Patrick Stewart Didn’t Think Tom Hardy Would Go Anywhere After Star Trek: Nemesis: ‘Proven Me So Wrong’

Patrick Stewart says he’s happy to see Tom Hardy’s career progress.

On Tuesday, Insider reported that Stewart, 83, wrote in his new memoir: By doing so, that he wasn’t impressed with Hardy, 46, when they worked together on the 2002 film. Star Trek: Nemesis.

Stewart described the film itself, which came more than a decade after he began acting in the feature film Star Trek the character of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, as “particularly weak”.

Then he discovered Hardy, who made his film debut Fall of black Hawk a year before, he never developed a significant relationship on set.

“I didn’t have any exciting scenes to play, and the actor who played the film’s villain, Shinzon, was a strange, lonely young man from London,” Stewart wrote in the book, according to the publication. “His name was Tom Hardy.”

He continued: “Tom wouldn’t hang out with any of us on a social level. He never said ‘Good morning,’ he never said ‘Good night,’ and he spent the hours he shouldn’t have been on set in his trailer with his girlfriend. ”

A representative for Hardy did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

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Patrick Stewart and Tom Hardy in 2002.

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Despite Stewart’s recollection of Hardy being aloof on set, the actor was careful to note that Hardy never came across as explicitly unpleasant to work with.

“He was by no means hostile — it was just challenging to form any kind of relationship with him,” he wrote, according to Insider. Never miss a story – sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

“The evening Tom finished his role, he left without ceremony or courtesy, simply walking out the door,” Stewart said in the book. “When it closed, I said quietly [costars Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes], ‘And there goes someone I don’t think we’ll ever hear from again.’ ”

“It gives me nothing but pleasure that Tom proved me wrong,” he added.

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Tom Hardy in ‘Star Trek: Nemesis’.

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Hardy achieved significant success on screen with films such as Beginning, The Dark Knight Rises and Poison franchise. He will next appear opposite Austin Butler as the hard-nosed leader of a biker gang in Jeff Nichols’ upcoming film Cyclistsin theaters from December 1.

The actor has said in the past that he was not entirely comfortable in one of his first major film roles. In 2014, Hardy told Total movie magazine, he was “terrified” working on the film set.

“Every day on that set I was terrified – which worked well for the character anyway,” he said at the time. “You can’t hide it, the camera will pick it up. I was really beside myself. The whole thing was, ‘How can I do that?’ I took it very seriously.”

Stewart’s Memoirs, By doing soit’s out now.

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