Taron Egerton admits he kissed Tom Hardy in unscripted Legend scene
Taron Egerton and Tom Hardy in Legend (Universal)
Taron Egerton has revealed that he improvised a kiss with Tom Hardy while filming the 2015 crime drama Legend.
The actor, 36, shared the story on Monday’s episode of the Armchair Expert podcast, recalling how he took the initiative during a scene with Hardy, who played both Kray twins.
Egerton played Edward ‘Mad Teddy’ Smith, the real-life lover of Ronnie Kray.
“There was a scene where he murders someone and gets back in the car and I was in the back of the car waiting for him,” Egerton said.
“I grabbed his face, and I snogged him. And it wasn’t in the script.”
He admitted he immediately felt nervous and “backed off”, unsure how his co-star would react, but looking back believes Hardy “loved it”.
“At that time, I think he quite liked my chutzpah,” he added.
Egerton said the improvisation suited his role, which was designed to cut against the film’s macho world.
“We were depicting a bunch of guys in a hyper-masculine world playing gangsters, but I was playing his lover so my job was kind of to subvert it all,” he said.
Despite the pair playing lovers, their characters never actually kissed in the final cut of the film.
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