Anna Daniels
Tom Hardy plays a crucial role in Inception. His character, Eames, is a forger who is capable of morphing into other people inside the dream world in order to manipulate their targets. It’s a perfect role for Hardy, given his real-world ability to occupy characters with ease. Lawless is a wonderful display of his ability to be likable even while playing characters that are anything but.
Lawless follows the Bondurant brothers, who run a moonshine business in the middle of Prohibition. Forrest (Tom Hardy), along with his brothers Jack and Howard (Shia LeBeouf and Jason Clarke), pushes back against the U.S. Marshal attempting to skim profits from local moonshiners in exchange for looking the other way. Hardy is the patriarch of the gang and shines among a loaded cast rounded out by Gary Oldman, Jessica Chastain, and Guy Pearce, to name a few.
Unlike Eames in Inception, Hardy needs to place himself front and center in Lawless, in order to protect his brothers and keep his town from being overrun. It has a fun wild west vibe and shows that no matter what time period you plop Tom Hardy into, audiences will always be loyal.
Written by: Looper
