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Anatomy of a hug.

 

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Yet another interview with Tom Hardy from Cannes:

The allure of movie stardom is becoming evident to Tom Hardy.

As he made his way down the glittering red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of his Prohibition-era gangster film “Lawless,” Hardy found himself enjoying the extravagance — briefly, anyway.

“I saw what it meant to be a movie star for a second and I quite liked it,” Hardy said in an interview at the French Riviera festival. “Then I went, ‘Nah! Let’s go back to work.’”

Hardy, who plays a grunting, cardigan-wearing Virginia bootlegger in the film, says he could see the addictiveness of such glamor and acknowledges more is likely on the way. He stars as the villain Bane in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming, eagerly anticipated Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises.”

“I like shiny things, but all that glitters isn’t gold,” says Hardy.” There’s nothing that comes without cost. I’ve got enough cost in my life. I’ve got enough risk going on. I’m already crazy enough.”

The 34-year-old British actor has already known similar pitfalls, having dealt with alcoholism and drug addiction in his 20s. But Hardy’s burgeoning fame has come in tandem with a growing awareness of his considerable talent.

With a visceral masculine intensity that’s drawn comparisons to Marlon Brando, Hardy has played an anguished mixed martial arts fighter in “Warrior,” a double-crossed spy in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and an identity forger in “Inception.” A boiling rage often seems just below the surface of his characters.

Following years on the stage and on TV in Britain, Hardy’s highest-profile roles are ahead of him. Aside from “The Dark Knight Rises,” he’ll star in a new version of “Mad Max,” for which he’s currently sporting a bushy beard. In “Lawless,” which will be released in September, Hardy’s performance stands out from an ensemble of Shia LaBeouf, Jessica Chastain, Guy Pearce and Gary Oldman.

His character — the mumbling, nearly inaudible Forrest Bondurant — is the middle of three backwoods brothers trying to protect their bootlegging business from a sadistic lawman (Pearce) from Chicago. Hardy modeled the character partly on Tom Berenger’s gruff Sgt. Barnes from “Platoon,” whom he calls his favorite villain.

“I’d love to have made a silhouette of Forrest,” says Hardy. “I didn’t want it to be any tough guy, I wanted it to be a silhouette, like (the violent “Oliver Twist” character) Bill Sykes.

As Forrest, Hardy cuts a striking figure. Dusty and rumbled, he’s almost glacially poised, except when he uncoils ruthlessly into violence. But he also has a more docile side, which Hardy says his character’s cardigan sweater symbolizes.

The actor speaks passionately about the detailed piecing together of a character, assembling the gestures, manner and wardrobe.

“You sit and you dwell and you wait and you read and you think and you meditate,” he says of his process. “It takes time to think and ponder, and the work is never done because it just continues. It’s looking for evidence of things.”

LaBeouf calls him “hyper-specific” with mime-like abilities of replicating behavior gleaned from movie characters or people.

“He doesn’t have five ways of playing it,” says LaBeouf. “There’s one right way and he does that until the camera fits him. He shows up perfect.”

“Lawless” director John Hillcoat (”The Road”) says Forrest was a character Hardy was “itching to play.”

“He’s part of a new wave of acting talent — including Michael Fassbender and Ryan Gosling — and Tom’s very much a part of that kind of real rigorous and inspiring acting,” says Hillcoat.

Hardy, who has a son with his previous wife, Sarah Ward, recently married actress Charlotte Riley. But as one of the most sought-after young actors in Hollywood, another night of parties in Cannes holds obvious dangers of excess for Hardy. Pearce, on parting with him, gently advises him to “try not to get killed.”

But however uninhibited Hardy lives, it’s clear acting brings an orderliness for him.

“When I’m working, I have this discipline and I get meaning from it,” says Hardy. “It gives me purpose. And then I can turn to my little boy and say, ‘Daddy does something. And I do it well. I may not be the best, but I’m the best that I can be. Now eat your f——— greens.’

