--- description: Tom Hiddleston's gracious acceptance speech for his Best Actor gong in the TV Choice Awards was hijacked by his mischievous Thor co-stars title: Chris Hemsworth and Idris Elba Hijack Tom Hiddleston Speech image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tom Hiddleston](/tag/tom-hiddleston/) ## Tom Hiddleston Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Tom Hiddleston's Acceptance Speech for _Night Manager_ Award Hijacked by Chris Hemsworth and Idris Elba by [Kate Samuelson](/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 6, 2016 12:13 PM CUT by [Kate Samuelson](/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 6, 2016 12:13 PM CUT Tom Hiddleston’s gracious acceptance speech for his Best Actor gong in the TV Choice Awards was hijacked by his mischievous _Thor_ co-stars Chris Hemsworth and Idris Elba. Speaking in a video message to apologize for not being there in person to collect his award due to filming commitmentsin Australia for _Thor: Ragnarok_, Hiddleston appears to be taken aback when Hemsworth grabs the silver trophy out of his hands and thanks his _Home and Away_ fans and Australia’s Channel 7 for it. > [](https://twitter.com/TVChoice/status/772932014098026497) Idris Elba then appears, calling the award “awful” and asking what it’s for. When Hiddleston explains he won it for his part in the BBC series _The Night_ _Manager_, Elba wonders out loud why _Luther_ didn’t get nominated. He then tells his British friend, “Hugh, you were amazing in _The Night Manager_” – jokingly referring to Hiddleston’s co-star Hugh Laurie. Hemsworth’s genius solution is that each actor can have one of the trophy’s three stars, which Hiddleston doesn’t look too happy about. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4479818/tom-hiddleston-night-manager-speech-hijacked-chris-hemsworth-idris-elba/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4479818/tom-hiddleston-night-manager-speech-hijacked-chris-hemsworth-idris-elba/"},"headline":"Tom Hiddleston's Acceptance Speech for Night Manager Award Hijacked by Chris Hemsworth and Idris Elba","datePublished":"2016-09-06T12:13:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T10:07:48.335Z","description":"\"Hugh, you were amazing in The Night Manager\"","url":"https://time.com/4479818/tom-hiddleston-night-manager-speech-hijacked-chris-hemsworth-idris-elba/","keywords":["Tom Hiddleston","Thor"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kate Samuelson","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/tom-hiddleston/","name":"Tom Hiddleston"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4479818/tom-hiddleston-night-manager-speech-hijacked-chris-hemsworth-idris-elba/","name":"Tom Hiddleston's Acceptance Speech for Night Manager Award Hijacked by Chris Hemsworth and Idris Elba"}}]}] ```