Tom Hardy still hasn’t got the tattoo Leonardo DiCaprio designed for him, because his handwriting is "really sh***y".
The 39-year-old actor lost a bet to the Hollywood legend when he claimed that he wouldn’t be nominated for an Oscar for his role in ‘The Revenant’ – in which he plays adventurer John Fitzgerald who betrays Leonardo DiCaprio’s frontiersman Hugh Glass – and whilst the penalty for losing the bet was to have a tattoo designed by DiCaprio, 42, inked onto his skin he is still waiting for a "proper" version to be drawn up.
Speaking in December’s issue of Esquire magazine, Tom said: "I haven’t got [the tattoo] yet, because it sucks.
"He wrote, in this really sh***y handwriting, ‘Leo knows everything.’
"I was like ‘OK, I’ll get it done but you have to write it properly.’ "
Whilst Hardy didn’t pick up the gong for Best Supporting Actor, he previously dedicated his nomination to the production team who made the semi-biographical survival story happen.
He said: "The nomination is for everybody that was in the cold, everyone who was in the wet. The film has been picked for them ultimately. It was a number of things, Leo called me, because Sean Penn wasn’t available. The script, the director.
"To be part of his team, I would facilitate whatever it is that he needs and it’s a pleasure to do that for somebody who has got a smorgasbord of options that they’ve already come up with, that they’re feeding you and you them.
"It’s wonderful to watch him (Leonardo) create and orchestrate himself on screen and also that carries through the entire ensemble. It’s just lovely to be a team with somebody like that."
Meanwhile, DiCaprio picked up his first ever Academy Award for his performance as Glass in the film, taking home the prize for Best Actor.
Tom Hardy getting tattoo designed by Leonardo DiCaprio
