Jude Law, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is an Englishman who has been one of the world’s finest screen actors for some 30 years.
Twice Oscar-nominated before he was even 30, first for his breakout supporting turn in 1999’s The Talented Mr. Ripley and then for his first major leading role in 2003’s Cold Mountain, both of which were directed by Anthony Minghella, he has also been directed by Clint Eastwood, David Cronenberg, Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes, David O. Russell, Kenneth Branagh, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Joe Wright, Steven Soderbergh, Wes Anderson, Paolo Sorrentino and Brady Corbet, among others.
And now, at the age of 51, he is starring on the well-received Disney+ series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, and has given what many regard as his finest performance yet as an FBI agent on the hunt for white nationalists in 1980s Idaho in Justin Kurzel’s new film The Order, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival back in August and began a platform release via Vertical Pictures on Dec. 6.
Over the course of a conversation at the Hollywood offices of Law’s publicist, the actor reflected on his path to the movies, and the special relationship that he formed with Minghella, who also directed him in 2006’s Breaking & Entering, and who died unexpectedly in 2008; the sort of role that he deliberately avoided until he couldn’t turn down the money he was offered to star in a 2004 remake of Alfie, and how his public persona, influenced by British tabloid coverage, may have limited the way in which some people see him; why he thinks he has done some of his best work in recent years, including on the TV limited series The Young Pope in 2016 and The New Pope in 2017, and in the films Vox Lux in 2018, The Nest in 2020, Firebrand in 2023 and now The Order; plus more.
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