Charlotte Riley has revealed how her Hollywood hardman husband Tom Hardy wooed her with ‘a really decent cup of tea’.
The couple have been married for 12 years after falling for each other on the set of their 2009 TV adaptation of Wuthering Heights.
In between rehearsing for their steamy scenes as Heathcliff and Cathy, Charlotte, 44, has recalled how a conversation with Tom, 48, about their shared northern roots kickstarted their romance.
‘He made me a really decent cup of tea. Strong. There’s not much point if the spoon doesn’t stand up,’ the actress has recalled of her first impressions of Tom.
‘And he told me that his mother was northern. So I thought, all right then. When somebody can give as good as they get, you know you’re in for a good time.’
Charlotte was also quick to point out Tom’s easy-going-nature on set, insisting that contrary to reports he is not ‘some sort of Method actor… He was just his cheeky-chappy self.’
Charlotte Riley has revealed how her Hollywood hardman husband Tom Hardy wooed her with ‘a really decent cup of tea’
And the actress had her future husband laughing with her own cheeky banter, as she recalled one memorable moment from the Wuthering Heights set:
‘We were talking about it the other day. There’s that famous line ? “Whatever our souls are made of, yours and mine are the same,” she told The Sunday Times Style Magazine.
‘We shot it in a tiny church on the moors and it was beautiful. We were sitting in a pew and I had to turn to Tom and say my line. And he absolutely died laughing.’
‘Because when you say it with my northern accent,it sounds like, “Whatever a**eholes are made of…” And that was it, we were gone for the rest of the day. I do need to get a tattoo of that.’
The couple married in 2014 and now have two children together, a son, 10, and daughter, seven, while the actor is also father to son Louis, 17, from his relationship with ex-girlfriend Rachael Speed.
Their steamy version of Wuthering Heights raised eyebrows thanks to Tom and Charlotte’s sizzling chemistry, which was plain for all to see during filming.
Reflecting on the TV adaptation, director Coky Giedroyc shared recently how she had to keep interrupting scenes due to Tom and Charlotte’s ‘steamy’ chemistry.
The couple have been married for 12 years after falling for each other on the set of their 2009 TV adaptation of Wuthering Heights
She told The Sunday Times Culture Magazine: ‘The chemistry was amazing. It got very steamy, to the extent that I had to keep yelling, ‘Cut!”
Next up for Charlotte is Babies, a new BBC drama which follows the lives of two couples as they navigate pregnancy, miscarriage, grief and dating. The six part series will air from March 30.
Tom meanwhile is currently shooting the second season of Guy Ritchie’s hit series Mobland.
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