Tom Hardy’s ‘The Bikeriders’ Co-Stars Insist He’s a ‘Teddy Bear’: ‘He’d Give Us All Hugs’
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Tom Hardy may not be as scary as his bad boy reputation makes him out to be. “Tom was a teddy bear,” “The Bikeriders” producer Brian Kavanaugh-Jones told me at Monday’s premiere of the Focus Features drama at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
Co-star Austin Butler agreed: “He’s very much that. He’s a sweetheart.” Actor Damon Herriman admitted, “I thought Tom was going to be scary but he turned out really lovely.
Honestly, he would walk on the set and give people hugs. Pretty much every time he came to set, he was like, ‘How ya doing, mate?
You alright?’ And then he’d give us all hugs. I loved him.” “The Bikeriders” stars Butler as a member of a 1960s motorcycle gang who’s been taken under the wing of its leader (Hardy).
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