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 happenst

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