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.