Tom Hardy, who plays the title character in Mad Max: Fury Road, says he is lucky to be alive after years of drug abuse.
The star, who has been sober since 2003, confessed 'I would have sold my mother for a rock of crack. I was a shameful suburban statistic', in an interview while promoting the film, which is Out of Competition at Cannes this year.
Hardy rehabilitated and rose to fame through notable roles in Inception, Warrior and The Dark Knight Rises.
'People didn’t sit up and take any notice of me until I started putting on weight, kicking people and being aggressive,'he said.
'The trouble with Hollywood is that they want you to be something, then they think you’re who they wanted you to be. I’m not a fighter. I’m a petite little bourgeois boy from London.'
He has already suggested that he would be open to a sequel to Mad Max, as has director George Miller, revealing 'If we get the appetite again to go back out into the wasteland, there's other films we want to do.'
Mad Max is released in cinemas on Friday May 15
