--- title: Tom Hardy Knows Things About the Dead In New 'Taboo' Teaser description: The 'Mad Max' actor stars in a new FX series, co-produced with Ridley Scott, as a haunted British shipping heir with a murky past in Africa. canonical: https://time.com/4504868/taboo-tom-hardy-video/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-22T19:51:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:54.192Z og:title: Tom Hardy Knows Things About the Dead In New 'Taboo' Teaser og:description: The 'Mad Max' actor stars in a new FX series as a haunted British shipping heir. og:url: https://time.com/4504868/taboo-tom-hardy-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tom Hardy Knows Things About the Dead In New 'Taboo' Teaser twitter:description: The 'Mad Max' actor stars in a new FX series as a haunted British shipping heir. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Tom Hardy Knows Things About the Dead In New Teaser for TV Series _Taboo_  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 22, 2016 7:51 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 22, 2016 7:51 PM UTC Tom Hardy is back with a vengeance — and potentially supernatural abilities — in a creepy new promo for _Taboo_, a fresh FX series starring the [_Mad Max: Fury Road_ actor](http://time.com/3770331/tom-hardy-mad-max-fury-road-movie-george-miller/?iid=sr-link7) and produced with Oscar-nominated [director Ridley Scott.](http://time.com/4055413/martian-movie-review-science-accuracy-matt-damon/?iid=sr-link4) Hardy plays James Keziah Delaney, an early-19th-century shipping heir who returns to London to take over his late father’s company after a long absence in Africa, during which he’s been presumed dead as well. “I have sworn to do very foolish things,” Hardy says menacingly in the clip. It’s only twenty seconds, but it does show off the extreme body art of the notoriously intense actor. Also: diamonds. Also: plenty of gritty 19th-century atmosphere shots. (Or see here for [a previous trailer.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZYAQSlIhM4)) There’s no premiere date yet, but it should drop in early 2017, according to the promo. Until then, you can get your Hardy fix on Netflix with his portrayal of another brutal British gangster-type in [_Peaky Blinders_.](http://time.com/4306255/peaky-blinders-trailer-season-3/?iid=sr-link1) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4504868/taboo-tom-hardy-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4504868/taboo-tom-hardy-video/"},"headline":"Tom Hardy Knows Things About the Dead In New Teaser for TV Series Taboo","datePublished":"2016-09-22T19:51:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:54.192Z","description":"\"I have sworn to do very foolish things.\"","url":"https://time.com/4504868/taboo-tom-hardy-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4504868/taboo-tom-hardy-video/","name":"Tom Hardy Knows Things About the Dead In New Teaser for TV Series Taboo"}}]}] ```