Tom Hardy Makes Jokes ‘Until Action Is Called’ and Then Becomes the ‘Most Intense Guy I’d Ever Seen,’ Says Austin Butler: ‘I Pictured Him Always Serious’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Austin Butler assumed Tom Hardy was always going to be serious while making their upcoming drama “The Bikeriders,” but it turns out Hardy has the impressive ability to turn on and off his intense persona.
The two actors lead Jeff Nichols’ gang drama alongside Jodie Comer. The film, inspired by Danny Lyon’s book, follows the rise and fall of a fictional 1960s motorcycle club in the Midwest.
Hardy plays a dangerous mentor figure to Butler. “After the spectacle of ‘Elvis’ and ‘Dune,’ and these characters that were quite different from me, to be able to go to something where — there’s an intimate sensitivity to ‘The Bikeriders,'” Butler recently told Josh Brolin during a chat for Interview magazine. “It’s the roaring engines and the smell of grease that we got to be around.
It was nice to go to something that felt more independent and play in that space for a bit. But one of the things I was thinking about earlier, when you were talking about that relaxation on set, was that Tom Hardy surprised me.
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