tomhardyspinky:

“Even if I come here for a holiday, I have go to the embassy and ask. I’m 10 years into being aware of my addictions and in those 10 years, my life has gotten fortuitously better and better”

“You learn from stuff and I think it’s the same with addiction. I can’t use, I can’t drink. So that means I can’t go out and dance and be comfortable doing it because I feel stupid and embarrassed. And I’m embarrassed doing karaoke because I haven’t had a beer. You win a few, you lose a few. I can’t have beer, but I can have a fight with Batman. At the end of the day, who’s complaining?”

(Tom Hardy Interview with Reuters)

(This radio interviewer doesn’t seem to have done any homework on the guest…!)

tomhardyspinky:

I would love to listen to Tom Hardy speaking of his experiences and feelings on 9/11…!

“I was at a wig-fitting. I was doing a French Foreign Legion film, and I was going out to North Africa, Morocco. We’d just done ‘Black Hawk Down,’ and they shelved that immediately.

There were a lot of war films that year being made. A lot of work was being done in North Africa. Everyone had started panicking. And I was executing holy men in a scene three days later in a mosque in Morocco. It was a thing called ‘Simon, French Foreign Legion Deserter’ it ended up being called. So it was a very odd situation to be in because there I was playing a soldier in North Africa. We had a plane on standby to get us out if anything kicked off.

Immediately, it was a life-changing event. I have friends who serve, I have a lot of friends in special forces, I have very, very close friends who deal in very serious operations all over the Middle East that were affected post-9/11 … I’m still really thrown by the loss and the amount of people on that day, and that whole situation, to be honest.

I’m a bit thrown. I’ve got friends who were in the building, in the twin towers. I have friends who are servicemen, what can you say?”