Tom Hardy Debunks 'Venom' Fan Theories with Director Kelly Marcel

Entertainment Weekly

In this video, actor Tom Hardy and director Kelly Marcel are debunking the wildest and weirdest internet theories, rumors, and conspiracies surrounding Marvel’s iconic anti-hero, Venom. From hilarious speculations about Venom’s M&M preferences to mind-bending theories on symbiote powers and potential villains in the upcoming Venom movie, they’re here to set the record straight. Is Venom really avoiding red dye 40 to protect Eddie? Could Eddie hit the jackpot in 'Venom: The Last Dance' and retire for good? And just where does Eddie’s head go when Venom takes over?

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00:00When Eddie Brock transforms into Venom, his head opens up wide, his tongue hangs out.

00:04Where does Eddie's head go? Seriously, where the hell is his head?

00:08Well, I always imagined that he was like in a little embryonic sack.

00:12Like a, like a, so he can breathe inside Venom, like a, like a, like a baby.

00:16Like a little baby, Eddie.

00:17Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:17Because he's always so muffled when you hear,

00:21We're here to debunk the weirdest and wildest Venom theories on the internet.

00:24Spoilers ahead!

00:26Monkey Feathers on Tumblr says,

00:28In Venom, let there be carnage.

00:30Venom doesn't eat the red M&Ms to protect Eddie because red dye 40 is poisonous if eaten in large quantities.

00:37They love their dumb humans so much.

00:40It could be truth.

00:42Yeah.

00:42I think I remember just writing in the script that he threw the red M&Ms away.

00:48I think as part of a nod to people wanting particular colored M&Ms.

00:56Oh, right. Got it. More meat in a hamburger.

00:59Yeah.

01:00Bigger TVs, yellow M&Ms.

01:01Yeah.

01:02Yeah. Riders.

01:03Riders?

01:03Yeah, my rider. I get it now.

01:05I don't. Yeah.

01:06Yeah. Thanks, Cal.

01:08Not you.

01:08Yeah, no, it's fine.

01:09Actually, I wasn't talking about you.

01:10Wow.

01:12Not you.

01:12Don't touch me.

01:14Next one.

01:14Not you.

01:15Not again either.

01:16Darth Continent says, in Venom, the Malaysian EMT, once possessed, walks away with her hair braid,

01:26hiding the M in EMT, thus extraterrestrial ET.

01:32Oh, details.

01:34I've never noticed that.

01:35Happy accident.

01:36I think so.

01:37From the Venom site.

01:39Where is Venom in Eddie's body? Since Venom could see his liver, I assume he's literally just in

01:46all his organs, but not necessarily attached to them.

01:49I've always thought he just shrinks and he's like...

01:51Like a little...

01:52Little Eddie.

01:53A little person inside him.

01:54He's walking around like...

01:57All of his veins and capillaries like...

02:00Yeah.

02:00Waiting to come out and talk.

02:01Or is he like compressed?

02:03We never thought about it.

02:04No, we didn't.

02:05We've never ever asked each other that question, but it's a good one.

02:07It is a good question.

02:08We don't know where he goes.

02:10No.

02:10Symbiote Steve 3 says, in the Venom 3 trailer, we see Eddie at a casino.

02:16And I think we might see Venom use his power to win a major jackpot for Eddie.

02:20The end of the movie could see Eddie happy and retired, living off this fortune.

02:24I really hope it's true.

02:25He's been through enough.

02:27You're right, Symbiote Steve.

02:28He has been through enough.

02:28It's so true.

02:29He should have won a fortune.

02:30He should have, but he didn't.

02:32No, because Venom was there.

02:33Venom was there.

02:37The Amazing Bob says...

02:39Amazing Bob?

02:40Amazing Bob says, the Venom 3 trailer shows a Venom horse.

02:44Perhaps we'll see a Venom dino too.

02:47There is a whole canon of dinosaurs in Venom comic book.

02:51And dragons.

02:51Yeah.

02:52In fact, dinosaurs should really play in any Venom stuff going forward, if that's not an issue between...

02:59Well, we should just go back and reshoot and put a Venom dinosaur in.

03:03Could do.

03:04Head of Spectre says, I think Juno Temple's character is either Null in disguise or possessed

03:10by Null.

03:11I'm thinking she's going to account for Null's presence during the bulk of the movie and will

03:16be the main antagonist, while Chiwetel Ejiofor is more of her muscle.

03:20Oh, God.

03:22Why don't we think of that?

03:23I think that's a really good shout, actually.

03:24That would have been a much better way to go.

03:26Yeah.

03:26I think we're out of the job.

03:28Yeah.

03:29We see that when Venom fights carnage, the symbiotes take damage.

03:33Eddie and Cletus don't look hurt when the symbiotes retreat.

03:37Do the hosts not feel the pain the symbiotes feel when they get hurt?

03:41They are clearly in pain.

03:42You see Eddie get his knees bashed by Cletus, but symbiotes heal their hosts.

03:48Once the host goes inside the symbiote, they come out healed.

03:53And that works both ways, doesn't it?

03:54Yeah.

03:55From At Solo Productions.

03:57Tell me that this creature, especially like in the way that his legs are built in that

04:00sort of zigzag pattern, doesn't look just like that traditional Venom chest emblem.

04:04So what if each time the symbiote takes over a new creature, it kind of retains a little

04:07something from that organism, and we see it at some point take over a xenophage.

04:11And once it reattaches to Eddie Brock and we see him go full Venom mode for the first

04:14time after that, he now has that white emblem, a reflection of the xenophage.

04:18That's a really clever way to put a Spider-Man logo on his chest without actually putting

04:22a Spider-Man logo on his chest.

04:24I think it would be really cool to see Venom morph with a xenophage.

04:28We haven't done that because the symbiotes go from host to host and the symbiote is always

04:33itself a thing.

04:35And then it's the individual that is changed, isn't it?

04:38I mean, human beings.

04:39Yeah, it doesn't take any of the host with it.

04:41I mean, she Venom turned slightly different shape than...

04:44But the symbiote doesn't change.

04:48Venom and Chenom looks different to Venom and Eddie, but I don't think they take pieces of

04:54the host with them when they go.

04:55And adapt into a comfy pair of shoes.

04:58Yeah, they just find a really good new jacket.

05:01Hmm.

05:01Notice whenever Venom speaks, Tom Hardy doesn't move his lips.

05:04He can already hear Venom from the inside.

05:06But through this window, we can see Eddie actually moving his lips ever so slightly,

05:11even when Venom is speaking.

05:15Through some sort of reflection, we can see Eddie is actually talking to himself in Venom's voice.

05:20He thinks he's hearing it in his head.

05:22But if you look at him through something else, you're gonna see him talking on behalf of Venom.

05:26That's really interesting because in this movie, we have another character

05:33who does actually speak with the symbiote within him.

05:39Through his human face.

05:40Mm-hmm.

05:41And you actually have seen Venom speak through a human face as well,

05:46because when Mrs. Chen morphs with Venom, when she becomes Chenom, he talks through her mouth.

05:55But in that, I was probably on the bike ad-libbing outside the window.

05:59I would have thought so, yeah.

06:00As Eddie's just panicking.

06:01Yeah.

06:02And Venom is talking at the same time.

06:04So I think that's an editorial.

06:06But it is interesting.

06:07Yeah, it is.

06:08And you know what's really interesting is that you care that much to really look into it.

06:11Yeah.

06:12That's cool.

06:13I think we should say we did it on purpose.

06:15We did.

06:15That was absolutely calculated.

06:16Totally on purpose.

06:17Again, another great idea of mine.

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