Tom Hiddleston Leads 3-Part Pompeii Documentary as National Geographic Debuts Series on Disney+, Hulu
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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 25
Tom Hiddleston Leads 3-Part Pompeii Documentary as National Geographic Debuts Series on Disney+, Hulu
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 25
Summary
Thursday’s streaming launch put Tom Hiddleston at the center of “Pompeii: Out of Time With Tom Hiddleston,” a three-part National Geographic series on Disney+ and Hulu.
Hiddleston, 45, appears as an “amateur classicist” and time-travel-style guide, moving through Pompeii and nearby Herculaneum before and after Mount Vesuvius destroyed the city in A.D. 79.
The series blends dramatized ancient Roman characters with archaeological storytelling to explore how residents lived, faced the eruption and, in some cases, survived it.
Hiddleston said the project draws on a long personal commitment to Latin, Greek and classical literature, framing Pompeii’s final day as a story with lessons for the present.