TOM HARDY and Charlize Theron had a bad time on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road. A very bad time.
A new book has shed light on the disastrous relationship between the Londoner and the South African actress, which culminated in Theron demanding protection.
After long-running tensions, Hardy showed up to a shoot three hours late. Theron had been waiting on set in full make-up for the duration. When Hardy appeared, a camera operator remembers, she approached him and “starts swearing her head off at him, saying, ‘Fine the f***ing c*** a hundred thousand dollars for every minute that he’s held up this crew’.”
“She was right,” the camera man continued. “He charged up to her up and went, ‘What did you say to me?’ He was quite aggressive. She really felt threatened, and that was the turning point, because then she said, ‘I want someone as protection’.”
Hardy told Kyle Buchanan, who spoke to cast and crew for his oral history Blood, Sweat and Chrome: “In hindsight, I was in over my head.”
Shine falls off gold leaf steakhouse
SALT BAE caused uproar in London flogging a £1,500 steak covered in gold leaf, so he may want to divert some of those profits to the exterior of his Knightsbridge restaurant. As The Londoner ambled past yesterday we noticed the first three letters of Nusr-Et have come off. Oh dear. Not quite the money-is-no-object impression the restaurant normally gives off. Perhaps the recent storms are to blame. Nusr-Et Steakhouse was contacted for comment.
A Waste Land for the TikTok user?
TS Eliot famously liked making his poems extra hard to understand, so what would he make of his masterpiece The Waste Land arriving on mobile phones in easily digestible app form? Faber claim it’s a “truly innovative format” and “Eliot for the digital age”. The version, an iPhone update of a successful iPad app, created for the poem’s centenary this year, features Lord of The Rings star Viggo Mortensen reading the text, as well as interactive notes and facsimile pages. Maybe this is what Generation TikTok need to crack the notoriously difficult poem.
Who nose who’ll buy Bowie’s art?
DAVID BOWIE sold over 140 million records in his lifetime and amassed fans around the world, but only an elite few own his artwork. Now a rare self-portrait is to go under the hammer as part of Bonham’s British Cool auction, with bidding starting at $10,000. Despite the trademark hair, we cannot help but notice the resemblance to another British cultural icon – Lord Voldemort. Perhaps one for the super-fans.
Cluster of candles on designer’s anniversary
DESIGNER Alice Temperley celebrated 22 years of her company yesterday with a candle-heavy cake and Venus Everest, an artist who describes themselves as “London’s 7ft Viking Queen”. Temperley was joined at the Mandarin Oriental by Game of Thrones actress Nathalie Emmanuel and sharp dressed Philip Sallon. Over at Petersham Nurseries in Covent Garden, presenter Georgia Toffolo was at a Lady Garden breakfast. And at fashion brand Esclot’s party on New Bond Street, Brazilian actor Caroline Salomao on the event told us: “I particularly loved the Esclot cashmeres – we women love to see a man who takes risks when dressing up and finds ways to stand out in a crowd”.
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MICHAEL GOVE was on peppery form this morning at a breakfast at the swanky Corinthia hotel. The Levelling Up Secretary said he would talk first and “then take questions under caution”. His boss Boris Johnson has become the first sitting British PM to be interviewed under police caution, it was revealed last night. Cheeky.
BUT it looks like Gove has his own work cut out. He asked attendees at the breakfast if they had children. He then asked guests to keep their arms raised “if your kids have been at least partly state-educated”. Most went down. He then asked whose children were exclusively state-educated. Out of 100 arms, only two stayed raised.
