Cool Videos: Tom Hardy reads a bedtime story

Last Updated on July 31, 2021

Tom Hardy is the one of the most intense, often horrifying, actors working today. He’s known for playing rogues, rascals, swindlers and straight-up nutbags in movies like MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, THE REVENANT and BRONSON.  But did you know he is shockingly good at reading delightful bedtime stories? Nor did I, which is why I was appropriately shocked to watch him read a child’s bedtime story like nobody’s business. While on a BBC children’s show, Hardy cuddled up with a dog and lots of stuffed animals, and read a proper child’s story, and in the process delivered a warm cure for insomnia. I will go out on a limb and say it would've ended better if Hardy smashed in someone's eyeballs, but a solid goodnight works too.