Helgeland’s script is hit-and-miss, not on the Oscar-winning level of his L.A. Peter Medak’s 1990 film The Krays, starring Gary and Martin Kemp of Spandau Ballet, had more narrative force. Identical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray terrorize London during the 1960s. At one point, the brothers punch each other out. But his outbursts with an American Mafioso (Chazz Palminteri) drive Reggie bonkers. Of course, Ronnie loves his mum (Jane Wood). Facebook Twitter Like 1 The promotional image for new Kray Twins biopic ‘Legend’, starring Tom Hardy (playing both Ronnie and Reggie), is just about everywhere you look at the moment posters, magazine covers, online pop ups. The gay Kray is indisputably cray-cray, a monster given to sadistic violence and orgies involving Lord Boothby (John Sessions) and Teddy Smith (a terrific Taron Egerton). Writer-director Brian Helgeland uses Frances to narrate the film, a device that fails to pay off, since even a voice-over can’t make sense of Ronnie. Reggie, ever the smooth operator, was cool enough to temporarily hide his cruel streak from Frances (Emily Browning), the girl he woos like Romeo courting his Juliet on her balcony. Taron Egerton also stars as Ronnies young lover. It is most notable for having one of the most technically distinctive, impressive and physical Acting for Two performances committed to the screen, with Tom Hardy playing his own twin. Ronald and Reginald Kray were the gangster lords of London during the 1960s. Legend is a 2015 biopic drama/black tragicomedy about the notorious 50s/60s London Gangster twins, Ronnie and Reggie Kray, directed by Brian Helgeland. It helps that he’s playing identical twins. In Legend, Hardy gets to do both, and all stops in between. Why not pop along for a chat with Chris about your next ‘legendary’ suit.Tom Hardy can act the hell out of any role, from subtle to blow-the-roof-off. It seems like I was wrong about Tom’s next project the Elton. These are photos of Tom, in character, filming in London yesterday. When that boy is Tom Hardy, he can wear glasses, leather jeggings and a red lace bra and I’d still want to hit it.
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These days, you’re more likely to see movie stars than gangsters at Chris’s shop at 31 Berwick Street, Soho has changed but the methods of traditional Savile Row style tailoring certainly have not. Girls don’t make passes at boys who wear nevermind. Cast: Paul Anderson - Tom Hardy - Christopher Eccleston - Joshua Hill - Emily Browning. Writer credits: Brian Helgeland - John Pearson. Movie rating: 6.9 / 10 (165630) Directed by: Brian Helgeland - John Pearson. He even remembers seeing them around, especially the big American Ford Galaxy car they used to drive around in. Identical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray terrorize London during the 1960s. Interestingly, Chris’s father, Mr Eddie was just starting out as a tailor in Soho around the time the Krays were involved in the area. Ewan McGregor, Tom Hardy and Sophie Okonedo are among the big names doing small roles in this mostly pleasant portmanteau film from 2006. Perhaps the most famous gangster character actor Chris has been involved with though is Ray Liotta in another Guy Richie movie ‘Revolver’. He recalls making a pinstripe suit for Vinnie Jone’s character – Bullet Tooth Tony in the Guy Richie movie ‘Snatch’ and a brown seventies style suit for Jason Statham’s character – Terry Leather in ‘The Bank Job’. This isn’t the first time Chris has been involved in dressing movie gangsters. With Paul Anderson, Tom Hardy, Christopher Eccleston, Joshua Hill. He tends to wear the single breasted ones which helps distinguish him from Ronnie in the movie”
The Kray twins were different sizes – Ronnie being the larger one and so there was more padding in Ronnie’s suits and also he wears more double breasted suits in the movie than Reggie does. “The suits were cut from vintage fabrics and heavy weight wools so that they didn’t look too new as they wanted the suits to look lived in” says Chris. I had chance to ask Chris about the making of the suits last week. What people probably won’t realise though is that the promotional poster features another Soho legend, none other than our own tailor Chris Kerr, who made the 1960s style suits that Tom Hardy wears in the movie. Legend is a 2015 British-French biographical crime thriller film written and directed by American director Brian Helgeland. It’s not a stretch to imagine the actual Krays in a Soho doorway in the ‘60s – which is presumably the effect the graffiti art is aiming to achieve – rather successfully.
The best thing I’ve seen so far is a slightly sinister piece of graffiti art in a doorway in Bateman Street, Soho. So ubiquitous is the advertising that you get a sense of what it must have been like being pursued by the twins themselves. The promotional image for new Kray Twins biopic ‘Legend’, starring Tom Hardy (playing both Ronnie and Reggie), is just about everywhere you look at the moment – posters, magazine covers, online pop ups.
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