Amazing Video Of Tom Hardy Reciting Bane Lines To His Dog While Wearing Athletic Cup Goes Viral


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Alex, I’ll take headlines I didn’t think I’d be writing today for $400. The crazy part is that the Mad Libs-esque headline, “Amazing Video Of Tom Hardy Reciting Bane Lines To His Dog While Wearing Athletic Cup Goes Viral,” is actually something we should have anticipated since the said video is two years old. That’s right, Tom Hardy was reciting Bane lines from The Dark Knight Rises to his dog back in 2016, but thankfully the internet never forgets and the unusual, yet incredible video has gone viral.

The video features Hardy wearing a nut cup over his mouth as a makeshift replacement for Bane’s mask while he recites lines from the 2012 Batman movie. And just like in the movie, it’s extremely difficult to understand what Hardy was saying. Athletic cups are apparently not great objects to speak into. Who knew? “Oh, you think darkness is your ally,” Hardy says with a Bane inflection. “But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding.” The footage was uploaded to Twitter on Monday and it already has over 35,000 Retweets, nearly 90,000 Likes, and almost 2 million views.

The best part is the dog’s reaction. Hardy is giving his pooch a live reenactment to a supervillain who starred in a big Hollywood movie that made over $1 billion. Hardy’s dog Woody could not give a care in the world that he is getting a personal one-of-a-kind performance from Tom Hardy. Sadly, Woody passed away last June. “Woody was the bestest of journey companions we ever could dream of having,” Hardy wrote. “Our souls intertwined forever.” Last month, Hardy found a litter of abandoned puppies and helped find new homes for them.

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