10+ Behind The Scenes Secrets from Tom Hardy's 'Venom' Fans Didn't Know

Tom was attempting to help round out the persona of Eddie Brock. He figured that Eddie was someone who knew not just how to fight but how to scrap.

Who better to look toward than former UFC featherweight champion, Conor McGregor?

Ruben had been reading comics from the time he was a small boy.

He admits that he always was partial to the Marvel canon and that directing a Venom movie is the culmination of a childhood dream.

Think about how challenging it must be to act opposite yourself? To have no one there to take any sort of visual or physical cue from?

Many would find it challenging but Tom Hardy came up with a unique solution.

Tom used a device called an earwig. It allowed him to trigger and respond to all of the dialogue between Venom and Eddie Brock in real-time!

Supposedly, it was a technique Tom picked up on the movie Legend.

Producer Avi Arad had been trying to get a Venom movie made for years. He forced director Sam Raimi to include Venom as the villain in spider-Man 3 to help introduce the character to the world.

Sadly, the film was a flop and the project was scrapped.

Sadly, they all came crashing down once Marvel bought back the rights to the character.

It was a bittersweet moment: the return of Spidey to the MCU meant any future plans for Venom to appear against Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man were once again shelved.

Ruben grew up worshipping the likes of John Carpenter and Steven Speilberg.

If Venom feels like a cross between an '80s horror movie and a '90s action flick — it isn't coincidental.

One of the things you'll see often in the film is Venom is full-symbiote, with only a portion of Tom Hardy's face showing.

Animators quickly learned that they couldn't put a human-sized head on a seven-foot alien monster without it looking incredibly strange.

Supposedly Tom Hardy was never scripted to get into the lobster tank. At first, all of those friendly crustaceans were the real deal!

Once Tom told Ruben what he planned to do, they replaced the lobsters with plastic ones.

Ruben Fleischer is pretty sure he understands why the character has had such incredible staying power.

Very few anti-heroes are painted with such a perfect balance. There's as much humor to Venom as there is malice.

Venom has more than 40 minutes of deleted scenes that never made it past the cutting room floor.

Who knows, maybe one day they'll see the light of day?

This was long before the part had been offered to Riz Ahmed.

No disrespect intended toward Ahmed because he is incredible in the film, but Pedro Pascal is interesting and an enticing choice.

As I mentioned earlier, Ruben was a fan of the source material from the beginning. In order to help prepare, he read every single Venom comic that he could get his hands on.

A large reason why Tom accepted the role of Eddie Brock in Venom was that his son is a huge fan.

Tom leaned on his progeny for guidance and apparently he wasn't shy about telling Tom when or if he was doing anything wrong.

Ruben knew that he had to walk a delicate tightrope between leaving his mark on the character and staying true to his roots:

"We wanted to bring to life a version of Venom that fans could point to and say, 'That’s the one that I always was excited to see on screen.'"