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Tom Hardy
Star Trek: Nemesis
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Interviewed by David Michael
updated 31st December 2002
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The 25-year-old British actor has already made an impression with Band of Brothers and "Black Hawk Down". Now he has his biggest part yet as Captain Picard's nemesis, Shinzon.
Is it really good fun to play and sink your teeth into a villain like Shinzon?
Absolutely. Having said that it comes with its practicalities as well. It's one thing to see something on the page and get very, very excited; everything's so much better when you're on your own in front of the bathroom mirror. The practicalities were I've never been to Hollywood before, never worked on a franchise like this, and I'm relatively inexperienced to be honest. So I was terrified of failure. Was it hard to resist the temptation to ham it up to the max being a melodramatic villain?
Yes. But if you're dealing with a villain, first and foremost you're not dealing with a monster. It's a human issues story, even if it is an intergalactic fictional piece. What the film touches on is the circumstances and the baggage one accrues from childhood, through to adulthood. It's a succession of different reactions and actions that leads to a grand atrocity or ultimately an act of pure evil. When dealing with a character you have to have utmost respect to find a human being within them. It comes down to homework - I dealt with the orphan and the abused child, then I have sympathy for this person, so then eventually you can camp up a bit for dramatic effect. When you get to Anthony Hopkins' age you can probably do it a lot easier. Forgetting about the Star Trek context, there's depth to your role...
Yeah, that's what's so fantastic about the script. Young actors don't get the opportunity to have a multi-faceted character. They normally get stuck with a whiney adolescent who's worried why no one fancies him, or why he can't have this girl, or why he doesn't fit in properly - which is dull, to be quite honest.
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