Venom Star Tom Hardy Reveals His Body Is Toast After Years of Intense Action Sequences: 'It's All Falling to Bits Now, and It's Not Going to Get Better'

Actor Tom Hardy has done his just stock of physically demanding roles, having favored enactment and superhero films passim the people of his awesome vocation frankincense far. But it seems arsenic though beloved roles successful films similar Venom, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Dark Knight Rises, and adjacent play thriller The Revenant person taken a superior toll connected the actor’s assemblage and wellbeing arsenic helium approaches his 50s.

“I’ve had 2 genu surgeries now, my disc’s herniated successful my back, I’ve got sciatica arsenic well,” the 47-year-old Hardy revealed, opening up to Esquire UK astir the carnal results of being truthful consenting to enactment his assemblage successful harm’s mode for action-heavy projects.

“And I person that... is it plantar fasciitis? Where did that travel from? And why? Why?! And I pulled my tendon successful my hep arsenic well. It’s like, it’s each falling to bits now, and it’s not going to get better.”

Venom prima Tom Hardy is suffering. Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images.

Hardy is presently starring successful 2 action-heavy projects, the Paramount+ transgression bid MobLand and the enactment movie Havoc directed by Gareth Evans. He has respective superhero movies connected his resume — and helium would’ve done much had helium been capable to unafraid the Venom and Tom Holland Spider-Man crossover movie helium erstwhile worked hard to effort to marque happen.

“I loved playing Eddie successful Venom,” Hardy explained. “Juggling chainsaws... Put maine connected a unicycle and propulsion everything astatine me! I was conscionable truly trying to propulsion myself arsenic overmuch arsenic I could. But I had nary Spider-Man! No Avengers! It’s conscionable us. Until those bridges are crossed... That’s mode beyond my control. And I’d emotion to bash that, but that’s not adjacent a speech to person astatine my level, of conscionable being an histrion successful that world.”

He archetypal appeared arsenic Venom successful the 2018 Sony movie of the aforesaid name. He reprised the relation twice: archetypal successful 2021’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage and past successful 2024’s Venom: The Last Dance, which was Hardy’s past clip officially picking up the suit.

With Venom: The Last Dance settling connected a planetary container bureau of $478,931,196, you’d deliberation the powers that beryllium astatine Marvel and Sony would privation much from the character. But it appears Sony is focusing connected the adjacent Spider-Man film, conscionable announced arsenic Spider-Man: Brand New Day and owed retired July 2026. It whitethorn adjacent present Miles Morales into the MCU, thing Holland is personally invested in.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.