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Jude Law

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“One will affect the other, and we all have to start, I think, you know, just embracing people who are less fortunate or in situations of peril. What I'm watching at the moment in Afghanistan is devastating. I visited there and I can think of gosh, it really upsets me. I can think of at least 25 women I work with out there who were the most extraordinary individuals. And I'm really genuinely scared. I don't know where or what's happening to them at the moment and I'm no way of finding out. It was a long time ago I was there but I have personal memories of women who are striving to build a community who are running schools or running health camps or running radio stations and TV shows from their front rooms. Young girls who have been shot at but still insisted on going back to school and right now everything they built and in the time that they built it since I was there.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, they are, and it seems to have been drawn into all sorts of political conversations. You mention Calais. I was just curious to see for my own eyes what I couldn't believe was happening just a couple of hours south, from where I lived, and I think anyone when you have a human interaction, you see people with children or their few worldly good suffering, it's incredibly upsetting because you feel suddenly, I would like to think one always wants to see what one can do. I don't think you can turn your eye away from people suffering like that. And it seems to me to be a very, very big issue at the moment and one that we have to face alongside the issue of climate. It seems to me like this is the future. The world is changing at a very rapid pace.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've already done a little bit, although it's an interesting question because when Paolo asked me to do the young pope, I up until then had always really only been interested in the medium of film in sort of ninety minutes and there was something challenging and perfect to me about that. But Paolo, he'd written this script as if it was like a 10 hour film and we filmed it as such and then he cut it into parts. It wasn't really playing up sort of episodic storytelling. And I loved it. The opportunity of playing a character over that period of time and the slow reveal of character that peeling away was a much slower process because you weren't hitting this sort of three act structure where you knew that by 40 minutes you kind of”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Being British full stop has a big effect on how it always makes me laugh, you know, if you act up in the UK, you're told to shut up. You know, if you act up on your children, you know who I am. Everyone's like, don't be a wanker. You don't behave like that. You can get away with it in America. In America, it's almost expected walk in a room. And I always makes my skin curl when you see that happening, you know. People behaving like there's something special because they make films or because they're a little bit well known. Michael doesn't behave like that. And I hope I don't.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I am really lucky to have worked with him and to know him a little, and I really love him as a man. But I don't see many comparisons, really. We grew up in south east London, but obviously in very different eras. I take what you just said as a massive compliment that we have a sort of similar approach. I hope that's the truth because he carries himself so well with such dignity but humour. And so I take that as a huge compliment. I don't really think we're particularly similar though. He's Michael Kane in most of his roles, and that works because he is just an out and out movie star. You don't want anyone else to show up. You want Michael to show up, right? I think more later in life he's kind of, you know, pushed that.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was tricky because I felt that was one of the first times, in fact, I had done a romantic comedy. I'd never done one before that. And I was curious to see what it was like. I'd always been a fan of those beautiful Carrie Grant and Jimmy Stewart romantic comedies bringing up baby or arsenic and old lace or, you know, I love those films. But I did find it tricky. Tricky, first of all, that there was such an emphasis on humour and on comedy and learning to pull that off on set and on camera is very complicated and tricky. It's not easy to do. And I felt also that I was somewhat exposed in that I was playing the good looking guy next door. And that puts bear pressure on you. Suddenly you're like, do I look all right?”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I really love playing Albus Dumbledore. He has a really complicated heart and in many ways a very sad life and a sad journey, but he's such a beautiful soul, and he has such a material and magical look at life. What were the three biggest mistakes that you made last time? Caught by surprise, sir. What else? Didn't parry before Counter Cursed. Very good. The last one. The most important one. not learning from the first two. He also has pretty fantastic skill set, which is quite nice. Being able to solve problems on set by saying, well, why don't I just make that thing appear? Oh yeah, okay.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Movies, but equally turning up and flying around the room and fighting aliens. I mean, I'm curious to try it all. I don't want to end my days or retire having not really done everything.