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Interview no 2972973 from Cannes, featuring the much sought-after Tom Hardy: In the Cannes Film Festival entryLawless, Tom Hardy plays a bootlegging brother of Shia LaBeouf who manages to convey the import of an entire monologue with a single, hesitant “um” or “uh.” In real life, though, the talkative Hardy is the exact opposite of his character, and in a free-wheeling conversation with Vulture on the Croisette, the British up-and-comer (best known for his roles in Inception, Bronson, and Warrior) was game to discuss just about anything. Read on for Hardy’s thoughts on fame, fuck-ups, and future projects like The Dark Knight Rises — where he plays the masked villain Bane — and George Miller’s long-in-the-works remake of Mad Max, which will have him taking over the lead role from Mel Gibson. You always go to great lengths to modify your look and your body shape for a role. What did you want to do for Lawless?Well, I wanted to be skinny. Skinny, like I am now — maybe a little skinnier. But Batman came in, and then I needed to be bigger. I had six months to train, but there was a three-month period where Lawless was being filmed at that time, so I had to train during Lawless, so that’s why I was physically the size that I was. Luckily, Shia was physically big as well so it kind of worked, but I would have preferred to be more Billy Bob Thornton–sized. Does that ever take a toll on you, to go from big to small for each movie?Shifting your weight fucks up your liver! You’ve got to be careful. It’s the end of that for me. Speaking of changing your look, have you grown out this beard for a role?Yeah, that’s for Mad Max; that’s in preparation for that. So Mad Max is actually going to happen now?I mean, anything could happen. Well, I don’t want to jinx it.Neither do I. You’ve been compared to Marlon Brando quite a bit, but in the press conference for Lawless earlier, you confessed that you haven’t even seen The Godfather, On the Waterfront, or Streetcar Named Desire.I hadn’t! No, I haven’t seen any of these. I’ve seen Apocalypse Now. I’ve seenShanghai Teahouse of the Rising Sun, or whatever it’s called, where he plays the Chinaman? [Editor’s note: The film is 1956’s The Teahouse of the August Moon.] Which is certainly a questionable casting choice, in retrospect.But the thing is that it’s great, because you go, “Okay, everybody fucks up.” Like Mickey Rooney playing Asian in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.Great, though! I mean to say: These are legends, and even legends are fallible. Reach for the stars and catch the moon! If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the Shanghai Noon, that they’re comparing me to that! [Laughs.] So, no plans to Netflix On the Waterfront?I’m just gonna watch Teahouse again. [Laughs.] No, I’ve just got to have a sense of humor about it and not take it too seriously, because that’s a big fish to be compared to. It’s a very kind and lovely thing to hear, isn’t it? That’s the type of thing that my mum would go, “Do you know what they said [about you]?” And I would go, “Can we talk about something else, please?” When Harvey Weinstein pushed Lawless to the fall, he said that you weren’t well-known now, but that you would be a big star by August.He’s riding The Dark Knight Rises! He’s not sloppy. He’s not a stupid man. But isn’t any fame you get from that going to be mitigated by the fact that you’re so disguised in that film? To me, it’s about the characters, it’s about the film, it’s about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn’t matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That’s the villain of Chris Nolan’s Batman! What I meant is, with very little exaggeration, almost everyone on earth will see this movie. Does it put you at ease at all that you’re unrecognizable in it?If I fuck it up, you mean? No, because it’s such a big movie, and it carries with it a whole other level of potential fame.And people won’t recognize me because I have a mask on in it? Is that what you mean? Yeah.I haven’t thought about it. Because I’m not famous in my head. Like, you aren’t. No, I’m not.So I suppose I think very similarly to you. If people start treating me differently, then maybe I’ll start to treat them differently! I hope that every engagement is just as amicable as it normally is. Maybe it’s a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk. I don’t think that anything should really be allowed to interfere with that, and it would be silly of me not to make the effort to go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk because I thought I was too big or too famous to do that. And it’s certainly not a lesson that I want to give to my son! Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we’re all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I’m really grateful for it, I don’t believe my own press release, do you know what I mean? That’s wise. And at least you know you can always grow that beard again if you need to go down to the corner shop undetected. And I fucking will as well! How long did it take to grow that out?Five months. And I’ve already trimmed it a lot, because people are saying it’s grizzly. Which people?Oh, I’m a terrible reader of the Internet and stuff like that. And you read what people say about you?Yeah, ‘cause in my head, I’m still not famous. It’s like, “Hey, I’m on this site!” Or [to my fiancée], “Look at what we were wearing last night! And everyone says you look great.” And then someone will say, “Tom Hardy is a cunt because … ” What? WHAT? And then do you reply anonymously?Yes, sometimes! Wouldn’t you? Sometimes no one’s defending my corner! And then what you find — I’ve done it before — is that it’s a forest fire that you can’t put out. It’s like [when commenters say], “Is he gay? Isn’t he gay?” Does it matter? Does it actually? I think people just admire honesty in a star, because they’re not used to getting it in an age where everything is so PR-managed.Mmm, well it won’t be [like this] when China rolls on us in fifteen years and we’ll all have to speak Cantonese. Then people will have to grow the fuck up, won’t they? Up to a trillion dollars in debt, then we actually realize that we really are in debt and that China’s a major creditor, Brazil’s got the fastest-growing economy and so does Russia … things is a-changin’! Don’t go out and say that in front of the Chinese Pavilion on the Croisette.There’s nothing wrong with that! There’s more people in China than there are here. Who are we to stand in the way of what God wants, or whatever your concept of that is? No man can stop a tidal wave. “Thou shalt not pass”? Of course not! “I’m a tidal wave! Fuck you!” [Laughs.] It’s not personal, buddy, do you know what I mean? It’s just the rise and collapse of civilizations! History has had several thousand of them. Whatever, you face the fucking fear and you face it head on. Because it’s going to happen anyway, and it’s not a bad thing! It’s called evolution. How’s your Cantonese? Terrible. I can say “Nei hao,” and that’s about it.Jeez, you’re doing better than I am. Your Dark Knight Rises co-star Christian Bale recently made a movie in China.Oh yeah. Awful. I’m not commenting. I love Christian. You recently attached yourself to Cicero, where you’ll play Al Capone for director David Yates.I’m really excited about it. The thing about me is, I have a job to do right now and I always focus on my next one. The thing I have to do right now is Mad Max, but I’m looking over the top going, “And Al Capone is over there!” And they say, “Tom, you’ve got to do Mad Max first.” Like how you saw Dark Knight Rises coming over the hill while filming Lawless.Absolutely. When I used to drink — I don’t drink anymore — I used to buy a beer for myself and I’d put another one in the tap for afterwards. I could drink this beer knowing full well that I have the next one waiting for me in the tap — I’d never want to be without a spare, you know what I’m saying? I’d always have five bills in my back pocket, I always had a pistol secreted somewhere, and a beer in the tap! And now in your career, you have that security.Psychologically, yeah. I’ve got this one here, and that job there, and if that one falls through, then I’ve got this one here. But I can always teach, or just be a dad, you know? Because you know what? My son would really like to see me. Is he here at Cannes?No, he’s at home with his mum and his new sister. But if this all falls apart today, which it can, then I had a good crack at it. I’ve been very fortunate and lucky, and I did what I said I was going to do. I could go home and teach. Well, I don’t think all this is going to fall through for you.It doesn’t matter if it does, though, and that’s the difference between really wanting something to be, and just, like, trying to be part of something. Before, I was drinking this one to get to that one. Now I know I’ve got that one, and I don’t need to drink it. When you ask me about Al Capone, I’ve gotta concentrate on this one. [Laughs.] Although actually, apart from the beard, I’m still a long ways away from getting on the floor with Mad Max. I’m crossing my fingers that it’ll finally happen.I am as well. I’m terrified. I think I might have bitten off much more than I can chew. I think you’ll be fine.I don’t know. We’ll see. We’ll see. High-res

