{"id":53617,"date":"2024-06-21T14:23:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T12:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2060578"},"modified":"2024-06-21T17:30:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T15:30:23","slug":"tom-hardy-on-the-bikeriders-performance-if-it-doesnt-work-its-not-for-the-want-of-trying","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/tom-hardy-on-the-bikeriders-performance-if-it-doesnt-work-its-not-for-the-want-of-trying\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hardy on The Bikeriders performance: \u201cIf it doesn\u2019t work, it\u2019s not for the want of trying\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hardy has a key role in the star-studded new film about a ’60s biker gang. <\/p>

By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 21 June 2024 at 12:23 PM<\/p>

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Tom Hardy has often been known for going fairly big in his on-screen performances \u2013 and in new film The Bikeriders,<\/a>\u00a0he\u2019s taking on yet another larger-than-life role.<\/p>\n

His character Johnny \u2013 like most of the characters in the film \u2013 is loosely based on a real person who featured in the 1967 photobook on which the film is based, and so when RadioTimes.com<\/a> spoke to Hardy ahead of the film\u2019s release, we asked how he went about crafting his performance based on the still images from that book.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuestions, asking lots and lots of questions,\u201d was his response, before he offered some rather abstract thoughts about the process.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThere\u2019s convincing and not convincing,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd trying to find something that\u2019s convincing, which is also a reach from me, so my own personal silhouette in the world, how can I act and pretend to be somebody that I\u2019m not that sits in a world that can be both earthed in reality principle, but it\u2019s also not, like tied so hard to reality principle that it gets in the way of narrative fantasy and symbolism?<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause it\u2019s a story, ultimately, and it\u2019s not real. But it contains truths, I think. Does that makes sense? There are lots of processes. I wouldn\u2019t bore you with that.\u201d<\/p>

Asked if there was any aspect of the photobook \u2013 or his research into the \u201960s biking subculture more generally \u2013 that helped him when it came to shaping the character, he wasn\u2019t able to pinpoint any one thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019m saying,\u201d he continued. \u201cLike, I ask questions, and then I sit \u2013 and then from those answers, or perhaps conversations that are ongoing, start to look at things that may\u2026 I can identify a little bit of that, a little bit of this.<\/p>\n

\u201cI put together a collage of working\u2026 facade, an illusion that is coherent, on a day to day basis, which I add to or strip away, while I pretend. Like, I don\u2019t really know how else to put it. So, like trying out lots of little things in the sauce and keep tasting it. And then if it doesn\u2019t work \u2013 it\u2019s not for the want of trying.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tom Hardy as Danny and Austin Butler as Benny in The Bikeriders.<\/span><\/figcaption> Universal<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Hardy has many big-name co-stars in the film, and one who puts in a particularly memorable performance is Jodie Comer, who adopts a very distinct Midwestern accent for the role of Kathy.<\/p>\n

According to writer\/director Jeff Nichols, he was extremely impressed at how well Comer was able to imitate the accent of the real woman her character is based on \u2013 whose voice was captured in a series of recordings from the era.<\/p>\n

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