Tom Hopper remembers the moment he felt his role in The Terminal List: Dark Wolf was written in the stars. While reading True Believer, published in 2019 as the second book in the Terminal List series by author Jack Carr (whose former life as a U.S. Navy SEAL profoundly informs his espionage thrillers), a certain moment gave Hopper pause. Two characters, Freddie and Reece, had an interaction that hit home for the 40-year-old British actor.”My son, Freddie, is autistic nonverbal,” Hopper tells me at a midtown hotel in Manhattan. “Jack told me that his son, Reece, has special needs. So both of them are limited in their communication.”It’s one thing for Hopper to find a fictional character who bears the name of his son. But as he kept reading, he was taken by the depths of happenstance. “In the book, they are talking about Freddie’s son, who has the same condition that Jack’s son Reece has,” he explains. “What I found amazing is that Freddie and Reece are talking to each other. Our sons can’t have conversations in that manner, but through the book, our ‘sons’ are having these conversations. I believe in signs. I felt like this was meant to be.”With Hopper’s time on the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy as the musclebound superhero Luther (which required Hopper to wear a bodysuit) now finished, the actor trades superpowers for black-ops tactics as one of the main stars in The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, now streaming on Prime Video. A… Click below to read the full story from Esquire
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