Tom Hardy by Greg Williams

Actor Tom Hardy poses for photographer Greg Williams in the latest issue of Esquire Magazine.

“There’s a part of me that wants to do different stuff, but there’s a part of me that goes: ‘Do you know what? I want to carry on playing gangsters because every time you go a little bit deeper in that study. Why switch it up and be rice-paper thin?’” The 39-year-old actor also relates, “I enjoy the nuttery in my work. So that’s probably why when somebody goes, ‘Do you want to play another loony?’ I go, ‘Yeah, I would actually, yeah.’