Actor Tom Hardy is on somewhat of a gay streak.

 

First, he will be playing twin gangsters in the film Legend. The movie is about Ronald and Reggie Kray, brothers who ran East London’s underworld in the 1950s and 60s.

 

Although few knew about their sexuality, Freddie "Brown Bread Fred" Foreman, who worked with the twins, recently claimed that they were gay. He said Ronald admitted he liked men as a teenager, and Reggie's marriage to Frances Shea was a sham and never consummated (she committed suicide two years after they were married).

 

"The film apparently has Reggie looking out of his prison window and saying "I love you Frances" but he certainly did not love her like a husband loves a wife," Foreman said. "They never had sex." 

 

Hardy will also be portraying uber-gay singer Elton John in an upcoming biopic. And he played queer gangster Handsome Rob in Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla.

 

Although rumors about his own sexuality have been whispered about in gossip columns, he insists he is straight. In 2008, he said: "As a boy? Of course I have. I'm an actor for fuck's sake. I'm an artist. I've played with everything and everyone. But I'm not into men sexually. I love the form and the physicality but the gay sex bit does nothing for me."

 

Still, it's great that the hunk has no problem taking on gay roles. Now if only some of those roles required tasteful nudity!