Hollywood star Tom Hardy says he had relations with men

London: `Inception` star Tom Hardy has revealed that he had a string of gay relations during his teenage years.

The 32-year-old star, best known for his role of a gay gangster Handsome Bob in Guy Ritchie`s `Rock`n`Rolla`, is engaged to British actress Charlotte Riley and also has a son with a former girlfriend. But the actor, who has battled drinks and drugs, said he experimented by having sexual relations with other men but said he has outgrown it, the Daily Mail reported. When asked asked if he`d ever had any sexual relations with other men, the actor said," As a boy? Of course I have. I`m an actor...I`ve played with everything and everyone. I love the form and the physicality, but now that I`m in my thirties, it doesn`t do it for me. "I`m done experimenting but there`s plenty of stuff in a relationship with another man, especially gay men, that I need in my life. A lot of gay men get my thing for shoes. I have definite feminine qualities and a lot of gay men are incredibly masculine," Hardy told Now magazine. The British actor, shot to fame with `Star Trek Nemesis`, and in the 2009 hit Bronson, where he played the notoriously violent criminal Charles Bronson. He has also starred as Heathcliffe in a BBC remake of Emily Bronte`s `Wuthering Heights`, where he met his real life lady love. "A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don`t feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I`d love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I`m not one of the boys," said Hardy, who plays the role of Eames, a forger who shifts identities inside dreams in `Inception`. PTI