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Some comments from director/actor Duncan Roy who claims to know Tom from way back. I wonder if this really is true, I can’t see Tom going around punching people as a habit. Mime boxing is one thing…

Hung with Tom Hardy last night.
Apparently he punched the producer of Bronson. Good on yer lad. We used the words ‘twat’ and ‘nonce’.

And:

I felt that about Tom Hardy. He used to be such a brat. I had a very ‘loud chat’ with Tom in Soho House, London years ago about his excessive drinking. He heeded my advice and gave up. Then, a year or so later, he thanked me for telling him the truth. A truth few dared to tell him.
In actuality I just repeated what Anthony Hopkins told me Lawrence Olivier had said to him about his drinking when he was a young actor at The National Theatre.
It seemed to work.

(Source: duncanroy.com)

A new interesting interview with Tom (I so love the way he expresses himself - and he’s so wonderfully polite):

Question: Did you know anything about mixed martial arts before “Warrior?”

Answer: (It is) a sport I was aware of from television, but a sport I had not previously experienced.

Q: A lot of MMA fans don’t like the tap-out aspect, when a fighter surrenders. But you guys managed to make even that exciting.

A: That’s cool. It’s one of those things that’s a bit like the formlessness of jazz, or freestyle, or anything that seems formless. You have to watch an awful lot of it to see what it is, to see the options. It’s like watching people play chess, but physically.

I can see why a lot of fans see the tapping-out side can be boring. They like the big kicks. It’s very much similar to breakdancing. People love to see men spinning on their head or women spinning on their head, doing the big tricks, when actually the body pumping and the body locking other kinds of dances is more the essence and soul of what hip-hop is.

Q: Did you learn a lot about MMA while training?

A: With mixed martial arts there is an essential spirit amongst the warrior class, which is what emanates profusely. The camaraderie and the brotherhood amongst fighters is something very specific, very caring and nurturing, and more about strategy and skill than people give it credit for.

Q: Your character doesn’t say much, so you have to do a lot with looks and silences.

A: The character’s story line is so loaded, you have spent so much information about him as an audience member, that if I was trying to direct a kid doing it, (my advice) would be, “Don’t do anything. Sit with it. Sit with it.” In stillness is an incredible amount of rage.

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(Source: azcentral.com)

Excerpt from a rather amusing interview with Tom & Joel about Warrior (burritos & latte! Silly boys). It’s very interesting to hear Tom talk about his worries with all these weight gains and losses. Read all of it here.

Mr. Hardy, a friend of mine suggested that your deltoid should get its own credit because it has the mass and shape of a separate character. (Hardy laughs.) All kidding aside, is it fun or creepy to do that science fair stuff of ‘I’m just going to eat chicken and broccoli and lift weights, and let’s see what kind of a monster I can be?’ Is that fun, or is it terrifying?
Hardy: The novelty wears off. Initially it was good fun, and then you settle in for the tour, and the tour is a few months. By the end of ‘Warrior,’ I went onto ‘Inception,’ which was really nice to wear silk pants and a silk shirt and suntan and lie down and sleep a lot. I didn’t have to get beaten up anymore. Now, Chris has asked me to come back and go through the whole thing again of the chicken and broccoli. We’ve been banished to more chicken and broccoli and even more weights. It’s good fun; at the same time, you want to be concerned about your body.

I saw your physique in ‘Bronson,’ as did we all. Do you ever worry about breaking something, like there’s some part of your endocrine system that’s going to snap gaining weight and losing weight and gaining muscle and losing muscle?
Edgerton: Or worrying about the people around you — that they might break?
Hardy: Bronson was fat. Tommy Conlon was replacing that fat with 14 pounds and stripping the fat off Bronson, and then Bane is … putting that 14 pounds back on, plus another 10. We’re dealing with minimal sums, but still, we are messing around with the endocrine system. So yes, I do worry about that, actually.