Tom Hardy, the cute British fella from Inception, says “of course” he’s had sex with other guys. Quick everybody, swoon!
Having played gay in Guy Ritchie’s hit Rock’n’Rolla (as Handsome Bob), Hardy says he screwed around with men “as a boy.” After all, “I’m an actor for fuck’s sake. I’ve played with everything and everyone. I love the form and the physicality, but now that I’m in my thirties, it doesn’t do it for me. I’m done experimenting but there’s plenty of stuff in a relationship with another man, especially gay men, that I need in my life. A lot of gay men get my thing for shoes. I have definite feminine qualities and a lot of gay men are incredibly masculine. … A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don’t feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I’d love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I’m not one of the boys.”
Hardy is also the star of Bronson, where he got beefy and naked playing brutally violent criminal Charles Bronson.
Hey, score one for an actor type being open, honest, and nonchalant about his sexuality. James Franco, them be comin’ for youz!
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Cam
He isn’t a hollywood Type, he’s British, his hollywood Publicist probably just had to be rushed to the hospital.
Samwise
Somebody’s got to ask him if he purposely played Eames gay. Because I’ve got to say, Eames totally triggered my gaydar. Also, there really seemed to be something between him and Arthur. They talked to each other like ex-boyfriends in that movie.
L.
Score one for writing the same sentence twice and not noticing.
Ricky
@Samwise:
I totally agreed. There was this weird tension. Initially it came off as competition but on second viewing. … Either way this guys a stud and ts nice to see a guy talk about his sex so openly.
Here’s to hoping a retraction isn’t on it’s way as we speak…
christopher di spirito
Much hotter than Davey Gravy. He looks like he has a big cock, too.
Bobert
Woah?
Is this the first up-and coming young actor in a hit movie to admitt he had sex with dudes?
DR
@Samwise:
Me too. At one point Eames even called Arthur “dear” when referring to bringing big guns into the dream. That was the icing on the cake, though, he did seem to play the character gay. Either way, glad to hear he’s willing to be open and honest.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Mega kudos to Tom for admitting he got “Hard-y” with other dudes…….. :-p
Bobert
IMO I had a feeling James Franco was preparing to out himself as bi… but Tom Hardy beat him to it with ease..
Marcus
@Samwise:
I thought I was the only one who thought that. You couldn’t cut the sexual tension between him and Arthur with a knife.
Marcus
@Bobert:
I thought that too, but James started showing off the girlfriend. Now she’s giving interviews and everything LOL
@ Get Equal 'Why the h8 on Obamz but not the Repubs who ALWAYS vote against you? (John from England)
@Marcus:
Yeah James F doing damage control. It’s diff in England!
Marcus
@@ Get Equal ‘Why the h8 on Obamz but not the Repubs who ALWAYS vote against you? (John from England):
I saw it coming when the press and even random people started asking too many questions. James got too gay. He had to grab the girl. I’m sure the publicist made him do it.
Bobert
I bet his publicist is going to deny this tomorrow..
He’s the new Mad Max, you know..
🙁
@ Get Equal 'Why the h8 on Obamz but not the Repubs who ALWAYS vote against you? (John from England)
@Marcus:
He’s really disappointed me though. Don’t like him anymore. Thought he was cool for doing his own thing but now..? Blah.
james_from_the_great_city_of_cambridge
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james_from_the_great_city_of_cambridge
Since the pic Queerty posted doesn’t do this boy justice…
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james_from_the_great_city_of_cambridge
Lots of guys fool around when they’re in their early and mid-teen years with other teens. In fact, I would say most straight dudes have fooled around with other boys when they were young (I fooled around with a couple of friends and they didn’t grow up gay.) Their sexuality isn’t fully formed & they’re incredibly horny; in other words, they’d fuck a tree stump to get off. Unless Hardy was fooling around with dudes well into his twenties, there’s no story here. But he sure is f’ing hot. Those lips!!!
ArtMan
I thought Hardy was great in “Bronson”. He also shows off what
he’s working with in the film. Sexy and talented.
Dax
Oh well. This weird-o Brit can claim as many boys he’s diddled as he wants, all that’s gonna do is keep him out of the Hollywood system. Maybe the British film community is dismissive to this type of thing…but America isn’t.
