10 Reasons Tom Hardy Must Be The Next James Bond

1. He's Got The Muscles

Tom Hardy This Means War
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Being a secret agent is a hard graft and washboard abs form an essential pre-requisite of any modern James Bond.

Never one to be seen milling around the vending machine when he's at the gym, Tom Hardy has proven himself to be an actor of Christian Bale-esque extremes when it comes to beefing up for a role. Just look at his muscle-bound physique in the likes of Warrior and Bronson – this is a guy who inhabits a character from the outside in. It's a good job too – the Bond franchise is becoming a brutal and punishing one nowadays in the wake of the likes of Jason Bourne's more realistically rough and tumble approach.

If Hardy were to be James Bond, he'd certainly not be huffing and puffing his aged frame up the Eiffel Tower like Roger Moore did, that's for sure.

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Despite a fear of using plastic cutlery and drinking overly milky brews, Dave is open to indulging in most other things at least once especially when it comes to movies and music.   10 of his favourite films are: Masaki Kobayashi's Hara-Kiri, Ingmar Bergman's Persona, Martin Brest's Midnight Run, Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill, Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves, Peter Medak's The Ruling Class, H.G. Clouzot's Les Diaboliques, Hector Babenco's Kiss of the Spider Woman, Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse and Sidney Lumet's Network.