A native of suburban London, Hardy stumbled through an adolescence of recidivist juvenile delinquency and drug addiction to channel his energies into drama. heartthrob to Hollywood breakout-star-in-the-making. With this trifecta of projects, he found himself vaulted from rising U.K. as well with a scene-stealing performance in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi blockbuster, 'Inception' (2010). with raw-nerved performances in 'Stuart: A Life Backwards' (BBC, 2007) and 'Bronson' (2009), and in the U.S. At the end of the film, the fact that it comes up on screen that they went to prison and both died: well what is glamourous about spending 32 years of your life in prison? I think it sends out the right message: if you go down this path, you will suffer like the Krays suffered.Tom Hardy set tongues wagging in the U.K. It could have been my family that theyвЂ™d killed. I do have sympathy for all the victims and IвЂ™ve never condoned crime. They were glamourous but their crimes werenвЂ™t. Later on, it just became knowledge with the people that he considered вЂњthe firmвЂќ. He would have attacked them so they wouldnвЂ™t ask. A lot of men who really thought that there might be something there would never have said anything to him. They met lots of singers and dancers and sportsmen that were gay but not openly so. So therefore, Ronnie could come out a little bit more and then everybody knew. Once they went up west, they met a lot of homosexuals and drank with them and mixed with them and went to parties with them. When Charlie told me, he was shocked and couldnвЂ™t understand it. HeвЂ™d told his mother and he told his brother Charlie. But he knew no one in the east end who was homosexual so that was kept quiet.

But then again, they were in a snooker hall or a nightclub and there would be young guys who would latch on and want to be with them for the glamour. In the early 1960s when I met them, he obviously had the tendency. Photograph: Allstar/Studiocanal RonnieвЂ™s open homosexuality When I would visit Ronnie in Broadmoor, he wouldnвЂ™t let me sit in the eyeline of Peter Sutcliffe.Д¬harley Palmer Rothwell as Leslie Holt and Tom Hardy as Ronnie Kray in Legend. They had great respect and admiration for women and wouldnвЂ™t harm them. They phoned from both prisons, screaming down the phone at the film-makers. But of course, they were so angry with the first film because the script allowed their mother to swear and she never swore in her life. He only bought Violet into two scenes whereas in the first film they made her very influential and she was well-acted. They loved her endlessly and she had spoilt them from birth. She was the most important person in their lives. When I met Brian Helgeland, I described Mrs Kray and how she was an influence. She was dismissed and only in a couple of scenes. He used to go round there late at night with money in an envelope and push it through the letterbox, send her bouquets of flowers, trying to entice her away from the mother and father and back to him.

People will will say to me: вЂњWell, that didnвЂ™t happen, it couldnвЂ™t possibly have happened, how could this menacing and violent man be so romantic?вЂќ But that was true. In the film, he proposes to her by climbing up a drainpipe to her bedroom window. He treated her better than a princess, put her on a pedestal and there he wanted to keep her. Remember sheвЂ™s got this older, good-looking, immaculately dressed businessman boyfriend and sheвЂ™s a little 18-year-old from the east end and never been up the west to a nightclub. They base the film mostly on the love story between Reggie and Frances and he really did love her and she did love him.

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