Tom Hardy Says His Body Is ‘All Falling to Bits Now’ After Action Movies and Injuries: ‘It’s Not Going to Get Better’
Tom Hardy said in a recent interview with Esquire U.K. that his body is past the point of healing after a life spent getting beaten up on movie sets and in real life during martial arts tournaments. The actor is well known for getting physical on screen, be it as Bane in “The Dark Knight Rises” or as Max Rockatansky in “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Films such as “The Revenant,” “Warrior” and the “Venom” trilogy have also gotten Hardy bruised and battered over the years.
“I’ve had two knee surgeries now, my disc’s herniated in my back, I’ve got sciatica as well,” Hardy told the publication. “And I have that… is it plantar fasciitis? Where did that come from? And why? Why?! And I pulled my tendon in my hip as well. It’s like, it’s all falling to bits now, and it’s not going to get better.”
Hardy currently stars opposite Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren in the Paramount+ crime series “MobLand.” He also headlined his latest action movie with Gareth Evans’ “Havoc,” which started streaming on Netflix at the end of April. Hardy’s comic book movie days are behind him for now. He debuted as Venom in Sony’s 2018 movie, which grossed a huge $856 million at the worldwide box office. He reprised the character in two sequels, 2021’s ” Venom: Let There Be Carnage” and 2025’s “Venom: The Last Dance,” the latter of which was billed as Hardy’s last outing as the character and grossed $478 million worldwide.
“I loved playing Eddie in ‘Venom,’” Hardy told Esquire UK. “Juggling chainsaws… Put me on a unicycle and throw everything at me! I was just really trying to push myself as much as I could. But I had no Spider-Man! No Avengers! It’s just us. Until those bridges are crossed… That’s way beyond my control. And I’d love to do that, but that’s not even a conversation to have at my level, of just being an actor in that world.”
Hardy has been outspoken over the years about wanting to make a movie with Venom facing off against Tom Holland’s Spider-Man. He revealed on “The Discourse Podcast” in March that he “got as close” as he possibly could to getting a crossover made before talks fell through.
“We played in the Sony counterpoint to Disney’s Marvel panoply, of which [Marvel Studios president] Kevin Feige has a huge amount of cards, and Sony has a huge amount of cards in its own right, including Spider-Man, and then there’s just no crossover,” he now said. “We’d love to cross over! That’s not happened. That’s what happens, and it’s one of those things.”
Read Hardy’s full interview with Esquire U.K. here.
