“His ideas are usually very accurate and he wants them to be taken seriously. Jez doesn’t have time to deal with those suggestions, so it becomes a problem,” he stated.
As if that weren’t enough, some sources asserted that Hardy was displeased because Butterworth delivered the scripts late, sometimes only a week before filming, which clashed with the actor’s ability to rehearse. “Tom likes to prepare,” the source said.
Butterworth wasn’t on set either, which meant he couldn’t deal with script problems as they arose. “The only person [Butterworth] really talks to is David Glasser. Very few people from the cast or crew have anything to do with Jez. We never see him,” he expressed. The absence of the producer and screenwriter on set increased the tension with Tom Hardy. Also, another source indicated that Tom Hardy had problems with Guy Ritchie, who directed several episodes of the series. “Tom is used to working with some of the best directors in the world. So when he suddenly has to work with any television director, his life gets complicated and, to a certain extent, he can impose himself on him because he is afraid of him,” he pointed out. Regarding the delays in filming caused by Hardy that affected the scenes of Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren, the source stated that there was no major conflict. “Any actor gets frustrated when they are made to wait a couple of hours. I know she has said to him a couple of times: ‘Come on, Tom, we’ve been here a very long time, let’s go!‘, but she has never seemed to be against Tom,” she said. Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan have no problem with Tom Hardy after the delays in the filming of his scenes. MobLand stars Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren, who play the leaders of a British criminal family. The first season premiered in 2025 and quickly became one of the most-watched productions on Paramount+. The second season has already finished filming, although it still doesn’t have an official release date.
