♦ Remember, The Take premieres in the US on Encore this Friday at 9pm. ♦ New Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy clip with a brief glimpse of Ricki Tarr in “Hello, Ricki”: And Ricki tries to warn Irina:   ♦ TTSS interview from Upcoming-Movies: ♦ A behind-the-scenes look at Tom in TTSS: ♦ You can see this new shot from the 2008 [...]

♦ Tom has been nominated for a British Independent Film award for Best Supporting Actor for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy!  And he’s up against his co-star, Benedict Cumberbatch. Gary Oldman is nominated for Best Actor.   ♦ Warrior will be released on Blu-Ray and DVD December 20, 2011.  Special features include: Audio commentary with Director Gavin O’Connor, [...]

♦ The Hollywood Reporter says that The Wettest County is not likely to be released by the end of 2011 in order to qualify for the 2012 awards season.  We’ve no idea when it will be then, as we’ve only heard December bandied about. ♦ The Take premieres on US television on Encore December 2nd at 9pm and will show [...]

June 11, 2009 Gabriel Tate Time Out, p. 130 Time In- A Hardy Perennial Following star turns in ‘Stuart: A Life Backwards’, ‘Oliver Twist’ and ‘RocknRolla’, the versatile Tom Hardy chats to Gabriel Tate about the forthcoming Sky1 mini-series ‘Martina Cole’s The Take’ Chances are, you’ll know actor Tom Hardy for two things. Firstly, his startling trajectory from a [...]

June 2009 What’s on TV Actor Tom Hardy talks about his new gritty four-part drama on Sky1 and on the perils of playing a psychopath… You’re best known for playing violent criminal Charlie Bronson and villain Bill Sykes in Oliver Twist, is your character Freddie Jackson another psychopath? “Yes, I’m playing another psychopath! Freddie’s a [...]

June 2009 Jack Foley IndieLondon Tom Hardy came out of drama school and straight into HBO’s Band of Brothers, followed by Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down. He’s been working ever since – always pushing himself as is evident in his most recent role: Bronson. He talks to us about his character in Sky1’s The Take, [...]

December 13, 2009 Katherine Flett The Guardian While talent shows provided national talking points, it was a slew of dramas that really gripped this viewer This year I’m devoting the top 10 to drama, partly because it feels as though the genre is having a harder time of television’s indisputable Hard Times than, for example, [...]

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 [...]

June 16, 2009 Catherine Gee The Telegraph Martina Cole’s The Take (Sky1/Sky1HD) – Tom Hardy stars in a four-part adaptation of the hit novel by crime writer Martina Cole. This is Sky’s big-budget shot at being taken seriously in TV drama: a home-grown, four-part adaptation of The Take, the 2005 hit novel by Britain’s best-selling crime [...]

June 17, 2009 Andrew Pettie The Telegraph Thanks to Ashes to Ashes, most TV crime dramas now burst at the seams with wryly observed period detail. The opening episode of The Take, Sky1’s glossy plotted-by-numbers adaptation of Martina Cole’s glossy plotted-by-numbers gangster novel, was set in 1984. This meant a retro-chic field day for the props [...]

June 11, 2009 Serena Davies The Telegraph Tom Hardy barrels into a hotel room, fresh from the set of The Take, Sky1’s shiny new gangster serial, bristling with energy. The actor’s three stone burlier than when he played Stuart Shorter in 2007, the wasted junkie in BBC Two’s Stuart: A Life Backwards and Hardy’s first [...]