Tom Hardy Impressed Sir Patrick Stewart With His Naked Audition After Derailing From the Script: “It was a bizarre video”
Tom Hardy once got the opportunity to play one of the most iconic television characters of Praetor Shinzon in Star Trek. But the role wasn’t won by a dash of luck, it was won by Hardy’s rather unorthodox audition video. In 2002, Patrick Stewart, the legendary actor who played Captain Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, spilled the beans about the casting process to choose an actor to play his younger version.
Patrick Stewart detailed the audition process for Star Trek: The Next Generation
“It was a long, long search to find the actor to play this role. Long before I got involved. They were seeing actors in L.A. and in New York. And, of course, in London, because the feeling was that it would be good to find a [British] actor, so there would be at least that vocal similarity there.”
The X-Men actor went on to share,
How Tom Hardy bagged the role of Praetor Shinzon in Star Trek
The 82-year-old then described Tom Hardy‘s unconventional self-tape,
