Tom Hardy has admitted he was really struggling during a brutal fight scene in Havoc.
The 47-year-old actor is used to taking on intense action sequences, but part of Gareth Evans’ new Netflix show left him wondering if he’d even ‘make it’.
In one scene in particular, Tom is in a carefully choreographed fight over two floors of a packed nightclub, which caused some problems.
‘The Medusa fight scene was hot. I was wearing a thermal and a shirt, a wool shirt and a T-shirt. And it was summer,’ he told RadioTimes.com.
‘Like, after the first 10 minutes of throwing my arms around, I was like, “I’m not gonna make this. I’m not gonna make the day, Gareth. I think I need to cut the sleeves off this!” ‘
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Tom insisted the outfit felt like a ‘Muppet suit in the sunlight’, with director Gareth adding: ‘It was like a Disney mascot in Summer.’
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Tom insisted he still ‘absolutely loved it’, but he had to take off the sleeves and most of the body of his t-shirt to survive the shoot.
Director Gareth joked it was ‘an interesting look’, as Tom broke down his unique costume by the end of the shoot.
He said: ‘In the end, I just had the shirt bolero with two buttons, and then the Patagonia fleece over the top of it, and then an ice pack at the back.
‘And then we were good to go! But until that point, I was struggling.’
The film follows Tom as a ‘jaded’ detective in the aftermath of a ‘drug deal gone wrong’.
Despite being set in an unnamed US city, the entirety of the action was actually shot in Wales.
‘I started going around, like, Swansea, Port Talbot, Cardiff and Newport, looking for any little bit of architecture that I could find that might pass as a little bit Americana,’ Gareth told the BBC.
The Welshman added: ‘And so we took a look and we thought if we can get 30% or 40% real in camera then the VFX (visual effects) can take care of the rest.’
Havoc is available to stream on Netflix.
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