Interview no 2972973 from Cannes, featuring the much sought-after Tom Hardy:

In the Cannes Film Festival entryLawless, Tom Hardy plays a bootlegging brother of Shia LaBeouf who manages to convey the import of an entire monologue with a single, hesitant “um” or “uh.” In real life, though, the talkative Hardy is the exact opposite of his character, and in a free-wheeling conversation with Vulture on the Croisette, the British up-and-comer (best known for his roles in Inception, Bronson, and Warrior) was game to discuss just about anything. Read on for Hardy’s thoughts on fame, fuck-ups, and future projects like The Dark Knight Rises — where he plays the masked villain Bane — and George Miller’s long-in-the-works remake of Mad Max, which will have him taking over the lead role from Mel Gibson.

You always go to great lengths to modify your look and your body shape for a role. What did you want to do for Lawless?
Well, I wanted to be skinny. Skinny, like I am now — maybe a little skinnier. But Batman came in, and then I needed to be bigger. I had six months to train, but there was a three-month period where Lawless was being filmed at that time, so I had to train during Lawless, so that’s why I was physically the size that I was. Luckily, Shia was physically big as well so it kind of worked, but I would have preferred to be more Billy Bob Thornton–sized.

Does that ever take a toll on you, to go from big to small for each movie?
Shifting your weight fucks up your liver! You’ve got to be careful. It’s the end of that for me.

Speaking of changing your look, have you grown out this beard for a role?
Yeah, that’s for Mad Max; that’s in preparation for that.

So Mad Max is actually going to happen now?
I mean, anything could happen.

Well, I don’t want to jinx it.
Neither do I.

You’ve been compared to Marlon Brando quite a bit, but in the press conference for Lawless earlier, you confessed that you haven’t even seen The Godfather, On the Waterfront, or Streetcar Named Desire.
I hadn’t! No, I haven’t seen any of these. I’ve seen Apocalypse Now. I’ve seenShanghai Teahouse of the Rising Sun, or whatever it’s called, where he plays the Chinaman? [Editor’s note: The film is 1956’s The Teahouse of the August Moon.]

Which is certainly a questionable casting choice, in retrospect.
But the thing is that it’s great, because you go, “Okay, everybody fucks up.”

Like Mickey Rooney playing Asian in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
Great, though! I mean to say: These are legends, and even legends are fallible. Reach for the stars and catch the moon! If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the Shanghai Noon, that they’re comparing me to that! [Laughs.]

So, no plans to Netflix On the Waterfront?
I’m just gonna watch Teahouse again. [Laughs.] No, I’ve just got to have a sense of humor about it and not take it too seriously, because that’s a big fish to be compared to. It’s a very kind and lovely thing to hear, isn’t it? That’s the type of thing that my mum would go, “Do you know what they said [about you]?” And I would go, “Can we talk about something else, please?”

When Harvey Weinstein pushed Lawless to the fall, he said that you weren’t well-known now, but that you would be a big star by August.
He’s riding The Dark Knight Rises! He’s not sloppy. He’s not a stupid man.

But isn’t any fame you get from that going to be mitigated by the fact that you’re so disguised in that film? 
To me, it’s about the characters, it’s about the film, it’s about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn’t matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That’s the villain of Chris Nolan’s Batman!

What I meant is, with very little exaggeration, almost everyone on earth will see this movie. Does it put you at ease at all that you’re unrecognizable in it?
If I fuck it up, you mean?

No, because it’s such a big movie, and it carries with it a whole other level of potential fame.
And people won’t recognize me because I have a mask on in it? Is that what you mean?

Yeah.
I haven’t thought about it. Because I’m not famous in my head. Like, you aren’t.

No, I’m not.
So I suppose I think very similarly to you. If people start treating me differently, then maybe I’ll start to treat them differently! I hope that every engagement is just as amicable as it normally is. Maybe it’s a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk. I don’t think that anything should really be allowed to interfere with that, and it would be silly of me not to make the effort to go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk because I thought I was too big or too famous to do that. And it’s certainly not a lesson that I want to give to my son! Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we’re all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I’m really grateful for it, I don’t believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?

That’s wise. And at least you know you can always grow that beard again if you need to go down to the corner shop undetected. 
And I fucking will as well!

How long did it take to grow that out?
Five months. And I’ve already trimmed it a lot, because people are saying it’s grizzly.

Which people?
Oh, I’m a terrible reader of the Internet and stuff like that.

