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The BBC version of events also comes down on the side of the queen’s virginity, though with Leicester played by Tom Hardy in black leather britches and a codpiece Blackadder would kill for, you can see how a young queen might be tempted.

“Yup”, says Hardy, “it’s all about sex. And I don’t get any. Leicester’s the bloke Elizabeth’s supposed to be in love with, but it just never happens. He ends up, after 40 years, like some fart-sodden dog whom the queen talks to and pets, but they never get to have sex.”

Tom Hardy in The Virgin Queen looking sultry. 

My scan!

“It’s hard to place Robert Dudley accurately, but he was the queen’s great love for 40 years. There must have been something he was good at to survive so long.”

- Tom Hardy on his character in The Virgin Queen. My scan! (It’s a very small photo to begin with, alas.)

And Tom Hardy, as Robert Dudley, is a right piece — 10 per cent sexual petulance, 90 per cent straining hose, 100 per cent likely to provoke the Google search “Tom Hardy” “early art film” “nude scene”. 

- from a review of The Virgin Queen in The Times. All true.

From a guy who was in The Virgin Queen - a behind the scenes photo. 

Too bad he didn’t upload it in the proper size and without any markings… But there’s Tom Hardy, as you can see, looking cool as always. :)

(Source: twitter.com)

Tom Hardy & Anne-Marie Duff on the set of The Virgin Queen.

From here.

 Tom as Robert Dudley in The Virgin Queen, in a HQ still that I’ve scanned. :)