His reckless performance as one of England's most volatile criminals proved the actor was capable of physical things not many are.
TOM HARDY BRONSON MOVIE
That movie was a force to be reckoned with and Hardy was the biggest reason why. Bronson was fun.Many of us discovered Tom Hardy in Bronson, director Nicolas Winding Refn's cinematic ode to British brawler Charles Bronson. "I don't know how people do that every day. "By the time I went to Pittsburgh to film Warrior I had two hours of boxing, two hours of muay thai, two hours of jiu jitsu, two hours of choreography and two hours of weight lifting a day, every day for eight weeks," he said. So Pnut had the problem of getting the rust off me."Īfter that, training to play a mixed martial artist in the 2011 drama Warrior was a shock to the system, to say the least. "For Bronson I just ate chocolate and pizza, lifted Pnut up and down the stairs, played Xbox, shaved my head and grew a moustache," he told Shortlist magazine in 2011. Then at least part of me will be on the film set!"Īlthough the results of Hardy's training were clearly worth it, the actor later admitted that the preparation for that role had taken its toll on him physically. If not, Tom can stick it in his pocket for luck. Maybe the make-up artists on set can stick it on his top lip. Yeah, my moustache has gone and it's going to end up going through Tom Hardy's letter box. "A big event today: I chopped off the most infamous tash in the UK, if not Europe-maybe the world. Tom looks more like me than I look like me."īronson also praises the four banana milkshakes and four muffins that Hardy brought along with him for that visit.Ī month later, he wrote about Hardy and the film once more. You wouldn't want to meet him down a dark alley at 3am. "He looks awesome and I'm so fucking proud of him. "He has put on one and a half stone of muscles for the movie," he writes in an entry from January 2008. His sister had been telling him good things about the way I'd been doing his voice and the way I moved like him, but his concern was the physicality of my portrayal of him, but I think I did a good job in the end."Īccording to an entry in Bronson's journals, published as Diaries From Hell: Charles Bronson - My Prison Diaries in 2009, Bronson was more than happy with Hardy's results. "When I came back two weeks later he was thoroughly impressed with what he saw. Initially, Hardy says that the inmate was less than impressed with the actor who'd been selected to play him on their first meeting. By the time I'd finished, my legs looked like those of a stork in comparison to the top half of my body." Also, to 'become' Charlie Bronson I had to quickly put a lot of weight quickly on my forearms, chest and neck. To achieve dense muscle, you need a specific kind of training. "My approach was to do a lot of repetitions in order to send messages to my muscles: this helps them start to grow in a way that you can't make them in the gym.
TOM HARDY BRONSON SERIES
In terms of conditioning, Hardy said that he had no official workout plan, preferring to do a series of non-specific exercises, including push-ups, ab work, and random resistance training with his longtime personal trainer and friend Pnut (pronounced "peanut"). My diet was lenient as we weren't going for the Bruce Lee look and we weren't looking for the cut." I needed to put a layer of fat on my body, because Bronson when he was younger was a big guy, a brawler. Then I'd have a pizza, Häagen-Dazs and Coca-Cola: So not good stuff, but I had to put weight on. In the end I'd put on about 2 and a half stone by eating chicken and rice, which was my staple diet throughout the day. For Bronson, I put on about 7lbs a week-with no steroids. "It was a race against the clock: We didn't have any time to waste, so I started eating and my arse very quickly got very fat. As Hardy told Ask Men in a feature about the film, he only had five weeks to turn himself into the criminal and bare knuckle boxer who has attacked over 20 guards and fellow prisoners and managed to take 11 hostages during his four decades in prison.
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