Tom Hardy Explains Why He Doesn’t Always Read the Script for his Movies | The Bikeriders Interview

Tom Hardy is a versatile actor in Hollywood. He’s worked on many a high-profile project at this point in his career — The Dark Knight Rises, Sony’s Venom trilogy, and, of course, George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road — so, what’s his process? How does Hardy, someone who seems to inhabit wildly different characters effortlessly, take on these different personas, like tough guy Johnny in Jeff Nichols’ upcoming film, The Bikeriders? In his latest, opposite Oscar-nominee Austin Butler (Elvis), Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), and fellow real-life Harley enthusiast Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon), Hardy plays the perplexing Johnny. The character is a leather-sporting biker who establishes the Chicago Vandals, a bike club, to join the outcasts of 1960s America into a family. As the landscape of the US shifts throughout the Vietnam War, so, too, do the Vandals, evolving into something much more violent. During this interview with Collider’s Steve Weintraub, Hardy talks abou