But I'm not into men sexually.' At the time, he was promoting his role as a gay gangster in the Guy Ritchie film, RocknRolla. I've played with everything and everyone. The reporter, who works for Daily Xtra, a Toronto LGBT publication, cited a 2008 Attitude magazine interview in which Hardy refers to same-sex encounters in his past: 'As a boy? Of course I have,' Hardy said when asked if he ever had any sexual relations with men. 'If he'd have said that to me in the street, I’d have said the same thing back: 'I’m sorry, who the f**k are you?'' 'To be quite frank, it’s rude,' he stresses. But that was a public forum, and for someone to inelegantly ask a question that seemed designed entirely to provoke a reaction, and start a topic of debate… It’s important destigmatizing sexuality and gender inequality in the workplace, but to put a man on the spot in a room full of people designed purely for a salacious reaction?' If you knew me as a friend, then sure, we’d talk about anything. 'There should be elegant ways to approach any topic, and there’s a time and place to approach anything and have a good, common sense conversation about anything,' he tells The Daily Beast. Hardy now explains that he wasn’t so much bothered by the question itself, but the way in which it was asked.
