Tom Hardy Slap Fights His Twin in New Trailer For Gangster Movie LEGEND

Not to be confused with the weird Ridley Scott movie of the same name, Legend hails from director Brian Helgeland and features two performances from Tom Hardy, as he plays twin gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray. Yahoo has the first trailer, which shows off the 1960s London time period and puts Hardy's dual acting gigs right at the heart of the movie. He plays real-life gangsters who basically ran the underground gambling scene in London at the time.

Hardy continues his streak of creating characters with bizarre speaking patterns, something that's been a prominent part of his acting style in movies like Bronson, Lawless, The Dark Knight Rises, and Mad Max: Fury Road. Helgeland spoke a little about how the actor took on two different personas:

He went, from hour to hour, he would be one or the other. There were exceptions, but he usually Reggie during the first part of the day because it was the bigger part. Then many days Ron didn’t work at all. But if it was the two of them, Tom and I would rehearse in the morning and he’d read both parts and we’d work out blocking. He’d record Ron’s side of the dialogue, give it to sound guy who’d cut it together in a way he could fit his Reggie dialogue in between his Ron dialogue. Then he’d go off to hair and makeup and come back. He would wear an earpiece that no one could see. We would play Ron in his ear. His stunt man was his body double for Reggie and Ron so he could have someone in front of him to look at. Then we’d play back Reggie’s recording in his ear when he was playing Ron.

Legend opens on October 2nd.