Filming "The Revenant" had been really taxing for the crew that Tom Hardy took it upon himself to lighten the mood when he oould, Cinema Blend reported.
A previous report from iSchoolGuide said that a crew member described the filming for "The Revenant" "a living hell." Shooting in snowy settings had the cast and crew suffer "blistering temperatures" and some crew members even fled at certain points in the production. Leonardo DiCaprio, himself, had to camp out in the wilderness, swim in freezing rivers, eat raw bison meat and sleep in animal carcasses.
Filming "The Revenant", according to Tom Hardy in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, many times got as dark as the film itself that he had to be "naughty" by wrestling with his director just to alleviate the tension in the set.
"When things get a bit too serious, I go, 'Why don't we have a cuddle in front of all these people here?' It ends with both of us falling down in the snow. I think that's a good thing. If I'm the naughty boy for doing that, then I'd rather be the naughty boy and release that tension," Tom Hardy told EW.
Director Alejandro G. Inarritu, who won an Oscar for "Birdman" earlier this year, expressed his appreciation for Tom Hardy's unconventional methods in the set, saying, "On the surface, he can look inaccessible or difficult. But he is just a beautiful human being. He's incredibly sensitive and lovable."
Hardy, on the other hand, says "The Revenant" director is "unlike any director he's ever worked with" and that if one can deliver what he [Inarritu] wants is an "interesting experience" and can "drive you f---ing nuts."
Hardy even jokingly compares himself and the director to a famous cartoon character, "He had the affability to me of the donkey from Shrek and I'm Shrek."
And on winning an Oscar for "The Revenant," Tom Hardy has this to say: "Lock me out of that, for your own good. It's like putting a wig on a dog, or a tutu in a crocodile. It doesn't look right, it's not fair to the animal, and inevitably someone will get bitten and hurt."