Marcus
@Dax:
Yeah, right. I would believe that if Hollywood didn’t just make him the new Mad Max but now he’s replacing Sam Worthington in This Means War.
http://screencrave.com/2010-07-28/tom-hardy-replaces-sam-worthington-in-this-means-war/
L.
@Bobert: Let’s hope he doesn’t turn out to be anything like the original…
ForeverGay
Lies. I highly doubt he had sex with any man. This is just a ploy to look cool, edgey, hyper-sexual and open-minded. He then goes on to say that he’s not masculine but really is soft/ feminine inside. Very cliche. I happened to watch a segment of a MTV show the other day of a high school class going through group therapy. What do you know the football jock tells everyone that he’s really not the masculine/bully/meathead people think he is but really is a teddy bear inside. Lastly, he goes to the heterosexual standby “compliment” for gay men that we are stylish which means his experience is limited or non-existant with gay men.
D'oh, The Magnificent
@james_from_the_great_city_of_cambridge: My uncle often said he fucked anything with a hole when he was 18. So yeah, this is not a surprise or a big deal.
Rob
And my admiration for him only continues to increase.
aalan brickman
he’s hawt love him!!!
DMWN
RME @ him trying to play it off like it was just some youth experiment that meant nothing. He just outed himself. Why, I don’t know…but he just did.
He better hope Mad Max is a huge hit despite what he revealed, else I’m not seeing him cast as the lead in another big budget, big studio release.
D'oh, The Magnificent
@DMWN: Not sure why someone down rated this comment.
While its not that big of a deal, the truth is Hollywood is Hollywood. He’s saying that he had sex with men at one point. It doesn’t mean that it was anything more than experimentation, but Hollywood being Hollywood will not necessarily see it that way. if his next projects don’t do that well, they will blame it on his experimentation, and claim America or whatever is not ready for such a person.
So I agree, his saying it was experimenting even if it was experimenting or just boredom doesn’t change how Hollywood may react to it.
Black Pegasus
This is Old News Ladies….
I had Sex with him during the filming of INCEPTION..
– I ain’t lying.
Acem
What was the point of this tacky little reveal? And probably 70+% of gay men have had sex with women. So what? Next topic…
D'oh, The Magnificent
@Acem: Well, going o ut on a limb I am going to guess that people are less concerned with gay men coming to term with their sexuality than straight men because society assumes straight means straight. You can either accept that this is a conversation about society or not. Its up to you.
Devonasa
Some of these comments have me shaking my head:
-He is doing it to look edgy
-So what gay men have had sex with women
-Tacky
-I doubt he has ever had sex with men
-He just outed himself
Dear God, will some of you just get over yourselves, he didn’t HAVE to say this he could have easily lied like so many before him. Why read into it more than it is, if he wanted to merely look “open minded” than he could have said “No, but there would be nothing wrong if I did”. But he didn’t, he said his truth….why read more into it than neccesary.
No one is calling for you to throw him a parade, but give credit where credit is due, and him not being afriad to own up to it deserves at least a “good for him”.
EdWoody
Don’t forget he also played the younger Jean-Luc Picard. So now we can all fantasise that a young Picard did it with an older Sulu while Trip Tucker watched.
EdWoody
http://www.theyenvy.us/photo/albums/xxx-tom-hardy-gets-naked
LOL
Have you checked this Wikipedia? He has been messing with women too and about to get married again!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hardy
Analyze this!
tavdy79
“Also, there really seemed to be something between him and Arthur. They talked to each other like ex-boyfriends in that movie.” — Samwise
I’ve not seen the movie yet so can’t comment on how gay Arthur & Eames’ relationship might be, but it really doesn’t surprise me for either actor to play it that way.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who played Arthur, auditioned for the part of Aaron Davis, the gay Mormon in “Latter Days”, and actually ended up playing Ryder, Davis’s Mormon mission-buddy. So he certainly isn’t against playing an openly gay character or appearing in a gay-themed film.
Samwise
@DR: It wasn’t “dear,” it was “darling” – which is even gayer.
“You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling!” :::pulls out gigantic phallic symbol:::
DR
Thanks, Sam, for the correction.
I am really saddened by a lot of these comments. Anna Paquin comes out as bi for Cyndi Lauper’s new group, and folks slam her for trying to get press (as if she needed it between her Academy Award, the X-Men franchise and True Blood), now this guy is willing to be open about the fact he experimented with and enjoyed the company of men and he’s getting slammed as a fake.
Some of you need to just stop posting until you can stop being so darned bitter!
Phil
Wow, the photo that Queerty chose for their article does not do him justice. In it, he looks like some sort of hairy, dwarf-elf hybrid, if you took the horrible chin and nose qualities of a dwarf and pointy ear qualities of an elf and then smashed them together with a meat tenderizer. (But yea, attractive outside of that photo.)
ewe
fuck her. She’s full of shit.
ewe
@DR: You are wrong and mistaken. This guy is dismissing gay people as stunted because in order to keep his career as an image of stud he has to say he outgrew his gay sex before all his tricks come out of the closet and he is putting YOU down so it is not bitter you are hearing from anyone. It is self defense and he is catering to homophobia and bigotry. Stop coming to his aid at the expense of openly gay men and women.
ewe
Saying one is an actor as if an artist experiments and therefore takes part in homosexual sex as a project is insulting to gay people. He should shut up. Anyone who is giving him a pass should stop looking at his photos and just read the words. One does not be gay as an artist anymore than one is straight for artistry sake either. He is full of shit.
Derek
I’d hardy his tom tom.
Rancor
“I love the form and the physicality, but now that I’m in my thirties, it doesn’t do it for me. I’m done experimenting” Yeah, right. Once a guy starts having sex with other guys, he doesn’t stop. It’s always going to be a viable option for him. Once that can of worms has been opened, they don’t back in the jar.
Good luck to Charlotte, because she’s gonna need it being married to this guy. The chances of his messing around with other guys while he’s “on location” shooting some movie, and she’s sitting at home 5000 miles away 7.5 months pregnant with his child, are…well…good. Just ask Dina McGreevy. I hope she knows what she’s getting herself into and that the prenup is in her favor.
DR
@ewe:
Sexuality is fluid. Experimentation is a reality. Men experiment with men, women experiment with women. Some go homo, some go hetero, and some go bi. Deal with it and stop being so damned defensive about it. He screwed around with men and women and came to the conclusion he prefers the company of women. He didn’t have to admit it, he did.
This bitterness is part of the reason why celebs don’t come out. You don’t come out, the bitter little queens piss and moan. You come out too late, the bitter little queens piss and moan. You come out in some manner, and the bitter queens piss and moan. If I were a celeb, I’d tell you all to piss off, myself after reading some of this stuff.
sebastian
He might be straightifying himself for Hollywood purposes. Hollywood is an exceptionally homophobic place, don’t forget. If he were to come out as say he’s bisexual, he would be pilloried by a homophobic mainstream media which treats male bisexuals as if they have a disease. Women are probably the worst critics of male bisexuals.
Keep in mind that women are extremely jealous of male-male intimacy. Extremely, extremely jealous. It’s because male sexual versatility diverts attention away from the female ego because it presents men as being the object of both genders’ affections. To date, only women have been allowed to be portrayed thus.
Marcus
@sebastian:
Well if he’s ‘straightifying’ himself for Hollywood–he shouldn’t have even mentioned that in the interview. I would have said no.
BTW, Hollywood is so homophobic because WE in the Hollywood world allow it be.
The reason actors can’t come out, don’t get cast, etc etc, there’s usually one of us behind the wheel.
It’s actually rather pathetic.
aalan brickman
the gays are keeping him from being double sexy….which he is!!!!
Marcus
@sebastian:
It seems that “straightifying’ has begun.
http://theafternoontea.typepad.com/blog/2010/07/backpeddle-alert-hardy-source-claims-quotes-taken-out-of-context.html
mconyc08
Again, things taken slightly out of context to create controversy. Here’s the “truth”:
http://www.rainbownetwork.com/UserPortal/Article/Detail.aspx?ID=23629&sid=43
“So has he ever had any gay flings? “As a boy? Of course I have. I’m an actor for fuck’s sake. I’m an artist. I’ve played with everything and everyone,” he tantalisingly told Attitude magazine before going on to disappoint his queer fans.
