Tom Hardy and Joanne Froggatt open up about MobLand Season 2, breaking down Guy Ritchie’s intense directing style, building their on-screen marriage, and the emotional containment behind Harry Da Souza.Tom Hardy and Joanne Froggatt sat down with Entertainment Tonight to discuss MobLand season two, the Guy Ritchie-produced Paramount+ crime drama that returned on September 18 with the Harrigan crime family clawing back from the wreckage of a brutal first season. Much of the conversation centered on Hardy’s approach to Harry Da Souza, the family’s fixer, whom he described as a study in emotional containment rather than outward drama. According to Hardy, Harry doesn’t experience a wide range of visible feeling the way most characters do; instead, any large emotion gets suppressed and processed internally, almost like a system running calculations in the background, which is what makes the character feel unpredictable to audiences rather than conventionally expressive.
Froggatt, who plays Harry’s wife Jan, told ET new detail on how she and Hardy built the couple’s decades-long marriage from scratch. The two met for the first time on their very first day filming season one, with no rehearsal period to prepare, and had to invent twenty years of shared history essentially overnight. Froggatt recalled being twelve weeks postpartum and away from her newborn for the first time on that shoot day, and credited Hardy with immediately validating her creative instincts about Jan’s motivations, which set the tone for a collaborative dynamic that carried into season two.
The pair also broke down the season one shootout in episode one, which was directed by Ritchie himself; both actors noted the tonal balance he pushed them toward, mixing genuine violence with dark comic timing, and described Ritchie’s hands-on directing style, including physically demonstrating how he wanted a scene staged and delivered. Beyond Hardy and Froggatt’s storyline, the conversation touched on Eddie and Gina’s relationship, with both actors agreeing that what looks like trauma bonding between two characters who grew up around the same dysfunctional family has developed into something they consider genuinely authentic. Mandeep Dhillon’s character Seraphina, who survived a kidnapping in season one, was also discussed, with the actors noting that her near-death experience is now driving her determination to gain more control over her own fate and to never again be placed in that kind of danger.
Without giving away plot details, both actors teased to ET that the season two finale sets up a dramatic and difficult season three for their characters, promising audiences will find the fallout more shocking than anything in season one. The conversation closed on a lighter note, with both naming actors they’d be eager to work with in future projects, including Eddie Redmayne and rising performer Genevieve Gaunt. Taken together, the interview offers a clear picture of a cast that has grown noticeably closer since the show’s fast-moving first season, now navigating an expanding ensemble and higher creative stakes heading into MobLand’s already-confirmed third season.