Mama, please don’t cry
I’m right beside you
The tears we shed together are now an irreplaceable treasure
Mama, can you hear it?
Thank you, coming from my heart

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They need to prepare for the one I throw in May!

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Grandpa!!!! He’s the most amazing person of all persons!

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This made me so excited last night!

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“The Joker didn’t care-he just wanted to see the world burn, and he was a master of chaos and destruction, unscrupulous and crazy. Bane is not that guy. There’s a very meticulous and calculated way about Bane. There is a huge orchestration of organization to his ambition.”

                        —  Tom Hardy

Anne Hathaway’s blunder as she went into a meeting with Nolan;

“She convinced herself that Nolan wasn’t interested in reinterpreting a character who had already been done well enough (Hathaway loves Pfiefer’s Catwoman) and was instead casting a lesser-known villainess from Batman’s rogue’s gallery named Harley Quinn. Nope. “About an hour into our meeting he said, ‘It’s Catwoman and I went ‘Oh no, I played this wrong’ says Hathaway. “I didn’t think they would revisit that character because Michelle’s performance is so iconic. But Chris just does his own thing”

“He has created an epic disaster film.”

                    — Anne Hathaway.

Rises is set eight years after the events of the Dark Knight. Gotham City is at peace and prospering, but Bruce Wayne is still recovering physically and emotionally from the tragic battles with the Joker and Harvey Dent. Batman, who took the fall for Harvey’s crimes so Gotham could remain inspired by the lawman’s former idealism, continues to be reviled and MIA as the story begins. While old allies Alfred and Lucius Fox and potential love interest Miranda Tate try to revive Bruce’s spirits, two new threats to Gotham force Batman to end his exile.”

“Bane’s motivation as a villain remains one of Rises’ best kept secrets-although the trailers suggest his master plan requires the razing of Gotham and the death of Bruce Wayne. Does Bane represent a specific political or philosophical complaint? The answer is…maybe. “I think the politics of the film are going to be hotly debated one way or another, as they were in the last film,” says Nolan.”

“There has never been an explicitly detailed, throughly mapped-out master plan guiding Nolan’s Batman franchise. “The approach has always been to put every damn good idea you have into each movie, so that when you’re done, you feel like there’s nothing left”, says co-screenwriter Jonathan Nolan. However, the director has always aspired to create a unified trilogy with a continuous character arc for Bruce Wayne, and one detail has been in place for years. “From a fairly early stage in the process of making the three films,’ says Christopher Nolan, ‘we knew how Bruce’s story would end.”

“And so Rises was conceived and written to bring a sense of unity-and finality-to the whole franchise. “It stands alone, yet completes a cyclical work,” says Hardy. “Think triplets instead of one child after another-the Dark Knight triplets.”

“Listening to Team Nolan talk about the film, you find yourself wondering: ‘Will Batman actually survive till the end credits?”….”We wanted to show a character who is aging, who is damaged, who may not be in his prime,” says Bale. “He has never encountered anyone with such blunt force as Bane, and this is not the best time for him to encounter him.”

Nolan says that he’s naturally drawn to Batman’s more iconic villains-as long as they can live credibly within his more realistic neo-noir treatment of Gotham…Hence Catwoman was irresistible to Nolan both because of her pop culture stature and the fact that the crafty cat burglar is Batman’s earthiest of baddies. That said Nolan’s Selina Kyle is presented as an enigma, maybe even to herself.”

“Who is Selina Kyle? She’s someone who wants you to think she can answer that question.”

“Nolan cast Hathaway because he believed the actress could handle the role’s biggest challenge; suggesting w whole history for the character that’s not in the script and never spelled out to the audience.”

“Hathaway prepared by devouring old comic books and watching movies starring Batman creator Bob Kane’s two inspirations for Catwoman, Hedy Lamarr and Jean Harlow.

[Many thanks to apw from NolanFans Forums for the article and scans!]