Tom Hardy Voted the Most Difficult Actor for Americans to Understand
In a recent poll, Tom Hardy was ranked top of the list of actors Americans have the most difficulty understanding. Hardy is one of Hollywood's more idiosyncratic leading men, often countering his good looks by making offbeat acting choices. Despite this, he has considerable star wattage earning increasingly higher paychecks as Eddie Brock in Sony's Venom franchise. He consistently stays in the cultural conversation as the potential next James Bond following Daniel Craig's departure from the franchise.
Hardy's first major motion picture role was as Twombly in the ensemble war film Black Hawk Down, a character who ironically was very easy to understand because he shouts most of his lines to a fellow soldier who's lost his hearing after an explosion. From there, he's only become less intelligible, playing mumbling outsiders or brutes like in Venom or his character in the MMA drama Warrior. Other times he employs heavy accents, either using close to his own as he does playing the Kray Brothers in Legend or creating his unique accent, like the Deep South/Philly hybrid he used during his villainous Oscar-nominated turn in The Revenant. Other times he hides his face behind a mask like in Dunkirk. Sometimes he does all three, as in his most notoriously hard-to-understand role, the oft-mimicked Bane in The Dark Knight Rises.
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A new poll from Preply (via The Wrap) found that more than any other actor, Americans have the most challenging time understanding Tom Hardy's dialogue. The survey was conducted to gauge Americans' usage of subtitles when watching film and TV, a trend that appears to be rising. Among the 1200 people polled, 50% said they watch TV with
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