Tom Hardy says his role in Guy Ritchie's 'MobLand' is another gangster — but not like you've seen him before

Tom Hardy has collected a number of intimidating roles, from the brutish title character in 2008's "Bronson" about the British criminal, to his dual performance as the Kray twins in 2015's "Legend," to his role as the Jewish gangster Alfie Solomons in "Peaky Blinders." Portraying Da Souza was an exciting challenge for Hardy, who called the role "an exercise in containment, of how to deal with people's problems and concerns in a way that he was unfazed, and how to justify that in a natural way." "Now I'm sort of older and have been around the block a bit more, Guy is somebody that I wanted to go back and work with," Hardy said, adding that he felt it was time to return to "the gangster world, and the miscreant world."

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