The seemingly sexually fluid guy isn't a new creation, and there's good reason to be skeptical of rising stars trying woo the gay audience while enjoying all the female tail that comes from being straight-identified. Behold, for further example, the fascinating trajectory of James Franco, who bounces between gay and straight roles - with digressions for penis-themed performance art and directing the homoerotic "Feast of Stephen" - and keeps winning hearts on all sides of the gender line. There are undeniably still plenty of male performers unwilling to open up about anything in their sexual history that doesn't have boobs, but it's refreshing to greet a new breed of actor who doesn't need to play that game. Was it just two years ago that Katy Perry could score with "I Kissed a Girl" while musically taunting her ex that "Ur So Gay"? Though Hardy has yet to follow up his prior comments with any new ruminations on sexuality, the enthusiasm with which his revelations have been accepted reflects a seismic shift in stardom's double standard. Entertainment Weekly has dubbed him "the LeBron James of sexualilty – everybody wants him" and yes indeedy they do. Was his admission a calculated PR strategy from an up-and-coming actor talking to the gay press, a way of staving off tawdry rumors before they wound up on the cover of The Star? Was it a hasty remark from a less-than-media-savvy performer who hadn't yet caught his big break? Does it matter? Because despite making it clear he's "done experimenting," and that "the gay sex bit does nothing for me," Hardy's admission that "There's plenty of stuff in a relationship with another man, especially gay men, that I need in my life" was a winning change from typical Hollywood hyper masculine, let's-throw-a-homo-joke-in-every-ten-minutes celebrity culture. The appreciative delight with which the revelation has been met may perhaps best be summed up by the online commenter who cheered, in classic British fashion, "Phwoooooaaaaarrrrrrrrrrr."
In fact, his star has risen exponentially since a revealing 2008 interview in the gay magazine Attitude was picked up late last month in the UK Daily Mail. Yet Hardy – who played a gay mobster in "RocknRolla" – is discovering that frankness hasn't damned him to an immediate punt from the hot-young-thing list. What are blind items for, if not to chronicle the alleged homosexual dalliances of our heartthrobs? For prominent men to admit having had - and thoroughly enjoyed - gay experiences is something we've rarely seen since the height of glam rock. Are there pictures?īut for a dude to be even suspected of taking a walk on the wild side has traditionally been a potential career-killer. Ooh, tell us again about that time you were in bed with a girl, ladies.
Lady Gaga writes "Poker Face" about her Sapphic experiences, and dating Samantha Ronson becomes the most interesting Lindsay Lohan has done in the last five years. Megan Fox talks about her crushes on strippers. Fergie says she's had "a lot of fun" with women. I've played with everything and everyone." Ladies and gentleman, a new kind of star is born.Ĭoming from a hot female starlet, a seemingly effortless admission of same-sex dabbling wouldn't just be par for the course, it'd practically be a ticket to the cover of Maxim. And when asked if he'd ever had sex with men, the "Inception" star will cheerfully, unabashedly say, "As a boy? Of course I have. He's engaged to marry his "Wuthering Heights" costar Charlotte Riley. But it doesn’t do it for me.’ He’s irritated his words were taken out of context but conceded, ‘one thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about’.Tom Hardy has a two-year-old daughter by an ex-girlfriend.
‘I’ve never had a cock in my arse, and I have no fucking desire for it. ‘I have never put my penis in a man,’ is Hardy’s characteristically direct response. It’s just a shame things are misconstrued and I don’t get the opportunity to explain.’"Not even the time he said he’d enjoyed relationships with men in his twenties? But he didn’t directly address these comments again until he did an interview with UK Marie Claire in 2011: When his career later exploded, Tom Hardy seemed to have regretted making these comments in Attitude.
I have definite feminine qualities and a lot of gay men are incredibly masculine. I don’t think I’m metrosexual, but I’m definitely my mother’s son. But there’s plenty of stuff in a relationship with another man, especially gay men, that I need in my life. Tom: Not all but I can imagine. It just doesn’t do it for me, sex with another man.