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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"}}]}] ```