And you read what people say about you?
Yeah, ‘cause in my head, I’m still not famous. It’s like, “Hey, I’m on this site!” Or [to my fiancée], “Look at what we were wearing last night! And everyone says you look great.” And then someone will say, “Tom Hardy is a cunt because … ” What? WHAT?

And then do you reply anonymously?
Yes, sometimes! Wouldn’t you? Sometimes no one’s defending my corner! And then what you find — I’ve done it before — is that it’s a forest fire that you can’t put out. It’s like [when commenters say], “Is he gay? Isn’t he gay?” Does it matter? Does it actually?

I think people just admire honesty in a star, because they’re not used to getting it in an age where everything is so PR-managed.
Mmm, well it won’t be [like this] when China rolls on us in fifteen years and we’ll all have to speak Cantonese. Then people will have to grow the fuck up, won’t they? Up to a trillion dollars in debt, then we actually realize that we really are in debt and that China’s a major creditor, Brazil’s got the fastest-growing economy and so does Russia … things is a-changin’!

Don’t go out and say that in front of the Chinese Pavilion on the Croisette.
There’s nothing wrong with that! There’s more people in China than there are here. Who are we to stand in the way of what God wants, or whatever your concept of that is? No man can stop a tidal wave. “Thou shalt not pass”? Of course not! “I’m a tidal wave! Fuck you!” [Laughs.] It’s not personal, buddy, do you know what I mean? It’s just the rise and collapse of civilizations! History has had several thousand of them. Whatever, you face the fucking fear and you face it head on. Because it’s going to happen anyway, and it’s not a bad thing! It’s called evolution. How’s your Cantonese?

Terrible. I can say “Nei hao,” and that’s about it.
Jeez, you’re doing better than I am.

Your Dark Knight Rises co-star Christian Bale recently made a movie in China.
Oh yeah. Awful. I’m not commenting. I love Christian.

You recently attached yourself to Cicero, where you’ll play Al Capone for director David Yates.
I’m really excited about it. The thing about me is, I have a job to do right now and I always focus on my next one. The thing I have to do right now is Mad Max, but I’m looking over the top going, “And Al Capone is over there!” And they say, “Tom, you’ve got to do Mad Max first.”

Like how you saw Dark Knight Rises coming over the hill while filming Lawless.
Absolutely. When I used to drink — I don’t drink anymore — I used to buy a beer for myself and I’d put another one in the tap for afterwards. I could drink this beer knowing full well that I have the next one waiting for me in the tap — I’d never want to be without a spare, you know what I’m saying? I’d always have five bills in my back pocket, I always had a pistol secreted somewhere, and a beer in the tap!

And now in your career, you have that security.
Psychologically, yeah. I’ve got this one here, and that job there, and if that one falls through, then I’ve got this one here. But I can always teach, or just be a dad, you know? Because you know what? My son would really like to see me.

Is he here at Cannes?
No, he’s at home with his mum and his new sister. But if this all falls apart today, which it can, then I had a good crack at it. I’ve been very fortunate and lucky, and I did what I said I was going to do. I could go home and teach.

Well, I don’t think all this is going to fall through for you.
It doesn’t matter if it does, though, and that’s the difference between really wanting something to be, and just, like, trying to be part of something. Before, I was drinking this one to get to that one. Now I know I’ve got that one, and I don’t need to drink it. When you ask me about Al Capone, I’ve gotta concentrate on this one. [Laughs.] Although actually, apart from the beard, I’m still a long ways away from getting on the floor with Mad Max.

I’m crossing my fingers that it’ll finally happen.
I am as well. I’m terrified. I think I might have bitten off much more than I can chew.

I think you’ll be fine.
I don’t know. We’ll see. We’ll see.

