Tom Hiddleston Sings Hank Williams Tune in First Clip From 'I Saw the Light'

“Move It on Over” was the first major country hit for Hank Williams — and it’s also the first song we get to hear Tom Hiddleston sing from his forthcoming Williams biopic I Saw the Light. This afternoon, the English actor tweeted out the premiere clip from the movie, which premieres at the Toronto Film Festival tomorrow and opens in theaters on Nov. 27. Watch it below.

I Saw the Light tells the story of Hank Williams’s rise to fame between 1944 and 1949. The Alabama-born music icon died of heart failure at age 29 due to drug and alcohol abuse, after releasing such country classics as “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” “Hey, Good Lookin’,” “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” and of course, “I Saw the Light.” The new clip shows Williams (played by Hiddleston, doing his own singing and guitar accompaniment) in a Nashville recording studio, laying down the upbeat blues track that would become his first Billboard hit. At the end, we see a moment of domesticity with Williams’s wife and manager, Audrey, played by Hiddleston’s fellow Avengers player Elizabeth Olsen.

Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams in ‘I Saw the Light’ (c/o TIFF)

While this is the first official clip of Hiddleston as Williams, the actor debuted his country act last September during a surprise appearance at Michigan’s Wheatland Music Festival. Accompanied by singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell, Hiddleston treated Midwestern audiences to “Move It on Over,” “Jambalaya (On the Bayou),” and “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” — all in his newly acquired Southern twang.

Listen to Williams’s original version of “Move It On Over:”