British hard man and renowned hunk, Tom Hardy has opened up about attending the same drama school as Irish actor Michael Fassbender.
Back then, Tom admits the Shame star’s talent and dedication to the art was clear for everyone to see.
“Mikey Fassbender, he was in the third year, and he was, like, the s**t,” Tom revealed.
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“And he was in this wheelchair, ’cause his character is in a wheelchair.
“We had, like, half an hour for lunch, a half an hour to feed the whole school,” he added.
“We had this little canteen, Barbara’s canteen, and Mikey would be holding up the whole queue ’cause he wouldn’t get out of his f**king wheelchair. That’s the kind of school I went to.
Dedicated to his craft: Michael apparently held up the whole lunch queue in drama school
“‘Mikey, man, just stand the f**k up and order your lunch so we can go back to school, so we don’t get thrown out at the end of the week.’
“And he’d be like, ‘F**k you!’ It was awesome. I’ve got mad respect for him. I’d love to go up against him on stage,” the actor told Details magazine.
Sharing his time at the Drama Centre in London, Tom admitted it was similar to the extreme teaching seen in the Oscar nominated film Whiplash.
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“Have you seen that movie Whiplash? I went to a school like that. You know, a drama school very similar to that,” he divulged.
“And the guy that trained me, they based Hannibal Lecter on him. His pursuit was just to fucking destroy us.
“He wanted us to achieve excellence, and I think all of us failed to impress him, to be fair,” he said.
