Girls don’t make passes at boys who wear… nevermind. When that boy is Tom Hardy, he can wear glasses, leather jeggings and a red lace bra and I’d still want to hit it. These are photos of Tom, in character, filming in London yesterday. It seems like I was wrong about Tom’s next project – the Elton John bio-pic must have been pushed back, and Tom keeps a much tighter schedule than Benedict Cumberbatch, so he’s already filming this movie, Legend, where he plays Ronnie and Reggie Kray. The Krays were twin brothers, and both were notorious gangsters in the 1960s in London’s East End. Apparently, when Tom is wearing glasses he’s playing Ronnie. No glasses = Reggie. So, would you shag it? Um. I would. Totally. I dig men in glasses. Matt Damon is always extra attractive (to me) when he’s wearing his dorky Transitions lenses. So Tom in glasses? *squeal*
Meanwhile, did you know that Tom recently inked a deal with NBC Universal? Tom’s production company Hardy Son and Baker will get a “first look deal” which will probably enable him to produce TV shows in America and Britain. Tom said:
“I would rather take that £18m budget and produce a TV series where an idea can fully flourish, rather than see it have to tick certain boxes and get cut into something it was never meant to be,” Hardy told Screen Daily. And not only that, Hardy revealed that he’s developing a show that essentially emulates the “True Detective” model, that will enable him to secure top tier creatives. “You get a higher level of talent who don’t want to commit to a longterm deal,” he said about the approach.
I’m genuinely surprised sometimes by how much TV has changed just in the past ten years. I still remember when NBC had “must-watch” Thursday line-ups. Nowadays, almost all of the good-to-great water cooler shows are on HBO, Showtime or the regular cable stations like AMC and FX. Films have not caught up with the creative revolution that has been flourishing in television. If I was working in Hollywood as an actor, a writer, a director or a producer, I would want to do TV rather than film at this point too. It’s great that Tom is so forward-thinking. And here’s something else I’ve noticed: British actors are less snobbish than Americans about TV work. They’re more likely to think, “A good part is a good part, a good project is a good project,” regardless of whether they would have to “slum” it on TV.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
