I’ve always liked Tom Hardy’s thing with masks, but I never imagined it was a little Nolan experiment

You don’t have to be very clever to realize that the actor Tom Hardy It has a little history with masks. The matter began as one of those details that are told among friends, but ended up becoming a widespread meme on social networks. The actor himself was aware of this.

We have seen Tom Hardy with a mask in films such as Max in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), the pilot Farrier in Dunkirk

(2017), Lane one The Dark Knight RisesEddie Brock in Venom and others in which he is covered to a lesser extent or with modifications such as The Revenant (2015) y Star Trek: Nemesis (2002). Of course, he has other unmasked appearances: Peaky Blinders and Inception: Inception.

Why this little habit of covering Tom Hardy’s face? The answer has been known since 2017, although one server missed it… like many other fans. Turns out this is a little Nolan experiment. The director said the following in several interviews

: “I was delighted with what he did in The Dark Knight Rises with two eyes, a pair of eyebrows and a bit of a forehead.”

I thought: let’s see what he can do without a forehead, without real eyebrows and maybe with just one eye. […] Being Tom, what he achieves with one eye is far beyond what any other actor can achieve with his entire body. He is a unique talent, he is extraordinary.

Nolan’s fascination in The dark knight went to Dunkirk and in turn other directors took it for their films, as happens in Mad Max: Fury Road by George Miller, although in this case it is a more partial mask that only occupies the first part of the film. In case of Venom It does not pursue the same objective, but it is still another type of mask.

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