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I did, and at the time I decided it wasn't a path I wanted to take. I was in Captain Marvel because I was offered the part and I was really curious to see how these things were being made and it was a completely unique experience being a part of something that had this the infrastructure around it was all set in place and you knew you were one of many and yet there was a sort of a language in your particular film that was unique but around you was this system that was just stamping these things out, you know, and linking them all up. And I was fortunate to do with two really wonderful directors and they made it a lot of fun. Making a film like The Nest, meeting at four in the morning with just the cameraman, the sound guy and the director and shooting a little scene of me trudging through the mud or doing a scene in one tape with Carrie Coomb which is like basically like doing an Edward Alby play, that's one high from making”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know that they devalue actors. I'm a great believer that things go in cycles, right, and waves, and the truth is that Hollywood is a huge money making business, and at the moment it seems like that's where they're making their money and that's where they're throwing all their money. Now, it's a great shame that that's having an effect on middle budget films, lower budget films, that and COVID restrictions, I mean, we're in for a really rocky ride. But I also believe that things have their time. They're like pendulums. They swing backwards and forwards, and plenty of actors are making a lot of money and having a hell of a lot of fun making those films in tights. So, you know, I don't know that it devalues them.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's also given me, I remember before I had children, having to cry on stage or in a certain moment, it just filled me with dread because it's the ultimate test in many ways. You have to get yourself to a place where you either believe I've learned since I've had kids that emotional connection becomes just so quick. I mean, I cry so easily now. The more children I have, the easier I cry. I think it's this sort of sense of just permanent vulnerability to their well-being and the love, I suppose, the love you feel.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In a way, Rory's been putting it on for so many years, it is him. He's not being insincere. What we find out is obviously that he's trying to move away from a hymn he didn't want to be. And we did all sorts of work building a very real and detailed past as to why Rory decided to move on and it's hinted at in the film. If there was anything I drawn from myself it was this an energy I sometimes feel exhausted by that I have where I feel like I have to be buoyant and I think it comes from wanting to entertain my kids and wanting to look after people and I'm one of those people who feels like I have to kind of you know make sure everyone's all right and taking care of and there was an element of me in that side of him for sure”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Quite a few people that I know, and what struck me when I started putting Rory together was how common this problem is actually. I think this sense of putting on a brave face, putting on a bit of a performance for people rather than really allowing yourself or your own fears or your own insecurities to come out. And at what point does that performance actually become you?”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Possibly. I take that as a double compliment. I mean the character actor is perhaps just how I approach my work. I like to find the stuff I don't know that my character knows. I like to find out what that is and I like to apply it to myself. I don't like to find myself in the part particularly. I mean, I think I root myself emotionally to the part. If there are similar emotional connections or triggers, but I like to layer up and lose myself to it. So I suppose that's true. And I'm thrilled that she thinks I look like a leading man. That's great. Thanks, Carrie.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, the only time I see that manifest, if I'm honest, is when people seem to forget very quickly about work I've done in the past and talk about me as a sort of a romantic comedy star. I think they're quick to not look necessarily at all the work I've done and choose instead perhaps to talk about me in the way they perceive me through the way I'm considered as an individual in maybe my private life. I think that's true to say. I mean, I look at the work I've been able and fortunate enough to do and the people I've worked with and the work I continue to do and it clearly hasn't had an effect, any negativity that they may have.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Thinking at that moment I'm too far down this path. I have to believe in it and I have to know that I'm not there yet, but I may get somewhere. And, you know, you get to the end of the path and maybe you succeed, maybe you don't, but at least you've tried. You've sort of looked, as I said, under the stones, you've done the work”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Going back to the fear, I think it's looking at well, what scares me here? What do I need to face? Am I terrified about pulling off this voice? Then I got to work on that voice. I remember agreeing to be in Anna Christie, which is this brilliant Eugene O'Neill play, which I did at the Domar. He's described as this sort of man mountain Irishman, and he talks about kind of beating up men and how many men he's taken on. I remember finding myself halfway through the rehearsal, sort of I'd done some movement classes and I was walking around with all these peculiar rhymes to try and get the accent right and I was eating tons of steak and lifting weights to try and put on muscle and I was growing this beard and I suddenly thought I'm going mad. What am I doing? This is going to be a disaster. I sounded ridiculous. I looked ridiculous. What do I think I'm doing? And I remember.