Jessie Mei Li recollects first-ever assembly with Tom Hardy on set of ‘Havoc’
Jessie Mei Li regarded again on the time when she first met Tom Hardy whereas she co-starred with him in Havoc.
Mei Li, who rose to fame after she performed the protagonist Alina Starkov within the Shadow and Bone collection, recalled the day she met the Venom actor.
“The first day I met him was when I came in for firearms training, and I didn’t know he was there,” she instructed The Hollywood Reporter in an interview. “And then it was, “Oh, Tom’s here. You should bring him over.”
The Final Night time in Soho actress, shared that she was studying the way to shoot, a requirement for her character Ellie.
Mei Li added that since she is delicate to loud voices, she stored on saying “‘Bang!’ they were like, ‘Jessie, stop, please.’ But I really had to get used to the noise.”
“That’s the first time I met Tom,” she added. “He was straight in it, giving advice, making sure that everything I did looked really like I’d done it before. He was lovely to work with.”
When requested if she acquired any “general advice about roles in action films,” the 29-year-old artist, revealed that they talked about “a lot of stuff.”
Nevertheless, the duo didn’t carry out stunt scenes collectively as each had been filmed individually.
Mei li continued, “So I was able to watch what Tom does, and that really informed how I played Ellie. So things like the way Tom walks as Walker, I tried to mirror it a little bit.”
The movie was premiered on Netflix on April 25, 2025.
