Hardy In Awe Of Madonna

Director Guy Ritchie introduced the Inception star to his then-wife while they were filming the 2008 crime thriller, but Hardy admits he was so in awe of the singer, he couldn't look her in the eye.

He tells Britain's Now magazine, "She left me starstruck. I did what anyone who can't deal with the situation does: I went and hid in the Range Rover.

"I was sort of prepping for the scene in there and someone said hello to me and it was her - she'd somehow managed to get into the back of it!

"Then we had a conversation, which I've completely blacked out because there she was like the Mother Mary in the boot (back) of the f**king Range Rover and I was completely starstruck."

But Hardy insists he wasn't attracted to the star: "She's just someone's mum to me and she looks like a ghost. I didn't see her as a sexual creature. There was a time when I really would've gone there but since (she appeared in) the Justin Timberlake video, leaping over cars and things, I just think: 'Enough now.'"