Who The Voice of Venom Is And Why They Sound Different in Venom 2
In Venom, Tom Hardy took on the role of Eddie Brock – the man under the symbiote – but who voiced Venom in both the original and the sequel: Venom: Let There Be Carnage? In both movies, reporter Eddie Brock hears the alien Venom's voice in his head. The bickering couple dynamic of Brock and his living alien skinsuit is a franchise mainstay, and a source of the quippy humor modern audiences have come to expect from superhero movies. The tone of a buddy cop movie or rom-com was leaned into by Sony's marketing department for the home video releases of both Venom and Venom: Let There Be Carnage.
Tom Hardy's performance as Eddie Brock was widely praised as both distinct and a faithful adaptation of the character. The energy and vocal shenanigans Hardy became known for through roles like Bane in The Dark Knight Rises and Alfie Solomons in Peaky Blinders were on full display. Unlike Eddie Brock, Venom was characterized by simpler dialogue- slower, lower-pitched, and throaty. Basically what you'd expect based on the character's established and storied history in Marvel Comics.
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While it may not have sounded much like him, Hardy played both the role of Eddie Brock and the voice of Venom. According to Hardy, he would do the vocal performance for Venom in the mornings, and the sound guys would then play it back on set to create a back and forth between the human and symbiote. Despite the notable differences between Venom's voice in Venom and Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Tom Hardy plays Venom in both movies.
Hardy was already famous for his quirky vocal decisions, but his inspiration for Venom's voice came from some unexpected sources even for him. In an interview with
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