This is that “Pile of shit” Tom was talking about…!
“I heard that someone thinks I was really genuinely upset with Jonathan Ross. Not at all.
It was funny as hell and embarrassing yes, but I was in on the gag and winding Jonathan up to put him in an awkward seat for a laugh.
If people want a good laugh at me desperately trying to get up the ladder, tell ‘em to watch Minotaur. That’s a pile of s***.”
Sensual Intensity in Calmness
“It’s a good job my girl friend took me on or I’d be buggered. I’ve never been confident with women”.
“When I went to drama school, I was just like, ‘If I can be a police officer on The Bill that will do me’, so I’ve done very well. So thank you God, thank you evryone”
“Fake it to make it” - Tom Hardy (2008 interview)
He told the magazine that his inner child was excited to be shooting with the Caped Crusader - even though they had to pummel each other.
“There’s a three-year-old in me that’s going, “Oh my God that’s Batman! That’s Batman and he’s going to hit me! But I love Batman”
Then I look in the mirror. And I hit him back. Twice as hard”
I think this part where Tom is describing the difference between the rehearsal and the actual shooting is most entertaining…!
“It’s a lot of business out there, isn’t it? It’s very overwhelming. When you’re training in a rehearsal room you go, ‘Okay, I have a contact with seven people. This guy I chin, this one I slip and I punch, this one I pick up and suplex, this guy I kick in the face and this one, he stops a hammer with his head. And then I meet Batman.’ That’s all alright in a rehearsal room, but then you add 1,000 people that are all dressed the same as the seven you’re supposed to hit - ‘cause they’re all police officers - and I don’t know where my police officers are. But the stuntmaster’s like, ‘Don’t worry. They will find you.’”
So, I apologize to whoever they were! I’m sure we’ll find out in the accient report…”
“Even if I come here for a holiday, I have go to the embassy and ask. I’m 10 years into being aware of my addictions and in those 10 years, my life has gotten fortuitously better and better”
“You learn from stuff and I think it’s the same with addiction. I can’t use, I can’t drink. So that means I can’t go out and dance and be comfortable doing it because I feel stupid and embarrassed. And I’m embarrassed doing karaoke because I haven’t had a beer. You win a few, you lose a few. I can’t have beer, but I can have a fight with Batman. At the end of the day, who’s complaining?”
(Tom Hardy Interview with Reuters)
(This radio interviewer doesn’t seem to have done any homework on the guest…!)
<About Crying Scene>
“I find crying difficult. It takes a long time for me to go. And I won’t know what will send me.
I’m quite sentimental. If my son tells me he loves me, that will make me cry.
Mr. Holland’s Opus, unbelievably, broke me. A random anomaly. Bambi would probably do me. Or Shrek.
And yeah, I did go in Warrior as well. The relapse of Paddy, when I put him to bed and give him a kiss, I was like, ‘Yeah, I get that. I’ve been there.’”
<About Acting>
“Acting really is a mixture of bullsh*tting and manipulating and the study of action-reaction. And camouflage — hiding yourself in other languages, bodies and shapes”
“It’s not rocket science. The work is done months before I get on the floor.”- He’s clearly not from the method school saying - “You can’t be in trauma to portray trauma.”
“I’m never lost in a character, ever. Everything is absolutely articulated and worked out and there’s no room for error. The only thing there is room for is inspiration in the moment because you’ve done your homework up to that point but when you get onto the floor with another actor what you get is the outcome of the two of you together and the energy in the room, the director and how everybody turned up that morning. I might have lost a family member the night before. Joel might have hangover. Or the director may do. That’s going to change the outcome again, so you never know what the room’s going to present you with in the moment, but the performers work should be done before he hits the floor”
(Tom Hardy Interview with Shortlist)
“My character’s name is Tommy and my name is Tom, so when I came out and had all those Marines shouting “Tommy” it was a good day for my ego (laughs). I thought ”I can do this! I can do this!” And then I got in the ring and the director would be like: “And that’s lunch!” And I’d be like: “Hey, I’m ready to go!”
<Tough Guy, Tom>
So when you’re finished being actors, neither of you fancy being a fighter?
Tom : I’m happy to get in there with someone at my level.
Joel : I like having a bit of a rough around-there’s definitely a curiosity for it, but I’m not going to become Mickey Rouke!
Tom : But I’d definitely, for my level- I’d compete, but my level.
Tom Hardy Interview with “Scotsman”..!
