Happy 38th Birthday Tom Hardy. You are on quite the roll right now after following your acclaimed performance in 'Mad Max' earlier this year, you have not one but two new movies at the Toronto International Film Festival with talk of awards for both i.e. 'Legend' and 'London Road'. We're not going to mar the celebrations with asking you if you want to bat on our team as we know that pisses you off (it probably doesn't sit too well with Charlotte your new wife either) but here's a idea that could make us all happy.
NBC TV have just announced that they are going to remake the hit thriller/detective series from the late 1970's called 'Hart to Hart' which originally starred Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers as a married couple of detectives. In this new version the couple are going to be gay, and we not only think it would be a perfect role for you, but we know that there would a host of other actors would love to be 'gay for pay' too as your partner. Something to think about eh Tom?
At a Press Conference at Toronto International Film Festival following the World Premiere of 'Legend' a new movie about the the notorious 1960's British gangsters the Kray Brothers, Graham Coleman from Canada’s Daily Xtra asked the movie's star Tom Hardy if this was a case of life repeating art. Coleman was trying to question Hardy about his sexuality to see if he was gay like both Kray Twins that he portrays, but the actor was clearly having none of it.
Coleman: In the film your character is very open about his sexuality. But given interviews you’ve done in the past your own sexuality seems a bit more ambiguous. Do you find it hard for celebrities to talk to media about their sexuality?
Hardy: What on earth are you on about?
Coleman: I was referring to an interview given to Attitude magazine a few years ago.
Hardy: But what is your question?
Coleman: I was wondering if you find it difficult for celebrities to talk about their sexuality.
Hardy: I don’t find it difficult for celebrities to talk about their sexuality. Are you asking me about my sexuality?
Coleman: Um, sure.
Hardy: Why?
Coleman: Um…
Hardy: Thank you.
(the questions come at the 28 min mark)
This is the part of the interview from Attitude back in 2010 that got everyone excited thinking that Hardy gave them hope that he may bat for our team too.
Have you ever had any sexual relations with men?
As a boy? Of course I have. I’m an actor for *beep*’s sake. I’m an artist. I’ve played with everything and everyone. But I’m not into men sexually. I love the form and the physicality but the gay sex bit does nothing for me. In the same way as a wet vagina would turn someone else into a lemon-sucking freak. To me it just doesn’t compute now I’m into my 30s and it doesn’t do it for me and I’m done experimenting.
Legend, a much anticipated movie, has been receiving mixed reviews so far, except for Hardy's performance which is being hailed as one of his very best to date. It opens in US movie theaters in October 2015.
This could be TOM HARDY's year with two hot new movies set to be released giving us three chances to see him in action.
In LEGEND, Hardy plays both Ronnie and Reggie Kray the notorious gangster twins who ruled London's underworld in the 1950's and 1960's. Based on their real life story from John Pearson's book 'The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins' the movie is written and directed by Academy Award winner Brian Helgelan deals with the rise and fall of the Kray twins. Both of them were closeted gay men who were devoted to their mother, and movie deals with the relationship that bound them together, and charts their gruesome career to their downfall and imprisonment for life in 1969.
Is this possibly Mr Hardy's first Academy Award nomination in the making?
In Alejandro G. Iñárritu's (Academy Award Winner for last year's BIRDMAN) latest movie THE REVENANT due to be released on December 25th, Hardy plays a 19th Century fur trapper alongside Will Poulter & Domhnall Gleeson. When fellow frontiersman played Leonardo DiCaprio gets mauled by a bear, they rob him and leave him to die. However he survives and sets out to get his revenge on them all. The Revenant @ Facebook
