‘The Dark Knight Rises’ star Tom Hardy talks about playing Bane and inventing the villain’s controversial voice: ‘It’s a risk.’ (0)
4/16/12 •
When Christopher Nolan asked Tom Hardy to play the villain in his third and final Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, due July 20, the director doted on one job requirement in particular: the budding star would have to wear a mask that looked like a leathery baboon mouth with metal casings for fangs – [...]
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Why the bad times are over for Tom Hardy (2)
2/24/12 •
Tom Hardy is sitting opposite me in a Los Angeles hotel suite, which is a minor miracle considering what he has to go through to be allowed into the United States. In order to obtain a visa to work in Hollywood, the talented British actor, whom critics are comparing to a young Marlon Brando, has [...]
Tom Hardy’s Pudding, Chinese Food For Thought and Other Wisdom From the This Means War Team (0)
2/16/12 •
It started with the pudding. Oh, not just any pudding: A perfect pool of melt-in-your-mouth chocolate-hazelnut goodness — a confection so rich, so irresistible, that even Tom Hardy found himself drawn like a moth to a flame to the dessert table before the press conference for This Means War the other week in Beverly Hills. [...]
Tom Hardy Interview for Time Out Chicago (2)
2/16/12 •
Tom Hardy has taken the actorly objective of self-transformation pretty literally. He lost weight to portray a homeless man, bulked up to play a prisoner and later an MMA fighter, looked practically diminutive in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and again put on mass to be the baddie in this summer’s The Dark Knight Rises. (“I [...]
McG Considered Clue-Style Alternate Endings for This Means War, Admits He ‘Pussed Out’ on Terminator 4 (0)
2/06/12 •
It’s the biggest, most important question of the season, people: Whom will Reese Witherspoon choose, between pillow-lipped Brit Tom Hardy and confident playboy Chris Pine, in the spy vs. spy love triangle rom-com This Means War? While you won’t get any spoilers here for the Valentine’s Day release, let Hardy and director McG tease you [...]
