5. Tom Hardy
In 2010, Tom Hardy told the Daily Mail that he previously enjoyed relationships with men. “As a boy? Of course I have. I’m an actor for f**k’s sake,” he said. “I’ve played with everything and everyone. I love the form and the physicality, but now that I’m in my thirties, it doesn’t do it for me. I’m done experimenting but there’s plenty of stuff in a relationship with another man, especially gay men, that I need in my life.” The Mad Max: Fury Road star added, “A lot of gay men get my thing for shoes. I have definite feminine qualities and a lot of gay men are incredibly masculine.”
However, don’t think for a second that this is something Hardy always feels like discussing. In 2015, he famously shut down a reporter for asking about his sexuality while promoting Legend, a film in which Hardy stars as allegedly incestuous twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray. Hardy later told the Daily Beast, “I’m under no obligation to share anything to do with my family, my children, my sexuality — that’s nobody’s business but my own.” He said destigmatizing sexuality is important, “but to put a man on the spot in a room full of people designed purely for a salacious reaction? To be quite frank, it’s rude.”