“Tom Hardy has elements of clown about him, so much so that when we did that rape scene, by the end of the day the camera crew were more traumatised than we were. I’m absolutely not saying that we went into it in a light-hearted way, but if you’re going to play a scene like that on stage every night, you can’t put yourself into that place again and again.
Tom is an incredibly intense actor. We’ve been through it together. He can get so het up sometimes, and he likes using his Charles Bronson persona - he played Charlie in a film last year - to scare people. But, I think that’s just his clown coming out.”
- Charlotte Riley about Tom Hardy and The Take, before they were an official couple (just like in this photo).
