Highlights
- Tom Hardy, 48, has reportedly been fired from Paramount+’s MobLand after Season 2
- Hardy allegedly arrived late to set and clashed with exec producer Jez Butterworth
- MobLand’s Season 2 is still expected to premiere on Paramount+ later this year
Tom Hardy‘s run as the brooding fixer at the heart of Paramount+’s hit crime drama MobLand appears to be over, and not by his own choice.
According to Variety, Hardy wrapped production on Season 2 in March, but has been asked not to return due to disagreements with executive producer Jez Butterworth and 101 Studios.
Matt Belloni broke the news on Puck that Hardy was asked not to return for Season 3, effectively being fired from his own show, which Variety confirmed.
The 48-year-old actor had played Harry Da Souza, a fixer for the powerful Harrigan crime family, since the series debuted. MobLand stars Hardy alongside Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren, with Brosnan playing patriarch Conrad Harrigan and Mirren portraying his wife, Maeve. The first season followed Harry navigating a possible war with a rival crime family, as well as the inner dynamics of the Harrigan cartel.
The show’s rise was meteoric. The show has proved successful on Paramount+, accumulating over 26 million views in its first season. When the series premiered in the spring of 2025, it broke a Paramount+ streaming record as the biggest global series premiere ever with 2.2 million global views.
Despite that success, trouble was reportedly brewing behind the scenes well before cameras wrapped on Season 2. Puck News indicated that outside of creative clashes, the actor was regularly late to set. He also allegedly “constantly asked to give notes on scripts,” and became disillusioned with the increased focus on other actors featured in the show.
Hardy reportedly caused several production issues when it came to MobLand‘s second season, such as arriving late to set, inserting unscripted dialogue changes and offering script updates. Hardy was also apparently unhappy working as part of an ensemble cast.
For these reasons, producer Jez Butterworth threatened to leave the series if the studio did not intervene.
The sources claim Hardy had a major beef with MobLand creator Ronan Bennett and executive producers Jez Butterworth and David Glasser.
This is far from the first time Hardy has faced such scrutiny. The actor has a reputation for being “difficult to work with,” with reports of clashes with actors and directors on Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant, and Lawless.
Hardy himself had spoken enthusiastically about the show’s future just months before the news broke. In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, Hardy teased the show’s new season, saying: “There are international elements to organized crime which are touched on in Season 1 and the control of drugs and ammunition and weapons and people and all kinds of things that go through Europe and from Africa through to South America, Pakistan and the variable commodities that move around Europe.”
Those comments now read as a farewell of sorts.
The show’s second season is slated to premiere later this fall, following its renewal in summer 2025. How the show’s producers plan to address the departure of their lead remains to be seen, as MobLand has not yet been officially renewed for a third season.
For now, the Harrigan family empire carries on. Harry Da Souza will not.
