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. [...]

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 [...]

January 15, 2006 Matt Wolf The Times He has promised great things, but Tom Hardy’s only now coming into his tongue-in-cheek own in two BBC dramas. Tom Hardy is not your typical interviewee, but perhaps that’s as it should be, since neither is the 28-year-old just another Brit-boy actor. He is restless, intense, his good [...]

January 15, 2006 Chris Hastings The Telegraph Queen Elizabeth I died a virgin because her father’s murder of her mother left her with a lifelong fear of physical intimacy. A new BBC1 drama, The Virgin Queen, which stars Anne-Marie Duff, will claim that the Tudor monarch was unable to consummate any of her relationships because [...]