Let Tom Hiddleston be your guide to Pompeii's final day
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When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, it spewed molten rock, pumice, and hot ash over the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum , killing thousands of people. It's one of the most famous natural disasters in human history, so naturally there have been countless documentaries about Pompeii (and at least one popular song ).
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When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, it spewed molten rock, pumice, and hot ash over the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum , killing thousands of people.
It's one of the most famous natural disasters in human history, so naturally there have been countless documentaries about Pompeii (and at least one popular song ).
But only one features actor Tom Hiddleston taking on the role of a "time detective" to bring the people of Pompeii to vivid life. That would be National Geographic's new three-part docuseries, Pompeii: Out of Time .
The Marvel connection made Out of Time happen. Executive producer Kevin Wright was also a producer on the Disney+ series Loki , which included a scene where Hiddleston's Loki travels through time to visit Pompeii.
Hiddleston also studied classics at Cambridge University and had visited the Pompeii archaeological site as a teenager, which the Marvel star attributes to indirectly influencing his career path into acting.
"There is just a passion to the way Tom tells stories that's infectious," Wright told Ars. "We knew that if we could capture that and put it into [the series], it might interest people who wouldn't normally want to watch a documentary about P
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