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Patrick Stewart Thought Star Trek: Nemesis Would Be The End Of Tom Hardy
By WITNEY SEIBOLD
Early in his career, Tom Hardy was offered a higher-profile role as Shinzon in “Star Trek: Nemesis.” The actor would play a young clone of Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard.
This role helped Hardy prove he could play intense and somewhat bizarre characters. However, Stewart was completely put off by the young actor’s performance.
In his new autobiography “Making It So: A Memoir,” Stewart recalled working with Hardy and how the young upstart came across as weird and solitary.
Stewart wrote, “The actor who portrayed the movie’s villain, Shinzon, was an odd, solitary young man from London. His name was Tom Hardy.”
Stewart explained how Hardy didn’t socially engage with the other actors and added, “He was by no means hostile — it was just challenging to establish any rapport with him.”
Stewart recalled that when Hardy was finished filming, “he characteristically left without ceremony or niceties, simply walking out of the door.”
He added, “As it closed, I said quietly to Brent [Spiner] and Jonathan [Frakes], ‘And there goes someone I think we shall never hear of again.’”
However, that wasn’t the case, as Hardy would go on to star in numerous Hollywood hits. Stewart admitted, “It gives me nothing but pleasure that Tom has proven me so wrong.”