A lot of A-listers in the industry have had to train to build a certain physique or to learn some techniques for portraying their roles in the past. Tom Hardy who portrayed the role of Tommy Conlon in the 2011 sports action movie, Warrior also picked up the habit that he would continue to do for years after the end of filming of the movie.
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However, unlike Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, who also trained for his role in the movie Warrior alongside Hardy, recently revealed in an interview that he gave up on his training and would not be a match for the Venom actor right now.
Joel Edgerton talks about how he gave up on MMA training
In the movie, Warrior, Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton portrayed the roles of on-screen brothers who were both MMA fighters. Both the actors trained very hard for their roles and gained much muscle mass to sell their portrayals perfectly. The duo would go on to face each other in the final of a tournament in which Edgerton’s character, Brendan Conlon came out victorious.
However, the result would be much different if the actors went against each other today as revealed by Joey Edgerton in an interview recently. In a recent interview with GamesRadar, Edgerton was asked if still keeping up with any of the MMA training that he did while preparing for Warrior. He said,
“No, I haven’t been doing any of the MMA. I’ve been doing a little bit of boxing – but that’s nothing compared to Tom Hardy. He’s doing jujitsu tournaments now! Strangely, in the film, his character actually wasn’t so much into that side of things, but now he’s doing a lot more of it. For me, whilst I do box, I’m more into gentle things these days.”
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Tom Hardy talks about his training regime while preparing for Warrior
Tom Hardy managed to put on 28lbs of weight in 3 months to portray the role of Tommy Conlon perfectly. Once in an interview with The Guardian, the English actor opened up about his intense training regime for Warrior. He said,
“I did two hours boxing a day, two hours muay thai, two hours ju jitsu followed by two hours choreography and two hours of weightlifting seven days a week for three months. So come on! You have to really want to do that, so it was a challenge.”
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Unlike many A-listers who slack off on their physique after their portrayal of a certain role, Tom Hardy allegedly still practices Ju-Jitsu to this day. He even won double gold medals a few years ago at a charity Jiu-Jitsu tournament in Wolverhampton, UK.
Warrior is currently streaming on Fubo TV.
