Tom Hardy is no stranger to bulking up for various characters, but his upcoming role as the Marvel villain Venom, has been no small task. When the scary, black parasite from another planet latches onto a human host, it gives them muscles on muscles on muscles.
The actor knew he'd have to do a lot of work to become the character, who is most notably known as Spider Man's ultimate nemesis. In addition to probably a massive diet, Hardy has been doing boxing, kickboxing and MMA work to get hench.
His trainers, Nathan Jones and Mark Mene, haven't held back getting the actor into shape.
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Mark says: "Training Tom Hardy, what I found surprising was actually his humility, he was very humble, down to earth. And you're able to communicate with him. I'm impressed, he's definitely going to live up to the character, because, you know, he's dealing with a guy that turns into an 8ft tall beast.
"The fact that Tommy is able to get into these really uncomfortable situations for training and he's able to recoup and gather himself and carry on with it, it's impressive.
"What the world is going to see is one of the darkest, most powerful super villains that Marvel's ever created. It's going to be carnage."
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Apparently, they started him on three to four training sessions a week, but Hardy got hungry and requested five per week and even two in one day.
It's similar to the training he did for the 2011 film Warrior, where he played an MMA champion, and when he stared as the villain Bane in Batman: The Dark Knight Rises.
The Venom film will be the first in several films set in Sony's new Spider-Man universe, which is being rebooted this year for the second time with Spider-Man: Homecoming.
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Back in May, it was announced that Hardy will play Eddie Brock, a freelance photographer who is taken over by the sentient alien lifeform in Marvel's original Spider-Man comics. The character was previously played by Topher Grace in 2007's Spider-Man 3, which was Tobey Maguire's last outing as Spider-Man in the original trilogy of Spider-Man films.
According to the Daily Mail, Tom fell during while filming in Atlanta for Venom and production had to be delayed. But the film is very much just getting started, with the release date not expected in the US until October 5 next year.
We absolutely cannot wait for this one.
Sources: Daily Mail
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