![Two quotes from John Hillcoat and Nick Cave on Tom Hardy’s Forrest in Lawless:
Hillcoat:
“Actually Tom brought a lot to that,” Hillcoat praised his star. “He made some audacious choices that really paid off. I mean he’s a really bold actor in that sense. He takes serious risks which I greatly admire and we always loved the idea of him exploring other sides. He’s not just this hard, haunted character, he becomes both the patriarch and matriarch of the family, because they’d lost their parents. Tom was brilliant the way he kind of embraced the matriarchal kind of more feminine side of the character…we always knew he was an inoculate character who couldn’t express himself. That’s in the story and a lot of these hard bitten, southern folk are like that. They don’t talk about their feelings in the way that modern day New Yorkers might. So there was that quality [and] Tom kind of took those ingredients and really added to them and added extra warmth and humor which we were thrilled about.”
Cave:
“He was everything we didn’t expect. When he arrived, he was three stone heavier than he was supposed to be - I think he had Batman next. I’d written this… snake-like character, and all the description was like, ‘He looks… snake-like’ and ‘He moves, like a snake…’. There was a song called The Snake Song. And he wound up like a f**king bullock. We were like, weren’t you supposed to be a snake? Now it’s, ‘He walks… bullock-like.’”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9h2i2UoJm1qe5f96o1_400.jpg)
Two quotes from John Hillcoat and Nick Cave on Tom Hardy’s Forrest in Lawless:
“Actually Tom brought a lot to that,” Hillcoat praised his star. “He made some audacious choices that really paid off. I mean he’s a really bold actor in that sense. He takes serious risks which I greatly admire and we always loved the idea of him exploring other sides. He’s not just this hard, haunted character, he becomes both the patriarch and matriarch of the family, because they’d lost their parents. Tom was brilliant the way he kind of embraced the matriarchal kind of more feminine side of the character…we always knew he was an inoculate character who couldn’t express himself. That’s in the story and a lot of these hard bitten, southern folk are like that. They don’t talk about their feelings in the way that modern day New Yorkers might. So there was that quality [and] Tom kind of took those ingredients and really added to them and added extra warmth and humor which we were thrilled about.”
“He was everything we didn’t expect. When he arrived, he was three stone heavier than he was supposed to be - I think he had Batman next. I’d written this… snake-like character, and all the description was like, ‘He looks… snake-like’ and ‘He moves, like a snake…’. There was a song called The Snake Song. And he wound up like a f**king bullock. We were like, weren’t you supposed to be a snake? Now it’s, ‘He walks… bullock-like.’”
