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LEGEND Press Conference [TIFF 2015] x

Tom Hardy shutting journalists down as per usual. 

Legend TIFF interview by entertainment reporter ‏Kjersti Flaa, posted on Filmweb (“See why Tom Hardy think Kristoffer Joner is amazing!”)

+ xcellent comment ‏Sep 13:

@KjerstiNewYork  - Tom Hardy knows how to make anything look sexy! #TomHardy #TIFF15 #Legend #SmokeBreak 

Article/interview in the LATimes. Legend opens in the US on Nov. 20!

Tom Hardy’s characters frighten him too — but he can’t stay away

There are two very different Tom Hardys.

There is the Hardy moviegoers have gotten to know onscreen, an actor with a brooding intensity and a special flair for playing hard, sometimes vicious men in films like “Bronson,” “Warrior,” “The Dark Knight Rises” and “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Then there is the offscreen Hardy, a sensitive softy who loves dogs and giving out hugs and who, speaking by phone from his home in London on a recent afternoon, talked excitedly about the imminent prospect of becoming a dad for the second time: “I’m waiting on a baby to land. It could be any minute!”

That more gentle and thoughtful Hardy — Tommy to his friends — is just as frightened as everyone else by the kinds of forbidding alpha-male characters he has often played. (“I’m as masculine as an eggplant,” he once told an interviewer.) In a strange way, that fear is exactly what draws him to those roles.

“I think things that frighten me are compelling and I want to understand them,” Hardy, 38, explained. “Wherever I go around the world, there’s always somebody out there who’s a bit scary and I’ll collect that. Or animals — I’ll learn from animals as well.” He laughed. “Though you can’t really talk to an angry orangutan in the same way you can talk to a lot of people.”

Playing a real person, for me, means that there are parameters and clear rules and facts. Certain dates that you can’t mess with and certain looks and silhouettes you can’t argue. That’s what Napoleon looks like, we know that. Well, actually we don’t - just from paintings… But you know. The Hat. We know he’s got the hat. You’re going to be judged on people’s understanding and knowledge and memory of a specificity.

Tom Hardy on the shooting range while filming Mad Max Fury Road in 2012. 

MASTER OF DISGUISE

Tom Hardy, is that you? The nearly unrecognizable Mad Max: Fury Road actor walks through London’s Heathrow airport on Monday.

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Tom Hardy at the 2012 Cannes film festival. 

Beautiful behind the scenes photo by Greg Williams @gregwilliamsphotography from his Cannes Film Festival diary:

Tom Hardy and Nicholas Hoult interviewed in Cannes. 

Apparently, because they were in such barren land, and because they couldn’t talk emotions, they communicated via giving each other gifts… Tom mentions haberdashery and arts & crafts. And says he made Nick a necklace and a bracelet. And Nick made Tom a hat and gave him a piece of rock he found because it made him think of Tom…