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Watch Tom Hiddleston in: The Deep Blue Sea (2012)

Written and directed by Terence Davies, The Deep Blue Sea is a tale of a woman in 1950s London torn between stability and passion. Based on the 1952 play of the same name by Terence Rattigan, the film was released the same year as the first Avengers movie. Rachel Weisz, one of the latest additions to the MCU as Black Widow’s Melina, stars opposite Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale.

Hester (Weisz) is the unhappy wife of Judge Sir William Collyer (Beale) who is having an affair with a former RAF pilot, Freddie (Hiddleston). The film largely is centered around a day in which her mental health has deteriorated into crisis, with flashbacks to her contented but boring marriage and her passionate and erotic affair with Freddie.

Hester is stuck between the unappealing prospect of returning to the security of her marriage and the appeal of her relationship, even though Freddie is unable to give her what she needs emotionally.

While Weisz’s performance is certainly the main attraction of the film, Hiddleston is also captivating as a man struggling to adjust to post-war life who cannot seem to truly understand his lover. Freddie fluctuates from charming to rather cutting and nasty, but with an underlying melancholy that speaks to Hiddleston’s acting abilities.