My final word on how 'Revenant' star Tom Hardy helped me realize I am out of the junket business @HitFixhttps://t.co/6VXJ0zAXIH
— DrewAtHitFix (@DrewAtHitFix) December 23, 2015CHOICE QUOTES:
- "Regarding the open letter that various gossip sites are trying to blow up into a full-on feud today, I read it. And I verified that it is indeed real. It's funny that people now believe Tom Hardy and I have been e-mailing each other. Pretty sure the reason he wrote an open letter is because we have had no direct contact with one another, but, boy, his fans were ready to assume the worst of me this morning. The truth is that Tom Hardy, an actual human being, was frustrated by the way the tabloid press took my Tweets, blew them up into stories, and embellished details that I certainly never offered into a story that wasn't really accurate. And in Hardy's response, he is clearly mixing and matching various statements and ideas and responding as if everything I said was about last Thursday, no doubt because of that game of telephone where we haven't spoken to each other about any of this."
- "So why did Hardy end up as the focus of my anger? I've been doing this for almost 19 years now, and there comes a certain point when you've had enough bad encounters that it adds up. There was a "Drop" junket in Toronto that was a nightmare. There was the "Fury Road" junket where I interviewed Tom and observed again just how unhappy he seems with that part of the business, albeit with a little more sympathy than frustration at that point. My encounters with him stretch all the way back to the first screening of "Bronson" at Sundance, where Nicolas Winding Refn and I were talking in the lobby after the first screening and Hardy couldn't be bothered. And in each of those cases, I have my perspective on what happened, and Hardy has his."
- "Having never appeared in the tabloids until now, I completely understand all of Hardy's frustration, and I give him all the credit in the world for a few killer lines in his open letter, including his closer where he thanks me for calling him an asshole repeatedly. I think it's shady that he pulls the bro move of "you wouldn't say that in a room with me" in that vaguely threatening barroom way, but I get it. If he's offering, I would be delighted to take a punch from Tom Hardy, since he's paid far more per film than I am per article, and civil court doesn't really hang with the "he was talking smack" line of defense. The truth is that he is as unlikely actually physically attack me as I would be of being disrespectful to someone who I'm in a room to interview."
Read the full article in all its delightfully dramatic glory HERE
So here for whiny, asshole men finally getting called out on their endless shit. Abusive assholes are abusive assholes, no matter how much you want to sit on their faces.