Indeed, Hardy is presenting a fairly nuanced view of how sexual behavior transforms within particular social settings, and how desire itself can be tricky to make sense of: “I love the form and the physicality but the gay sex bit does nothing for me.” Still, it seems clear Hardy formed these views from some amount of personal experience: “I’m into my 30s and it doesn’t do it for me and I’m done experimenting.” There’s enough text and subtext here to fill several doctoral dissertations in queer theory. I have definite feminine qualities and a lot of gay men are incredibly masculine. I don’t think I’m metrosexual but I’m definitely my mother’s son. But there’s plenty of stuff in a relationship with another man, especially gay men, that I need in my life. It just doesn’t do it for me, sex with another man. We’ve all got an arsehole and I can imagine. 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. In the same way as a wet vagina would turn someone else into a lemon-sucking freak.
I love the form and the physicality but the gay sex bit does nothing for me. I’ve played with everything and everyone. Have you ever had any sexual relations with men?Īs a boy? Of course I have. Sexual relations with men in situations where it’s a necessity, like prison, are different from being homosexual. It’s such a tradition of London gangsters, the gay thing, what with the Krays. But in an accompanying interview with Attitude’s Simon Gage, Hardy let on that he wasn’t always one thousand percent heterosexual. Now, it’s not uncommon for ostensibly straight men to pose for gay publications in Britain Daniel Radcliffe, for example, has graced the cover of Attitude at least twice.
In 2008-ancient Hollywood history-Hardy posed for the December cover of the gay British magazine Attitude as part of a publicity tour for the “crime comedy” RocknRolla, in which Hardy played a closeted London gangster named Handsome Bob. But among his (many) gay fans, the 37-year-old British actor is perhaps best known for something very different: Admitting, and later denying he admitted, that he used to have sex with men. Tom Hardy is known for many things: His lead roles in Inception and Mad Max: Fury Road his embrace of feminism his intense love for dogs his shape-shifting beard his pillowy lips.