Double Take

In Legend, Tom Hardy takes on a dual-role performance as both the Kray twins. It is the first time the notorious crime duo has been depicted in a film by the same actor. In 1990, brothers Martin and Gary Kemp played the identical twins in The Krays, while earlier this year Simon Cotton and Kevin Leslie portrayed the pair in The Rise of the Krays. Although Hardy has taken on numerous complex transformations for the screen, including losing 2 stone for Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007) and then gaining 3 stone for Bronson (2008), the actor has described the dual role in Legend as “the hardest thing that I’ve ever done, technically.”