Just ask anyone who has ever acted with, wrestled with or been bear-hugged by Tom Hardy. “Tom came in, and said to myself, ‘Watch this guy.’ I thought he had a very interesting energy.” “I felt I needed some new blood, and so that’s how I met Tom,” Scott says, during a separate interview at TIFF. He caught Ridley Scott’s eye when the veteran British director was casting for actors to play soldiers in Black Hawk Down, the 2001 military drama that marked Hardy’s feature film debut. Watching Hardy reinvent himself with each role is a big part of his appeal. It’s inevitable that you’re going to fail at certain percentages. I always see me when I watch the work back … You’re going to see the edges. Hardy appreciates the compliment but also wrestles with it. So you don’t see Tom as Reggie and Tom as Ron … Tom goes away and there’s Reggie and Ron,” he says. Legend writer/director Brian Helgeland, sitting in on the interview, marvels at how Hardy simply vanishes into the roles of both Kray siblings. and then along comes he or she with the biggest hands, known as the bully, who irrevocably changes that innocent person’s life.” It’s the concept of the innocent: A man or a woman or a child or a dog, or whatever it be, a sentient being, going about its own business. “I’m not a violent person at all, and I don’t condone it, although I have been moved to be angry for people and for things and whatever. Hardy is quick to add that he doesn’t condone violence in real life. So we’re dealing with veneers … and grey is a far more interesting colour than black and white.” Often there are tales of significant interest which are the counterpart to that which is light and presents itself as another side of good. “Because underneath that there’s frailty, vulnerability, anger issues, torment, abuse and sadness. Though ‘good’ is to me a bit of another wormhole of, well, ‘What’s behind the mask of your good balance?’ “As I walk a day trip in their shoes, I say, ‘Oh yeah, I wouldn’t mind doing that for myself, but I won’t do it today, because I’m going to be good, whatever ‘good’ is. He has played many terrifying individuals - including the brutal title strongman of Bronson, his 2008 breakthrough role, and super villain Bane from The Dark Knight Rises - but he views that as exploring dark personalities for dramatic effect. “If you alleviate that entire concept of human condition and say ‘good’ and ‘bad,’ you’re left with a smorgasbord of no options.” “I don’t buy into ‘evil’ … There’s something much more truthful about the human condition of having flaws and the capability to do absolutely anything in any given choice or moment or time when necessity prevails,” Hardy says. It was a risky procedure, one with a high potential for failure, but Hardy loves feeling like he’s climbing “a metaphoric mountain or rock face,” as he describes the twin challenges of Legend. He recorded dialogue for both psychotic Ronnie and slow-burning Reggie, using an earpiece to play it back and essentially talking to himself as he switched between brothers. Requiring him to play both twin brothers Reggie and Ronnie Kray, the gangster siblings who ruled the London underworld of the 1960s, it was a demanding shoot even for a man of Hardy’s robust constitution.ĭespite advances in film technology since Hayley Mills played twin sisters in The Parent Trap, Hardy, 38, was obliged to use the same split-screen technique employed for that 1961 movie. Along with The Revenant and Mad Max, it’s further proof why Hardy is one of the hottest actors on the planet right now, garnering Oscar talk for all three of these 2015 releases. Then there’s Legend, the gangster biopic opening Friday that is the reason for this interview during TIFF in September. It was a Hardy self-portrait, Theron told Esquire, backed with a red handprint and this inscription: “You are an absolute nightmare, BUT you are also f-ing awesome. Iñárritu to the ground one day to lighten everybody up.Īfter enduring extreme desert sand and heat with co-star Charlize Theron making George Miller’s postapocalyptic actioner Mad Max: Fury Road, Hardy felt obliged to send a peace offering. and Alberta stretches of the Rocky Mountains, he wrestled director Alejandro G. On the frozen set of The Revenant, the upcoming wilderness epic filmed near the B.C.
LEGEND TOM HARDY INTERVIEW FULL
The kind of guy who doesn’t get just one tattoo, he gets a chest full of them. We don’t really know each other - we met earlier this year at Cannes - but the skyrocketing British star is an all-in guy, both as an actor and a person. Tom Hardy gives me a bear hug as he enters the room for our interview.
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