Tom Hardy gets his gay gangster lean on for Guy Ritchie's new film

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When we interviewed Madonna's brother Christopher Ciccone earlier this year, he intimated Guy Ritchie had some serious beef with the gays. Who knows if it's true -- or if it had anything to do with the end of his marriage to the pop star. But for what it's worth, his new movie, RocknRolla, out in theaters today, features a gay gangster played by the hunky British actor Tom Hardy.

Speaking with Out for a profile in our November issue, Hardy confessed playing Handsome Bob -- based on a real gay mobster -- suited him perfectly: "Masculine, butch groups of blokes together -- it's never really been my cup of tea. Playing a gay man in a Guy Ritchie movie is a finger up to that whole attitude of men talking about men doing men's things, which is so fucking narrow-minded. Handsome Bob is what a man should be -- except for the part of him taking a crowbar to the back of someone’s head."

To read more about Hardy -- including his recounting the time Madonna dropped by the set to give Gerard Butler a vitamin B shot in the ass -- head over to Out.com.

-- NOAH MICHELSON

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