Charlotte Riley Fell For Husband Tom Hardy On Wuthering Heights Set

Actor Charlotte Riley has opened up about falling for her now-husband Tom Hardy on set while they were working on an adaptation of Wuthering Heights.

Back in 2009, Charlotte starred as Catherine Earnshaw to Tom’s Heathcliff in an ITV drama inspired by the iconic Emily Brontë novel.

During an interview with The Times published over the weekend, she was asked for her first impression of the man she’d go on to marry, recalling: “He made me a really decent cup of tea. Strong.

“There’s not much point if the spoon doesn’t stand up. And he told me that his mother was northern. So I thought, ‘all right then’.”

Another memory that has stuck with Charlotte was one that led to her and Tom bonding over a very rude slip of the tongue.

“We were talking about it the other day,” she explained. “There’s that famous line – ‘Whatever our souls are made of, yours and mine are the same’. We shot it in a tiny church on the moors and it was beautiful.

“We were sitting in a pew and I had to turn to Tom and say my line. And he absolutely died laughing. Because when you say it with my northern accent, it sounds like, ‘Whatever arseholes are made of…’ And that was it, we were gone for the rest of the day.”

Charlotte also insisted that the Oscar nominee didn’t charm her by staying in character as Heathcliff between takes.

She claimed: “There’s this myth that Tom’s some sort of Method actor, which he really isn’t. He was just his cheeky-chappy self.”

After meeting in the late 2000s, Charlotte and Tom tied the knot in 2014, and have since welcomed a son and daughter, born in October 2015 and December 2018 respectively.

Tom also has a 17-year-old son, Louis, from a previous relationship with casting director Rachael Speed.