Tom Hardy is making some gay men’s dreams come true. The 32-year-old Inception star told Britain’s Daily Mail that he’s enjoyed the embrace of another man – and that, deep down, he feels “intrinsically feminine.”

UK’s Daily Mail has the details:

Asked if he’d ever had any sexual relations with other men, the broody actor said: “As a boy? Of course I have. I’m an actor for ****’s sake [sic]. 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.”

The paper adds:

In an interview with Now magazine, the former party-boy who has battled drink, drugs and crime to turn his life around, added: “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.”

The vulnerability is great, but handsome Hardy seems to hold a rather binary view of how sexuality works, doesn’t he?