Exclusive: Andy Serkis and Tom Hardy talk Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Now playing in theaters Sony Pictures is Venom: Let There Be Carnage, the highly-anticipated sequel to Venom .

Academy Award-nominated actor Tom Hardy returns to the big screen as the lethal protector Venom, one of Marvel’s greatest and most complex characters.

Directed by Andy Serkis, the film also stars Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham, and introduces Woody Harrelson in the role of the villain Cletus Kasady/Carnage.

When we last met Eddie Brock and Venom, both played by Tom Hardy, the two had formed an uneasy alliance. Eddie, the dogged but self-centered reporter, and Venom, the alien symbiote who takes hold of Eddie’s body, both relied on each other to survive: Eddie could do much better in life with Venom’s eat-or-be-eaten (literally) m.o., and Venom had to be reined in by Eddie’s finely-tuned sense of moral justice. They agreed that they needed each other… but they didn’t have to like it.

After their epic breakup, though, it becomes clear that neither is going to make it on his own. When part of the symbiote leaps into Cletus Kasady moments before his execution, the serial killer becomes host for Carnage, an even-larger, even-deadlier, and much-more-malevolent spawn of the alien, ruthless and pure evil. 

If there was anyone more suitable in directing Tom Hardy in a sequel to where Hardy is working opposite CGI for the most part, it’s Andy Serkis. After all, Serkis is best known his roles including Gollum in Lord of the Rings, Caesar in the Planet of the Apes films, and Supreme Leader Snoke in Star Wars. Serkis worked with Harrelson in the Planet of the Apes and Hardy.

Blackfilmandtv.com’s Wilson Morales spoke with Serkis and Hardy on working together and dealing with the CGI of Venom.