Christopher Nolan: How Oppenheimer Director Discovered Tom Hardy

In 2008, RockNRolla boosted Guy Ritchie’s career. The high-octane action film follows Lenny, a mobster at the helm of a booming real estate business. Accompanied by his loyal lieutenant Archie, he can move mountains with a simple phone call. But London is changing and the old criminal regime is gradually losing its territory to the rich foreign mafia.

When Russian mobster Uri Omovich sets up a shady underworld deal, millions of dollars are spent, throwing the entire city’s underworld into turmoil. Indeed, every crook in London seems to want a piece of the loot – especially Uri’s scheming accountant Stella and a gang called ‘The Wild Horde’, made up of petty crook ‘One-Two’, his partner ‘Messe Basse’ and their driver. Bob “Gueule d’Ange”.

The film features an excellent cast including Gerard Butler (One-Two), Thandiwe Newton (Stella), Mark Strong (Archie), Idris Elba (Low Mass) and… Tom Hardy as driver Bob “Gueule d’ Angel”, charming. A little thug who falls in love with the character he plays Gerard Butler. Her coming out scene is also a great moment in the movie.

Immediately after its release, the featurette caught the eye of Christopher Nolan, who later claimed, according to AdoroCinema, that crime fiction was the reason he chose it. Tom Hardy Eames’ role as the “forger” of the Inceptor team formed by Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) in Inception (2010). Then the director of Oppenheimer called the actor again to play the terrible Bane in the film The Dark Knight Rises (2012), then the squadron leader Farrier, a pilot of the Royal Air Force, in Dunkirk (2017).

despite RockNRolla Unfamiliar with fame, the film has the freshness and irreverence that characterizes cinema Guy Ritchie. Upon release, its moderate success overcame mixed reviews and the feature film became a cult film for thriller fans.

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