Tom Hardy strips off as he reveals plans for new tattoo after losing bet with Leonardo DiCaprio

Tom Hardy has revealed he will be adding to his tattoo collection after he lost a bet with Leonardo DiCaprio.

Hardy, 39, promised to get a new inking if DiCaprio’s prediction that Hardy would be nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars failed to materialise.

But Hardy was put up for the gong for his role as John Fitzgerald alongside DiCaprio in The Revenant.

Speaking about the bet he told Esquire: “I haven’t got it yet, because it sucks. [DiCaprio] wrote, in this really s***** handwriting: ‘Leo knows everything.’ Ha!

“I was like, ‘OK, I’ll get it done, but you have to write it properly.’”

Hardy – who lost out on the gong to Bridge of Spies actor Mark Rylance – said he never expected to be nominated.

“I don’t think I ever expected to be welcomed to one of those events," he said. "I always felt like a bit of a naughty boy, and I always thought part of me would be like, ‘Nah’. And then actually I was like, ‘Oh yeah! I’ll have a sniff of that.’”

The actor - who is set to star in new eight-part BBC drama, Taboo - said he is still recovering from exhaustion over a year after they wrapped up filming.

“There are still echoes of exhaustion from it, but I think it’s a beautiful film,” he said. “I want to watch it again now because I have got a really healthy distance. It’s always the way, when people say, ‘It was a really tough time in my life when I was in it,’ in hindsight it’s a very fond memory.

“At the time it was argh never ending! The Forevernant. It went on forever and it was confusing. The Forever-and-evernant! It was never-ending, confusion, chaos, none of us were in any form of control, we were being controlled, you know? And that was frustrating and stressful.”

Speaking about being drawn to darker roles- which has seen him play the notorious Kray twins - he told the publication: “I enjoy the nuttery in my work. So that’s probably why when somebody goes, ‘Do you want to plan another loony?’ I go, ‘Yeah, I would actually, yeah.’”

He continued: “There’s a part of me that wants to do different stuff, but there’s a part of me that goes: do you know what? I want to carry on playing gangsters because every time you go a little bit deeper in that study.

“Why switch it up and be rice-paper thin? ‘Oh, he’s good because he’s doing a musical now!’ You know what I mean? It’s like, ‘Look at me! I’m trying to please people!’”

Read the full interview in the January issue of Esquire on sale December 6.

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