Tom Hardy MobLand Behavior Accusations, Explained

If you’ve not seen it, MobLand, which is co-directed by Guy Ritchie, stars Tom as Harry Da Souza, a street-smart fixer who gets caught in the middle of a brutal rivalry between two crime families. It also stars A-listers, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren.

MobLand premiered in March 2025, and the second season is expected to be released later this year. But, despite the show’s success on streaming, its future may be in question due to alleged tensions between Tom and the producers.

For context, Season 2 wrapped production in March, and on May 22, Variety reported that Tom “was not asked to return” for an anticipated third season following an alleged behind-the-scenes dispute between him and executive producer Jez Butterworth, as well as individuals at 101 Studios, which produces the show. There was no direct confirmation from Tom’s camp, nor from anyone on the show’s side. But now, a new story from The Hollywood Reporter has shed some more light on the reportedly messy situation.

Doubling down on rumors that Tom had been clashing with producers, THR cited a source who alleged that he disrupted filming by refusing “to come out of his trailer for hours at a time.” “He kept the cast waiting, [which is] a power play,” the insider claimed. “Keeping Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, and others waiting is career suicide, I would wager.” As for what may have kept him in his trailer, Puck News reported rumors that Tom was attempting to make script changes and provide notes to Butterworth and the show’s creator, Ronan Bennett.

Interestingly, THR disputed previous reports that Tom had been officially fired, but claimed that his allegedly tricky behavior had “spooked producers into rethinking” his future on the show, which is apparently yet to be greenlit for a third season.

Unfortunately, this wouldn’t be the first time that Tom has been accused of behaving badly on a set. He famously feuded with Charlize Theron while they were starring together in Mad Max: Fury Road, with Charlize previously saying that the tension between them was so intense she was left feeling unsafe.

It has been suggested that the dispute between the actors was exacerbated by Tom’s repeated tardiness on set. While discussing the well-documented feud with the Telegraph in 2024, Mad Max director and co-creator George Miller said that Tom “had to be coaxed out of his trailer” on occasions.

Describing them as “two very different performers,” Miller said: “Tom has a damage to him but also a brilliance that comes with it…whereas Charlize was incredibly disciplined — a dancer by training, which told in the precision of her performance — and always the first one on set. I’m an optimist, so I saw their behavior as mirroring their characters, where they had to learn to cooperate in order to ensure mutual survival. There’s no excuse for it, and I think there’s a tendency in this business to use great performances as an excuse for other disruption that could be avoided.”

Prior to this, Sir Patrick Stewart wrote in his 2023 memoir that he found Tom to be “odd” and “solitary” when they worked together on Star Trek: Nemesis in 2002. “Tom wouldn’t engage with any of us on a social level,” he wrote. “Never said, ‘Good morning,’ never said, ‘Goodnight,’ and spent the hours he wasn’t needed on set in his trailer with his girlfriend.”