Inception's Tom Hardy Is The Forger, Darling

Matt Patches: There's a playfulness to knowing a person for a long time and everyone in this movie presents themselves that way. You see it especially between you and Gordon-Levitt  

Tom Hardy: Yeah, and that's the environment that Chris created for us; safe and secure and needed, and useful. What we had was something that he wanted. He's very interested in performance. He cares tremendously about actors and he's a very worldly and intelligent man. Under such stress and distress, and his ability to orchestrate a massive piece of work, he still created more than...a plethora of space, to invite us into his space in which we create our own space that we inhabited. He's a gentlemen and a masterful director.

Matt Patches: You can tell watching Inception's massive set pieces that it must have been a rigorous process. How do you strike a balance between your character performance and performing various stunts? Do you ever find that to be a challenge?

Tom Hardy: Set pieces are step by step, broken down to the smallest possible form of action so...you know; you take as much as you can depending on how much you need to get for the shot, or depending the time of the shot, or length of the shot you don't know how much coordination and choreography you need to fill. You just have to be prepared to wait a bit longer than you may feel comfortable and just wait for that catch.

On the whole...everything was very safe, the environment was very secure, and the stunt team was incredible. On the soundstage they rigged up huge revolving sets, and the world was completely interactive. There was no green screen. Everything you needed was there. Chris created a dream we went into and inhabited. Everything was as written, even in performance. We were breathing life into Chris Nolan's imagination.