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I suppose sometimes it's obvious the path you have to go down and what you maybe have to accrue and information you have to understand or skill sets that you maybe want to examine, master. I personally have to sort of listen to myself, listen a lot to the director and what the director wants to draw out of the character and where the character fits into the pieces as a whole. There's no point, I think, doing work that doesn't really lead you back to the piece because you can waste time making all sorts of detailed analysis of something that never really gets drawn on. So again, it's a collaboration, I think, with the director.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was a different culture, but no there was no pressure Brian Gilbert, our director was just the most wonderfully careful caring leader on that project and I seem to remember very touchingly he said okay we're going to rehearse the scene now so I don't want you to feel uncomfortable so I'm gonna take my shirt and my top off and so I'm new too and it was like I know you don't need to we know we have to do this we'll do it it's gonna be fine”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“As soon as you get it, I always get this fear of dread really, you're suddenly faced with the challenge of pulling it off. I like that feeling. It keeps you on your toes, and it forces you also to check everything. You can't just sail in. You really have to make sure no stone has gone unturned and it forces you to ask the questions and also sometimes to push your comfort level. I mean there were love scenes in that with other men that for a twenty four year old were quite explicit and quite, you know, challenging and it was a great lesson to learn that one can create that kind of environment where it's comfortable for the actors and the director gets what they want and you're telling a story. So I look back very fondly, I look back with great pride actually.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, a lot of the time, you know, one chooses simply from what one's offered. I'd done maybe one or two small films prior to that, but that felt to me like a really substantial part, really interesting, complicated part in a considered and intelligent period drama, again surrounded by really exciting and formidable people. And I love the challenge. There's a fear you get when you say yes to something or when you're asked to do something and you agree.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because I have to make sure I'm earning next year and the year after, and it's not set in stone. So those two factors were really more responsible for me losing my head a little bit and recognizing suddenly that I had to maybe really consider what I was making and why I was making them and who I was making them with I mean, walking down the street and being recognized is really another subject altogether. That was a peculiar offshoot of what was happening in my life as an actor, and that was something I had to get used to alongside it. That was odd”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've only really ever been interested in the acting a love acting and I really love working with different groups of people on different projects that pitch different problems and require different approaches and different skills out of you and those around you. And that to me is what excites me and interests me. So I didn't set out to be a movie star and I don't consider myself really a movie star. I think it's more of an American perspective on one's career. I'm an actor and I work in movies and I work on stage. I suppose I became aware also that there's this persona who isn't me that starts to grow which is what's written about me or how I'm perceived or opinions that are manifested about me judged on something that's happened in my life or apparently happened in my life. And alongside that the responsibilities as I said of suddenly realizing gosh this is my job and I have to make it light.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was only until I hit really my thirties that what I was doing dawned on me. I think my whole twenties right through till I was about thirty I had belief in myself and it really wasn't until I suddenly looked around and thought oh this is my job I have responsibilities also it now has to provide for my family what choices I make can't just be creative and whimsical they have to be considered it was almost like I suddenly looked down and was rather scared of the high tide I'd gotten to.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Somewhat treacherous. Traitorous rather than I'd left my kind of cast behind. If I'm honest with you, I've always felt like if you're asked to be in the room, then you deserve to be in the room. I personally enjoy working with actors who like to be, you know, they are there to learn, they are there to act with you. They are there to meet you eye to eye. It's a healthy starting point. Now, that maybe makes me precocious as a child, but it's just the way I was.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was more the work that really impacted me. I had done various productions in plays once I left families at the gate, the old Hampside Theatre Club, the bush. I done plays around London, but I remember walking on the Littleton stage to do my audition. And that was when I got a sense of just incredible excitement and thrill because to be in the national, to be on a stage that size, I knew that if I got that part it meant it was a big deal. And indeed, the experience, again, was sensation. I was surrounded by these four phenomenal adults. You know, Francis de Latour, Sheila Gish, Alan Howard, real greats of the British theatre, who taught me and looked after me just running around backstage and being in that building was an extraordinary turning point, and indeed taking it to Broadway. It was slightly complicated that experience because I was the only one who went in the end, and I felt”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was called families. It was an attempt by Granada TV to combine the passion for Australian soaps and English soaps and half of it was in Australian, half of it was Edith. And they kind of merged the stories But you know, it was again great training ground to learn very quickly where a camera is, how to hit a mark, how lights affect you, learning lines on a constant cycle because, you know, you've got another four episodes to do the following week and wonderful camaraderie, wonderful community amongst the cast.