10 Reasons Tom Hardy Must Be The Next James Bond

7. He Can Deal With Being At The Centre Of A Casting Controversy

Tom Hardy This Means War
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Taking over the role of James Bond is like entering a media circus that is hell bent on shooting the chosen actor out of a cannon regardless of how good they are. We all remember those "James Blonde" headlines when the franchise's first fair-haired thesp (Daniel Craig) was cast and five decades after George Lazenby's casting the Aussie model is still taking flak.

Sooner or later the critics tend to come round and Tom Hardy has been through it all before, most notoriously when he was cast as the almost impossible to comprehend super villain Bane in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises.

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