Tom Hardy gave a reporter a rude awakening at the Toronto International Film Festival press junket for Legend, his newest film, when he shut down a bullshit question about his sexuality. Hardy is now explaining why he shut down the question, quite politely given its nature, and how he believes the reporter for LGBT site Daily Xtra was just looking for a “salacious reaction.”
The Mad Max: Fury Road star stressed his right to privacy telling The Daily Beast, “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.”
Hardy continued to say he would’ve been open to having a genuine conversation surrounding the question had it not been “inelegantly” asked:
Daily Xtra stood by its question in an editorial saying it’s necessary to discuss sexuality on screen (Hardy’s characters in Legend are bisexual) and off screen, adding that other actors were open to discussing that issue.
[via The Independent]
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