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Why Tom Hiddleston is Fascinated with Pompeii | Pompeii: Out of Time | National Geographic
Why Tom Hiddleston is Fascinated with Pompeii | Pompeii: Out of Time | National Geographic
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We all think we know the story of Pompeii, right?
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The volcano of Mount Vesuvius erupts,
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buries the city, and it's entombed in ash for eternity.
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But is that exactly right?
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What I understood from my own research
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and from talking to
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archaeologists, historians, experts -
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there were, in fact, people who survived Pompeii.
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And that was the light bulb for me.
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That's why I wanted to make this series.
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When I was a child, I fell in love with the ancient world.
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It was the myths, the legends, the tragedies, the philosophy
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that captured my imagination.
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And that's always been my fascination with Pompeii.
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I've been to Pompeii twice.
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The first time was when I was seventeen in 1998.
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I was studying Latin and Greek.
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It was beyond any expectations I had.
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When you visit Pompeii and Herculaneum,
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you feel this extraordinary resonance.
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It's very moving because thousands and thousands of people
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were completely frozen in time.
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And I can’t stress enough how unusual that is.
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That we, as human beings from the present day,
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can physically visit a place from the past
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and witness our ancestors.
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And it’s impossible not to be affected by that.
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Is there another way of looking at all this evidence?
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Is there another way of seeing the past?
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This is a story about Pompeii that you have never seen before.
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It’s not a documentary.
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It’s not a drama.
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It's a new way of telling a story.
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It’s visceral.
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He’s running into harm’s way, trying to reunite with his mother.
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It’s informative.
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I mean, it’s as if his hand was holding it moments ago.
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It’s experiential.
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Surely now is the time that everybody evacuates!
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We bring the past into the present, and we take the present back to the past.
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How long do they have?
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Not long.
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And there is new archaeological research with cutting-edge technology.
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Databases of these inscriptions and names and sources.
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I think I finally get it now.
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I found a man.
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We experience the events of that day
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by living in the shoes of the real Romans who were there.
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I understand their choices.
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I witness their actions.
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I feel their pain.
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I feel their loss.
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And in so doing, I become almost a ‘time detective.’
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Human beings really haven’t changed that much in two thousand years.
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Our need to connect with each other.
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Our need for purpose and meaning.
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By examining who they were, we might get close to understanding who we are.
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I’m so grateful to National Geographic for giving me the opportunity to tell this story.
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And I’ll never think about Pompeii in the same way ever again.
