Sometimes silence is more threatening’

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter It’s a crisp December afternoon in north London, and Diego Calva is thinking back to the night his mum threw shapes with Leonardo DiCaprio at the 2023 Golden Globes. The 33-year-old Mexican actor – wearing a white T-shirt, silver chain, hooped earrings – was up for Best Actor (Musical/Comedy) for Babylon, Damien Chazelle’s sprawling epic about Hollywood’s transition from silent films to talkies. He was the sole newcomer in the category, alongside Daniel Craig, Adam Driver, Colin Farrell and Ralph Fiennes. What stuck with him, though, was how surreal it was to see his mother not only “dancing with Leonardo” but also “sharing a conversation with Quentin Tarantino”. He pauses. “She’s been having a great time, and I hope she feels the same way that I do – like I want to be awake more than sleep, you know?” That last …

The Night Manager season 2 review: Hiddleston and Calva are TV’s next hot couple

The Night Manager season 2 review: Hiddleston and Calva are TV’s next hot couple

A star rating of 4 out of 5. This review is based on the first two episodes of The Night Manager season 2, which were screened for critics. Given both the legendary status of novelist John le Carré and the high esteem for David Farr’s The Night Manager adaptation, the onus is on this belated sequel to prove it has a reason to exist. After two episodes, I’m still not sure. Based on an original idea by returning screenwriter Farr, season 2 returns Tom Hiddleston as MI6 asset Jonathan Pine, now managing a fairly quiet intelligence unit in London under the assumed name Alex Goodwin. In his unremarkable day-to-day, he comes across a worrying clue that the legacy of Richard Roper (season 1’s Hugh Laurie) has been taken forward by another amoral entrepreneur – and it wakes the dormant undercover agent within him. This time, the mark is an enigmatic Colombian arms dealer named Teddy Dos Santos (new addition Diego Calva), who Jonathan must ingratiate himself with under the guise of brash, alcoholic financier Matthew …