Tom Hardy "terrified" on Nemesis

[RAMA]

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/tom-hardy-on-being-terrified-on-star-trek-nemesis

From totalfilm. Hes come a long way hasn't he.

 

[beamMe]

But still, his performance is one of the few things that makes Nemesis still very watchable. It's not a great film, but it's not nearly as bad as some make it out to be.

 

[Khan 2.0]

ive always enjoyed watching the Picard/Shinzon ready room scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl0c_aXJtUc

"Buried deep within you, beneath all the years of pain and anger, there is something that has never been nurtured... the potential to make yourself a better man. And that is what it is to be human. To make yourself more than you are. Oh, yes...I know you...There was a time when you looked at the stars..and dreamed of what might be... "

 

[JarodRussell]

The funny thing is that I like the screentest a lot better than the actual scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6blOgs6r7MM

 

[USS Triumphant]

The problem was never Hardy, it was the stupid idea behind the character that he played very well.

 

[Smellmet]

Agreed, Hardy is an awesome actor, one of the very finest of the current generation, alongside the likes of Cumberbatch, Fassbender, McAvoy etc. One of the few actors that will make me watch a film simply on the basis of him being in it.

Witness his performance in Martina Cole's The Take, he is absolutely electric in it, plays a complete and utter psycho, and every time he's on screen you're just waiting for him to do something. Brilliant.

 

[RAMA]

I have to say I love his work since. He was let down slightly by the material in DKR.

Isn't there a rumor he became a drug addict after NEM? I find that hard to believe.

 

[Hober Mallow]

Hardy did his best, but I just couldn't be sold on the idea that he was a clone of Picard.

 

[Melakon]

Isn't there a rumor he became a drug addict after NEM? I find that hard to believe.

He did an interview years back where he admitted falling into drugs and alcohol due to the pressures of early success and suddenly having money to spend. Seems to happen frequently with young actors, but it looks like Hardy managed to stabilize.

 

[sonak]

I have to say I love his work since. He was let down slightly by the material in DKR.

Isn't there a rumor he became a drug addict after NEM? I find that hard to believe.

let down slightly by the material?

It was really just acting with his eyes and his voice, and the dialogue was fine.

 

[trevanian]

I think the guy was let down by the costume, which was hideous and undercut the character's power, and really hurt by having Baird as director. Plus the material sucked. I have only grudgingly become a fan of his, but in the last few years I'm increasingly impressed, especially that thing he did with Shia Lebouef (how that weasel managed to sucker punch Hardy into unconsciousness off-set I still don't understand, it'd be like Wesley Crusher drop-kicking Worf over the tac console.)

 

[LMFAOschwarz]

I think the guy was let down by the costume...

Looking at the video above, I am reminded of how utterly, utterly stupid that outfit was. And it's so squeaky! Funny thing is, the jacket in the screen test is also squeaky! I guess it was just meant to be, for better or worse...

 

[Amaris]

Yeah, I'll add my voice in here as well (as if you could stop me!). Tom Hardy played the hell out of the character, and made him rise higher than the material itself. He's a good actor. If you haven't seen Bronson, I recommend it.

 

[tomalak301]

I find it amazing that Tom Hardy has been in many great films, but he was also in Star Trek: Nemesis. It's kind of like the "One of these things is not like the other" type of thing. I did really like his role, even if the movie was not all that great, though.

 

[Melakon]

I thought the whole Picard clone business was pretty old hat to stake a Trek film on. I didn't think Hardy looked anything like Stewart, yet the production wants us to believe shaving his head makes them identical twins.

 

[sonak]

I thought the whole Picard clone business was pretty old hat to stake a Trek film on. I didn't think Hardy looked anything like Stewart, yet the production wants us to believe shaving his head makes them identical twins.

well I could overlook the appearance as suspension of disbelief(many of the NuTrek actors don't really look like the TOS ones), but Shinzon as a character seems nothing like Picard. Despite the obvious stuff by the writer like having him ordering tea, he just comes across as a generic villainous thug. So the whole "dark mirror" thing is crap.


Heck, Soran seems a lot closer to Picard personality-wise than Shinzon.

 

[JarodRussell]

Despite the obvious stuff by the writer like having him ordering tea

Which was pretty stupid. It's certainly not part of your genetic makeup to favor tea over other drinks.