Tom Hardy series Taboo will return after six years

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24 Mar 2023, 16:09

The first series aired on BBC One back in January 2017.

It has been confirmed that Tom Hardy’s 19th century drama Taboo will return after six years.

In an interview with the Radio Times, Hardy’s production partner, Dean Baker, confirmed: “Currently we are working on a second season of Taboo.”

The Bafta-award winning actor last spoke about his plans for another series in 2021. He said: “In my head I was thinking, ‘Let’s say they get to America, they get to Canada, fast-forward to 1968, the Tet Offensive, the Vietnam War, look at the CIA, the Viet Cong, the French in Saigon.

“Take the Delaney family tree out in the jungle, and recreate the same family dynamics that were happening in London but with new people, thinking about how history and corruption repeats itself.”

“It’s still Taboo, it’s still period, but it’s in the sixties”, the Mad Max star added. “There’s something fun about that.”

The Legend actor created the first series with his father Chips Hardy and Peaky Blinders writer Steven Knight, who has confirmed the second season is pretty much written.

In the eight-episode series, Hardy’s character James Delaney returned to London after living in Africa to attend his father’s funeral and rebuild his shipping empire.

The star-studded cast included Snatch’s Stephen Graham, Sherlock’s Mark Gatiss and Nativity’s Jason Watkins.

Last year, Hardy took a quick break from acting to participate in a high-level Jiu-Jitsu competition in Milton Keynes.

The Venom actor, who is a blue belt, impressed the crowds as he won in his league.

A spokesman for the 2022 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Open Championship, held at Oakgrove School, told The MK Citizen: “Tom was a really nice guy.”