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National Geographic/Paolo Verzone In 2024, “Loki” star Tom Hiddleston reunited with the film’s executive producer Kevin R. Wright to create a documentary that wasn’t about a salacious murder, a cult or Hiddleston’s acting career. Instead, the duo set out to make a doc about Pompeii and the attempts of three real Romans to survive the ancient city’s final hours after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
The result is “Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston,” a three-part Nat Geo docuseries that blends “Loki”-inspired time travel with scripted drama and interviews between Hiddleston – the “Time Detective” – and archaeologists, historians, geologists, and disaster experts. Hiddleston examines long-held assumptions about the disaster and pours over ancient records and artifacts that bring to life the humanity and resilience of Pompeii’s inhabitants.
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