Ronnie Kray: Buggers Can't Be Losers

Guardian Film.

Dear idiot,

Ron was not bisexual.

He married Kate while he was in Broadmoor (Trigger warning!) cause The Sun said they'd pay him £20,000 for the photos.

PS Fagburn has been told by the UK Prison Service that 'conjugal visits' don't exist here, so Ron almost certainly stuck with his young bum chums. Lucky bugger...

Tom Hardy: Unopening

Tom Hardy plays a bisexual gangster in Legend, where he co-stars with himself as the infamous East End London gangsters Ronnie Kray and Reggie Kray in Brian Helgeland's violent period drama.

But when a reporter during the Legend presser at the Toronto Film Festival on Saturday asked Hardy about past media reports that hinted at an "ambiguous" sexuality, the Mad Max: Fury Road and Inception star responded with a quick slap down. "What on earth are you on about?" Hardy questioned the reporter from Daily Xtra, a Toronto LGBT publication.

The journalist cited a 2008 Attitude magazine interview where the Brit actor apparently admitted to gay flings as a younger man. "But what is your question?" Hardy demanded, his voice now loud and resolute.

"I'm wondering if you find it difficult for celebrities to talk about their sexuality," the reporter returned. Hardy then asked menacingly: "I don't find it difficult for celebrities to talk about their sexuality. Are you asking about my sexuality?"

"Hum... sure," the reporter replied, showing the strain of their encounter. It was easy to see now why Hardy, who plays twin brothers as villainous murderers in Legend, is a go-to to embody intimidating film characters. "Why?" Hardy questioned, before dismissing the reporter with a final "thank you," while director Helgeland and co-star Emily Browning looked on uncomfortably...

The Hollywood Reporter.

Watch it here. 

What he said (or was quoted as saying); ''As a boy? Of course I have. I'm an actor for ****'s sake.

'I've played with everything and everyone. I love the form and the physicality, but now that I'm in my thirties, it doesn't do it for me... A lot of gay men get my thing for shoes.'!

PS From The Grauniad...

Tweet Of The Day: Legend

Incredible way of making my two star review seem like I didn't hate the film pic.twitter.com/zvOyIxHQ3h

— Benjamin Lee (@benfraserlee) September 8, 2015

That two star Guardian review in full.

Fagburn loves it that Tom Hardy confuses acting with pulling a (prosthetically-enhanced) face that look a bit like someone. Bless.

Legend: The Verdict

We took former Kray hitman Freddie Foreman, now 83, to see the film, starring Tom Hardy in both lead roles.

Here is his verdict.

TOM HARDY plays both Ronnie and Reggie in the film — and watching him in action on screen was like seeing the twins reincarnated.

His physical likeness to both is uncanny. It was like watching their ghosts looming from 50 years ago.

But one thing the film gets totally wrong is the relationship between Reggie and his wife, Frances Shea. It portrays him to be a Romeo who charms all the birds off the trees, and that could not be more wrong. 

He was gay, just like Ronnie.

The film gives the impression that Frances killed herself because she couldn’t cope with Reggie being a gangster or being drawn into violence by his brother, and all that cobblers.

The truth is that their marriage was never properly consummated and she referred to him as “bacon bonce”, which is Cockney rhyming slang for nonce...

And the film makes Ronnie out to be a psychopathic lunatic, but actually he was a very warm person and capable of great kindness. He also had a very good sense of humour.

 Yes, he did walk into the Blind Beggar pub and shoot George Cornell dead. But in the earlier days, Ron was still not as bad as the film makes out...

The Sun.

Classic.

The last part is positively Pythonesque.

PS Mirror; 9 things you never knew about the notorious Kray twins!!! (Except you probably know at least some of them, unless you're a bit 'McCormick').

Krays: Brotherly Love

Vicious gangster twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray had an incestuous sexual relationship with each other as they were growing up.

The pair, who ran a cruel and violent criminal empire in London's East End in the 1960s, were terrified of their secret coming out.

They were worried that rivals would see their sexuality – Ronnie was a homosexual and Reggie was bisexual - as a sign of weakness so only had sex with each other in order to keep the secret.

Author John Pearson who extensively interviewed the brothers and their associates has made the revelation as a new film comes out on the twins.

John said: “Homosexuality was nothing to be proud of in the East End.

“But as they became more notorious, Ronnie became quite shameless about it.

“According to Ron in the early days they had sex with each other because they were terrified about people finding out.” ...

Daily Mirror.

Nicked from The Sun this morning.

Oh, and John Pearson was first flogging this - completely unsubstantiated - story five years ago.

Journalism!

PS Pearson, a prolific author, has written three books about the Krays - he published this under a pseudonym.

Legend: Tom Hardy Is...

Well this looks shit...

PS Dear Tom, if you're going for realism, both the Kray twins had very camp voices.

Tom Hardy: It's Twins!

TOM HARDY has saved producers of his new film a fortune, by playing both RONNIE and REGGIE KRAY.

The costume department of flick Legend have gone all out on the clobber he wears as the East End twins.

The actor was snapped in character on location in Essex for the first time since taking on the roles...

The Sun.

Kray fans will know that's Tom as Ron, cause of the specs.

Here's a bit more about this exciting movie project.

[Edit: More blah and long lens pics in Wednesday's Mail Online].

Philip Ridley's The Krays is one of Fagburn's favourite films, incidentally. 

Hope this, too, shows our Ronnie to be the screaming gaylord of the London underworld that he was.

Maybe they'll take full advantage of Tom's dual roles and give us a bit of twincest?

PS Why Britain loves a gay gangster, Guardian Film. This is rubbish.

And let's not forget Tom's other forthcoming fillum role...

Why, the resemblance is uncanny...

PS And here's the first official picture...

Not sure what Chris Morris is doing behind him.