Hiddleston has earned early praise for his performance, even though Williams’ grandson Hank Williams III had posted on Twitter that Hiddleston had “no soul” after the actor performed two Williams songs at Michigan’s Wheatland Music Festival in 2014. I’ma gonna shake your hand, I’ma gonna go back to my hotel, you ain’t got to do no more.’ And he walked out.” “Rodney was in the room, and after, he said” - Hiddleston slips into a twangy impression of his mentor - “‘That’s it, right there! You’ve done it. Sick and run-down, Williams plays, for the first time, a rough, mournful version of “Your Cheatin’ Heart.” Hiddleston rehearsed once for the camera and then let it rip. WANT MORE EW? Subscribe now to keep up with the latest in movies, television and music. “He would say, ‘The song sounds beautiful, but I can’t hear the pain.’” “I remember doing ‘Cold, Cold Heart’ many times for Rodney and him asking me to go again,” recalls Hiddleston, who also stars on AMC’s The Night Manager, debuting April 19.
Together they recorded for five weeks, hoping Williams’ anguish would seep into Hiddleston’s voice and his psyche. To immerse himself in Williams’ signature Alabama sound, Hiddleston - who sings all the songs in the film himself - moved into the Nashville home of Rodney Crowell, a two-time Grammy winner who’s worked with country icons Emmylou Harris, Wynonna Judd, and Vince Gill (among others) and served as the film’s executive music producer. “It was the most challenging and satisfying experience.” “I became aware very quickly that there would be no faking it,” says Hiddleston, 35, from the Vietnam set of Kong: Skull Island where he’s been running through swamps trying to avoid the giant primate. In the biopic I Saw the Light (out March 25 in limited release), Tom Hiddleston had to ditch his British accent and capture the singular voice of prolific singer-songwriter Hank Williams. Playing a petulant Norse god in the Marvel Universe is a snap compared with embodying the tortured soul of a country-music legend.
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