Tom Hardy & His Beard For Details Magazine

Tom Hardy is arguably the best actor of his generation, and were my love for Sam Rockwell not so boundless, I might go so far as to declare him the best living actor. It certainly doesn't hinder his stock one iota that he's incredibly attractive and in impeccable shape, and if you're somehow unconvinced he's not the best, this new profile of him in Details Magazine (link below) may change your mind. 

The Hardy hype machine is gearing up for the May 15 release of Mad Max: Fury Road, where Hardy takes over the title role originated by notable actor and anti-Semite Mel Gibson. In this in-depth profile, Hardy dishes on everything from his air of mystery...

Mystery is very healthy in this business anyway. Why wouldn't I capitalize on mystery? If you look at the old movie stars, you didn't know anything about them. It allowed them to transform and shape-shift into different characters. It was easier to believe what somebody is if you don't know anything about them. If you had a dossier on me, telling you about who I am, where I've been, what I've done, for years, it makes it harder to maintain the ability to transform. I want to leave as little dossier around as possible. So, if there's a mystery in any way, great. That's great. For obvious reasons, isn't it?

To his love for dogs...

Do you believe in serendipity? I do. No such thing as coincidence. So here's my dog, right? [Displays a photo on his phone] His name was Mad Max when I got him. Like the first dog I ever had. Anyway, I fell in love with Max's mom, Cass, when I was 16. My friend had her. And I was like, "If she ever has puppies, please can I have a dog?" He was like, "Yeah, sure." And then my friend disappeared, and I never saw him again. But I went to visit his mom, see how she was and say hello. And she said, "Oh, we've got something for you here." And I open up the door, and there was Mad Max. And I was like, "I don't like that name." 'Cause he's not mad, he's just misunderstood. I called him Moose, as a nickname. And my nickname was something else back then. I think it was Weasel at the time. 'Cause I was a little shit.

To how little he cares what people think about him...

All you need to know is that I don't commit crimes, and I don't kill children. I'm actually quite safe, and I have a family that I care about, and I'm open—I'm open to having a conversation about pretty much anything in the world, and I want to go down to the shop and get my milk, come back, be part of the human race. That's it. I just want to be any normal man with my family. I'm Tommy. I'll never really not be Tommy—I hope. I'd be a bit pissed off if that changed. You can do what you love doing and still not turn into . . .

A douchebag?

Yeah, if I'm a douchebag, I'd rather be a douchebag despite the fact that I'm a celebrity. I don't want to be seen, you know? I like the shadows. I like to go and do my thing and disappear. But when it's like, "You are responsible for doing this," I'm like, "I think you might have the wrong person." I just happen to be part of the team. I may be fronting this particular endeavor, but I'm not worth looking at, for crying out loud. What the fuck does that have to do with the price of cabbages?! I'm not an ambassador, I don't want to be on the front cover of the magazine. Not because I'm not grateful. I just don't feel I belong there.

Via Details