We’ve had some requests for MOAR Tom Hardy coverage, so here you go. As we covered on Monday, Tom attended the BAFTAs, but he didn’t have his fiancée Charlotte Riley on his arm. He attended the event with Kelly Marcel, an attractive woman who is a screenwriter and producer (she was there because she wrote Saving Mr. Banks). They’re friends, apparently. I don’t know if that’s worthy of a side-eye or not. Charlotte and Tom seem to be very on-and-off and Tom seems to have a number of attractive female friends. Maybe it’s nothing.
Many of you commented about Tom’s weight loss – he was bulked up for The Dark Knight Rises, and he’s been losing weight ever since that film wrapped, but even then, his weight loss was noticeable at the BAFTAs. Apparently, he’s mid-transformation for the Elton John bio-pic. Elton was much slimmer in the 1970s, and that’s the time frame Tom will be portraying.
Two more pieces of Tom Hardy news. Tom will join the second season of the BBC’s gangster show Peaky Blinders. Peaky Blinders is a critically acclaimed show over there, and many people are excited that Tom is going to join the show for a season. I think it’s cool that Tom doesn’t think too much of himself, like, “No, I only do films now!” A good TV show guest-arc can do more for one’s career than a mediocre film in many cases.
Last thing: we finally have a trailer for Tom’s new film Locke. This is the critically-acclaimed film where Tom is just driving a car and talking on the phone, but people say the film is riveting. Here’s the trailer:
So, would I hit it? Of course. I would just feed it first, so he would have the energy for a long night.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Phwoarrrr Tom the Bloke!
I think he saw himself and his spare tyre swimming with heffalumps on ITV and cut out the Hob Nobs, STAT. Elton is INNOCENT!
Oh, and I just noticed this. Am I the only one giving the side eye to someone cutting down on the carbs to play Regie Dwight? Even when he was in the Lycra jumpsuits, he was solid.
LOL
Exactamundo with a jelly tot decoration, as Sixlet Minor would say.
Elton? I can think of two definitions of wasted and only one applies to that particular National Treasure.
I would SO hit that blokey, wannabe chav, skinniness and all.
There is a lot of hype around Hardy who, let’s face it, generally hasn’t made that many good films since making the Hollywood transition. Hopefully, going back to smaller Brit projects is going to produce some quality work.
Bronson!! That is all 🙂
PS: just watched the trailer. Tom the Bloke is doing his own weird accent voice. Huzzah! Makes me look forward to Locke even more. You know, I think I’m entering a specialist BLOKE phase. Blokes only. All blokes.
Henceforth, this film shall be known as BLocke.
The blokeyness is REALLY working for me this week. It’s a nice antidote to a posh, suited, alien who is possibly lost in an airport.
And, I would like to formally express my disgruntlement at the absolute lack of Peaky Blinders stateside. I don’t even think there’s an airdate.
Honestly, during the BAFTAs I even got the hots for Fassy. And he’s never been on my radar. Bloke is the new List, right?
Is Peaky Blinders coming out on DVD? I’m amazed you’re not getting it – they spent fortunes on it so would want to turn a profit if poss. Perhaps it’s thought the accents will be too much?
Okay, Fassbender is a merkin-beard too far for me. But I wholly concur that bloke is the new, well, bloke, as far as I’m concerned. I require a break from the needy fops.
I think I read somewhere that the Weinsteins have got their hands on the rights. It sounds like someone is aiming higher than PBS, anyway. Probably even more so if the puppy-loving, elephant-straddling Bloke #1 is now on board.
Rejuvenating, isn’t it, the thought of a blokeish era?
Puppy-loving, elephant-straddling, trance-inducing-accented Bloke #1.
I’m ready for the return of the bloke. Weirdly, what has really sold me is Woody Harrelson’s hot blokeshness in True Detectives.
Starting Saturday night hereabouts. I’m looking forward to it. The trailers even have Mr Sixer taking notice.
I absolutely love the title “Peaky Blinders.”
I figure if I sat through “Drive” I can certainly watch this. It does look pretty good & perhaps riveting. I love Tom.
So what is a bloke exactly? Like a manly man? Or like a regular guy who just walks around in jeans, boots, and old T-shirts, drinking some beers at the local pub?
I think bloke is the opposite of metrosexual. If that helps! Rather than a manly man, I’d say man’s man.
Okay, I like a man with dirty fingernails. The “works with his hands” type of dirty nails, not the homeless type.
