Patrick Stewart says Tom Hardy was ‘challenging’ to work with on set of Star Trek

Over 20 years on from its release, Patrick Stewart is discussing what it was like on the set of Star Trek: Nemesis.

Golden Globe nominee Stewart is best known for starring as Jean-Luc Picard in the Star Trek franchise and has worked alongside the likes of William Shatner and Ron Perlman in the popular films.

Another famous face he worked alongside was Peaky Blinders favorite Tom Hardy, who joined the Star Trek family for Nemesis.

While Hardy is now seen as a gentle soul who often reads children bedtime stories on British children's channel CBeebies, he was once a bit more rough around the edges and has been labelled as 'challenging' by Stewart.

In his new memoir titled 'Making It So', the 83-year-old discussed Hardy joining the cast and said that the then-young star rarely socialised with his co-stars.

Branding Nemesis as being 'particularly weak' (the film has just 38 percent on Rotten Tomatoes), Stewart went on to say: "I didn't have a single exciting scene to play, and the actor who portrayed the movie's villain, Shinzon, was an odd, solitary young man from London. His name was Tom Hardy."

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He continued to say of the Mad Max actor: "Tom wouldn't engage with any of us on a social level. Never said, 'Good morning,' never said, 'Goodnight,' and spent the hours he wasn't needed on set in his trailer with his girlfriend."

Hardy was married to his first wife, Sarah Ward, at the time. They wed in 1999 and divorced five years later.

He's now married to his Wuthering Heights co-star Charlotte Riley.

While Hardy wasn't overly friendly, Stewart went on to insist that the actor, now 46, was 'by no means hostile', but that it was 'challenging to establish any rapport with him'.

Stewart was under the impression he'd 'never hear of [Hardy] again', but the acclaimed actor has since been proven wrong - which he said 'gives [him] nothing but pleasure'.

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In fact, the 46-year-old has been nominated for a host of huge awards over the course of his career, including an Oscar for The Revenant and a People's Choice Award for Inception.

Winning wise, Hardy has taken home two British Independent Film Awards for 'Best Actor' for his roles in Legend and Bronson where he starred as Ronald and Reginald Kray and Charles Bronson, respectively.

His other notable roles include Bane in the Batman franchise and Eddie Brock in Venom.

UNILAD has contacted Hardy's representative for comment.