“But I’m not into men sexually. I love the form and the physicality but the gay sex bit does nothing for me. In the same way as a wet vagina would turn someone else into a lemon sucking freak. To me it just doesn’t compute now I’m into my 30s and it doesn’t do it for me and I’m done experimenting.”
So has he gone all the way in his queer phase? “Not all but I can imagine. We’ve all got an arsehole and I can imagine. It just doesn’t do it for me, sex with another man. But there’s plenty of stuff in a relationship with another man, especially gay men that I need in my life. A lot of gay men get my thing for shoes. I don’t think I’m metrosexual but I’m definitely my mother’s son. I have definite feminine qualities and lot of gay men are incredibly masculine.”
Sorry, shoe thing? What’s that about? “It’s a fetish. I Love classic, elegant women’s shoes. I find them incredibly sexy,” he told Attitude.”
ewe
@DR: Sexuality may be fluid but that is not the issue we are discussing here. Wake the fuck up. He is putting homosexuality down and the way this piece of shit is doing it is by saying he grew out of it. He is implanting into the minds of authentic straight people that he went through at the age of 30 what they did at 12 so fuck you. Ged educated. I could care less about what celeb did what with who. This is about a person who has more than himself reading about himself and for that i will tell you that your permission to tell this bullshit for what it is is not needed by me. You are the one on the defense and you are even more of an idiot because you do it so defiantly for someone you obviously do not even know.
ewe
@DR: And by the way, if you have not figured this out i will repeat it to you. Being openly gay is being on the defensive because we are consistently combatting hatred and bigotry on a daily basis. Feel free to bury your head in the dirt and sing la la all day on behalf of B status celebrities if that is what you prefer. I am quite capable of standing up to your silliness. If you notice this guy is not giving you half the respect you seem to be fawning over him with.
MM
“Sexuality is fluid.”
No, it isn’t. Most people are attracted only to one gender all their life.
Avid
MM is correct. That “sexuality is fluid” bull is a huge exaggeration that borders on being a lie. For the most part sexuality isn’t fluid, it’s fixed.
ewe
There are plenty of guys hustling other guys on the street for 40.00 who are straight too. We call it gay for pay.
DR
@Avid:
Tell that to bisexuals, folks who come out late, etc. Or are we to assume you believe bisexuality doesn’t exist and that anyone who comes out after thirty was just hiding his or her sexuality? Wake up already, it’s not 1990 anymore.
@ewe:
YOU think he’s putting homosexuality down because you don’t like his turn of phrase, boo hoo. Or are you just mad he’s not into guys anymore? So what! How many guys who experimented are willing to admit it? It’s about time someone is willing to say “yea, I fooled around with guys when I was a kid”.
Experimentation, it’s NOT just for straight guy porn and college girls who go lesbian for a couple of years!
RR
“Or are you just mad he’s not into guys anymore?”
Tom Hardy is still very much into guys.
BlueGlue
“Good luck to Charlotte, because she’s gonna need it being married to this guy. The chances of his messing around with other guys while he’s “on location” shooting some movie, and she’s sitting at home 5000 miles away 7.5 months pregnant with his child, are…well…good. Just ask Dina McGreevy. I hope she knows what she’s getting herself into and that the prenup is in her favor.”
This.
Hilarious
Gay.
hephaestion
Wow, this guy is great. Too bad he’s not gay. He and Dominic Cooper would make an indescribably beautiful couple.
Sexy Rexy
He looks really busted in that first pic. Sounds like he just enjoys attention from both sexes….
slippy
If you were hypnotized by Tom Hardy in Bronson -check out The Sky 1 Production of Martina Cole’s The Take —WOW !!!
It’s available on Netflix ….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS67eyh8yuM&feature=related
Arthur Hardy
@DR:
You are 100% right!
Gigi
@Bobert: No. This “news” has been around for quite some time. Queerty is just late in reporting it.
lasagna king
@Gigi: Actually this post is from January 2010 so you’re just late in reading it.
darkanser
You know someone should really to Mr. Hardy he should stop teasing us gay guys. It’s very cruel.
darkanser
@darkanser: I meant to say tell Mr. Hardy.