Why did Patrick Stewart think Tom Hardy would fail as an actor?

Before standing out in films like The Return (2015), Batman the Dark Knight Rises (2012) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Tom Hardy played the villain Preator Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemesisreleased on February 14, 2003, but Patrick Stewartinterpreter of Jean-Luc Picardfound how Hardy wouldn’t have a bright future in Hollywood.

In the book of memories Making It Soaccording to information from the Insider, Stewart wrote how he was not impressed with Hardy during the filming of the production directed by Stuart Bairdand described it as “particularly weak.”

“I didn’t have a single emotional scene to play, and the actor who played the villain in the film, Shinzon, was a strange and lonely young man from London. His name was Tom Hardy,” he stated. “Tone wouldn’t engage with any of us on a social level.”

He never said ‘good morning,’ he never said ‘good night,’ and he spent the hours he wasn’t needed on set in his own trailer with his girlfriend.

However, as Patrick Stewart remembered, Hardy was not an explicitly unpleasant person to work with: “He was not in any way hostile – it was just a challenge to establish any relationship with him.”

“The night I Tone finished participating in the film, he left without ceremony or subtlety, simply walking out the door,” continued the veteran actor. “When he finished, I said quietly to [os atores Brent Spiner e Jonathan Frakes]: ‘And there goes someone I don’t think we’ll ever hear from again.’ It gives me nothing but pleasure that Tom has proven me wrong.”