tomhardyvariations:

Tom and Charlotte at the Prometheus afterparty.

charlidos:

Tom Hardy IS a teddy bear, or so Shia Labeouf says:

You and Hardy went toe-to-toe on this. He’s a pretty intense guy.

Very intense guy, yeah.

Was it tough for you to match that intensity? His focus was pretty there on this.

Yeah, but he’s also a sweetheart. Dude’s a teddy bear. It doesn’t appear that way,  but there’s a lot of love in Tom too. It was a team coming in. We were a team. 

Applaudimètre “Lawless” @ Cannes - May 20th, 2012.
3:31

You had a choice okay, you had a choice.

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nakedelanor:

haha my friend Tom

haHA my FRIEND Tom

HAHA MY FRIEND TOM

HAHA

charlidos:

From a little article about watching Lawless and interviewing Tom Hardy in Cannes (makes me REALLY want to see Lawless NOW!):

[…]The relationship between Tom Hardy and Jessica Chastain is as romantic as you’ll see, more romantic than most intended love stories. And that’s primarily what it is, how he is in the film. 

But don’t go into Lawless expecting him to look good. He does not. He’s stocky. Like Bane stocky. Because he was training for The Dark Knight Rises when he was shooting this one. So there’s that thick neck and bloated face, and he walks around in goofy pants and an overstretched cardigan the whole time, with his hands shoved in the pockets, and all he ever does it grunt, literally, a grunt for every emotion; aesthetically it’s really not there. 

But then he falls in love with her. In the most quiet, most restrained, most respectful, most selfless way, to the point where he doesn’t even want to be with her, he just wants to know she’s ok. There are no overtures, there’s no sweeping gesture, he doesn’t declare himself in a rainstorm, and she navigates their entire relationship. Somehow in a gangster story about 1920s Prohibition, a modern equal romance emerged: it’s incredibly sexy. Tom Hardy goes about this film smashing faces with brass knuckles and slicing the balls off his adversaries and I left thinking I’d just seen The Notebook. He and Jessica Chastain, they’re totally my Ryan and Rachel now. 

Then I had to interview him. Fresh off associating him with this character and all those really hot attributes only in person, now that he’s lean again, having lost the Bane bulk and in the process of slimming down for Mad Max (that’s what the beard is for), well now it’s just not fair. After all, the challenge is attracting your mind; the physical draw is easy. He was wearing a green t-shirt and jeans that hang off good narrow hips. At one point he walked past me down the hall and I smelled fresh laundry. When I walked into our interview space he was muttering to himself, five minutes, five minutes, five minutes. When he looked up I promised I wouldn’t torture him. He was like, oh no love, I just talk too much and they’re saying we’re running long. Gotta keep my answers shorter. Five minutes, five minutes…

We ended up going seven. 

You get him on something and he’ll just…talk. In my case it was about how he interpreted his character like an “old lesbian”, playing house on set where he and Jessica became like the parents of the bigger family, and the dog they adopted together. He’s called Woodstock. Tom got custody and he lives with him in London. And then he went on about how Woodstock is home probably tearing sh-t apart. And he couldn’t stop himself then, laughing about his goofy, messy dog. 

… when Jessica Chastain tried to be the boss of the boss.