I don’t really know how to process this unbelievably honest information from Inception hottie Tom Hardy. The 32 year-old British actor, who is currently engaged to fellow Brit actress Charlotte Riley admitted that he experimented heavily with men when he was younger.

‘As a boy? Of course I have. I’m an actor for ****’s sake. 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. A lot of gay men get my thing for shoes. I have definite feminine qualities and a lot of gay men are incredibly masculine.’

We first noticed Tom in Star Trek Nemesis. And in Guy Ritchie’s hit Rock’n'Rolla he starred as gay gangster Handsome Bob, and had a crush on Scottish hearthrob Gerard Butler. Don’t we all?

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