Tom Hardy explains the fight between Eddie Brock and the symbiote in Venom 2. Hardy first played Brock, a journalist who ends up hosting the alien symbiote known as Venom, in 2018's Venom from director Ruben Fleischer. He now reprises his role in the sequel, officially titled Venom: Let There Be Carnage and directed by Andy Serkis, which is set to release wide on October 1.
While it performed well at the box office, reviews for the original Venom were not particularly positive, though there were a few elements that could be built upon in future installments. One of those was the relationship between Eddie and the symbiote, which was contentious and made for a few successfully humorous character moments among the fairly generic superhero action sequences. Promotional material for Venom: Let There Be Carnage has suggested this aspect of the original has been refined in the sequel, promising more bickering and even some physical altercations between the two fused characters.
Now, in an interview with Collider about his role in Venom 2, Hardy discusses exactly this, breaking down a particular fight in Eddie's apartment early in the film. The English actor says the scene begins with an internal dialogue between them in a bathroom and escalates into a "tête-à-tête" in the living room when the symbiote manifests himself. Their fight becomes physical when Venom headbutts Eddie, a moment shown in the film's trailers, and Hardy says the Venom 2 team "decided we wanted to destroy the apartment":
So this was our look-back-in-anger, kitchen-sink drama with, you know, Buster Keaton elements to it as well, which included live stunts, CGI, and some good, ol' fashioned face-pulling acting... The acting bit is kind of, earpiece, talking to myself with the sound underneath firing in across my lines so that we can create the interaction. [...] That's quite a nice, comfortable morning's work for us, you know what I mean? It's easily contained. It then becomes more complicated when we start throwing people through fridges, up and through bookshelves, we remove things from the ceiling, we punch holes in things, and windows get smashed, and motorbikes, and all kinds of things... But largely it's about one man in the room shaking himself around and pretending that there's another creature there, and another man on wires, who is [stuntman] Jacob Tomuri, being thrown into furniture.
Hardy goes on to mention how the scene had to be specially choreographed to properly show off the CGI work on the symbiote, while live props had to be coordinated to create the illusion of Venom's being in the apartment space. He even says that, at one point in the fight, Eddie pulls on Venom's tongue, which they filmed using a piece of green foam to be replaced in post. A large portion of the beginning of the fight, including the transition from bathroom to living room, was also filmed in a single shot, adding to the difficulty.
These behind-the-scenes comments from Hardy are not only good evidence for how complicated blockbuster filmmaking can be, but also a good sign for Venom 2 fans. The original film was criticized for its overreliance on CGI, a familiar problem for the modern superhero movie, but this particular fight places a strong emphasis on a mixture of practical and digital elements that should add to its impact. If Venom: Let There Be Carnage delivers on both the fight scenes and the tempestuous relationship between Eddie and the symbiote, it's two massive steps closer to getting a thumbs-up from fans upon release.
Source: Collider
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