"(...) Tom Hardy is gonna be great too [as Batman nemesis Bane]. He's a tough British actor."

It appeared to us that Lindsay Lohan was trying to get closer to her ex-girlfriend, Samantha Ronson — but now we’re hearing that Sam’s not the one she’s after. It’s actually her rumored sober coach Tom Hardy.

Wait, what?



According to reports, Lindsay and Tom are more than friends and she really wants to be his main squeeze. I wonder what his girlfriend will have to say about this!

A source close to Lindsay says that “her heart is with Tom Hardy.” Okay, we’ll bite. This dude is super hot and has laid the smackdown on his own addictions, but what would he see in her?

The source said, “Lindsay loves how Tom has been sober for years, and she wants to make sure she follows in that path. He’s a good looking guy with a great career who has overcome some major obstacles. They’re perfect together. Lindsay hopes it will turn into a serious relationship. She’s really into him.”

Walk away, Tom! Lindsay is poison to your hotness!

He’s said to be engaged to Charlotte Riley, but this sounds like trouble.

We were delighted to hear that Tom Hardy is going to be starring in a new film with Shia LaBeouf called “The Wettest County in the World.” Hardy caught our attention in “Inception” and then raised our eyebrows by divulging that he’d had sex with both women and men. Said Hardy in an interview earlier this year:

“Of course I have. I’m an actor for f**k’s sake. I’ve played with everything and everyone. I love the form and the physicality, but now that I’m in my thirties, it doesn’t do it for me. I’m done experimenting but there’s plenty of stuff in a relationship with another man, especially gay men, that I need in my life. A lot of gay men get my thing for shoes. I have definite feminine qualities and a lot of gay men are incredibly masculine. A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don’t feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I’d love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I’m not one of the boys.”

He later claimed the quote was taken out of context and he didn’t really mean it. We don’t really believe that. Actually, we don’t really WANT to believe that, because bisexuality is pretty hot, we think. After the jump, nine more supposedly bisexual dudes.

Rumors circulated today that Inception‘s Tom Hardy is in talks to take a pivotal role in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. According to Moviefone, Hardy would play Sturges, a vampire mentor to young Abraham Lincoln. (Fox is producing AL: VH and would not comment on Hardy’s involvement in the film.) Combined with his mysterious lead role in Batman 3, Hardy is just a couple of years away from pop culture ubiquity. In fact, if you look at his career track closely, you find a striking array of similarities to his Dark Knight Rises co-star, Christian Bale.

Both Bale and Hardy were talented young actors who had an embarrassing (and potentially career-killing) role in a box office bomb in their younger days. Hardy played Captain Picard’s Romulan clone in Star Trek: Nemesis (which is actually better than its reputation), and Christian Bale played a singin’, dancin’, unionizin’ newsboy in Newsies (which is actually worse than its reputation). Both of them came back into prominence after playing jacked-up psychopaths (Bale in American Psycho, Hardy in Bronson.) They’re both totally Frolan (Friends of Chris Nolan). If you count Hardy stepping in for Mel Gibson in Mad Max 4, which is still set to film someday, then both actors have lead roles in post-apocalyptic reboot-fourquels. (Bale’s post-apocalyptic project being 2009′s Terminator Salvation.) Ow, my brain!

PopWatchers, do you think Tom Hardy’s 2012 will look like Christian Bale’s 2005? Would you like to see him in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, or should he be looking for artier fare to offset his expanding Nolanography?

“Reese Witherspoon’s chemistry with a co-star is driving his fiancee crazy,” claims a piece in this week’s In Touch magazine.

Witherspoon is currently shooting her new film, This Means War, with Inception star Tom Hardy. And, according to the tab, Hardy’s fiancee Charlotte Riley is supposedly getting jealous that the “onscreen lovers’ friendship is blossoming off-camera as well.”

A so-called “source” for the tab says Riley flew to the Vancouver set to make sure Hardy “behaves himself.”

Her cause for concern?

“Reese and Tom listened to music and laughed between takes on November 11,” the mag reports, adding the co-stars “spend hours together every day.”

And…?

“They are genuinely having a great time filming this movie,” notes the “source.”

Wait!

They “spend hours together” and are having “a great time filming”?

Clearly, they are, you know…

Making a movie together.

That’s all.

An actual, reliable source on the set tells Gossip Cop that Star’s claims are “ridiculous.”

Witherspoon and Hardy are “professionals,” says the source, who further relates that they basically do their jobs, and then go home.

Ooh, scandalous!