Exploring Tom Hardy

I have no idea which poster he might mean, but this still amuses me greatly. Benedict’s got that kind of a (fabulous) name, I suppose.

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Gary Oldman says one of the “Tinker Tailor” posters is designed so it looks like he’s starring in a movie called “Benedict Cumberbatch.”

Even (pseudo-)famous people have inappropriate fantasies about Tom. This is from Amy Childs, of the British show The Only Way is Essex:

So who would Amy like to get her hands on? “The actor Tom Hardy is gorgeous,” she says. “I met him on Alan Carr’s show and he gave me a kiss on the cheek. I didn’t wash my spray tan off for days after that. If he came in my salon now, I’d definitely give him a Pejazzle and a back, sac and crack wax.”

A full and proper translation of that Polish interview with Tom Hardy thanks to Kurwa and her friend Anna (the ‘read more’ break doesn’t seem to work on the dashboard, sorry about that - it works on the blog. I don’t know what to do!)

We remember him from „Bronson” and „Inception”, and soon we’re going to see him in „Tinker, Tailor, Soldier. Spy”. It was him who got the part of Bane in Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight Rises” and who got asked by George Miller to take part in the new “Mad Max”. The actor talks with Yola Czaderska-Hayek about his upcoming projects, which include a boxing movie “Warrior”.

YC-H: In Tomas Alfredson’s „Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” you play the part of a so called “scalp hunter”, a guy, who seduces pretty girls and prepares them to work for the British secret service. You’re the right man in the right place!
TH: Thanks (laughs), but I think you’re exaggerating a bit.

YC-H: Why? Don’t tell me girls don’t fall for you!
TH: Well, actually, it depends. Everything depends on the movie I currently star in and on what the make-up artists make of me. When I was starring in “Bronson”, people were afraid to approach me on the street. Do you remember how I looked back then? Built up, bald and with this huge moustache. My ex-girlfriend (Rachael Speed- YC-H) was pregnant at the time. Whenever we went to take a walk together, we looked rather strange (laughs). Thanks to the moustache women started treating me like some sort of a good uncle, someone like Santa Claus. It wasn’t likely that someone would fall for me. But when I played a part of a homeless man (in the movie “Stuart. A Life Backwards” – YC-H), people started to get away from me, as if they somehow knew that something was wrong with me. It was very similar with the part of Tommy in “Warrior” – my family and friends kept asking me about why I look so bad. And I thought that my looks was the only thing I didn’t have to worry about, because it was another movie I had to train really hard for!
It’s just that Tommy is a very sad character. I think his sadness influenced me somehow.

YC-H: And now you’re gaining weight again. You play “Bane” in Christopher Nolan’s new movie, “The Dark Knight Rises”.
TH: Yup. Another built up man. A brutal, cruel monster, who doesn’t feel pain. I think it’s another character I took something from. Not so long ago my fiancé (Charlotte Riley, to whom Tom confessed last year – YC-H) hit me with her elbow during the night, because my snoring was too loud. It’s impossible not to snore if you spend so much time in the gym! She hit me, full force, and I didn’t even feel anything! I woke up and asked absent-mindedly, “What, do I need to check on the baby?” (Hardy is now raising a 3 year old son, Louis – YC-H). Incredible. When a man has so many grown muscles, it’s really impossible to feel pain. But I have to confess something to you – I’d love to go back to my previous weight. I weigh 15 kilos more! I look in the mirror and it’s not me I’m looking at!

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From an interview with Tomas Alfredson in a free Swedish magazine (my translation), here’s more detail on the Trololo man which Tom mentioned in one interview. Hee!

What did you do to break the ice [when first meeting Gary Oldman]?

I played [Gary] a Youtube clip. The Trololo man. It’s a clip from a Soviet entertainment show in every shade of brown. A crooner sings an upbeat melody with a nonsense text. Simply his whole being is fantastic. It’s been said that the lyrics are actually about a lonely cowboy riding across the prairie but that some diligent KGB-agent got worried about romanticising the US and censored the whole text. Remaining is only the asinine singing rhyme. A very bizarre, scary and hysterically funny effect of the cold war. Whenever it got troublesome during the shoot we could always break out singing the Trololo-song.