
GQ: In Lawless, your character rocks the most menacing cardigan I’ve ever seen. Your choice?
Tom: It wasn’t in the script. The only way you can make him a likeable gangster is by finding his femininity. He’s a mother [to his brothers]. I had a big fuckload of batteries in the pockets, so it hung down. I looked like your granddad, but I had a swagger. A cardigan with a swagger, right? Can you imagine getting knocked the fuck out by a guy in a cardigan? (x)

He has this incredible disjunct between the expressiveness of the voice and the stillness of the movement of his body. He’s found a way to play a character who is enormous and powerful with a sort of calm to it, but also is able to be incredibly fast at times. Unpredictable. He just has a raw threat to him that’s extraordinary. It’s a very powerful thing when you see it come together, beyond what I had ever imagined. That’s what you get from working with great actors.
Christopher Nolan on Tom Hardy playing Bane
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Tom Hardy in Bronson