Not that we’re fickle or anything, but it is so great that Tom Hardy (along with  Shia LaBeouf) is starring in the upcoming period film, ‘The Wettest Country in the World’ – and no, it is not about the cinema seats where this independent film will be playing. It’s all about the Prohibition and its directed by John Hillcoat who also did ‘The Road’, which was not a laughfest, but at least it was pretty. The script is by bleary sadsack musician Nick Cave from a novel by Matt Bondurant. We’re talking booze bootleggers (the original kind) crimes and all that.
Happily, Hardy is a dab hand at period films (think ‘Bronson’, ‘Wuthering Heights’ and you can throw ‘Black Hawk Down’ in there if you must) but very few of us have really recovered from his turn as agent Eames (but was he named after the chair?) in ‘Inception’ and with the anticipation that he’s going to play something in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ but we don’t know what. What? Who? ARG! We’re awaiting someone on the production to leak that news.

Meanwhile, Hardy’s beavering away with Reese Witherspoon in the bona comedy ‘This Means War’.