Tom Hiddleston Is Time-Traveling for Real Now

Tom Hiddleston is holding court in the center of an ancient city, determined to solve a centuries-old mystery. An epic cataclysm happened here almost 2,000 years ago, but as the sun sets on Pompeii in 2026, the actor scans the ruins and asks those of us assembled around him to cast our senses back to the Roman port city’s last day on August 24, A.D. 79. That’s when Mount Vesuvius, the gently sloping green ridge on the horizon, rained hellfire down on the people who lived here.