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Here’s Ronnie! Tom Hardy films scenes as the bespectacled Kray twin on the set of Legend

Published: 15:37 EST, 13 July 2014 | Updated: 14:15 EST, 14 July 2014

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He’s been busy filming the upcoming Legends film in east London, switching between Kray twins for each scene.

But it looks like Tom Hardy was in the guise of Ronnie Kray on Sunday, as he wore the horn-rimmed glasses of the younger twin.

Tom had on a three-piece green suit and a cigar in his mouth as he stepped out of a vintage Mercedes with two flunkies while filming for the upcoming British crime drama in a posh street in central London.

Ronnie today: Tom Hardy films scenes as the younger Kray twin on the set of Legend

It's in the detail: Ronnie (R) was known for wearing horn-rimmed glasses

Flunkies: Tom is flanked by two actors no doubt playing associates of the notorious gangsters

The film chronicles the Krays wheelings and dealings in the Fifties and Sixties, where they achieved cult celebrity status as night-club owners, though they were really the heads of one of London’s leading organised crime outfits.

For years the brothers got away with literally murder as their power was so keenly felt that police investigations were met by the East End ‘wall of silence’ from witnesses to scared to testify against them.

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Eventually though, their criminal reign over London came to an end, from the outside at least, in March 1969 after they were jailed for life for the murders of George Cornell and Jack 'The Hat' McVitie.

Insane: Ronnie Kray was believed to have suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and spent his life prison sentence for murder at Broadmoor Hospital

Double trouble: Hardy plays both Ronnie and Reggie Kray in the crime thriller from LA Confidential screenwriter Brian Helgeland

On a break: E-cigarettes weren't around in the Fifties so it seems Tom was grabbing a quick puff between takes

Krays selfie: Tom takes a picture on his iPhone of himself n full costume and make-up as Ronnie

One murder that Ronnie was suspected of but never proven was that of his brother’s wife, Frances Shae, who is played by Emily Browning in the movie.

An inquest determined Frances’ death as suicide, just two years after she had married Reggie, but in 2002 he allegedly revealed to Bradley Allardyce, who spent three years in Maidstone Prison with him, that Ronnie killed her.

‘He suddenly broke down and said “I'm going to tell you something I've only ever told two people and something I've carried around with me” – something that had been a black hole since the day he found out,’ Allardyce, who claims to have been his lover during his prison stint.

West End: The shoot was taking place in Belgravia rather than the Krays haunt of East London, however the crime bosses were often in the area because of the night clubs they owned nearby

Hot work? Tom takes off his waistcoat and jacket, and pops on a pair of trainers on Sunday

Convicted: In March 1969 the KRays were jailed for life for the murders of George Cornell and Jack 'The Hat' McVitie

Extra! Extra! Background performers are dressed in Sixties garms on the West London set

‘He put his head on my shoulder and told me Ronnie killed Frances. He told Reggie what he had done two days after.’

Ronnie was declared insane and spent his sentence in Broadmoor Hospital until his death in 1995.

The younger twin, who was openly bisexual, was believed to have suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.

Written and directed by Brian Helgeland, Legend also stars Christopher Eccleston, David Thewlis, Tara Fitzgerald and Taron Egerton.

Murder: Ronnie Kray murdered his brother's wife of two years Frances Shae (played by Emily Browning in the film), according to his brother Reggie who reportedly revealed the truth to his alleged prison lover