First, Charlidos has added a bunch of truly beautiful stills to the Stuart: A Life Backwards and The Virgin Queen albums in the gallery.  Be sure to check them out in all their high-quality glory.   For all the Pittsburgh fans, you can find details on August filming locations for The Dark Knight Rises here. [...]

Esquire 2007 Tom Hardy has a zealot’s belief in the power of theatre to transform lives. Having overcome crack and alcohol addiction with the help of his art, the 29-year-old remains loyal to his theatre company, Shotgun, even while Hollywood beckons. Small parts in “Layer Cake” and Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” have led to bigger [...]

Winter/Spring 2008-9 Cath Clarke Arena Homme + ‘He do the police in different voices.’  Talking to Tom Hardy is a bit like old Mrs. Higden’s line in Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend about Sloppy the mangler, who reads her stories out loud from the newspaper.  It takes two days to go through the tapes of him [...]

Rob Carnevale IndieLondon BRITISH actor Tom Hardy has become the talk of Hollywood for his unflinchingly brave portrayal of Charles Bronson, the man dubbed Britain’s most violent prisoner. But while initially nervous of meeting his subject, Hardy learned to develop a begrudging admiration for him, while learning his own life lessons. He talks to us about [...]

November 7, 2006 Nick Curtis This is London Recently, Tom Hardy lost two stone in five weeks. The 28-year-old, London-born actor slimmed down drastically to ten-andahalf stone to play the title role – a heroin addict with muscular dystrophy – in the forthcoming film Stuart: A Life Backwards. Over the next two months, he must [...]

September 22, 2007 Sarah Dempster The Times Tom Hardy’s moving portrayal of a violent, homeless drug addict comes from the heart When you meet Tom Hardy, it’s difficult to know what to expect. Or rather, whom. His latest part, in the title role of BBC Two’s adaptation of Stuart: A Life Backwards, Alexander Masters’s bestselling [...]

September 21, 2007 Alexander Masters The Guardian Writing a script is full of hidden pitfalls, as I found out when adapting my book Stuart: A Life Backwards for television. I’d never written a script before. I didn’t know what to do with the bloody thing: did you centre text? Put names in bold? How much [...]

June 23, 2009 Gareth McLean The Guardian In 2002, after Star Trek: Nemesis, Tom Hardy was hailed as the Next Big Thing. But it never happened and he hit the bottle. Now he’s bouncing back. By his own admission, Tom Hardy’s favourite subject is himself. “I make no bones about it,” he says, his pillowy [...]

September 23, 2007 Peter Conrad The Guardian Tom Hardy has gone from being a crack addict to one of the most exciting actors of his generation. In between he nearly ended up fighting in Iraq. Why is he so in thrall to risk and living on the edge? I am always apprehensive when I meet [...]

July 31, 2006 Ben Dowell The Guardian The BBC and HBO have cast rising stars Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead roles for its forthcoming dramatisation of Alexander Masters’ novel Stuart – A Life Backwards. Hardy, who was seen recently playing the part of Robert Dudley in the BBC’s Elizabeth I drama The [...]

September 24, 2007 James Walton The Telegraph Comparatively few TV dramas have a main character who’s homeless, alcoholic, violent and addicted to heroin. Of the ones that do, even fewer are inclined to provide many laughs. Yet, for much of the time, Stuart: a Life Backwards (BBC2, Sun) was almost a comedy – and not always [...]

September 22, 2007 Tessa Gibbs The Telegraph Stuart: a Life Backwards BBC2, 9.00pm; N Ireland, 11.50pm Tom Hardy (The Virgin Queen) stars as Stuart Shorter alongside Benedict Cumberbatch (Hawking) in this adaptation of Alexander Masters’s critically-acclaimed memoir about a violent, homeless alcoholic with muscular dystrophy. As the title suggests, the structure is intriguing, as more [...]

August 18, 2007 Alexander Masters The Telegraph Stuart: A Life Backwards was an attempt by Alexander Masters to reveal in murder-mystery style what turned his friend – who didn’t live to see it published – from happy child to violent junkie. Here Masters explains how he adapted it for television, and wonders if success might [...]

September 19, 2007 Gerard O’Donovan The Telegraph Gerard O’Donovan describes how a memoir about a homeless alcoholic, Stuart: A Life Backwards, was adapted for television and asks if screen versions of our favourite books can ever live up to our expectations. There aren’t many books you love so much that you worry about them. I [...]

June 30, 2007 Chloe Fox The Telegraph In Tom Hardy’s eventful life he has been an addict, a petty criminal and a supermodel contest winner. Now, as one of Britain’s most promising young actors, he faces his most difficult challenge – drop the tough man act. Tom Hardy is not your average interviewee. For a [...]