"His stunt man was his body double for Reggie and Ron so he could have someone in front of him to look at. I thought he could pull it off because he has such a take on both of them."īy the end of the dinner, Hardy said he would be in for playing Reggie if he got to play Ronnie as well - and so, a deal was made which lead to Helgeland's next big question: how in the hell were he and Hardy going to pull this off in a believable manner? Helgeland went on to explain how the apparently CGI-less witchcraft went down. On one hand it’s exciting but you don’t want it to be swallowed up by that conceit. I was also initially worried about that because I didn’t want it to be a gimmick. And about halfway through dinner as I was listening to him and looking at him, I was starting to think he could pull off playing both. He was very familiar with them as most people over there are.
I figured I’d try to get Tom for Reggie then worry about someone you’d believe as his twin brother. Casting two guys means you’re tied in to having guys who look similar. He read it right away - I was in London at the time - and we had dinner. I knew I had to cast Reggie first whether same actor or not… Tom was on the top of the list for Reggie. Hardy was able to convince Helgeland to let him play the role of both Kray brothers after just one dinner (so we can probably guess Hardy's persuasive powers are out of this world - please sign me up for that master class!) Helgeland described his thought process about Hardy's involvement to Yahoo: "My initial instinct was to get two guys to play the brothers. In an interview with Yahoo Movies, the writer-director of Legend, Brian Helgeland (who won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the 1997 neo-noir crime film L.A.Confidential) dished on just how Hardy snagged the role of both twins and how he managed to pull it off. So you would think that with Legend, we'd get a similar situation - if not brothers, at least two actors who look alike just enough to pull off #twinning goals. In the '90s version, the Krays were portrayed by two different actors who happened to be brothers in real life - Gary Kemp and Martin Kemp. It's a rather interesting casting choice, especially when compared to The Krays, the 1990 film directed by Peter Medak which also tackled the strange, violent life and times of the real-life brothers who were heavily involved in the organized criminal world of London's East End during the 1950s and 1960s. In Legend, Tom Hardy stars as both Krays, twins Reginald (Reggie) and Ronald (Ronnie). 20 and follows the deadly rise and fall of the infamous Kray brothers, you'll be seeing double. When you watch Legend, the British gangster biopic that opens in theaters Nov.
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