Netflix subscribers given deadline to watch Tom Hardy gangster thriller he found a 'nightmare to film'
Netflix subscribers have been given a deadline as the streamer is set to remove one of their most beloved films off the platform.
This comes just after the streamer removed Black Mirror: Bandersnatch despite the interactive special receiving 45,000,000 views in just its first month.
Though Bandersnatch is already gone for good at the time of writing, you still have a few weeks left to watch a gangster thriller that Time Out said was Tom Hardy’s ‘finest hour to date.'
Hardy’s performance received a great deal of credit – despite it being a process that the Peaky Blinders star called a ‘nightmare to film.'
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The film in question is Legend, the movie in which Hardy played both identical Kray twins in the same film, sharing numerous scenes together.
Featuring what some consider one of ‘best British film scenes’, the movie has developed a cult following in large part to Hardy’s portrayal of Ronnie and Reggie Kray.
The pair were notorious, real-life London gangsters in the late 1950s and the 1960s.
Running a gang called ‘The Firm’, they were based out of Bethnal Green and were involved in a wide array of violent crimes.
Hardy, who starred alongside Emily Browning, Taron Egerton, Christopher Eccleston, and fellow Peaky Blinders star Paul Anderson, has said the film was a ‘nightmare’ to make.
Speaking in an interview with EW.com, Hardy said that playing the identical twins was a massive imposition.
Hardy would act both sides of the same scene with body doubles, with editors then splicing them together.
He said in the interview: “Whatever I laid down in the morning, I had to literally follow in the afternoon with the other character.
“The brother-fight is a perfect example of where we had to really be aware that, whenever I interfered with my brother's face (in the morning and in) the afternoon I had to return that interference, and interfere back into his face.”
He went on to add: “You realise that, if I'm playing Reggie at the top of the day, and I'm slapping Ron, Reggie's got rings on, I'm going to have to go back in, and shoot the Ron side of it.
“If I've thrown a hard slap as Reggie, then I'm going to receive as Ron, a hard slap from Reggie. I'm getting twice the beating.”
Whilst this was undoubtably a massive issue for Hardy, it led to film fans and critics alike loving it.
Guy Lodge, writing for Variety, said of the film: “Hardy's astonishing, award-caliber twin turn as the notorious Kray brothers deepens and darkens [director] Brian Helgeland's biopic.”
If you are a Netflix subscriber and the film intrigues you, you’d better move fast.
The streamer is set to remove the movie from its platform, with May 31 being the last day you’ll be able to watch.
Legend is available to stream now on Netflix in the UK and Ireland.
Topics: Netflix, Tom Hardy, Film, TV and Film
Michael Slavin