The 'Legend' actor speaks at length about the 'humiliating' experience of having his sexuality questioned in a room full of people at Toronto International Film festival.
- Sep 19, 2015
AceShowbiz - Tom Hardy talked about a question that upset him at at the Toronto Film Festival during the premiere of his movie "Legend (2015)". The actor who once said he had experimented with men plays twin gangsters one of whom is gay in the film, and a reporter who saw a link to his personal life used the opportunity to ask about his sexuality but the actor dismissed the question.
"That really, really annoyed me. It was just the inelegance of being asked in a room full of people," he told Entertainment Weekly. "Now I'm happy to have a conversation, a discussion, at a reasonable time about anything. I'm confident in my own sexuality, and I'm also confident in my own being and talking about any issue you want to talk about it. But there is a time and a place for that."
"I found it very humiliating for somebody to decide that on his dime and his time, to openly and inelegantly pursue a line of questioning which I could only sense at the moment - which was quite awkward - that it was zeroing in on a reaction from me that would become a topic of discussion that had nothing to do really, really to do with what was there," the actor added.
"I'm quite sensitive and I feel like I've let people down for something that I actually didn't ask for, for something that's important to a lot of people," he went on. "Should I come out of the closet when I'm not in one? I ought to maybe come out of the closet, even though that's a lie, to do the right thing. Or, if I say no, then I'm homophobic? Bless him. He's young. But at the same time, it left me feeling like I have to do something about that. And it's like why? Whose business is it anyway and isn't that the point?"
In a different chat with The Daily Beast, Hardy also explained his frustration, "I think everybody is entitled to the right to privacy. ... Some things are private. I'm under no obligation to share anything to do with my family, my children, my sexuality -- that's nobody's business but my own. And I don't see how that can have anything to do with what I do as an actor, and it's my own business."