<About making his body>
“I was fat. I was fat as hell. I’d done Bronson. I’d put on a lot of weight. I’d stopped training, so I just continued to eat and drink coffee and take sugar. I played Heathcliff with an arse wider than my shoulders and disported myself around the Moors. I still managed to bag Charlotte Riley, which was a result. But I continued to go to waste until Warrior came in, at which point Pnut had to wrangle my flab all into one sort of area and dissipate it, and turn me into the king that you see up on that very screen before you.”
<About Method Acting>
“It is a misconception. It’s a wanky term bandied around by people in the acting circle who don’t know what they’re talking about. For those outside the acting circle, I absolutely understand why we might be considered method actors, but there are really only two types of acting: convincing and not convincing. I don’t care how you get there. Just get there yesterday. I mean, there are any amount of coffee cup exercises, leather jackets and Brando haircuts. There are enough angry young men to fill several armies the world over. But to be honest, method actors have got a bit of a reputation. I think it connotes their taste in the 1970s Strasberg centre. Those boys were all heavily influenced by all kinds of shit in the 60s and 70s; it was a very different period of time. Method acting nowadays is a bit of a wanky term for ‘lazy’”
There are lots of so interesting quotes from Tom Hardy in this interview…!
Why are so many of the actors who play tough guys in American movies British and Australian?
Hardy : Actually, I think it’s because we cost less and we’re not famous. In all honesty, a lot of imported actors are probably here because they have a certain amount of credibility but they’re not bankable and they’re useful to the machine. They fill a spot in the machine. How it turns out in the long run, we just don’t know…. We were available. Director Gavin O’Connor could break our noses and ribs.
Tom Hardy being Buddha on a lily pad…
“Ju jitsu is very Buddihist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you’re drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you”
(Tom Hardy Interveiw “Not worried about movie being great” here)
“I wanted to establish myself as someone you would take notice of. I’m not a natural comedian, nor am I a Hugh Grant white-collar type. I fall into the category of being good at slightly dysfunctional, erratic personality disorders and I thought, ‘If I can change my body to meet that, do a variety of accents and hit a few people on screen, then maybe people might take me seriously.’ ”
“F***-up is the mother of all necessity. Passion can create and destroy. Being an addict, a lot of my behaviour in the past was symptomatic of the fact that I’m pre-wired to f*** stuff up if it doesn’t go right for me “
“Today is a good day because my son is healthy and I’m fulfilling my ambition to portray as many characters as I can before I become not-so hot”
(from this interview-Why Tom Hardy became Hollywood’s most wanted Brit)
![Tom Hardy talking about his heroes - Michael Fassbender, Ryan Gosling, Gary Oldman
About Fassbender : “He was a really serious method actor and we used to watch him and think, ‘F—-, man! He’s the s—-!’ He was in an Irish play about this guy who came back from the First World War who was a great athlete but ended up in a wheelchair, but at lunchtime he wouldn’t come out of character and was always in his wheelchair and we’d be like, ‘Dude! Just order your lunch and come along! We’ve got an hour before we have to go back to class!’”
Hardy laughs, and adds, “But he was the best actor in the school”
“It’s the year of hero worship!. I look up to [Fassbender], I look up to Ryan Gosling. Those two, totally man-crushing at the moment. It would be really cool if the three of us could do something together, because I’d be well up for that.”
Hardy pauses and says,
“And if Gary Oldman can get in on that as well, I’d want some of that, too”
(Interesting Interview here)
(Another video interview where Tom says the same thing about Fassy and Gary)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrnhegK91s1qd9vcjo1_1280.jpg)
Tom Hardy talking about his heroes - Michael Fassbender, Ryan Gosling, Gary Oldman
About Fassbender : “He was a really serious method actor and we used to watch him and think, ‘F—-, man! He’s the s—-!’ He was in an Irish play about this guy who came back from the First World War who was a great athlete but ended up in a wheelchair, but at lunchtime he wouldn’t come out of character and was always in his wheelchair and we’d be like, ‘Dude! Just order your lunch and come along! We’ve got an hour before we have to go back to class!’”
Hardy laughs, and adds, “But he was the best actor in the school”
“It’s the year of hero worship!. I look up to [Fassbender], I look up to Ryan Gosling. Those two, totally man-crushing at the moment. It would be really cool if the three of us could do something together, because I’d be well up for that.”
Hardy pauses and says,
“And if Gary Oldman can get in on that as well, I’d want some of that, too”
(Another video interview where Tom says the same thing about Fassy and Gary)
