‘I’ve changed my body three times in the last year,’ he told me. First, he starved himself to play the heroin-addicted Stuart, losing two stone in a month. Then he piled on five stone for a role as a heavyweight boxer in a film that was cancelled. He showed me the superfluous physique in the gallery he keeps on his mobile phone: Hardy had become a brutish pillar of brawn. ‘Steroids?’ I asked. ‘Hell no,’ he said indignantly. ‘I’m a recovering drug addict!’
- Tom Hardy in The Guardian in 2007 - for people who keep thinking he might ever be taking steroids to gain weight/muscle.