(Source: vulture.com)

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Tom Hardy talks about Mad Max (how can there STILL not be a start date, it makes no sense): For the past couple of months, Tom Hardy has been sporting a particularly luxuriant beard, as part of his prep for Mad Max: Fury Road. And it looks like he might not be touching a Mach 3 for a good while longer. Empire got the chance to speak with Hardy and his Lawless co-star Guy Pearce in Cannes, where the former admitted that the long-delayed project still has no set start date. “We keep moving that around, you know?” he shrugs. “Who knows when it’ll come out? I’ve been on stand-by for two years… but it’s all part of it. It’s kind of the cool thing to do, to be elusive with dates and all that.” While there has been talk of the Mad Max shoot being so ambitious that it will last an entire year, rumour has it that the schedule has been cut down to trim the budget. Says Hardy, not entirely seriously: “It was going to be a year of filming, then six months, and now we’re supposed to be doing it in six days. It’s a musical – we’re going to go around shopping centres in a little wagon and sing songs. People were expecting big, but we’re going to give them small. It’ll be a live, free-running musical and it’s coming to a place near you soon.” And finally, answering the burning question of why Pearce has no eyebrows in Lawless, Hardy points at his beard: “I have his hair. I’m holding onto it.” Pearce laughs. “It’s true, Tom’s got it. He’s stuck it on his face.” High-res

Tom Hardy talks about Mad Max (how can there STILL not be a start date, it makes no sense):

For the past couple of months, Tom Hardy has been sporting a particularly luxuriant beard, as part of his prep for Mad Max: Fury Road. And it looks like he might not be touching a Mach 3 for a good while longer. Empire got the chance to speak with Hardy and his Lawless co-star Guy Pearce in Cannes, where the former admitted that the long-delayed project still has no set start date.

“We keep moving that around, you know?” he shrugs. “Who knows when it’ll come out? I’ve been on stand-by for two years… but it’s all part of it. It’s kind of the cool thing to do, to be elusive with dates and all that.”

While there has been talk of the Mad Max shoot being so ambitious that it will last an entire year, rumour has it that the schedule has been cut down to trim the budget.

Says Hardy, not entirely seriously: “It was going to be a year of filming, then six months, and now we’re supposed to be doing it in six days. It’s a musical – we’re going to go around shopping centres in a little wagon and sing songs. People were expecting big, but we’re going to give them small. It’ll be a live, free-running musical and it’s coming to a place near you soon.”

And finally, answering the burning question of why Pearce has no eyebrows in Lawless, Hardy points at his beard: “I have his hair. I’m holding onto it.” Pearce laughs. “It’s true, Tom’s got it. He’s stuck it on his face.”

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Tom Hardy & Charlotte Riley being adorable at the Bafta Television Craft awards yesterday.

And please remember, the beard is for Mad Max, and it looks like he’ll be keeping it a while since they don’t start shooting that film until July… Personally, I love that he’s no more vain than that he’ll look however he needs to for a part! Also, I imagine he kind of enjoys being able to be incognito in his private life when all that hair covers up his pretty face. *g*

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Just a few recently acquired Tom Hardy facts: - Lawless will be screened for the first time in Cannes on Saturday May 19. (It’ll be terribly interesting to see what the critics et al think about it!) - Charlize Theron has just said that they (or just her? who knows?) start filming Mad Max in July. (Which is good news for the state of Tom’s wild beard plans - man, it will be WILD by then - and also good news for him appearing in Cannes. I don’t know what that might mean for him being at the premiere of TDKR on July 20, though. But surely he can’t miss that? That would be weird. It’s only the biggest premiere of his life… But first, Cannes! I’d love to see him with that whole glorious Lawless cast on the glitzy red carpet on the Croisette.) - adorned with a random, too small, but ever so pretty picture from This Means War.

Just a few recently acquired Tom Hardy facts:

- Lawless will be screened for the first time in Cannes on Saturday May 19. (It’ll be terribly interesting to see what the critics et al think about it!)

- Charlize Theron has just said that they (or just her? who knows?) start filming Mad Max in July. (Which is good news for the state of Tom’s wild beard plans - man, it will be WILD by then - and also good news for him appearing in Cannes. I don’t know what that might mean for him being at the premiere of TDKR on July 20, though. But surely he can’t miss that? That would be weird. It’s only the biggest premiere of his life… But first, Cannes! I’d love to see him with that whole glorious Lawless cast on the glitzy red carpet on the Croisette.)

- adorned with a random, too small, but ever so pretty picture from This Means War.

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All quotes from Tom Hardy in the article about The Dark Knight Rises in Entertainment Weekly (STILL no start date for Mad Max? Really? I thought he’d gone to Namibia already!)

