Englishman Tom Hardy has become a big action movie star over the past few years. He garnered respect and notoriety for his role as Bane in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises in 2012 and most recently he was seen in the Oscar winning films The Revenant and Mad Max:Fury Road. 

Tom Hardy at Toronto International Film Festival Wearing a Rolex Explorer II (photo: Telegraph UK)

While his star has been steadily on the rise, reports have surfaced that question his behavior toward reporters during junkets and press interviews. At the Toronto International Film Festival, where Hardy was promoting his film Legend, a reporter questioned him about his sexuality. Hardy shut him down and made headlines after for insisting that his personal life remain private. He is photographed above wearing a Rolex Explorer II at the film festival.

More recently, the Telegraph UK reported another incident in which the actor seemed to anger a reporter who allegedly waited to interview him for four hours and, after the actor did not show up, went to Twitter to air his grievances.

The actor, who is still in his twenties and is father to one child, is certainly talented and will likely continue to work despite making enemies in the press. While his point about keeping certain aspects of his life private isn't very controversial, it seems his rapport with the press is the actual issue in this case.

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