Tom Hardy and Jeff Nichols Break Down 'The Bikeriders' | Freeze Frame
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- In the latest episode of Esquire Freeze Frame, we sat down with 'The Bikeriders' writer-director Jeff Nichols and the film's resident kingpin, Tom Hardy, to discuss the critically acclaimed film and delve into some pivotal scenes.
Loosely based on photojournalist Danny Lyon's 1968 book of the same name, the movie follows Johnny (Hardy) as he builds and leads the Vandals, a Midwestern motorcycle club founded in the fires of boredom and antipathy. The story, told through the eyes of Kathy (Jodie Comer), Benny's wife, charts the club's evolution over a decade, from a refuge for outsiders to a hard-boiled gang embroiled in crime and violence.
The Bikeriders is in cinemas now
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I would love to see Tom as a director someday. He’s incredibly smart and visionary.
❤ they did joke they always cover face Tom Hardy in alot
He already has And writer producer
@@samthunders3611 sorry, what has he directed? im genuinely asking cause i would love to see that
He produces but doesn't direct.
@user-tq4lm7qk3l There's a show he took a huge part in called Taboo. I don't think he directed any of the episodes, but he worked hard on it behind the scenes.
This movie is absolutely brilliant. I loved the vibe and everything about it. The performances were fantastic, the set and sound design, the costuming, the authenticity... It's just 10/10 for me. It will become a cult classics in years to come. Jeff is a visionary director and I really dig his style of filming, although it is widely different from most theatre releases these days. I hope the movie funds its audience. Thanks for the great interview.
Agreed
Just saw it! Easy 10/10 by the first 5 minutes
Saw this a couple of days ago, fantastic movie, Tom, Austin and Jodie were superb, great nostalgia, sense of the period. Classic.
It's awful it's flat it dose not represent Biker culture at all
Tom's part is miserable and he knows it
He's hardly given any interviews to promote it
I was very disappointed
A total waste of Tom's time
@@SamDios-c8t what are you smoking?? Toms part was just enough for the film, he delivers in every role, regardless of how many lines he has. His presence is felt.
Hardy really understands the character and expresses that in this interview.
Agreed
Jeff Nichols often using the word "covet" for how Johnny feels about Benny, coupled with the first scene spoken about here, as Johnny offers his "kingdom" to Benny, he gets close enough to be obscured/consumed by Benny and it feels sooo transcendent the more I think about it. Fantastic work from these two. I've seen the film twice in the past week and it still is rattling around in my brain constantly.
Me too 👍👍👍🔥
Every moment of this movie was pure gravy.
I held my breath during that entire campfire scene - probably my favorite moment in cinema in long time. so exquisetly quiet and intimate. I’m still holding my breath watching them confirm my suspicions! amazing.
Agreed
Tom Hardy knows his stuff. Incredible actor.
Agreed❤
My favorite actor. I love Tom Hardy❤
Mine too!
Jeff was fortunate to get Tom to do this movie! He brought the intensity of that character and sounds like he helped just being there. The whole cast was the best. Austin was able to show he can play other kinds of roles too.
Agreed 👍👍👍
Not seen Tom Hardy last couple of years or so, but I think he'll be coming out with some movies next year. Just one of those talented actor that happens to have the looks also. I mean, have you seen his solo play in Locke? He's just fantastic!
Locke is one of my favorite movies. It's fantastic!
They shot the movie on film, that's why it looks so authentic like '60s, and 70s movies. It does not have a boring HD digital look.
I watched it three times. I really liked the film. Tom, Austin, Jodie. !!!❤❤❤
I love Tom Hardy because he is such an amazing person and an amazing actor. I have watched all of his movies and I can't choose a favorite.
Brilliant movie and acting, saw this today and totally in awe.
I watched it three times.👍👍👍🔥
I love Tom Hardy. He is the best actor since he played Bronson. He started getting really popular! He is best in playing real people. Hope he gets some good scripts, I've missed him the last year or more!!!
One of my faves of his is "Lawless". And he was exceptional in "Locke".
Oh this shot is so sensual❤ OMG I can’t wait to see it!
Jeff Nichols' "passion project" which is 20 years in the making, is one of the better films of 2024.
After viewing "The Bikeriders" I now compare Tom Hardy as the modern day version of Marlon Brando!
Really interesting to listen to Jeff Nichols talk about his vision for the film, filming and writing. I didn't know him before this movie. And Tom Hardy, I guess it's the first time seeing his interviews, pleasant, genuine person. It's quite a recent thing for me to follow actors outside the movies...
if you find out more about Tom, you will see that he is a very smart and talented actor. He does a lot of charity work and loves dogs very much. He is a father of many children. He has three sons and is married to actress Charlotte Riley. ♥
“It works for you, mate” 😂😂😂😂😂
Really good writing! And scene movement. Jodie Comer (couldn't' take my eyes off the nuance in her face) and Tom Hardy definitely deserve Oscar nominations. I'm off to see it again.