And then there’s Bane (Inception alum No. 3 Tom Hardy), a cunning, hulking terrorist of mysterious origin. Bane has a small army, a mean muzzlelike mask (visual inspiration: baboon mouth as painted by Francis Bacon), and a theatrical mumble that perhaps you’ve heard about… or heard and didn’t understand. (More on that in a minute.)

“The Joker didn’t care - he just wanted to see the world burn, and he was a master of chaos and destruction, unscrupulous and crazy. Bane is not that guy.” says Hardy, a British actor who’s earned acclaim for highly physical performances in indies like Bronson and Warrior. “There is a very meticulous and calculated way about Bane. There is a huge orchestration of organization to his ambition. He is also a physical threat to Batman. There is nothing vague about Bane. No jokes. He’s a very clean, clear villain.”

The Bane of the Batman comics was born in a fictional Caribbean country, a brilliant lad forced to serve out his revolutionary father’s prison sentence. He’s physically dependent on a drug that makes him monstrously strong but yields painful, debilitating side effects. No one involved in Rises will say how closely the film’s Bane hews to the source material but says the much-talked-about voice he developed for the role was inspired by his desire to honor the comic character’s brains and heritage, albeit in an elliptical way. He wanted a sound that conveyed both malevolence and old-soul wisdom.  

“There were two doors we could walk through,” says Hardy. “We could play a very straight forward villain or we could go through this very quirky door, which was totally justified by the text but may seem very, very stupid.” Not surprisingly, Hardy decided to go for the second option. “It’s a risk because we could get laughed at - or it could be very fresh and exciting,” he says.

While some found his dialogue incomprehensible to the IMAX-exclusive sneak peek attached to Mission:Impossible - Ghost Protocol last December, the actor asks for patience. “The audience mustn’t be too concerned about the mumbly voice,” says Hardy. “As the film progresses, I think you’ll be able to tune to its setting.”

For Hardy, the potentially breakthrough role of Bane came at exactly the right time. In June 2010 the actor confirmed his role as Mad Max in Fury Road, director George Miller’s long-in-the-works reboot of the Australian franchise that made Mel Gibson a star. But just a few months later, while shooting This Means War with Chris Pine and Reese Witherspoon in Vancouver, Hardy learned that production on Fury Road has been delayed by a year. (The movie still doesn’t have a start date.) Hours after that call, Hardy’s phone rang again. Christopher Nolan was on the line. “It was a complete downhill plummet when I heard about Mad Max - and then I was hauled into the heavens,” says Hardy.

Of course, Nolan being Nolan, the director avoided specifics about the character he wanted Hardy to play, and seemed especially concerned about the actor’s willingness to wear a face-obscuring mask for the whole movie. “I think he worried it would be something I might not consider because wearing a mask might damage my career or something. He thought I’d be worried that the audience couldn’t see my beautiful face,” says Hardy. “Like I care. It’s Chris Nolan! I would wear a paper bag over my heard for that man.”

“[The Dark Knight Rises] stands alone, yet completes a cyclical work,” says Hardy. “Think triplets instead of one child after another-the Dark Knight triplets.”

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A new interview with Tom Hardy in Hello Magazine where he talks about being a dad, being away from his family and how both New York & LA have become like home to him. And about growing that big, bushy beard! High-res

A new interview with Tom Hardy in Hello Magazine where he talks about being a dad, being away from his family and how both New York & LA have become like home to him. And about growing that big, bushy beard!

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Tom Hardy is growing a ”big and bushy” beard because the forthcoming ‘Mad Max’ film shows the leading character in his ”wild days”. Tom Hardy has grown a beard because the new ‘Mad Max’ film shows the character in ”his wild days”. The British actor is portraying character Max Rockatansky in ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ - the fourth film in the franchise - and confirms he has grown ”big and bushy” facial hair because of part of the storyline. He said: ”The beard is to make me look handsome. Really, it’s because I’m about to play Mad Max in the new film and we start the shoot by showing him in his wild days. ”It’s going to be really big and bushy - what I have now is only the start.” The ‘Dark Knight Rises’ star has always wanted to sport some fuzz on his face but has always been stopped in the past because his movie character’s have required clean shaves. He told Hello! magazine: ”I’ve always wanted a beard, but I’ve never been able to have a proper one because I was always having to shave it off for my next role. But at last the stars are aligning for me to grow one and work at the same time.” It’ll be interesting to see just how long he can grow it!  High-res

Tom Hardy is growing a ”big and bushy” beard because the forthcoming ‘Mad Max’ film shows the leading character in his ”wild days”.

