A bit from another Danish interview with the folks from Lawless, with a little ‘outsider view’ of Tom. It’s always interesting (even if I don’t agree). He seems a little odd to some… Translated by me.
The Brit Tom Hardy and the Australian Guy Pearce, the villain and the antihero of the film, are also here.
While Pearce is sitting, speaking crystal clear and controlled behind his glasses, almost like a modern Cary Grant, Hardy is crept up in a corner of the sofa, where he resembles a homemade terrorist with an unkempt full beard, long hair over his eyes, mysterious bracelets which creep their way up his right arm’s elbow and the khaki of his army shirt.
And a mumbling which Brando would have been jealous of. Pearce’s overview of the situation seems almost Olympian. while Hardy’s is more like angry tunnel vision.
When asked what it meant for Lawless that so many Australians and Brits - non-Americans, in other words - have made the film, Tom Hardy gets defensive. Someone has apparently accused him of not having a believable Virginian-American accent.
“I know actors who are so geeky, that the accents they use are perfect and concrecte all the way down to the zip code”, Tom Hardy says. “I’m enormously geeky myself, but for me it’s more important that the character is believable, rather than that the accent - in a world where all accents eventually will be found around the corner from each other - is exact.
Guy Pearce turns in his seat and looks at him over the top of his glasses. It’s he, who resembles the Brit now, ready for his 5 o’clock tea.
“It’s just acting”, he says. “It only has the influence on you which you allow it to have.”
(Source: politiken.dk)
