1 and Eddie Too Tall-Eddie provided lo-fi beats and movie samples while Tommy No. Tom Hardy was briefly a rapper.įalling on Your Arse In 1999 is a mixtape Hardy recorded with his friend Edward Tracy under the name Tommy No. “He was sort of, if you could call it, comic relief to very precarious situation.” 3. “I was the Ranger who got left behind,” he told IGN. Hardy made his big-screen debut in 2001 as well, playing Twombly in Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down. That was the sum total of work had to do.” I mean, I was in two episodes and had 12 lines. Also, I had the research material-not that I'd need it.
I'd not had previous experience with working in front of the camera, so there was dealing with that. When asked about the experience by IGN in 2002, Hardy said that, “ Band of Brothers was my first job so I was virtually out of the frying pan and into the fire, really. In September of 1998, shortly after he began attending the Drama Centre London, Hardy dropped out when he was offered a role in the Steven Spielberg-produced WWII miniseries Band of Brothers (2001). Tom Hardy made his onscreen debut in Band Of Brothers. Among the facts we learned about the then-21-year-old: He was a drama student who idolized Gary Oldman, liked Eddie Izzard, wanted to write and direct his own short films, and didn’t like football. Technically, Tom Hardy’s onscreen debut came in 1998, when he took part in a modeling contest on the British morning show The Big Breakfast. Tom Hardy won a television modeling contest. Which gives you plenty of time to read up on Hardy's past life as a model, his struggles with addiction, and why he thinks heroes are "boring." 1. Now, nearly a decade after making his mark in the comic book movie world playing Batman's nemesis Bane in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Hardy will be returning to play journalist-alien hybrid Venom a second time in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, which arrives in theaters in September 2021.
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He also created, produced, and starred in the FX series Taboo and earned an Oscar nomination for his role in The Revenant-and all of this before hitting the big 4-0. Since making his onscreen debut in 2001, the London native has gone on to collaborate with some of the world’s most talented filmmakers, including Ridley Scott, George Miller, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Sofia Coppola, and Christopher Nolan.
You don't have to be a Hollywood insider to know that Tom Hardy is widely considered to be one of the most talented actors of his generation … or that he has a reputation for not always being willing to play by Hollywood’s rules.