Tom Hardy knows you’ve seen his old Myspace photos—he’s cool with it.
The A-lister knows exactly where to prioritize his cringe-worthy selfies on his long list of stellar moments in the limelight. These include taking his dog to the recent premiere of upcoming gangster film Legend, in which Hardy plays identical twins. It also includes the famous meme, “some people just want to watch the world burn,” an immortal line said not by Bane but by Hardy himself in an interview for The Dark Knight Rises. Then there’s his recent Dubsmash pwnage, during which he posted perfect 50 Cent covers.
Is it any wonder Hardy, who’s rumored to be the leading choice to play James Bond (sorry, Idris fans), can’t be arsed to find his still-circulating 2005 and 2006 selfies all that embarrassing?
“I’ve got no shame about my Myspace photos, especially the one of me in my underpants which is a glorious photo of a man in his natural habitat,” he told SkyNews earlier this week.
“I might not be an Adonis, but I like to think of myself as an Adonis in that photo.”
Ahem. Let’s revisit the photos in question, shall we?
OK, so he won’t be winning any modeling contests with these photos—though Hardy did win a modeling contest early in his career. But Hardy is clearly still owning his selfie game, judging by his frequent updates to fan website TomHardy.org. Here he is posing last month with his mum: