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Tom Hiddleston in The Life of Chuck<\/em>. Courtesy of NEON<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In The Life of Chuck<\/em>, the new film from Mike Flanagan<\/strong> based on the short story by Stephen King<\/strong>, Tom Hiddleston<\/strong><\/a> stars as Charles Krantz, a seemingly ordinary man whose extraordinary inner world is revealed as his life is told in reverse. He\u2019s joined by an all-star cast that includes Mark Hamill<\/strong><\/a>, Karen Gillan<\/strong><\/a>, and Chiwetel Ejiofor<\/strong><\/a> in a story that explores memory, mortality, and the beauty of the everyday.<\/p>\n

For Hiddleston, the role felt instantly meaningful. \u201cWhat was crystallized for me when I read the script for the first time was that feeling that we all share\u2026 None of us know what the last day of our lives will be. None of us know the last date. None of us know how it\u2019s going to end,\u201d he said at a recent press conference. \u201cAnd we all live, each of us, every day in that uncertainty. And we do the best we can with the life we have.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was that awareness that guided his performance. \u201cThis is not a dress rehearsal,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat\u2019s the Voltaire quote? We all have two lives. The second begins when you realize you only have one.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

In the film, there\u2019s a moment where he fully surrenders to the present: a spontaneous dance. \u201cHe\u2019s completely free. He\u2019s completely in the present moment. He\u2019s completely alive,\u201d Hiddleston said. \u201cAnd in six months\u2019 time, his life will be over.\u201d<\/p>\n

The performance required Hiddleston to channel both the weight of knowing what\u2019s to come and the joy that comes from appreciating what you have while you have it. \u201cI had this awareness of the preciousness and the fragility of living but also the magic and the majesty of connection in the everyday. And so, I\u2019m just getting to dump that out as Chuck.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tom Hiddleston dances in the street in The Life of Chuck<\/em>. Courtesy of NEON<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That dance, he said, wasn\u2019t just a plot point, it was a culmination of the film\u2019s central idea: \u201cThis moment on the sidewalk on a Thursday afternoon is maybe a moment of an expression of the most intense freedom of his entire life.\u201d<\/p>\n

But for all its emotional power, The Life of Chuck<\/em> isn\u2019t just about loss, it\u2019s also about rediscovering the hidden parts of ourselves. \u201cThe thing that I was so moved by\u2026 is we contain multitudes,\u201d Hiddleston said. \u201cNone of us are one thing. None of us is a job that we do or the role that we play in our family or in our social circle. Inside the soul of every human being is an internal world of infinite connections, memories, experiences and possibilities. And we should never submit to the reduction that we\u2019re just one thing. Our lives are magic. Yes, our lives are full of struggle and suffering and grief and pain and loss, that\u2019s true as well, but they\u2019re also magic. And there\u2019s so much joy there.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what drew him to Charles Krantz, a character who, to the outside world, is just a man in a suit with a briefcase. \u201cTo the external world, he seems to be the grey man in the grey suit\u2026 but actually inside the soul of this accountant who loves his job and loves his wife and loves his son, is this dancer.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that realization, he said, isn\u2019t just true for Chuck, it could be true for anyone. \u201cThat might be true of anyone you know or anyone you see on the street\u2026 that inside that human being is greater breadth and depth and range than we could possibly imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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