'Dark Knight Rises' star Tom Hardy: 'Gary Oldman is one of my heroes'

Tom Hardy has praised his Lawless and The Dark Knight Rises co-star Gary Oldman as one of his acting heroes.

Hardy revealed in a recent interview that he jumped at the chance to work with Oldman for the first time in the critically acclaimed 2011 hit Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.



"With Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the first time I worked with Gary Oldman, I had to watch him because we had to re-shoot... because my beard fell off while I was talking," he joked, reports Flicks and Bits.

He continued: "So we had to go back and re-shoot the entire scene that I had with him in that, in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Which is good because I spent my entire experience with Gary staring at him, and not returning any lines, because I think he's basically God, you know?"

Hardy added that his respect for Oldman only grew on the set of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises.

"The second time [I worked with Oldman], on The Dark Knight Rises as Bane, I was kind of playing God, so I kind of ignored him, kicked him a bit, that kind of thing," he quipped. "But Gary Oldman is one of my heroes, completely. I did nothing but gleam from him."















Hardy and Oldman's prohibition-era Western Lawless opens on August 29 in the US.

The Dark Knight Rises hits cinemas on July 20 in the US and the UK.

Watch a trailer for Lawless below: