In his memoir, “Making It So,” Patrick Stewart notes that Tom Hardy essentially kept to himself when the cameras weren’t rolling during the filming of “Star Trek: Nemesis,” even going so far as to bypass the simple pleasantries associated with work. “Tom wouldn’t engage with any of us on a social level,” Stewart writes in his tome. “Never said, ‘Good morning,’ never said, ‘Goodnight,’ and spent the hours he wasn’t needed on set in his trailer with his girlfriend. He was by no means hostile — it was just challenging to establish any rapport with him.”
In fact, Hardy was so disengaged that Stewart believed the actor wouldn’t have a career after “Nemesis” — which the Picard actor is happy to admit is not the case. “On the evening Tom wrapped his role, he characteristically left without ceremony or niceties, simply walking out of the door,” Stewart writes. “As it closed, I said quietly to [co-stars] 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.”
Including “Nemesis,” Hardy has amassed more than 60 screen credits, including key roles in writer-director Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster films “Inception,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” and “Dunkirk.” In addition, Hardy has starred in such hits as “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Venom,” and “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” and earned a best supporting actor Oscar nomination for his menacing turn opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the period drama “The Revenant.”
