In thirty years of career, Jude Law has filmed with the greatest British and American directors: Minghella, Scorsese, Soderbergh, Spielberg, Mendes... Without forgetting his role as Pope with the Italian Paolo Sorrentino.
In
The Queen's Game
, by the Brazilian Karim Aïnouz, the Londoner masterfully portrays a dying Henry VIII (1491-1547), sick tyrant and moody husband.
We still don't understand how the acting prize escaped him at the last Cannes Film Festival.
Meet an actor who prefers to play monsters than pretty faces.
LE FIGARO.
- How did you meet
Karim Aïnouz
?
JUDE LAW.
-
In a very classic way.
My agent presented it to me and I read the script for The
Queen's Gambit
.
The film we shot is different from the script but all the potential was there.
Karim spoke of it as a marital drama.
It was important to him to rehabilitate Catherine Parr.
I really liked his previous film,
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmão
.
Do you think that the…
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