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I’ve been saying for a little while now that it would be SO funny to me if Tom Hardy got an Oscar nomination for The Revenant and Leonardo DiCaprio didn’t. I believe Tom and Leo are friends and that Leo would be happy for Tom if that happened, but you know Leo would cry some salty tears if, after all of this time and money and angst, he didn’t even get nominated this year. Anyway, Tom has a new interview with Entertainment Weekly and he’s asked point-blank about his “Oscar buzz” this year. His answer is a study in IDGAF. Some highlights:

He doesn’t consider himself a leading man: “I’m not really interested in [playing] straight leads. I have crooked teeth.”

Working with Alejandro G. Iñárritu on The Revenant: “He’s unlike any director I’ve ever worked with. He sees things how he sees them, so to give him back what he wants is quite an interesting experience. It could drive you f—ing nuts… He had the affability to me of the donkey from Shrek and I’m Shrek.”

Tom tried to “loosen up” by wrestling Inarritu: “When things get a bit too serious, I go, ‘Why don’t we have a cuddle in front of all these people here?’ It ends with both of us falling down in the snow. I think that’s a good thing. If I’m the naughty boy for doing that, then I’d rather be the naughty boy and release that tension.”

Working with Leonardo: “I do a bit of heavy-lifting with all the lingo and Leo does the face-pulling. He does some significant face-pulling. And he’s awesome at it.”

Don’t let Tom into the Oscar theater: “Lock me out of that, for your own good. It’s like putting a wig on a dog, or a tutu on a crocodile. It doesn’t look right, it’s not fair to the animal, and inevitably someone will get bitten and hurt.”

[From Entertainment Weekly]

So much BLOKE. And is it just me or was this a very sexual interview? I have a dirty mind when it comes to The Bloke, so he can say just about anything and I’ll find it sexual. But loosening up by “having a cuddle”? Calling himself a “naughty boy”? Talking about biting people? It’s like he wants me to spend the day fantasizing about what he looks like naked.

Meanwhile, it’s totally possible that Hardy could be headed to the Oscars for something else beyond The Revenant. Variety did a fascinating piece on how Warner Bros. could and possibly will spend some money for a Best Picture campaign for Mad Max: Fury Road. That doesn’t mean the Bloke would walk away with a nomination, mind you. It just means that he might get invited to the Oscars because he’s the star of Mad Max.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, ITV.
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