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think going back to what I said initially, I was always very Drawn to the creative environment and the safety of listening and learning, I'm sure you could ask people who work with me back then or who knew me back then and then say, oh my God, he wouldn't shut up or he had an opinion on everything. But I was also very aware that this was all about learning. If I remember rightly, I felt like I deserved to be there. But if you got apart, you had a right to be there. But at the same time, I was well aware of what I didn't know. I remember quizzing people about camera positions because I had no idea. I got this part on this TV show. We were working five days, six day weeks.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To do and I believed in, and I guess they believed in me, and I promised them that if it failed, I would go back and carry on my education. And I was very fortunate. I left and I moved to Manchester. I was seventeen years old with a box, I remember box of my books and some stuff and a bag of clothes and that was it and that was the beginning of my independence and my professional career.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I was the new stages was this amateur dramatic company that I was in until I was probably about eleven or twelve. And a friend of my parents saw me in a play and said that I obviously took it seriously. He suggested that I join this national youth company called the National Youth Music Theatre and I auditioned and I got in and I used to go in the summer, we'd go away and workshop plays and take them to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. But that became a really quite an important training ground looking back. I mean, the level of professionalism, the level of responsibility put on the shoulders of children from thirteen to eighteen was substantial and the quality expected was substantial. And it was from that that I got an audition for a TV show, which I then got and made the decision to leave school. And my parents were very understanding. It is interesting looking back now as a parent. They knew that this was by then absolutely something I wanted.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“On top of which he was scoring it, he was writing it, he was producing it, he was directing it. I've actually just finished a wonderful film called Sunnyside with him as the main protagonist. He's still a fascination to me What was I reading? I mean I did like graphic novels and I liked science fiction as a kid. I wouldn't say I was obsessed. I mean it was perhaps a more comfortable read. I didn't really mature an appetite for sort of serious literature until a little later on. And a lot of this was led really off the back of these graphic novels but a really important piece of writing in my late teens was Alan Moore's Watchman, an extraordinary collection of which they've recently drawn from in this wonderful TV series. And then I think like most teens I was maybe of my generation I was really into the beatnicks and this whole idea of liberating one's mind and living a life of”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Chaplin was someone I just remember loving as a little boy. My father used to have a reel to reel and he would project Chaplin films our birthday parties from a very young age. And then I remember seeing him on TV. They used to show wonderful chaplain films, Buster Keaton films, Harold Lloyd, usually at around home time, I remember, you know what I mean? And they'd be on BBC too, I seem to remember. And so I really fell in love with that sort of physical comedy and physical dance, really. And then it was later on in my late teens that I rediscovered Chaplin and really became quite obsessed with this pantomimical kind of performance where you could express and tell everything with such simplicity and such clarity and the humour of it but also the romance of it. He seemed to me to encapsulate everything that is possible for a performer telling a story.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Those three were very much bridges because they were British and because, as I said, two of them were local to me, but I'd always adored Christopher Walken, Robert De Nero, Robert DeVal, I mean the really big names that I was fortunate enough to grow up watching at the height of their powers, you know.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I very quickly honed in on Gary, Oldman and Tim Roth and Daniel D. Lewis. Gary Oldman and Tim both grew up sort of in my part of town in southeast London. So to me they were not just brilliant actors with these extraordinary range of performances and edgy quality. They were also, I knew that they'd come from Southeast London. So in a way, they were demonstrative of a way out and that it was possible. And Danny Day Lewis was the first act, I remember, just being astounded. I remember seeing him in my beautiful laundrette and really loving that film because it felt like a London I knew it felt it was one of the first times I'd seen a film that didn't feel other. It felt like it was on my doorstep, like I knew those guys at school and I knew that language. And then I think my mum showed me room with a view and I literally didn't believe.”
