Soon to Reprise His Alien-Inhabiting Human Role in the $230,000,000 Marvel Franchise, Tom Hardy Once Made a Startling Confession About His ?Bane? Role: ?Was Just Bald, Slightly Porky, and With Pencil Arms?

Batman has been a comic book fan favorite ever since its heydays in the early 1900s when Bob Kane first released it as ‘World’s Greatest Detective’. After countless iterations and a multitude of villains portrayed over the years, Christopher Nolan upped a notch with his 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises. The villain was a heavy-hitting English actor with hard-boiled roles in films such as Warrior, Bronson, Lawless, etc. Although he is known now to portray an alien-inhabiting slimy villain, one of Spiderman’s antagonists in a major Marvel-Sony film franchise, he is also famous as Bane. For the role of Bane, he had to gain more weight on top of what he already weighed. Years after they released the movie, he confessed to feeling overweight during and before the shoot.

Tom Hardy is an actor with many talents. Besides acting, he wrestles and also keeps a penchant for bodybuilding. When he played Bane for The Dark Knight Rises, he was massive. He gained weight and trained very hard, but a few years back, he confessed to not feeling too well during the shoot. As he is currently preparing to reprise his role as Venom, for which he built an incredible physique too, it is worthwhile remembering what his physical transformation for Bane was like.

Despite his bulked-up body, Tom Hardy had problems being Bane

On October 2011, Tom Hardy did an interview with BBC Radio 1 to promote his movie Venom: Let There Be Carnage. It was the sequel to his 2018 film Venom, and the third installment is currently under production for which Hardy is training hard too. During a section of that interview, called ‘Kids Ask Difficult Questions‘, 10-year-old Sam asked an interesting question to Hardy.

“I’d like to know how did you get so muscly to play Bane in The Dark Knight Rises?” asked Sam. Hardy replied, “If you look closely… I was really overweight,”?putting the notion that he had an incredible physique to rest. He continued, “I ate a lot… I just ate more pizza,”?revealing his diet during that time. Hardy further said, “I was just bald and slightly porky with pencil arms.“

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As Tom Hardy laughed throughout the answer about him being in incredible shape, it was evident he didn’t really enjoy the process of gaining weight.

Actors are constantly on a bodybuilding journey to look right for a role

Tom Hardy played Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, a member of the League of Shadows and a ruthless leader of a group of mercenaries, devoted to taking control of the city of Gotham. In the movie, he had to fight Batman, played by Christian Bale. Bale himself has a storied journey of gaining, losing, and gaining weight throughout his career in various roles. When he first met director Christopher Nolan for the role of Batman, his measly-looking physique shocked Nolan. As for Hardy, he was already big but had to get even bigger for Bane.

Tom Hardy is currently busy with his upcoming movie Venom 3, and given his little cameo in Spiderman: No Way Home, he may make appearances as Venom in future Spiderman films as well. Whether he would put on that much weight to weigh 200 lbs and put himself through that painful process again, is something Hardy might think long and hard about it.

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