Ranking Tom Hardy's Accents From Weird To Really Weird
5. Bob Saginowski - The Drop
The Drop is a crime movie which poises Tom Hardy as a bartender from Brooklyn, so what audiences get with this movie is Hardy doing his own version of that famous accent. He sort of sounds like a less-aggressive Christopher Walken, for some reason, like Christopher Walken after a major operation, having to come to terms with a sense of his own mortality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-4WS30APSQ There is a strange kind of poetry to Hardy's accent here, even if - by Brooklyn standards, at least - it isn't very accurate at all. The line "They cawl it a drawp bahr" seems to define his approach to doing this particular voice, but it's mesmerising all the same to hear the actor talking in such a uncharacteristically solemn Brooklyn accent.
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