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"Tom Hardy has said that he was intrigued by his Lawless character. The actor explained that it was an acting challenge to bring humanity to Lawless&amp;#039;s bootlegger Forrest Bondurant, who swings between childlike kindness and violently aggressive behavior.  &amp;quot;I take characters as they come, characters that interest me, that have scope. And also, a diversity of different ranges and colours and characteristics that are interesting in finding paradoxes and dichotomies of man,&amp;quot; Hardy said, reports Flicks and Bits. Hardy continued: &amp;quot;[With Forrest, I was] like, &amp;#039;How can somebody be so violent, yet at the same time be such a little boy?&amp;#039; Someone intrinsically innocent and naive and have such a heart, but then he&amp;#039;d do something on the other side that was so incredibly, horrifically horrible.  &amp;quot;And yet where the fulcrum is in the middle, someone that by the end of the film I want the audience to have the ability to care about that person.&amp;quot; The film&amp;#039;s director John Hillcoat recently revealed that he was left &amp;quot;awestruck&amp;quot; by Hardy and also praised the actor&amp;#039;s chemistry with co-star Shia LaBeouf. Lawless will be released on August 29 in the US and September 7 in the UK. Watch a trailer below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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