Tom Hardy has grown a beard because the new ‘Mad Max’ film shows the character in ”his wild days”.

The British actor is portraying character Max Rockatansky in ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ - the fourth film in the franchise - and confirms he has grown ”big and bushy” facial hair because of part of the storyline.

He said: ”The beard is to make me look handsome. Really, it’s because I’m about to play Mad Max in the new film and we start the shoot by showing him in his wild days.

”It’s going to be really big and bushy - what I have now is only the start.”

The ‘Dark Knight Rises’ star has always wanted to sport some fuzz on his face but has always been stopped in the past because his movie character’s have required clean shaves.

He told Hello! magazine: ”I’ve always wanted a beard, but I’ve never been able to have a proper one because I was always having to shave it off for my next role. But at last the stars are aligning for me to grow one and work at the same time.”

It’ll be interesting to see just how long he can grow it! 

(Source: contactmusic.com)

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From Cosmopolitan, I wonder if they KNOW it’s just a few scenes of filming Mad Max with the beard or if it’s no more speculation than we’ve done? Personally, I hope it’s true. A few scenes would be perfect, then it can be shaved off and he can fight the good fight with a clean-shaven face, killing people by being exceptionally handsome. *g* Tom Hardy is one of our favourite Brit actors, but yesterday he showed up at the Prince’s Trust awards ceremony with a beard that can only be described as out of control!Last month he walked the red carpet at the This Means War UK premiere looking fairly beardy, and revealed he was off to Siberia, and that the beard would no doubt ensure his face stayed warm in the sub-zero temperatures… but it’s even bigger now he’s back.The truth is, he’s filming the new Mad Max film, Fury Road, in Namibia in April, and he’s going to film some scenes with his straggly beard.  High-res

From Cosmopolitan, I wonder if they KNOW it’s just a few scenes of filming Mad Max with the beard or if it’s no more speculation than we’ve done? Personally, I hope it’s true. A few scenes would be perfect, then it can be shaved off and he can fight the good fight with a clean-shaven face, killing people by being exceptionally handsome. *g*

Tom Hardy is one of our favourite Brit actors, but yesterday he showed up at the Prince’s Trust awards ceremony with a beard that can only be described as out of control!

Last month he walked the red carpet at the This Means War UK premiere looking fairly beardy, and revealed he was off to Siberia, and that the beard would no doubt ensure his face stayed warm in the sub-zero temperatures… but it’s even bigger now he’s back.

The truth is, he’s filming the new Mad Max film, Fury Road, in Namibia in April, and he’s going to film some scenes with his straggly beard. 

(Source: cosmopolitan.co.uk)

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Look at how small he looks here!  Remember how he said, before when Mad Max was going to start filming, that he wanted to look like a ‘hungry wolf’ - lean and mean. Now it’s lean, mean and hairy. *g* High-res

Look at how small he looks here! 

Remember how he said, before when Mad Max was going to start filming, that he wanted to look like a ‘hungry wolf’ - lean and mean. Now it’s lean, mean and hairy. *g*

(Source: twitter.com)

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I do wish people understood that the beard is for a role (Mad Max) before they tell him to shave. If we know anything about Tom as an actor by now, it’s that he’s completely dedicated to his craft. He doesn’t care if he has to look a little mental or scary or whatever, he just does what he think is necessary for a part. And it does make perfect sense for Max to be a little wild in his appearance, doesn’t it? Like he said himself: “It’s not always about sexy.”  High-res

I do wish people understood that the beard is for a role (Mad Max) before they tell him to shave. If we know anything about Tom as an actor by now, it’s that he’s completely dedicated to his craft. He doesn’t care if he has to look a little mental or scary or whatever, he just does what he think is necessary for a part. And it does make perfect sense for Max to be a little wild in his appearance, doesn’t it?

Like he said himself: “It’s not always about sexy.” 

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