In an interview with Wall Street Journal actor Tom Hardy is talking about his upcoming roles and acting inspirations.

After "Mad Max: Fury Road" he'll be in an adaptation of the videogame Splinter Cell. And he's just finishing "London Road," a musical. "It's a little bit of a warm-up for Elton John," he says.

Steve Hamilton Shaw, a producer of the Elton John biopic "Rocketman," says it will be a musical look at Elton's emergence, "coming out of rehab and going from there. The direction we felt we had to go was not somebody who you felt was playing Elton. He had to be somebody who was becoming Elton. For us there was really nobody better at delivering that right now than Tom. He was kind of the only name on our list."

Does this mean Tom Hardy will be singing Elton John classics? "Yeah, I hope so," the actor says. "Otherwise I'll have probably failed, right? But that's terrifying me. I can't hold a tune to save my life. God knows how I'm going to do that. But then I couldn't cage fight before I'd gotten in with 'Warrior.' And I still can't. I'm not supposed to be a cage fighter. I'm only playing one."

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