Tom Hardy SLAMS modern action heroes as ‘BORING clean-living vegans’
TABOO star Tom Hardy has lashed out at Hollywood’s modern action heroes, accusing them of being boring, moralistic and on vegan diets compared to 1980s characters like Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones.
Tom Hardy makes dramatic entrance in new drama Taboo
The 39-year-old actor has taken a break from Hollywood to focus on his new BBC period drama.
Hardy has played a number of villains in recent years from The Dark Knight Rises’ Bane and John Fitzgerald in The Revenant, to both Kray Brothers in Legend.
However the star did have a change to play the hero in 2015’s gritty action movie Mad Max: Fury Road.
During an interview for Taboo, Hardy had a chance to explain just why he hates the way modern action heroes are portrayed.
Tom Hardy has slammed modern action heroes as 'boring clean-living vegans'
Hardy revealed he preferred 1980s action heroes like Indiana Jones rather than the clean-cut Thor
Speaking with the Sunday Times, he said: “[Modern action heroes are] the homogenised sort of eight-pack, tanned, straight-teeth, physicalised [men].
“You’ve got to look like you’ve just come off a vegan diet, gone to the gym, part Navy Seal, really clean valued, clean-living, moralistic - and then you go out and save the world from an impending danger that isn’t really dangerous at all.
“And it becomes not committed to any sense of the gubbins of reality: I don’t recognise this man.”
Hardy compared the more realistic Indiana Jones to the clean cut Thor, claiming that parts like the latter restrict actors from expressing personal characteristics.
The actor’s new series is set in 1814 with Hardy playing James Delaney, an adventurer returning from Africa to find his father has died.
Hardy recently revealed he wanted to get completely naked and cover himself in blood for Taboo.
Meanwhile back in Hollywood the star has finally confirmed the rumours he would appear in Star Wars Episode VIII.
Tom Hardy's Taboo is currently showing on BBC1
Hardy will also star in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, which will be released in the summer.
While his next project sees him play a 47-year-old Al Capone suffering from dementia after his time in prison on Alcatraz.
This will then be followed by a biopic where he will play Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.