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Sir Patrick Stewart is an iconic actor known for portraying the role of Jean-Luc Picard in the iconicStar Trekfranchise for several decades! Portraying the iconic role, Stewart starred alongside several iconic actors throughout his career including new and upcoming stars.
One of the prominent stars that shared the screen with Stewart wasMad Max: Fury Roadactor Tom Hardy. Being a young actor just over 25 years old, Stewart and Tom Hardy weren’t exactly compatible on the sets ofStar Trek: Nemesisand Stewart thought that Hardy would be a failure!
Sir Patrick Stewart Found Tom Hardy To Be Quite“Odd”
From all the reviews and interviews that we have read, it feels that Tom Hardy is allegedly bit of an introvert or an antisocial person. Well, when he was just 25 years old, the actor starred in the 2002 filmStar Trek: Nemesisalongside Patrick Stewart.
Although his acting skills were quite exceptional, theX-Menactor revealed that he didn’t bond on any social levels with his cast mates. Since Hardy portrayed a younger clone of Jean-Luc Picard called Shinzon, Stewart thought that he would try to bond with the actor.
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In his new memoir titledMaking It So: A Memoir(viaInsider), Stewart referred to Tom Hardy as sort of an“odd”fellow. While talking about his experience working on the sets ofStar Trek: Nemesis,Stewart had a lot to say about theVenomactor,
Nemesis, which came out in 2002, was particularly weak. I didn’t have a single exciting scene to play, and the actor who portrayed the movie’s villain, Shinzon, was an odd, solitary young man from London. His name was Tom Hardy.
He further wrote,
Tom wouldn’t engage with any of us on a social level. Never said, ‘Good morning,’ never said, ‘Goodnight,’ and spent the hours he wasn’t needed on set in his trailer with his girlfriend.
However, Stewart wasn’t complaining about Hardy’s behaviors, he just wanted to establish a rapport with the actor. Unable to do so, theLoganactor writes that when the filming ended, Hardy left without even saying goodbye.
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Back in 2002, the actor made a prediction about Hardy’s fame and success in Hollywood. Since he was a bit of an antisocial person,Patrick Stewartthought thatThe Dark Knight Risesactor wouldn’t make it in Hollywood.
Patrick Stewart Didn’t Think Tom Hardy Would Make It
As the memoir further continued, Stewart continued to talk about Hardy’s antisocial behavior. The actor revealed that he harbored no ill will to theMad Max: Fury Roadactor but it was just difficult to establish a rapport between the two gentlemen.
When the filming wrapped onStar Trek: Nemesis,Stewart wrote thatTom Hardyleft without even saying goodbye. This led Stewart to make a comment about Hardy’s future in Hollywood.
On the evening Tom wrapped his role, he characteristically left without ceremony or niceties, simply walking out of the door.
He further continued,
As it closed, I said quietly to Brent [Spiner] and Jonathan [Frakes], ‘And there goes someone I think we shall never hear of again.’ It gives me nothing but pleasure that Tom has proven me so wrong.
Following his breakthrough role, Tom Hardy quickly rose to fame in Hollywood by starring in films likeThe Dark Knight Rises, Mad Max: Fury Road,and,The Revenant.On the other hand, Patrick Stewart even acknowledged that he was happy for Hardy.
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Star Trek: Nemesis,which starred both iconic stars, received a rating of 6.4/10 on IMDB and a record low of 38% on Rotten Tomatoes. It wasn’t anything grand but was more of a movie that wanted to keep theStar Trekfranchise relevant.
Star Trek: Nemesisis available to stream on Max in the U.S.
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
