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Bane voice: Ah, you think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark, I was
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born in it… (coughing and spluttering)
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Tom Hardy: Sorry it’s hard for me to break character. That’s not strictly true, I was
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born just outside of London on September 15th 1977. It might have been dark, I don’t remember.
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Bane: But no one cared who I was until I put on the mask.
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Tom Hardy: Sorry! I can’t stop myself. Hi, I’m Tom Hardy, thanks for inviting me to
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draw my life.
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I grew up in London, the only child of an artist and a comedy writer my real name is
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Edward but I go by my middle name Tom. Edward doesn’t exactly scream leading man, sorry
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Ed Norton. It’s not been your typical road to Hollywood stardom. Modelling, crime, rehab…
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well maybe it’s not that unique a story in tinseltown but I did all that before I
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arrived in la la land. I was something of a troubled teen, alcohol abuse etcetera, almost
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sent to prison for stealing a car etcetera, possession of a gun etcetera etcetera. I don’t
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like to talk about it, It’s the only cliche role I’ve ever played and I promised myself
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I’d never do that again, well except to do the rom-com This Means War, what can I
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say they made me an offer I couldn’t refuse.
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I got my break into showbiz when I was 21 and I won a modelling competition on the British
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TV show, the Big Breakfast, but they had forgotten me by lunch time. So I attended drama school
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in London, but I dropped out to take a small role in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers.
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That gamble paid off! Steven Spielberg’s World War Two drama launched my career, and
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the careers of loads of other british actors too. Me, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy
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and some bloke called Ross from Friends. From there I landed my film debut in Ridley Scott’s
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Black Hawk Down and played the baddie in a Star Trek movie. But in 2003 I cracked, and
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hit rock bottom after I hit the bottom of my crack rocks. My addictions got the better
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of me, and my first marriage. I checked into rehab and I’ve been clean and sober ever
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since. Now I’m only addicted to dubsmash.
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I made my comeback acting on stage and the small screen but it was my performance in
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the independent movie Bronson which brought me back to the attention of the big Hollywood
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studios. Next thing I knew I was stealing scenes within scenes from Leo in Inception,
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acting alongside my hero Gary Oldman in the spy thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and
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breaking hearts and snapping necks in the emotional MMA drama Warrior. I played Heathcliff
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in the TV adaptation of Wuthering Heights and I fell in love on the misty moors for
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real. I married my Cathy - Charlotte Riley in 2014. But people are always speculating
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about my sexual ambiguity, why? Anyway, it’s like I always say you don’t know what's
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going to float your boat until you send it out to sea. Recently I’ve been sent into
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the movie stratosphere with my roles in the Dark Knight Rises and Mad Max, and you can
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get double your Hardy on with my latest film Legend, a bio-pic where I play both the Kray
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Twins. That was my Draw My Life thanks for watching, don’t forget to subscribe and
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