Tom Hardy

Tom Hardy is a British actor who first caught the attention of the internet playing Eames in Inception in 2010.
His sincerity, charm, intelligence and occasional silliness as well as his bad-boy-made-good history attract many fans. Tom grew up in the posh part of East London and attended public school (private in the US). At 15 he was caught joyriding in a stolen Mercedes with a gun and only escaped charges because his companion was a diplomat's son. He was kicked out of acting school twice then won roles in Band of Brothers and Black Hawk Down. In 2002 he played the villian in Star Trek: Nemesis but the movie flopped and with it his hopes for an international career. He became addicted to drugs and alcohol, ruining his first marriage. One time he woke up in LA naked in bed with a strange man, a cat and a loaded gun with the safety off.Youtube - Tom Hardy on Jonathan Ross 2010.06.18 (part 2), 4:30 - 5:20 "I woke up in a bed, in Los Angeles, when I was supposed to meet - I think it was John Woo - one morning for something like, I think it was Bulletproof Monk. I woke up, in a bed with a dude and a gun. Naked. With a cat, as well. I don't remember the cat, you know. Or the dude. [..] And the safety was off, that was the scary thing. Cos I must've fallen asleep looking down the barrel," Jonathan Ross, 18 June 2010 He eventually decided to get clean after passing out in a London street and ending up in hospital.Tom Hardy: the rake's progress, The Guardian, 4 July 2010'I want adulation', The Guardian, 23 June 2009 He has been clean since 2003.
Tom describes himself as obsessive compulsive and now channels his energy into work. He is well-known for his chameleon-like ability to inhabit the skin of a character and to lose or gain muscle and weight for roles.
Wanting to be a hero, Tom joined the Parachute Regiment "for about five minutes". 'Maybe feeling alive is only possible in the presence of death', The Guardian, 23 September 2007 IMDB Transcript "I went to an insight course at the parachute regiment. I thought, "I want to join up, do three years, go to Iraq, do my bit, get physically fit." So I went to White City barracks and I realized I had a real phobia about groups of men. I’m frightened of them, I feel much more comfortable around women. I’d love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from over-compensating that I’m not one of the boys. Anyway, it was *beep* horrible man. I signed up for three years and after forty minutes I had to talk my way out of it. They don’t need people like me, they need someone who’s prepared to go over and kill people." Attitude Magazine, December 2009 Tom has a two year old son Tom Hardy's life lessons, Men's Health with a former girlfriend and is now engaged to his Wuthering Heights co-star Charlotte Riley. This time Heathcliff and Cathy will marry, 10 July 2010, Daily Mail His personal trainer and mentor Pnut is also his best friend and godfather of his son Louis.
Many fans are intrigued by his past history with men and his fetish for shoes:
Tom Hardy has also appeared in the romantic comedy This Means War (2012) with Chris Pine and Reese Witherspoon, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011), Lawless (2012) (an adaptation of The Wettest County in the World), the Mad Max series revisitation Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) as the titular Max Rockatansky, and Venom as Eddie Brock.
==Internet==
Tom had a MySpace until deleting it for career reasons and is infamous for being a camwhore, taking random cameraphone pictures of himself with idiosyncratic captions and setting them free on the internet to the glee and amusement of fans everywhere. There are a number of tumblrs dedicated to posting pictures of Tom, the least serious being not my hair it is a palm,notmyhairitisapalm inspired by a pic Tom posted of himself in his apartment with a housepalm behind his head entitled "This is my place x not my hair it is a palm xx." Since then a number of pics and videos of Tom with palms have been discovered or created and some fans hold that palms are Tom's true love.
Tom Hardy PartyTom Hardy Party is a fansite started in 2010 with news, extensive photo galleries (collated by THILF - the Tom Hardy Image Liberation Front), an interview and article archive, filmography, twitter and The Tom Hardy Research Institute (discussion boards). It is co-run by the creator of notmyhairitisapalm. Other fansites are Tom Hardy Fan and Tom Hardy Dot Org.
==Fan Activity==
Aside from the above mentioned tumblrs, fans create picspams, icons, graphics, and fanvids of Tom. Many fans are entertained by his antics and some suspect he is too unbelievable to be real; this has become a popular meme.
==RPF==
*AO3 fanfic tagged with Tom Hardy
RPF with Tom Hardy is sadly not very common; reflecting the popularity of their charcters' pairing Arthur/Eames, he is most often paired with Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
==Communities & Tumblrs==
Livejournal:
*Tom Hardy Daily created 3 March 2007
*ONTD Hardy Party
*Tom Hardy posts tagged on ohnotheydidnt
Tumblr:
*Not My Hair It Is a Palm - originally devoted to posting images of Tom Hardy with palms (manipped or real) and other memes, now expanded to also cover news and interviews on its sister site TomHardyParty.com (See article: Not my hair it is a palm)
*Fuck Yeah Tom Hardy
*Tom Hardy's Pinky
*Tom Hardy Variations
*The Tom Hardy Inception
*Hardy Party - updated September 2011
*TomHardigans Forever! - updated July 2011, sister site to the Tom Hardy FanSpace on MySpace
*Tom Hardy: All Day Long, Mate - updated 4 Feb 2011
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==References==
Category:Industry
Category:Inception
Category:Actor RPF
Category:Mad Max
Category:Venom