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But Freddie was as described...

posted 10 years ago by YayNikay
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I don't get all the hate towards Tom Hardy's performance as Freddie, some people say they didn't like his acting here, that he was over the top, or Freddie should have been more charming or appealing.

But that isn't who Freddie was as a character, he was scum and a completely trashed loon, drugged up and drunk outta his mind 90% of the time.

I think most of us would agree Tom Hardy is a great actor, so if it seems he went to far or over the top as Freddie. It was most likely purposely done to fit the actual characters persona, I enjoyed every scene with Freddie, even the ones that gave me the creeps, because it was the same nut-case of a scum-bag as in the book. Freddie's the type of guy you love to hate, but cant seem to stop watching. You just hope he gets his.

[–] limbo-7 10 years ago

I DO get the point you make,but I did think it was a little over the top.

Thing is,in a world like that failure and reckless behavior are NOT tolerated.I seriously don't think Freddie would have been allowed to do all the things he did in the series and get away with it.

He would have been killed.Hell,he should have been killed at the ecstasy deal or at least after.Ozzie had too much invested in that deal to tolerate anybody messing it up.

There would be no rape because Freddie wouldn't have lived long enough to perform that action.

Somebody needs to rewrite the entire script,none of this makes sense!!!

I should have known those alien maggots booby trapped this sub

[–] Clive-Silas 10 years ago

I thought his performance was utterly mesmerising, and constantly showed a character with an incredible quality of danger. I don't think his performance was over the top or anything like it. His performance first of all persuaded me that Tom Hardy was truly a talent to watch, and secondly it was patently obvious that because of the quality of the writing and the performances (from Hardy and the other three younger principals), that The Take was clearly immesurably better than whatever pulp novel Martina Cole's original had been.