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For the record, this is the photo shoot which inspired casting director Gary Davy to cast Tom in Band of Brothers. I understand the inspiration perfectly.

Also, this is my scan from L’uomo Vogue from 2002. Photo by David Bailey.

Tom Hardy as Janovec in Band of Brothers.

A very young Tom Hardy in a still from Band of Brothers. :)

Dexter Fletcher mentions Tom Hardy in an old interview about Band of Brothers. (Photos are from the 24 Hours Play Celebrity Gala after party.)

What sets the best actors apart? 
They don’t have an ordinary, everyday life - which is why they probably congregate together. It’s less impressive for Tom Hanks [who directed Band Of Brothers] to sit around with Steven Spielberg [who produced it], as they are both great men in their own right. When I’m with Tom, it does seem different, but you get over that. In this industry it doesn’t matter who you are today because tomorrow you could be someone different. There was a guy in BoB called Tom Hardy who did one episode. The rest of us had been filming for nine months and we were a bit: ‘We’ll show you the ropes.’ Now Tom Hardy is playing the lead in the new Star Trek movie. You get to realise that being snooty is not the way forward and careers can quickly reverse. People like Tom Hanks have learnt that lesson - if you’re working with him, that’s the bottom line.

(Source: metro.co.uk)

With that face, who’s surprised. *g*

“I always resented Tom [Hardy] for turning up on Band Of Brothers and getting the girl — in fact, the only girl in a cast of hundreds of smelly men! I, on the other hand, spent eight months with my face squashed up against someone else’s backside in one sodden trench after another. And it looks as if Tom might have got the girl again [in Colditz], damn his eyes.” — Damian Lewis