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“Big coat film of the 80s. I remember seeing Mo Better Blues, the Spike Lee film, running on empty, that wonderful film with River Phoenix and Judd Hirsch, down by law the Jim Jar Mouch film, that was another one.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's right. By the time I was in my teens, I was obsessed with film and wanting to be an actor and didn't really know how to get onto that path. I was just passionate to try and see everything and if I knew stuff was coming out or I knew that there was only a short run at the Prince Charles I would put on my uniform and then get a train into town and time it so that I could see three films and come back home and walk in the front door and have dinner and pretend I'd be at school.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, I suppose so, hoping that I would be, wanting to be I remember thinking that the possibilities of being an actor on stage were realistic, in that, you know, my parents would take me to see plays at Greenwich Theatre or we'd go to the National Theatre. And so the idea of getting a job there was possible, I suppose, although it was still a dream. Film, no, film just seemed like an absolutely another world. So going to the cinema. And my mum was really good at taking me to see really interesting stuff at the Renoir in London at the Prince Charles. She took me to see really interesting real art house stuff. Yeah.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I played Wharton, who's the young boy, the little boy in another country by Julian Mitchell, who wrote wild, funnily enough, which I later was one of my first films. And I remember playing Mamilius in the Winter's Tales.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“which manifested in us all being kind of members of a local amateur dramatic society in Elton. I remember coming down the stairs and all our furniture often being sort of removed from the house because they were using on a set somewhere and I'd come downstairs and the kitchen would be filled with adults drinking coffee and smoking and rehearsing. So there was always theatre and creativity going on in the house and it was a place I felt very comfortable. I was very curious and I embraced this world of putting on a play or creating a story. I love the idea that whoever had a good idea it was a good idea whether you were a child or an adult and it felt very democratic and safe and familiar.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would describe him as full of energy and enthusiasm and physicality. I love sport and make believe from a very young age. I have memories of taking little figures and playing with them in parks and on the road and creating, I suppose, a world. You know, it's so easy to look back, isn't it, and make those connections and say, oh, I was creating drama or situation. But I remember making up games with my sister. And I grew up in a household where imagination and storytelling was a big part of our life, really. My parents were teachers. They read a lot and encouraged us to read a lot and my sister was a phenomenal playmate. We made up huge great games and fantasies. And then my parents also had a passion for theatre and film, but specifically theatre really.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Meeting at four in the morning with just the cameraman, the sound guy, and the director, and shooting a little scene of me trudging through the mud. That's one hide from making movies, but equally turning up and flying around the room and fighting aliens, I mean, I'm curious to try it all. I don't want to end my days or retire having not really done everything.”
2023-03-27 · Intelligence Squared · Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I remember before I had children having to cry on stage or in a certain moment it just filled me with dread. What I've learnt since I've had kids that emotional connection becomes so quick I cry so easily now and the more children I have the easier I cry. I think it's this sort of sense of just permanent vulnerability to their well-being and you know the love Walking around with all these peculiar rhymes to try and get the accent right, and I was eating tons of steak, lifting weights to try and put on muscle, and I was growing this beard, and I suddenly thought, what am I doing? This is going to be a disaster. I sounded ridiculous. I look ridiculous. I remember thinking at that moment I'm too far down this path. I have to believe in it.”
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