His other two influences on the character are utterly bizarre.
Venom is not a good guy.
He is a parasite who goes around killing people, usually by eating them, causing untold amount of damage to everything and everyone that is unfortunate enough to cross his path.
So should Conor McGregor take it as a compliment or an insult that Tom Hardy has said that he based his performance in part of him?
We’re not entirely sure, to be honest, but at least he wasn’t alone…
Hardy told Esquire that his portrayal of the cannibalistic anti-hero was based on three primary sources:
“Woody Allen’s tortured neurosis and all the humour that can come from that. Conor McGregor – the überviolence but not all the talking. And Redman out of control, living rent-free in his head.”
We’re having a really tough time figuring out how that even works.
Woody Allen + Conor McGregor + Redman = Venom? We guess… that makes… a certain kind of sense?
We’ll see if he actually pulled it off when Venom arrives in Irish cinemas on Friday 5 October.
Clip via Sony Pictures Entertainment
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