Tom Hardy - From male model to professional film and television actor...
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An actor of astonishing range, just as comfortable inhabiting guttural types like Charles Bronson and Tinker Tailor’s Ricki Tarr as he is playing more manicured gentlemen like Inception’s Eames, Tom Hardy is in demand and on the rise. His latest film, Steven Knight’s motorway-set drama Locke, is a persuasive showcase for his gifts. In it he plays a construction worker faced with a potentially life-changing dilemma. With the world at his feet, the 36 year-old actor seemingly has only the nicer sorts of choices to make these days. We’ve looked back on his ascent to prominence with a swift cruise through the highs and lows of his career to date.
Hardy’s pec-cellence in Nicolas Winding Refn’s unflinching prison drama marked him out as a talent to watch. The combination of Refn’s balls-out direction and Hardy’s unrestrained commitment to playing the solitary confinement regular (he gained three stone of muscle for the role by doing 2500 press-ups a day... 2498 more than Empire's PB) impressed even the notorious hardnut who lent his name to this prison drama. In fact, Michael Peterson – aka Charles Bronson – an initially skeptical subject, wrote that “no actor on the planet could have portrayed me any better than Tom Hardy” when he saw the film, declaring the actor “a genius”. And we’re not about to argue with him. For a variety of reasons.
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