Tom Hardy may be cool to us, but he doesn't think he even knows what cool is! He talks to Melissa Nathoo about MobLand and working with Guy Ritchie. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00The last person qualified to know what cool is.
00:03God, that's embarrassing.
00:04Unqualified, not cool, can't deal with your love life.
00:07Tom, good to meet you.
00:08You too, pleasure.
00:09So you were Handsome Bob in Rock and Roller.
00:12Yeah.
00:13And then this one you're described as handsome as he is dangerous, Harry.
00:16Do you ever say to Guy, you're like, yeah, are you only casting me because I'm handsome?
00:20What are you trying to say?
00:22It's not for your skills, it's nothing else, it's just you've got to keep looking good
00:26and then Guy Ritchie's going to keep...
00:28I didn't even think about it like that.
00:30Now I'm thinking about it like that.
00:32Yeah.
00:33Text Guy now.
00:34Has much changed though since 2008 doing Rock and Roller to now or is it just like...
00:38Yeah, I got a lot older.
00:41Creaky.
00:42But what about in terms of working with Guy?
00:44Has anything changed or does it just feel familiar?
00:46I think it feels familiar.
00:47I didn't actually get to spend much time with Guy on Rock and Roller because predominantly
00:54It was his leading man on that show, so we were support staff in that aspect.
01:00So this was a really lovely opportunity to have a bit more of Guy's attention.
01:04What would you say is the coolest thing that you got to do?
01:08Oh wow, I don't know.
01:12I don't know.
01:14I stumped you.
01:15I'm not cool, yeah.
01:17I must have done something cool.
01:19Girl, that's embarrassing.
01:21Maybe that's why I'm doing it because I don't find it that cool.
01:23You just find all of it cool?
01:25Yeah, I guess so.
01:26Yeah, that's fair enough.
01:27What is cool?
01:29I'm 47 years of age.
01:31I'm like the last person qualified to know what cool is.
01:34You make everything look cool?
01:36There you go.
01:37We can just go with that.
01:38I believe you.
01:39Yes, you do.
01:40I'm curious.
01:41Do you have any part of your life...
01:42You're playing a fixer in here.
01:43Is there any part of your life that could benefit from having a fixer?
01:48I was saying to Piers I could benefit from having one to help with my love life.
01:52Terrible.
01:53What would you do with a fixer for that?
01:54They can help me find solutions as to why it's such a disaster.
01:58That's what you guys do, right?
01:59They're solutions.
02:03No.
02:05No, no.
02:08The last thing you need is a fixer, I don't know.
02:11They sort of get rid of people.
02:13Is that all they do?
02:14Well, no.
02:15I mean, there are different fixers for different options.
02:17So you're looking for a very specific kind of fixer.
02:19I am.
02:20The fixer that I play is in that field of operations.
02:26No, I clean up after people's mess.
02:29Well, I don't.
02:30Harry cleans up after people's messes
02:32and they largely take place in the criminal underworld
02:37and mistakes that they make in that kind of territory.
02:41Not in anything else.
02:43Okay, well, you can't help me in any way.
02:45That's fair enough.
02:47I'm the last person.
02:48Again, unqualified, not cool, can't deal with your love life.
02:52No, but nothing for you.
02:53Damn it.
02:55Like you say, you are playing a fixer,
02:57but are you yourself an ideas kind of person or are you a doer?
03:02I'm good at neither, really, but I find myself doing both.
03:06I've learned a lot about you.
03:08Infrastructure and randomly I have ideas too
03:12and sometimes they manifest.
03:14Okay.
03:15But sometimes they really don't.
03:17Well, I've learned that you can't do anything for me in my life.
03:21I'm not cool.
03:22Can't do anything to help you.
03:24And I have ideas and I'm part of infrastructure,
03:26but I'm not very good at either.
03:27You've summed up my whole interview perfectly there.
03:30Lovely.
03:31You're right.
03:32But here you are.
03:33All the attention.
03:34Just keep being handsome, Tom, and Guy will just keep employing you.
03:37That's all you need.
03:38Enjoy every fish.
03:39That's all you need.
03:40Thank you very much.