I’d also like to state, for the record, that while I’m okay with the return of the enlightened bloke, I really don’t want Robbie Williams back.
Stef – see I can get with that. I have got through the multiple viewings of LotR forced upon me by the Sixlets thanks to Viggo and his dirty nails/unkempt hair. The second he goes all clean and kingly, my fires become damp squibs.
Fanty – Robbie Williams is 50 Shades of the Wrong Type of Bloke.
Especially one who looks nice in a tux and kisses shelter puppies. Rrawr.
Robbie Williams is a bloke?! I may have to rethink this.
Don’t worry, Stef. For our nefarious porpoises, Robbie Williams is nothing but a faux bloke. We see straight though him.
Thank god. I was getting all hot for the blokes and then… *record scratch!* Robbie Williams?
Edit: Nefarious porpoises!! Lol. We can feed RW to the nefarious porpoises.
RW is an “ironic” bloke. Also known in common vernacular as a wanker.
*spits lemon tea all over laptop screen*
Tosspot. Dicksplash. I like those two.
Sixlet Major says “wanger”, which I thought meant “penis”, but is apparently a scam to avoid being told off for swearwording. Such is the logic of the pre-teen boy.
PS for Stef – our favourite punnish thing chez Sixer is “angry dolphins” for “cross purposes”.
While I love “tosspot,” I think it’s best said poshly, and with a little affection. It’s much more applicable to Cumby and TommyAnna’s name-dropping, or faux-humility. Wanker can be hurled much more mean-spiritedly, and therefore is perfect for a dicksplash like Robbie Williams, who gives all earnest blokes a bad name.
Yes. Feed him first so that he has energy and then…rampage.
I’d cut Lenny Kravitz loose for an evening–just for an evening–so that I could bang Tom Hardy like the proverbial barn door, yes I would.
Of course, then I’d send Tom on over to TheOriginalKitten because we’re all so sweet and generous here on the Bitchy.
😉
Oh man, an actor the quality of Tom Hardy in a “one man” movie? Yes please.
As for him doing tv, I think a lot of it has to with just how GOOD television is getting these days overall as opposed to not thinking he’s too good for it. Plus it has to be a cool opportunity for an actor to sustain a character over X number of months shooting and 6+ eps of a series as opposed to a 2 hr movie.
Oh yes, all night long. Skinny, bulky, scruffy, clean-shaven…mmm I like Tom all ways.
His bracelets with the suit are very bloke-y. Yes, I would climb that like a tree!
His beard makes me want to do filthy things with him.
Google “inception premiere tom hardy” !! he was slim there and he was hot. i don’t think bulking up suits him!! i don’t like beard on him as well! he was the best looking on that time period like he was realllly hot.
*sigh*
I would like to lay down in the middle of his beard and pull one side of it over me like a blanket and just… just drift off to sleep and dream about him and I running through a field of daisies and then when we were so tired from running we fell to the ground and……….
So yeah I can’t wait to see Peaky Blinders either.
Kelly Marcel is also his production company partner -they have worked on projects together and she was up for a BAFTA. Charlotte is working on a film.
The way he looks here is his natural state.
See this is how bad I am at spotting weight loss in celebs–I didn’t even notice that he had lost weight.
Whatever–as long as he doesn’t lose it in his lips, I’d still bang him. That mouth is pure sin…..
Wasn’t Elton always kind of chubby? Short, stocky, snd stuffed in glittery spandex jumpsuits that exposed his hairy chest are what I remember. Not really liking this role for Tom.
Oh my Godddddddd this man. (And boy, is he all MAN.)
I never really “got” the Hardy thing until I saw The Dark Knight Rises and…let’s just say that even though his face was covered for the entire movie, his acting, body and that voice were enough! Good Lord, even the header picture got me going ❤ Sigh.
Side note: To this day I stick by my theory that he should have played Henry VIII in The Tudors series in favor of that scary faced, insane eyed Rhys-Meyers. Ladies, just imagine it…
Oh let me tell you–he is the only reason I watched Dark Knight Rises. I can’t be the only one drooling over him in the Bane vs. Batman fight towards the middle, when be busted Batman’s back…..poor guy. Meatheads don’t do it for me…..but the Hardy dong has that kind of power over my vagina, apparently.
I watched ‘Warrior’ because of him–that movie was amazing and he was so great in it. I kept waiting for him to hook up with the hot Latino woman that his character was taking care of….an unnecessary, but hot character arc….but still.
He really, truly is an amazing actor, and I would watch him in anything. He was hot in the ‘Virgin Queen’ too…