--- title: Leonardo DiCaprio Makes Tom Hardy Get a Tattoo After Bet description: After losing a bet to his fellow 'The Revenant' star Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy will now be getting a tattoo designed by the actor. canonical: https://time.com/4590303/leonardo-dicaprio-tom-hardy-tattoo-bet/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-05T16:29:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:10.253Z og:title: Tom Hardy Is Getting a Tattoo Designed by Leonardo DiCaprio og:description: After losing a friendly bet with the Oscar winner og:url: https://time.com/4590303/leonardo-dicaprio-tom-hardy-tattoo-bet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c92b3b490e0f5a4/6988b0aa428a9e44f5cd52e9/tom-hardy-leonardo-dicaprio-tattoo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Premiere Of 20th Century Fox And Regency Enterprises' "The Revenant" - Red Carpet og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tom Hardy Is Getting a Tattoo Designed by Leonardo DiCaprio twitter:description: After losing a friendly bet with the Oscar winner twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c92b3b490e0f5a4/6988b0aa428a9e44f5cd52e9/tom-hardy-leonardo-dicaprio-tattoo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Leonardo DiCaprio Is Making Tom Hardy Get a Bad Tattoo in the Ultimate Bro Move > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy attend the premiere of 20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises' "The Revenant" on December 16, 2015 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) Frazer Harrison—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 5, 2016 4:29 PM UTC In between [giving Ivanka Trump a copy of his climate change documentary](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/fashion/ivanka-trump-first-daughter.html) and [supporting the homeless](http://time.com/4575253/leonardo-dicaprio-homeless-charity-lunch/), [Leonardo DiCaprio](http://time.com/4511153/trailer-leonardo-dicaprio-documentary-before-the-flood/) has found time to make good on a bet with his [good friend, Tom Hardy](http://time.com/4179915/tom-hardy-almost-snuck-a-rap-lyric-into-the-revenant/). In an interview with [_Esquire UK_](http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/longform/a11841/tom-hardy-interview/), Hardy revealed that he’ll be getting an unfortunate tattoo in the near future, thanks to a good old-fashioned wager with DiCaprio, where _The Revenant_ actor bet that the [_Mad Max_ star](http://time.com/3770331/tom-hardy-mad-max-fury-road-movie-george-miller/) would score an Oscar nomination for his role as John Fitzgerald, the sinister frontiersman who leaves Leo’s character to die in [_The Revenant_](http://time.com/4171001/revenant-1939-true-story/)_._ Hardy took the bet, raising the stakes to a tattoo of the winner’s choosing. When awards season rolled around, Hardy nabbed the Oscar nomination, which means he’ll now be getting a tattoo that’s custom-designed by Leo and, as Hardy describes it, is far from ideal. “He wrote, in this really sh-tty handwriting: ‘Leo knows everything,'” Hardy said. “Ha! I was like, ‘OK, I’ll get it done, but you have to write it properly.'” For now, however, Hardy is resisting for as long as he can. “I haven’t got it yet,” he said. “Because it sucks.” \[[_Esquire UK_](http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/longform/a11841/tom-hardy-interview/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4590303/leonardo-dicaprio-tom-hardy-tattoo-bet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4590303/leonardo-dicaprio-tom-hardy-tattoo-bet/"},"headline":"Leonardo DiCaprio Is Making Tom Hardy Get a Bad Tattoo in the Ultimate Bro Move","datePublished":"2016-12-05T16:29:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:10.253Z","description":"Hardy lost a bet to the Oscar winner","url":"https://time.com/4590303/leonardo-dicaprio-tom-hardy-tattoo-bet/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Leonardo DiCaprio","celebrity","tattoos","Culture","Tom Hardy"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c92b3b490e0f5a4/6988b0aa428a9e44f5cd52e9/tom-hardy-leonardo-dicaprio-tattoo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c92b3b490e0f5a4/6988b0aa428a9e44f5cd52e9/tom-hardy-leonardo-dicaprio-tattoo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Premiere Of 20th Century Fox And Regency Enterprises' \"The Revenant\" - Red Carpet","caption":"Premiere Of 20th Century Fox And Regency Enterprises' \"The Revenant\" - Red Carpet","creditText":"Frazer Harrison—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/4590303/leonardo-dicaprio-tom-hardy-tattoo-bet/","name":"Leonardo DiCaprio Is Making Tom Hardy Get a Bad Tattoo in the Ultimate Bro Move"}}]}] ```