Tom Hiddleston has admitted he lives a "boring life".

Tom Hiddleston

Tom Hiddleston

The 35-year-old actor - who recently split from Taylor Swift in September - simply goes home, reads books he hasn't had time to get through and "potters about" when he has finished filming a movie or a TV show.

When asked what he does to relax after a film has wrapped, he said: "I just go home. It's that literal and metaphorical. To London. When I finished 'The Night Manager', I realised that, for 75 days, I had lived more hours per day as Jonathan Pine than I had spent as myself.

"You're putting yourself into this other person's shoes. The best thing I could have done was exactly what I did.

"I flew home and I went to my sister's engagement party. I was surrounded by family. And they were so reassuring. And then I just, I live such a boring life. I just potter about, read books I've meant to read but haven't had time."

But when Tom - who starred as spy Jonathan Pine in TV thriller 'The Night Manager' - is on a movie or TV set he loves to get up early and go for a run in the morning because he can clear his head and often has his "best ideas" at that time.

Quizzed by his friend Benedict Cumberbatch for Interview magazine, he added: "You've got to do something, even if it's just to kick-start the day. I use music. And running.

"I find that, when I'm working, if I start the day with a run - outside, not in a gym, but just me out there in the elements, with only my own legs to propel me forward ... It's something to do with just being in the world and getting out of my own head.

"You have to be [disciplined to get up early]. You can't function. And it varies from job to job.

"On 'Kong: Skull Island', we were always outside. My character was a former SAS tracker, so he's sort of an ultimate athlete - I would always be able to just, like, run around and get my blood up if I was feeling sluggish."

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