I don't think Tom Hardy has an actual voice of his own. Except maybe the one in 'The Dark Knight Rises,' as Bane.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The really cool thing about when you're playing a comic book character is that no one knows what he sounds like.
I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good.
I look at some of the old villains in the Disney movies. If you really listen, you can hear some of the villains or some of the supporting characters, they use the voices over and over because they were so versatile in the way that they performed on voiceovers.
Voice acting is very creative, especially 'Star Wars' voice acting, because there's so much you have to imagine.
Clay Aiken is amazing beyond that glorious voice. Turns out he is an excellent comic actor and a master of character.
Originally when I went off to work on 'The Lord of The Rings' I got a call from my agent saying that I was just going to do a voice. But I couldn't really approach it like that. To get Gollum's voice I had to play the character.
When you work on a pre-existing character, when you end up getting invited to be part of a legacy character like Superman, I don't feel like it would be true to the character if all I did was go in looking to express my own voice.
The voice is something very mysterious. It's difficult to say what is inside a voice that moves people.
Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.
I really love Tom Hardy. He makes really interesting choices.