MobLand and Tom Hardy's thug life

Welcome to the underworld. The quiet man would like to see you. He’s the new hard man on the block, Harry Da Souza (Tom Hardy), in the Guy Ritchie-Ronan Bennett series, MobLand, starting on Thursday, 10 July at 9PM on M-Net Channel 101.

Think of him as the Harrigans’ butler... The man constantly polishing their knives. He’s a polite, reasonable bloke on the surface, but he’s an iceberg of violence with a lump of concrete in his hand for smashing heads in. And everyone in the Harrigans’ mob knows it.

They do as he says, even though they’d clearly rather chew glass. That’s Harry – always the man with the plan, and the will to execute it in every sense of the word.

It all works thanks to the blend of humour, authority and quiet menace that 47-year-old Tom Hardy packs into every line. It helps that he’s had some practice playing violent men of few words, who always follow through on their threats. Like London’s gangsters, we know what’s coming when he ducks his head down like a bull and starts coming our way – thanks to roles like these…

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