Ranking Tom Hardy's Accents From Weird To Really Weird

8. Tommy Riordan - Warrior

Warrior is set in Pittsburgh, so Tom Hardy obviously relishes the opportunity to talk like a native. Doesn't he? Well, kind of. According to the actor, the filmmakers felt like it would be too difficult for him to learn to speak in Pittsburg style in the small time frame they had to film, so they opted to have the actor do a non-specific East Coast accent, apparently. And he sort of gets away with it, though he can't seem to help lapsing into either a "generic American accent" now and again, or something that sounds a little too New York-like. So the result is a sort of hodgepodge - unmistakably nice to listen to, but noticeably off in a number of ways, in true Tom Hardy accent fashion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbiGC7Ga_Ag Still, it makes a whole lot of sense that Hardy's accent here is weird, because of course an accent is going to sound a bit bizarre if it isn't an actual accent that exists, but - instead - something that's supposed to encompass an entire American region in one standardised voice, coming out of the mouth of a man born in Hammersmith in London, England.