14 DAY TRIAL // The other day, British actor Tom Hardy, now seen in Christopher Nolan’s hit movie “Inception,” was quoted as saying that, part of his job as an actor was also experimenting with “everything and everyone.” This also included men, which literally made Hardy the first star to admit to bi tendencies, Ted Casablanca of E!’s The Awful Truth points out. However, Hardy is backtracking on his comments now.
According to a source close to the star, the remarks were taken out of context: he did say all those things we also informed you about the other day, but he wasn’t talking about himself but about a character he’s playing, who’s obviously gay. The problem is, Casablanca points out, the source’s argument holds little to no water because Hardy’s IMDB page shows that he’s only played one such character in his entire career and he wasn’t an actor but a British mobster.
“It seems Tom Hardy wasn’t as willing to speak out as we thought – or, at least, he’s not liking the headlines his off-hand comments made. ‘It’s all taken out of context,’ a source close to the rising star claimed after we asked about the article. […H]ow exactly were that many quotes misrepresented? ‘He was discussing a gay role and quotes coming from the character,’ the same person defends. Last time we checked IMDb, the only gay role Tom played was in RocknRolla opposite Gerard Butler. And he wasn’t playing an actor; he was playing a mobster. So disappointing,” Casablanca says.
“As a boy? Of course I have. I’m an actor for [expletive]’s sake. I’ve played with everything and everyone. I love the form and the physicality, but now that I’m in my thirties, it doesn’t do it for me. I’m done experimenting but there’s plenty of stuff in a relationship with another man, especially gay men, that I need in my life. A lot of gay men get my thing for shoes. I have definite feminine qualities and a lot of gay men are incredibly masculine,” Hardy was quoted as saying the other day.
He was also believed to have said (the quotes originated from an article in the Daily Mail, it seems) that he’s always felt like he didn’t belong, like he wasn’t “one of the boys,” which is why he’s constantly tried to overcompensate. The actor himself has not yet addressed all this.
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