If it’s been Tom Hardy’s publicist’s goal to soften his image, he or she is nailing it. Hugging the hell out of a puppy was just the start. Now he’s taking the edge off of one of his most menacing characters by posing with a little kid dressed as it. Here is Tom Hardy posed next to a little boy dressed as Bane. Hardy is making a fake frowny face, as if to say, “I don’t want to come inside. I’m still playin’, Mum.”