Yes. But it's too far from awards season. Alas, perhaps another time...
I watched it three times.👍🔥
It's going to be a classic in a few year, like Mud. Tom' s brilliant. Jeff is also a superb director.
Agreed
MUD isn't a classic it's plodding I couldn't get past 15 minutes
This hopefully for Tom.will ne forgotten
It's a flat one dimensional boring film.with Tom's talents totally wasted
Also it has biker culture completely wrong
Yes im very familiar with it
I live a block from.the Hells Angles in NYC i.was a married couples baby sitter
The dialog was often stupid lol
Poor Tom
What a waste of his talent
Can’t wait to see this for Jodie Comer & Tom hardy
Brilliant film. It progresses well. I would love to meet tom one day and have a chat about his creativity.
Loved this movie and Tom was fantastic.
Agreed❤
I was surprised how much I actually love this movie. I grew up during the 1970s and early '80s and have been surrounded by motorcycles pretty much my entire life in the Midwest. I attended Easyrider Rodeos where the Outlaws MC were out in force. I never met an Outlaws member, but have grown to respect the MC more than any other. I lived out West for 13 years and turned down patches in two of the big 1-percenter MCs and was a prospect in one of them. The other just followed me around for about six months, which eventually annoyed me to the point that I got sick of them and refused to join. I walked away from the one in which I prospected, mostly due to the chapter I was prospecting being mostly a bunch of assholes and deadbeats who relied on their women to put a roof over their heads. Only one had a real job and was a truly responsible person. The journey here is based on the Outlaws MC and the book The Bikeriders. We see how the club changed from a racing club with genuine motorcycle enthusiasts into a "proper gang," which turned off many of the older members. That's pretty much what I experienced while prospecting a chapter/club and never regretted walking away. At the end of the movie, the guys who enjoyed their lives the most were the ones who walked away. I never met someone who walked away from the 1 percenter scene who regretted doing so. Many of these clubs started as genuine motorcycle clubs populated by genuine bikers. Unfortunately, many have morphed into criminal organizations whose members only buy Harleys because they have to in order to join the club and advance their criminal interests. The club with whom I prospected was shot up a Hells Angels chapter along a freeway near Las Vegas in broad daylight and in front of a lot of witnesses and cameras, which affirms just how stupid things can get. The Outlaws MC, though, mostly operates smartly and isn't that incredibly dumb. I can't help but wonder: What prospect/hangaround/patchholder with the 81s heard that plan and thought, "Yeah, let's do it! What could go wrong??" All of them will be spending many years behind bars for it. I also have to wonder -- why the Hell did they go after the Las Vegas Vagos? Did they think some of them shot and killed an 81 in a bar in San Bernardino a year or so earlier? It really makes no sense, and neither do a lot of MCs and various chapters.
haven't seen this yet. but man. Hardy bringing his head up straight with that stare, not even a blink "fists............................or knives?" intense. "eh, fuck it, fine. no chapter" lol
Corny I sad to say
It's stupid
Rediculous line Jeff copped it out of West Side Story when the Sharks and Jets were shout out if they'd use weapons BRICKS CHAINS
BATS ECT GUNS KNIVES !
Worst script movie
Tom will be okay Hes great Hope is Does skaleton the 1st Antarctica explorer and Don MaCullen War photographer
Thise will be big roles he can Really be great
They bought the rights long ago
Great film indeed. Worth a watch definitely.
Agreed
Hardy! ❤️🔥
Том невероятный интуит и эстет.Умный,мудрый и очень талантливый человек.! Моё уважение и любовь , привет из России ❤❤❤
I love the way that tom does that stroking his head thing. It's what people do when seeing there own shit. Uncomfortable but dealing with it. It's an ADHD trait. He's incredible how he sorted his addiction and is still a normal human walking around yarm haha.
He doesn't have ADHD
He's was diagnosed with Dhytmis when younger a depression disorder that comes and goes can last a lifetime
Probably why he's gotten into Jujutsu I have it too
He always fiddles when uncomfortable in interviews which he.clearly is here The movie was horrible a huge let down
He's barely done any interviews about it to promote it
He will I'm sure gir VENOM
Hope he does
Skeleton Google him.up!
Jeff & Tom are two peas in a pod, just go together so well 📽️🖤♠️🤙🏾
Peas*
@@NRM-X lol thank you
I just LOVE Tom Hardy! I watch everything he`s in!!!
Tom hardy is the Best
Agreed❤
Great actor I would like to know when this interview was made?
June 25, 2024
@@SvetlanaMSK-n8t thanks
Tom Hardy ❤
Honest question but is this movie supposed to have gay overtones? The director in another interview said the main reason he cast Butler is because hes "very attractive". And that first "intimate" clip they played and analysed, the two characters are practically kissing.
