September 19, 2011 Alistair Harkness The Scotsman Tom Hardy immerses himself in his work, whether it’s a brooding Heathcliff or, in his new film, a muscular martial ARTIST. But serious as he is on screen, when the camera stops rolling, it’s a very different story… It didn’t take Tom Hardy long to work out he [...]

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 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 [...]

July 18, 2008 Anita Singh The Telegraph Disappointingly, the producers have overlooked Gordon Brown for the role of Heathcliff, the brooding anti-hero with whom the Prime Minister recently confessed to feeling a peculiar kinship. Instead, Heathcliff will be played by Tom Hardy in the “edgy, cool and raw” ITV drama. Newcomer Charlotte Riley, in her [...]