Right now, Tom Hardy is what you’d call ‘on it’.

With a flurry of projects due in multiplexes over the next 12 months, the Hammersmith-born actor who used to twist himself into anxious, self-loathing, substance-abusing knots worrying where his next job was going to come from is, as he puts it, “in a very good place.”

For starters, there’s the tasty twosome that arrived at the end of last year: mixed martial-arts fight drama Warrior and a new version of John Le Carre’s spy thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Then comes Wettest County, a Depression-era crime drama about bootleggers from The Proposition’s John Hillcoat and Nick Cave, followed by – of all things – This Means War, a romcom with Reese Witherspoon.

And last but definitely not least, there will be Mad Max: Fury Road (locked in scheduling nightmares, but due to go into production this year) and the role he’s shooting as we speak: Bat-nemesis Bane in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises.