Tom Hardy’s “Venom: The Last Dance” is set for DVD and Blu-ray release on Tuesday. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (UPI) — Peaky Blinders and The Dark Knight Rises actor Tom Hardy jokes that playing a dual role in the three Venom movies meant he always had the perfect scene partner.
“I agree with myself a lot and that helps,” Hardy, 47, recently told the crowd at New York Comic Con.
“When I go to work with myself, I know exactly what I want to do. I very rarely fall out with myself,” he added. “I started out talking to myself as a child. I still talk to myself and the nice thing about [this is] now I get paid to talk to myself and I can be bombastic and enigmatic and can cloak my inner machinations in a huge visual-effects monster.”
Set for release on DVD and Blu-ray Tuesday, the comic-book adaptation Venom: The Last Dance wraps up the story of Eddie Brock, an investigative journalist who is the host of alien symbiote, giving him super powers that transform him into the vigilante Venom.
“I started the day seven years ago and now it’s nighttime. It’s time to go to sleep,” Hardy said about the franchise that has been all-consuming for him.
“I’ve absolutely loved playing Eddie and Venom,” he added. “It’s been one of the best things I’ve ever done in my life, so I will be sad to see it go.”
Written and directed by Kelly Marcel, the third and final Venom movie co-stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Juno Temple.
This time around, Hardy received a story credit for his musings on where Venom should go and what he should do.
“I come up with these fantastic ideas,” Hardy laughed. “And, then, what I’ll do is, I