There went its intended October 2020 release date. The film wrapped in San Francisco in early 2020, just a few weeks before the world went into lockdown. “There’s often some playful banter about who would win between Venom and Gollum,” says Marcel. At full speed.”Īndy Serkis, who takes the director’s chair in “Venom 2,” would occasionally give in and do his 'Lord of the Rings' Gollum voice. Literally in front of your eyes, (he's) switching from character to character and voice to voice. “He’ll come into work in the morning and run the scene as both Eddie and Venom. “I don’t know quite how he does it,” says Marcel, who befriended Hardy 20 years ago doing pub theater together in the U.K. They can’t stand each other but they can’t be without each other” – especially in the face of a new arch-enemy, Cletus Kasady/Carnage (Woody Harrelson). “It’s very clear cut that these two belong together. They’re “100% an old married couple,” says Hardy, speaking by Zoom from London, his pup Blue at his feet. While not in a pandemic, they're nonetheless stuck sharing one body, mimicking the worst of bickering couples in lockdown. In the new film, Hardy, 44, hits the screen again as tepid journalist Eddie Brock, who now finds himself one-half of an odd couple with the relentlessly sardonic Venom, an otherworldly carnivore who has accepted the bargain of eating chickens and chocolate instead of humans as long as he’s under Eddie’s earthly roof. Global audiences dismissed critics and rang up a tab to the tune of $856 million to see the pair, which proved the film victorious and set forth the sequel “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” in theaters Friday. That would be Tom Hardy and Venom, the fearsome alien parasite he launched a franchise with in 2018. It’s a rocky marriage, but they’re putting in the work. Watch Video: Tom Hardy reveals the dessert item that puts him in a good mood

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