‘Boring’ Tom Hiddleston
Tom Hiddleston has admitted he lives a "boring life".
The 35-year-old actor – who recently split from Taylor Swift in September – simply goes home, reads books he hasn’t had time to get through and "potters about" when he has finished filming a movie or a TV show.
When asked what he does to relax after a film has wrapped, he said: "I just go home. It’s that literal and metaphorical. To London. When I finished ‘The Night Manager’, I realised that, for 75 days, I had lived more hours per day as Jonathan Pine than I had spent as myself.
"You’re putting yourself into this other person’s shoes. The best thing I could have done was exactly what I did.
"I flew home and I went to my sister’s engagement party. I was surrounded by family. And they were so reassuring. And then I just, I live such a boring life. I just potter about, read books I’ve meant to read but haven’t had time."
But when Tom – who starred as spy Jonathan Pine in TV thriller ‘The Night Manager’ – is on a movie or TV set he loves to get up early and go for a run in the morning because he can clear his head and often has his "best ideas" at that time.
Quizzed by his friend Benedict Cumberbatch for Interview magazine, he added: "You’ve got to do something, even if it’s just to kick-start the day. I use music. And running.
"I find that, when I’m working, if I start the day with a run – outside, not in a gym, but just me out there in the elements, with only my own legs to propel me forward … It’s something to do with just being in the world and getting out of my own head.
"You have to be [disciplined to get up early]. You can’t function. And it varies from job to job.
"On ‘Kong: Skull Island’, we were always outside. My character was a former SAS tracker, so he’s sort of an ultimate athlete – I would always be able to just, like, run around and get my blood up if I was feeling sluggish."
