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Tom Hiddleston on Learning to Dance Bossa Nova and Jazz for Stephen King Adaptation ‘The Life of Chuck’: ‘It Took My Hips a Minute’
Tom Hiddleston had to learn how to quickstep and moonwalk for Mike Flanagan's Stephen King adaptation 'The Life of Chuck.'
Hiddleston, best known for portraying the mischievous Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, plays the titular Chuck, an inhibited accountant whose life is shrouded in mystery. On a nondescript day that unfolds in the middle of the film, he sees a street drummer while walking back from a banking conference — and he’s compelled to put down his briefcase and move to the beat. Flanagan, who previously adapted King’s work with 2017’s “Gerald’s Game” and 2019’s “The Shining” sequel “Doctor Sleep,” read “The Life of Chuck” during the early days of the pandemic and was instantly moved by the text.
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