Tom Hardy Reunites With Helen Mirren at 'MobLand' Premiere as Guy Ritchie Hails 'These Monsters of Creativity'

After plenty of behind-the-scenes drama on Paramount+ hit "MobLand," which saw Tom Hardy almost booted off the series, the cast and creatives reunited for the premiere of Season 2 in London on Thursday night.

Leading trio Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren — who play crime couple Conrad and Maeve Harrigan opposite Hardy's fixer Harry Da Souza — posed together with Hardy on the black carpet outside the Odeon Luxe theater in Leicester Square before heading inside to take the stage alongside co-creator Guy Ritchie and exec producer David Glasser.

Introducing the director and cast to the audience, Glasser — who was believed to have lost patience with Hardy after the actor requested script changes and was late to set — heaped plenty of praise on the star, calling him "the captain of our ship."

"Without further ado, the captain of our ship, and the man who really, really pushed the envelope for us to get this to where we want to do Season 1 and Season 2, and was with it from the beginning and stayed with it to the bitter end of us getting through this incredible season, ladies and gentlemen — Tom Hardy," Glasser announced as Hardy joined Ritchie, Brosnan and Mirren on stage.

After the cast and audience sang "Happy Birthday" to Ritchie, who turned 58 that day, the director spoke movingly about his cast, saying they've been "magnificent, it's been nothing other than a pleasure to work with these monsters of creativity."

"Lady Helen — Dame Helen, fantastic Helen, Queen Helen — has been nothing other than an inspiration and a force of creativity," Ritchie said. "Super positive all day long, super creative all day long. Pierce Brosnan, your lordship, I can say exactly the same about Pierce and my old brother Tom Hardy." He then darted across the stage to hug Hardy.

Asked what she was most excited for the audience to see in Season 2, Mirren replied: "Madder, badder, better. Chaotic, cool, funny. Frightening, funny."

Brosnan added: "Yeah, very mangled, very strange. And there's frailties within these characters as well, which makes them very human. But we get on like a great company of actors."

Mirren also praised writer Jez Butterworth for "incredible material." "The beautiful poetry of Jez Butterworth, the poetic element in the script, is so incredible. It just heightens it out of the sort of the normal."

Glasser gave some insight into how the show first got off the ground, saying he and the Paramount+ team flew to Ritchie's country house to pitch him. "He said yes on the spot," Glasser recalled. "Over a great bottle of wine while he was cooking some amazing lamb." Eight weeks out from shooting Season 1, he added, the team was still trying to "figure out what the show is" — which is when Butterworth was brought in.