I almost skipped over these photos because I thought they were going to be just more pics of Tom Hardy wearing period clothing and wandering around London with horn-rimmed glasses, filming for Legend. I almost squealed when I saw him in his man-tank though. Growing up in Virginia, I totally called man-tanks “wifebeaters.” In my defense, everyone called them that. But I stopped calling them that because… gross. That’s just a gross thing to call man-tanks or undershirts or whatever.
I was sitting here, really giving Tom’s tattoos a good look. I mean, I’ve seen them before. He’s flashed them in many photoshoots, most recently on the cover of Esquire just a few months ago. But with the man-tank… I’m staring harder at his arm tattoos. Is that a Madonna and Baby Jesus on his bicep? Ugh… is it bad form to say that some of his tattoos look like really bad prison tatts? I’m sure he spent good money on them and everything, but good God!
So, would you hit it? I’m not sure if I could hit it if Baby Jesus was staring at me from Tom’s bicep. Tom should have thought that one through. That being said… if you take away some of the ink, he looks REALLY good these days. He has such a beautiful face. GAH.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Not based on these pics… but after looking at Lainey’s pics of him playing with his dog, definitely.
RIGHT!! Those pictures made me MELT~what is it about that man and canines, how does he become so much more desireable when in the presence of puppies? Those pictures kind of made me feel like an animal myself, if you catch my drift.
Me too, me too….men who love dogs are f#cking lovely themselves!
I …. No
Yea..me neither..I have tried hard to see what the fuss is all about but I’m not even lukewarm.
I call those a-shirts. Everyone usually makes big eyes. But then I also used a term forced meat before I switched continents and languages
Wait until you watch him acting. For me everything fell in place so to speak. His Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (2009) made me fall for him so hard. Really fantastic and so was Cathy, his now fiancee. So yes….i would hit it!
Just not with baby Jesus staring at me.
They are bad prison tatts. I have seen other photos where I would hit it but in these pics u would give it a miss. Is it just be or does he look like his hair is thinning ..?
That’s just my man’s natural hairline, friend.
I’m Tom’s Official Prison Bitch.
I think I should just step aside and let you visit tom in prison 😜😁
LMAO
I’m his probation officer. And as such, I get him day release for outside visits.MY BEDROOM. I also arrange accommodation on final release. MY BASEMENT.
Tom is so hit or miss with me, but I know his true potential of all-out-hotness, so yes I would hit it — but these pics are not doing him any favors.
Does anybody know why a man-tank is called “wifebeater”? That is such a weird name for a clothing item.
I believe that it stems from old episodes of cops; typically when a domestic violence situation was shown the man was wearing a white man tank which as of the mid-late 90’s became known as a “wife beater”.
That is interesting. Thank you!
@Arock and Panta
Sensitive people, grab the arms if your chair….
A wife beater is a generic term for an undershirt that is/was typically worn by men if a certain socio-economic class. It was worn to prevent sweat stains and such from work uniforms or shirts. These men of said socio-economic class tended to exhibit impulsive and often violent behavior resulting in domestic troubles. The spouse, as often the case, but also children or the large extended family that often surround the offender, were liable to be victims of the violent outbursts. Example- Cletius has up and whooped Annie again. Done thrown her out the trailer, she punched him right in the nuts and now he done vomited all over his wife beater.
You’ve summed that one right up! (We call them “wifebeaters” in St. Louis, too, despite it really being a horrible term.)
Your example made me laugh out loud at work, and then I couldn’t explain why.
This made me cackle. SOOOOO much more colorful than my explanation. Now I have to clean coffee off of my keyboard.
@ MyCat. Nice to see another St Louisian on here.
Re Tom. Hehe…boobies.
I grew up in SoCal, and that’s what we called them as well.
Wifebeater shirt meaning: New York City Italian Man in the 70s…
Ooh.
Yes.
Bang-a-thon (like a marathon but better…)
Muscles and tattoos. That face. Yep! Sign me up!!
I hate the tats. I used to find him hot but all the new macho looks for his films have killed it. I think his hair is thinning too.
Ha. I couldn’t even… Especially with baby Jesus and his mom staring at me. Makes me want to say a few Hail Marys.
I would hit it so hard HE would be saying all the “Hail Mary’s”. I would hit it so hard I’d remove those tatoos, and he would get one of me afterwards. There.
Damn girl. Have YOU been in prison for awhile? 😉
Normally, I find him extremely attractive, but these photos of him are eliciting nothing from me.
He normally doesn’t do it for me but in these pictures yes. So. Much. Yes.
I like the rude boy look what can I say?
It is the opposite for me. Normally I would, oh how I would. But these pictures don’t do it for me.
That’s not baby Jesus, that’s his son Louie.
Have y’all seen the pics with all his tats covered up? Still so hot…
Still a no..
What’s weird is normally the tank top + tats+ Hardy combo would be lethal for me, but the horn rimmed glasses and period suits are doing more for my lady senses for some reason. I am a mystery to myself. Never mind, there will be TWO Tom Hardy’s to choose from in one movie, oh my!
110 percent yes. IDGAF about the bad tattoos.
Me too. He is not pretty or perfect, even the tiniest bit goofy, but still manly as hell. I’ll take a double, please.
That’s not a man-tank. That’s a VEST. Pfft. Americans.
We don’t really have prison tats in the UK, either. Our trashy tats aren’t associated with prisons or gangs. They’re usually frickin’ ‘orrible things dedicated to football teams. We used to have some charming white power ones – spiders web on the neck a dead giveaway – but they’ve pretty much died out now.
Ha….American expat here….I always giggle at “vest”….especially “string vest”…which I didn’t ever know was a thing until I moved to Scotland and saw an apisode of Rab C. Nesbitt.
To us Yanks, a “vest” is something way more dressed up. If you are expecting someone in a vest (american), you would be expecting a Hiddleston at Wimbledon kind of arrangement, only to be disappointed when he shows up in a vest (UK), and wants to take you to meet the cast of TOWIE (or Jersey Shore if you are in the US)
A vest is PROPERLY called a waistcoat. 😉
When I see US TV shows, I see that your men seem to wear vests-as-in-undershirts quite often but they usually have short sleeves. In the UK, very few men wear vests-as-in-undershirts and when they do, they look like that – sleeveless. No “wifebeater” connotations or owt. It’s just underwear.
String vests are deffo low rent, though!
PS: Tank tops are knitwear. Only knitwear!
well then WTH is a singlet? isn’t that a wifebeater/undershirt/ vest?
I would hit it, but I would make him wear a shirt (with sleeves), and just sort of work around it. Maybe the horn-rimmed glasses too. I HATE a man in a tank top, especially a “beater”. Yes, I call it that too. “Beater with sauce” if there are stains on it.
pmsl @ “Beater with sauce”!
My second favourite Tom. Ahh… Would hit it so hard. Vest, tank top, tattoos, no tattoos – I want it all and I want it now.
Not even reading other comments. I would hit it repeatedly, let him cuddle with my dog, shower and hit it some more.
Tom Hardy’s not the average Hollywood film star. He’s special. The tats represents everything that happened in his life and that’s why i can’t hate them. they make him unique. he might look rough on the outside, but he’s a sweetheart on the inside.
If that’s what you call rough looking where you live, I wanna move there.