Tom looks more like me than I look like me.'īronson also praises the four banana milkshakes and four muffins that Hardy brought along with him for that visit.Ī month later, he wrote about Hardy and the film once more. You wouldn't want to meet him down a dark alley at 3am.
'He looks awesome and I'm so fucking proud of him. 'He has put on one and a half stone of muscles for the movie,' he writes in an entry from January 2008. His sister had been telling him good things about the way I'd been doing his voice and the way I moved like him, but his concern was the physicality of my portrayal of him, but I think I did a good job in the end.'Īccording to an entry in Bronson's journals, published as Diaries From Hell: Charles Bronson - My Prison Diaries in 2009, Bronson was more than happy with Hardy's results. 'When I came back two weeks later he was thoroughly impressed with what he saw. Initially, Hardy says that the inmate was less than impressed with the actor who'd been selected to play him on their first meeting.
