Olivia Colman has been confirmed for The Night Manager season 2.
The hit BBC series, which last aired in 2016, was recently revealed to be returning for two more seasons, with Tom Hiddleston reprising his role as Jonathan Pine.
Colman’s role of Angela Burr proved to be a breakout part for the star, who subsequently went on to win an Oscar a few years later.
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Variety has now revealed that she will be back for the new episodes alongside fellow season one stars Alistair Petrie as Alexander ‘Sandy’ Langbourne, Douglas Hodge as Rex Mayhew, Michael Nardone as Frisky and Noah Jupe as Danny Roper.
They join a number of previously-confirmed new cast additions, namely Narcos: Mexico‘s Diego Calva, Daisy Jones & the Six‘s Camila Morrone, Game of Thrones‘ Indira Varma, The Serpent Queen‘s Paul Chahidi and Beau is Afraid‘s Hayley Squires.
Plot details remain under wraps for now, though we do know the first season’s writer David Farr will be back to pen the scripts.
Hiddleston recently opened up about why the second season of The Night Manager has taken so long, admitting they “took the time to try and get the story right”.
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“Principally, Sam Warner John le Carré seemed so happy with our adaptation the first time and that was such a relief,” he told Deadline. “So if we were to go again we needed to find the right story.”
He added that he is “really excited” by the fact that “eight or nine years have passed since the first season and these characters have been alive in the world in the last eight or nine years”.
“So Jonathan Pine [Hiddleston’s character] – le Carré calls him the close observer – has been alive in the world, and he will be eight or nine years older, just as I am,” he continued.
“I just think it will be so fascinating to see where he is, what he’s doing, how he’s operating, what he’s thinking, what’s changed and what hasn’t changed, and hopefully we can create the same sort of chemistry we made on the first one.”
The Night Manager seasons 2 and 3 will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK, and Prime Video worldwide.
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