Helgeland: We shot it like we’d shoot a real fight and the editor cut the very best version of the fight he could cut, irrespective of whether you saw it was a stunt man. His punches are perfect he can stop a quarter-inch from the nose. His stunt guy couldn’t react to the speed of the punches. It was trying to slow him down all the time he’s so quick and agile. Spencer: I had to strip Tom down of his fighting skills when he went to play Ronnie because he was just too good, he’s done MMA and all, and Ronnie’s just a dirty fighter. Hardy: So I slapped Jacob solidly for a whole day and then he turned around and slapped me solidly for a whole day the next day. And I said, “Tom, that’s three for Reggie then I need three for Ron.” I can pace myself to do three,” and he started to walk away. I said, “Why do you want to know?” And he said, “Because Jacob and I are really going to hit each other.” I said, “Well, three.” He nodded and said, “OK, three. Helgeland: came to me and asked, “How many takes do you think you’re going to do?” and he had never asked me that question, ever. It doesn’t buy into that sort of glamorous, cool gangster world. Hardy: Although they were very serious boxers when they were younger and you’d expect these two gangsters to be incredibly violent and brutal and gritty, we wanted to go for the complete paradoxical opposite of that and have sort of a catfight, like two old ladies or two old men going at each other. McNulty: I don’t know Tom Hardy that well, but this was two different people when I was cutting the movie. They’re in the middle, then he throws his brother to the other end, then they’re up and they’re over there … so Brian and I thought, “To hell with it. Pope: Julian and Tom showed us what they’d worked out for the fight, and it went all over the ballroom. Frances grimaces as the force of it all escalates. Julian Spencer, fight choreographer: I had a fight with my brother many years ago, and you don’t fight to the death because they’re your family.Īnd it’s on. There’s so much glorifying of criminals and gangster culture, I thought it was really important to tell a story about these two brothers that was quite human. Tom Hardy, actor: We wanted to tell the story of two brothers who didn’t want to kill each other but they wanted to have a good old proper tear-up. We’re talking about being gangsters, which is what we are. We’re talking about earning a living, Frances.
Every single lamp in that scene was cheap and low tech, with practical lighting. It goes with the feel that Ronnie’s let the club sink into squalor. Reggie, trying to control himself, looks at Frances who looks back at him.ĭick Pope, director of photography: All the other scenes in the club are darker brighter and garish. Here, the cast and crew - along with script excerpts - reveal how the scene came together.
A full-on fistfight breaks out between the two men, who, you’ll remember, are really just Hardy. The tension between them comes to a head after Reggie is released from a stint in prison and returns with his girlfriend, Frances (Emily Browning), to the nightclub the twins own. Reggie Kray is depicted as suave, intelligent - and fatally loyal to his brother, Ron, a paranoid schizophrenic with uncontrollably violent tendencies. In “Legend,” Tom Hardy turns in a critically lauded performance as both of the infamous Kray twins, gangsters in the early days of Swinging London.
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