How did the creators of gangster film "Legend" pull off the feat of putting two powerhouse Hardy performances in the same film? With a pinch of CGI, the help of the star's best mate, and some good old-fashioned movie trickery. Veteran cinematographer Dick Pope was the man responsible for realising the two Toms.
They used fixed and computer controlled motion cameras to get the exact same filming sequence, and filmed it twice with the actor in different positions.
Tom Hardy had 35 shooting days in which he played both brothers on the same day. He would film the scenes with the brother who had the most dialogue first, then go back into hair and make-up to be transformed into the other brother.
The glasses are those that Ronnie, the more unhinged of the two Krays, wears throughout the film and also make an appearance in the mugshot, which features prominently at the police station where 'Nipper' Read (Christopher Eccleston) is investigating the pair.
Are the Krays from Legend real? It is adapted from John Pearson's book The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins, which deals with their career and the relationship that bound them together, and follows their gruesome career to life imprisonment in 1969.
Legend (2015): You’re Nothing In Here Scene (HD CLIP)
How did they film the twins in Legend?
How did the creators of gangster film "Legend" pull off the feat of putting two powerhouse Hardy performances in the same film? With a pinch of CGI, the help of the star's best mate, and some good old-fashioned movie trickery. Veteran cinematographer Dick Pope was the man responsible for realising the two Toms.
Tom Cruise reportedly wasn't happy with the American cut of this movie and wouldn't talk about it for years because of it. He very much encouraged fans to go with the Director's Cut.
Ronnie. The Kray twins once did a boxing match with each other, with neither one wanting to back down until their mom interfered. Ronny was more aggressive, stronger, and much more 'psycho' than Reggie, and that would've given him the upperhand in a fight to KO/death.
While in prison, he was labeled insane (and later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia). Ronnie and Reggie had another brush with the law in 1965. Both brothers were arrested in connection with their efforts to shake down a Soho club owner, but they were later acquitted in this case.
A former associate of the Krays, Freddie Foreman, told The Sun that while watching Hardy on screen was "uncanny" and like "seeing the twins reincarnated", the film gets the relationship between Reggie and his wife, Frances Shea, totally wrong.
The 1985 fantasy film Legend, for example, was a box office bomb, bringing in just $15.5 million on a $24 million budget, but Cruise made $500,000 for his heroic role of Jack in the Ridley Scott film, which went on to be a cult favorite.
Starring a 22-year-old Tom Cruise (Top Gun Maverick) and 16-year-old Mia Sara (Ferris Bueller's Day Off), Legend is a beautifully filmed (if not particularly complex) allegory about the power of true love and the eternal struggle of good vs. evil.
Aleksandr Sokurov's Russian film, Russian Ark holds the record for the longest unbroken shot. The entire movie is filmed in one, unbroken, 96-minute shot.
The true story of London's most notorious gangsters, twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray. As the brothers rise through the criminal underworld, Ronnie advances the family business with violence and intimidation while Reggie struggles to go legitimate for local girl Frances Shea.
Crews and cast were spotted filming scenes at Falmouth Road, London, St Anne's Limehouse in Limehouse and in the Windmill Walk area around London Waterloo. Filming also took place in Caradoc Street in Greenwich, in the Cedra Estate on Cazenove Road and in Gibson Gardens, both of which are in Hackney.
Production designer Assheton Gorton filled Pinewood Studios' 007 Stage with a massive forest set, lit exquisitely by cinematographer Alex Thomson (Excalibur), and Rob Bottin and Peter Robb-King were nominated for the film's imaginative makeup creations, including Curry's memorably satanic villain.
But this friendship often went through tumultuous times, with Manning revealing Reggie was just as bonkers, if not worse, than his brother Ron. Ronnie suffered from a schizophrenic illness which often led to violent outbursts, and him being considered the crazy twin.
“But as they became more notorious, Ronnie became quite shameless about it. “According to Ron in the early days they had sex with each other because they were terrified about people finding out.”
However he was the second half of a demented twin, and Ronnie's life was always going to end in sadness and violence. Reggie choose to support his brother and together they built an empire of crime which was doomed to disaster as the antics of the Krays became more violent and bizarre.
Eddie Richardson and his brother Charlie were members of one of the most feared crime gangs in London. The Richardson gang were the Kray twins biggest rivals and were known as the capital's most sadistic gangsters.
Included in the file, from the then North Eastern Criminal Record Office, are three never-before-released black and white photos of Kray believed to have been taken at Durham Jail. It describes him as being "5ft 7.5ins tall with a fresh complexion, brown eyes and dark brown hair".
Daughter of Charlie Kray, the older brother of the twins, Nancy is one of the last surviving custodians to the more intimate world of one of the world's most renowned families.
Cruise spent his childhood trying to hide his dyslexia from his peers. Diagnosed at the age of seven, Cruise describes his younger self as a "functional illiterate". He could barely read in high school or through his earliest roles.
Tom is the only son (among four children) of nomadic parents, Mary Lee (Pfeiffer), a special education teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer. His parents were both from Louisville, Kentucky, and he has German, Irish, and English ancestry.
Miles Fisher had it all: talent, charm and the face of a movie star. Problem was, it was a very specific movie star. After years of resenting the resemblance, Fisher embraced it through viral TikTok deepfakes that demonstrate AI's astonishing power to deceive.
