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Sep 10, 2015 By Christopher Roberts Elizabeth Olsen

Last week we got our first glimpse of Ethan Hawke as Chet Baker in the biopic Born to Be Blue. Today we get another look at a Hollywood actor playing a musical icon. Tom Hiddleston is probably best known for playing Thor’s mainly evil brother Loki in the Thor and Avengers films, although he was also fantastic as the depressed vampire in Jim Jarmusch’s acclaimed 2013 film Only Loves Left Alive and played F. Scott Fitzgerald in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris. Now the British actor is taking on country legend Hank Williams in the forthcoming film I Saw the Light and on his Twitter account today Hiddleston shared the first clip from the film in honor of it premiering at the Toronto Film Festival this Friday (Born to Be Blue is also screening at the festival).

Not only did Hiddleston play Williams and master his southern accent, he also does all his own singing. Marc Abraham (Flash of Genius) has written and directed the film, which also stars fellow Avengers actor Elizabeth Olsen as Williams’ wife Audrey. The clip recreates that April 1947 recording session in Nashville that produced the song “Move It On Over.” I Saw the Light is due out November 27 via Sony Pictures Classics. Watch the clip below.

It gives me great pleasure to introduce the first clip from I SAW THE LIGHT. @TIFF_NET tomorrow! #MoveItOnOver https://t.co/0xC30AghNF

— Tom Hiddleston (@twhiddleston) September 10, 2015