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Taboo | Press Conference Los Angeles, US - January 12, 2017.

Director Kristoffer Nyholm, creator/executive producer/writer Steven Knight, creator/executive producer/actor Tom Hardy, actors David Hayman, Oona Chaplin and Michael Kelly of the television show ‘Taboo’ speak onstage during the FX portion of the 2017 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour at Langham Hotel on January 12, 2017 in Pasadena, California.

@JarettSays “Tom Hardy called his #Taboo character "a bristly pig” — when the show’s co-creator repeated the description, he was tickled #TCA17"

MZS: You’re the first actor I’ve met who finds his character by making sketches.

TH: One has to have a silhouette, you know? Say I’m playing Elton John. You know what he looks like. Playing Al Capone. You know what he looks like. But what about characters we’re making up from scratch, who you don’t know what they look like? You have to create a memorable silhouette for them, too. When I was at school I was told, “Tom, when you play the prince or the king, I want to fucking see a king walk onstage before you even open your mouth. What does that look like?” Do you do it literally, with a costume, or through physicality? How do you immediately see the king? Crown? Robes? I have to find an identifier, a silhouette which immediately radiates something for me. Remember, you won’t necessarily know by their clothes that they’re the king. You can walk on in a disheveled homeless man’s outfit, but there’s something about them that radiates a nobility, something that makes you go, “This person’s a king.”

Full interview in New York Magazine @nymag | January 9-22 2017 issue