Tom Hardy Wasn’t Fired From ‘MobLand’ — He Chose to Walk Away

As rumors continue to swirl about Tom Hardy‘s future on MobLand, a new report suggests the actor is walking away from the hit Paramount+ series.

According to sources who spoke to Page Six for a report published Monday, June 1, Hardy is choosing not to return for a potential season 3 of the Paramount+ hit show. “You can’t be fired if you have a two-year deal,” an insider told the outlet.

So what went wrong on set? According to the report, sources say the second season of MobLand was a collision of two very different creative temperaments. Hardy, 48, reportedly spent extended stretches waiting in his trailer, which caused production delays and sent the budget spiraling. Hardy, whose background is rooted in film, wanted access to the full season’s scripts before production got underway so he could understand where his character was headed.

“You have an A-plus writer who’s got a lot of power and who has a methodology of ‘I don’t know where this is going’ and then an A-plus actor who is used to knowing the entire arc of a character in a story,” a MobLand source told the outlet.

Despite the friction, the insider was clear that “it was all very passive-aggressive and British. It wasn’t even a feud.”

Per the report, once Hardy signaled he was moving on, producers reportedly reached out to Colin Farrell and Idris Elba as potential replacements, Farrell passed, and Elba was still mulling it over when the departure narrative took over the news cycle.

Making matters worse, per the report, a pair of viral social media posts with millions of views falsely accused costar Helen Mirren, 80, of engineering Hardy’s exit over a political dispute — a claim Page Six’s on-set sources flatly rejected. “There’s never been an Israeli-Palestinian issue. This show had plenty of issues. It never had that,” one source told the outlet.

In fact, per the report, both Mirren and Pierce Brosnan had privately reached out to support Hardy amid the criticism. And Mirren posted a photo of her costar on Instagram, Friday, May 29, with the caption “Love you now and always.”