Tom Hardy as the Kray twins in "Legend"

[Pink Ranger]

I wonder what the award buzz is going to be like for Hardy in this film. It checks a lot of the boxes:

-British
-period
-based on real people
-organized crime
-sexual identity issues
-novelty factor (playing twins)

 

[The Joker]

Hardy would be PERFECT to play one of the Krays. He's brilliant at playing British scumbags.

 

[Schlosser85]

Hardy playing both of them.

 

[Schlosser85]

I wonder what the award buzz is going to be like for Hardy in this film. It checks a lot of the boxes:

-British
-period
-based on real people
-organized crime
-sexual identity issues
-novelty factor (playing twins)

It'd be about time for some Hardy love from the big awards shows, IMO.

So far all he's gotten are indie British awards.

Bronson was like, one of the most awesome performances of the 2000s.

 

[Hurm...]

Hardy is destined to get some big awards soon enough. Even his more subtle performances, like in Tinker Tailor, are immensely memorable.

 

[Schlosser85]

Hardy is destined to get some big awards soon enough. Even his more subtle performances, like in Tinker Tailor, are immensely memorable.

IMO he gives the best performance in Tinker Tailor. And he's a scene-stealer in Inception.

 

[Schlosser85]

More Hardy as Reggie and Emily Browning as Reggie's wife:

 

[Schlosser85]

And Hardy on set with his real dog Woody, which he found on a freeway while filming Lawless

 

[Schlosser85]

Pretty sure all it takes is a puppy to obliterate Hardy's tough guy persona.

 

[Rowsdower!]

I do hope Hardy gets some award noms for this, if it's good. I still think that his performance in Bronson should have gotten an Oscar nom. He was mesmerizing in that movie. I'd put that up there with some of the greatest performances of all time.

 

[Schlosser85]

Hardy's performance in Bronson was easily as or more Oscar-worthy than half the ones that do get nods.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Fully agreed. How Tom Hardy has never been nominated by Jonah ****ing Hill has been nominated TWICE is beyond me.

 

[Schlosser85]

Fully agreed. How Tom Hardy has never been nominated by Jonah ****ing Hill has been nominated TWICE is beyond me.

I read an article a while back by a British entertainment blogger saying people just don't really seem to notice Hardy for some reason.

He's a good actor, he's handsome, but he seems to fly under the mainstream radar.

Maybe because a lot of his movies skew toward lower-profile indie, except for Inception (which was four years ago, and he wasn't the lead), or TDKR (where his face is masked).

I hope this gets him some acclaim, and I hope Mad Max does well. If that's a hit, and if he ever ends up doing Splinter Cell, those could definitely make him a more household name.

 

[Schlosser85]

He might also have a little "Gary Oldman Syndrome", in which he's enough of a chameleon that people see him in one movie and don't realize they've seen him in something else before because he doesn't look or talk the same.

I mean, Hardy between Bronson and, say, Tinker Tailor doesn't look like the same person. This Means War and Lawless were both 2012, but in Lawless he looks about 10-15 years older and about 50 pounds heavier than TMW.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Very true. He is a true chameleon but unlike DDL or Bale, he doesn't get the credit for it. Hopefully Mad Max and this film will win him some wider acclaim. I've heard Locke is excellent but I haven't seen it yet.

 

[The Endless]

Yea i really need to see Locke.

 

[Schlosser85]

Unfortunately I think the fact that his best known American roles are things like Warrior and TDKR has him typecast in some people's minds as this burly hardman, when really he never played anything like that until Bronson and Warrior, and in his earlier career in Britain he played all kinds of roles.

Some people really underestimate his versatility and have him pegged as some Jason Statham type.

 

[Deserana]

He's fantastic in Locke. Whilst I didn't think too much of the film he was outstanding.

 

[Schlosser85]

I wasn't as impressed with Locke as a lot of critics were, but Hardy was good in it.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Unfortunately I think the fact that his best known American roles are things like Warrior and TDKR has him typecast in some people's minds as this burly hardman, when really he never played anything like that until Bronson and Warrior, and in his earlier career in Britain he played all kinds of roles.

Some people really underestimate his versatility and have him pegged as some Jason Statham type.

Ugh, I certainly hope there aren't that many people who see him that way. Statham might as well just play characters named "Jason Statham" in future movies because he literally plays the same character in everything.

 

[Schlosser85]

I thought it was funny when Hardy was at the BAFTA awards last fall, there were all these comments from people asking why he was so small, did he have something wrong with him, etc.

Um, no, he just went back to his real size...

People think he's this beast because of Warrior and TDKR, and they're shocked when they realize he's actually this small guy....which kind of makes the transformations more impressive...

 

[The Endless]

I thought his most frightening role was in The Take, and he was just his normal average self in that.

 

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