‘The Night Manager’ Season 2: Fun facts about the star cast you probably didn’t know

‘The Night Manager’ is back with its second installment. Season 2 has 6 episodes in total, and the first three episodes premiered on 11 January 2026. The show will be dropping new episodes every Sunday until its finale on 1 February.

Season 1 of the show, which aired in 2016, received positive reviews, and now its sequel was getting high-anticipation from fans. Fans also credit the phenomenal cast of the show for its success. The show’s star cast includes: Tom Hiddlestone, Olivia Colman, Diego Calva, Camila Morrone,

Hugh Laurie

and others. Here are some lesser-known facts about ‘The Night Manager’s’ cast that will make watching the spy-thriller more enjoyable for you!

Tom Hiddlestone

If he wasn’t an actor, he would probably be a teacher.Can you imagine Loki being a teacher? Well, the man behind the character wanted to be one! In 2022

Tom Hiddleston

said to The Guardian, "I think there would be something very rewarding about teaching. I would teach drama or Shakespeare.”

Olivia Colman

When Coleman sent e-mails to Wikipedia During her numerous interviews, one of the many anecdotes that Colman tells concerns Wikipedia. In the “free encyclopedia that anyone can edit”, Colman apparently discovered that her birthdate was incorrect, the article unkindly made her eight years older than she actually was.

When telling the story she reports that she sent “them” an email to request a correction, and their response said she had to provide a birth certificate to prove it.

Diego Calva

Acting came accidentally for CalvaIn an interview with Air Mail, Calva revealed that when he was 16, he started working with friends on short films. At age 20, he began taking small jobs in Mexico’s film industry, such as catering, operating the boom mike, and working as a production assistant.

Acting came accidentally. One day while recording audio for a short film, an actor didn’t show up to the set. The director asked Calva to step in. “That was my first time in front of the camera,” he says.

He’s wanted to act ever since.

Camila Morrone

Morrone apprenticed with a taxidermist According to LA Times, for her starring role as Mickey Peck in the 2019 film ‘Mickey and the Bear’, part of Morrone’s character's job was working after school as a taxidermy apprentice, in which she actually did work with a local taxidermist.