No
I don't think that was the intention. The scene just came off that way, and it was very well done. I don't think Johnny wanted to be WITH Benny. Johnny wanted to BE Benny.
Growing up on the West coast in the sixties....with friends older brothers in a couple local clubs....th whole vibe of the time.....I kept saying "fuck yeah" through much of the film. Oh well, 72 this year and still riding most days.
This is an amazing role for Tom, people are going to lose it when they see him as Jurek Walter in the Lazarus show. Hope we get more news about that series soon.
That's probably not happening
Skeleton hopefully and playing war photographer Will McCullen
Can’t wait to see it :)
When watching this scene i thoght they going to kiss lol
I was looking for this comment it was so gay! What was he trying to same how homoerotic men are? He seemed so indifferent towards his wife and making sure the wives and girlfriends are protected
@@redbluebae4397yes !
I immediately thought of Goodfellas when I was watching The Bikeriders. Cool to see that Jeff had it on the mind while making it!
Agreed
He FAILED BiG TIME
In the most shocking moment a member of my audience a ladie screamed out 'Oh you....!' That means it worked !
Me too
@@SvetlanaMSK-n8t good for you!
Chicago resident here...last time my sister saw me with my blackeye and it all busted up and my head all up she just asked what happen to you? and my reply I fell lol.
Tom where you get that shirt? It’s very nice
I would like to see this film 🎥
yes, a romantic film where there is not a single kiss.🔥👍
Two hot guys so close and no kissing?
that was a kissing scene - so subtle
Том видит всё и всех, редкий человек и замечательный,это- дар ❤❤
Your Refrigerator Magnet Picture Survived the Gunshots 🤪
Том Харди гениален во всём❤
The ending was bad! No one avenged Johnny after he was killed, thought Benny would have did it. Then some of the guys joined up with that sorry dude, SMH......
Realistic tho to the time
L take
Jodie Comer was the best actor, hands down in this whole movie.
No. I thought Hardy carried the whole movie actually.
@@sarat10ms58 Jodie Comer did 1000%
Tom doesnt feel anything when watching the campfire scene...
he is an actor
Tom remember Boots n the poem?!!!
❤❤
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In this episode I feature her husband Tom Hardy and he is in the illiminati he said thank you for saying that lol tom 😮
What? 😂 Are You ok?
Hat does Tom call himself? Sir Studley Good_____?
Tom so dame fine
But Frodo, without any clear idea of why he did so, or what he hoped for, ran along the path crying help! help! help! It seemed to him that he could hardly hear the sound of his own shrill voice: it was blown away from him by the willow-wind and drowned in a clamour of leaves, as soon as the words left his mouth. He felt desperate: lost and witless.
Tom and Jeff are not Frodo, like the rest of us they are fallible human beings, but due to their crazily immense passion they endured and managed to be productive. With productiveness come inevitable mistakes which sometimes can damage the end product, but sometimes they can (unexpectedly) make it better. Time to work, for all of us.
You have to trust me to give you the right wife
They might have been high making this with wicked coming out and all the drama with Ray and Nick mixed in. The college bs with Arianna and Cristina. It’s very interesting with Lisa Marie’s death too and Austin Butlers emotions. And Tom Hardy getting shot because of my connection with Nick. Also Ray liking Arianna very strange. Me losing my temper and going to Chicago. And Arianna telling me to date a metro guy instead of my Tom hardy Vegas bs. It’s a lot of emotions going on here. I don’t know it gave me anxiety that Tom wants to date Arianna being a Johnny character like her old favorite movie Cry Baby. I really doubt I’ll talk to those girls ever again. Or have a connection with Ray
Why am I drinking juice if I’m gonna throw it up
hard to understand hardy's ciggy voice.....
bro. This is your problem, not Tom's.
Tom. Hardy. My my. Goodness. Getting. A. Non. Getting a. House. That Is. Truly. Great". Thats. Hey It s why. It s you🎉"
I’m sorry went to watch it. I would call this a ‘TV Movie’ . Films like this don’t give a Cinematic experience. I was waiting for it to warm up but it then it just ended. I might sound cynical but a trip to the movies is becoming increasingly frustrating as everything is over rated and lacking substance.
Why don’t you just stick to superhero movies, you’re obviously not mature enough for real filmmakers.
Aaron turned into Ellie this morning and went to hell
It works for you mate aka I don’t love this shot
Well I’d like my Tom at my house that’s how serious I am
This is a very Artsy Fartsy chat around mi-nute details that most people won't even pick up on....not for me 😅 all I see is guys talking in the dark with some light 😂
bro. This is your problem, not the actors'😅
this could have been a much better film. it was casting austin butler that threw it off. too modern and too pretty to be convincing in his part. too weak. this poor casting knocked the whole project off centre.
I honestly don’t want to see this film. ET, can we please run?! Evoke your contract with this lazy fool immediately.
Jeff Nichols is gross.
V boring
be sure you stop and put yalls mask on 😷
What?