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H<\/span>ow do you make a biographical drama about somebody who doesn\u2019t exist? If you\u2019re Nicolas Winding Refn, the answer is: to great critical acclaim. Released fifteen years ago this week, the Danish filmmaker\u2019s gritty, hard-hitting take on Britain\u2019s most notorious prisoner not only helped introduce the world to Tom Hardy, but it also turned out to be a hugely personal movie for its director, one that kick-started his Hollywood career and remains close to his heart to this day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look back on Bronson with a lot of fondness,\u201d Refn tells Little White Lies. \u201cI was able to make a movie that was really about myself, at the right time of my life, using Charlie Bronson as catharsis because he himself is a made-up person. There was a kind of mutual opportunity to benefit from each other by making the film,\u201d he reasons. \u201cIt was very fundamental in how it shaped me later on.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Bronson, Refn served up a theatrical and dream-like \u2018biopic\u2019 of Charlie Bronson, the alter-ego of real-life criminal, hostage-taker and moustachioed thug Michael Peterson. As of 2023, Bronson has spent more than 50 of his 70 years behind bars for crimes that include armed robbery and numerous attacks on prison guards. Much of this stint has been spent in solitary confinement and despite never actually killing anyone, a parole board recently denied his request for freedom, meaning he\u2019ll likely spend the rest of his days locked up.<\/p>\n

Those are the facts. However, the man behind this infamous criminal career is a complete fabrication, created as an outlet for someone who struggles to convey their feelings to the world. It was this corner of the truth that initially piqued Refn\u2019s interest.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t so much Bronson as a person, it was more the concept of building an alter-ego that basically dominates your life,\u201d admits Refn, expanding on the themes that drew him to the project. \u201cThe whole opening line: \u2018My name is Charles Bronson. All my life I wanted to be famous\u2019 \u2013 that was a large part of my younger days. I wrote that as a manifesto of one\u2019s self: \u2018How would I become famous?\u2019 because I didn\u2019t really have any talents.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, Charlie\u2019s talent lay in his infantile and almost childish behaviour \u2013 like performance art,\u201d he continues. \u201cIt\u2019s more amusing when you\u2019re young than when you\u2019re a 70-year-old man \u2013 but there\u2019s something very freeing in not wanting to conform with what\u2019s acceptable and being reminded that we don\u2019t always have to be like everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Refn landed on the scene with Pusher in 1996, a gritty crime story fronted by Mads Mikkelsen. A stumbled attempt at cracking Hollywood came with 2003\u2019s psychological thriller Fear X before he returned to his native Denmark to helm two more Pusher films. With Bronson, Refn got the chance to reintroduce himself to English-speaking audiences and in doing so successfully expanded his career horizons, paving the way for his 2011 Hollywood breakthrough Drive.<\/p>\n

\u201cMichael Peterson is not particularly interesting but his alter-ego is fascinating because it\u2019s something that, as an artist, represents the duality that you struggle with,\u201d suggests Refn, unpacking the unlikely connection between Bronson and the artistic mindset. \u201cThe act of creating is very isolating and wrapped in solitude. It\u2019s a very lonely experience and a very personal thing. I had an interest in what it meant to me,\u201d he adds. \u201cIt was a time in my life when I needed to make a split from my past to really make my future \u2013 and the best way to do that was to make a movie about yourself and that transition from one to the other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout production, Refn kept his focus firmly on the made-up person at the centre of his story, limiting his interactions with the actual man behind the narrative. However, his star had a different approach. \u201cI think if I had spent time with [Peterson] the way Tom was able to, it probably would\u2019ve made creating that distance harder because suddenly I would\u2019ve had to relate to him as a person,\u201d says Refn. \u201cI spoke to him once on the phone at Tom\u2019s house \u2013 but his approach was different. He was a young actor. He was thinking: \u2018How do I perform him and do justice to the man I\u2019m portraying?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While Refn kept his distance, Hardy dove head-first into creating an accurate performance, bulking up, shaving his head and even wearing bits of Bronson\u2019s real moustache within his own. \u201cHaving access to [Bronson] was a very useful tool for performance authenticity,\u201d explains Refn. \u201cHaving Bronson\u2019s moustache smuggled out of prison and put into Tom\u2019s\u2026 those are all important for a performer to emulate an authentic person but the Charlie Bronson we were making the movie about was made-up. Michael Peterson existed and I know it was very important for Tom to represent him authentically.\u201d<\/p>\n

This mixture of unvarnished reality and artistic licence gave Refn\u2019s movie a heightened quality that\u2019s emphasised best through the theatre dramatics Bronson uses to tell his life story. \u201cI wanted to give it a sense of staged reality,\u201d explains Refn of his creative choices. \u201cObviously, the emotions were real but the design was stylised. I\u2019d come from my Pusher films which were all about authenticity and I no longer had an interest in that approach so then you go to un-reality. It was a way to combine the operatic with an authentic performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Bronson telling his tale in an over-the-top pantomime style, Refn got the best of both worlds, underpinned by an unlikely musical source. \u201cFlamboyant electronic music, especially the Pet Shop Boys, Erasure and all those bands that played with gender in their music \u2013 I felt like they would be a great sound for the film,\u201d remembers Refn. \u201cIt was very feminine, even though it was hard-hitting and melodic.\u201d<\/p>\n

This gender element is mirrored in Hardy\u2019s pent-up performance: \u201cTom understood that this was not a film about tough men being tough \u2013 this was a film about fairies, Never Never Land and Cinderella,\u201d explains the director. \u201cHe brought a theatricality and a willingness to go to a gender-neutral, gender-swapping and almost A-sexual and bisexual sensibility. I wanted to show that he had basically recused himself from any sexual interaction for his entire life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Knowing how Hardy\u2019s career has panned out, it feels like a role he was born to play. Solid and stoic, he carries Bronson like a clenched fist; an alien unable to interact with the regular world who\u2019s ready to pounce at a moment\u2019s notice yet oddly vulnerable. It\u2019s since become one of Hardy\u2019s most celebrated performances, something made extra special knowing he wasn\u2019t Refn\u2019s first choice.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had wanted Jason Statham who turned me down, even though I met with him to discuss it,\u201d reveals Refn. \u201cThen I went to Guy Pearce, who also turned me down so it went back to Tom and he was certainly the right choice for the film, there\u2019s no doubt about that. I want to thank all of the other actors for turning it down because they never would\u2019ve done what Tom Hardy did. It gave birth to probably one of the finest young actors around.\u201d<\/p>\n

Considering how personal Bronson was to Refn, it\u2019s no surprise that the filmmaker didn\u2019t care too much about what his subject thought of the finished product. Still, that didn\u2019t stop Bronson from sharing his opinion: \u201cBecause it catered to everything that Charlie wanted to achieve in his life, it became his greatest achievement,\u201d says Refn. \u201cMichael Peterson becoming Charlie Bronson, then having a film that celebrates his creation of this alter-ego is what he essentially always aspired to, maybe without even knowing it,\u201d he adds, \u201cso obviously when the film was done, he declared it the best film ever made.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for Refn, Bronson remains a movie that marks a turning point in his creative career, one that freed him up to let go of the past and be unabashedly himself, much like his subject. \u201cI think the ultimate canvas for anyone is to be free but the consequence for Bronson is that he\u2019s been stuck in a cell for practically his entire life and for what, at the end of the day? What did he really achieve? That\u2019s a very personal statement that I doubt anyone can even begin to understand,\u201d he says. \u201cI learned that the only things I should worry about are the films I make and I should not have any interest in what\u2019s around me. It made me very mature.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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