Jude Law
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117 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
Jude Law’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, it's also wrapped up in a brilliant cat and mouse thriller kind of genre film. And like Jason said, it's reminded me of those movies, those kind of crowd pleasers that I used to go see when I was a kid with the great filmmakers of Lumet and Friedkin. And it's funny, isn't it, how our... It's the same with other genres, I suppose.
But those kind of movies were at once, with Hackman and Newman and people like that in them, so, so popular. And suddenly they, I don't know, they kind of lost their edge maybe, but anyway.
But it goes full circle, I'm sure, right? I mean, people come, they'll always come back to it. It's like vinyl, right? Everyone comes back to vinyl.
Where does that sit in the order of the Alien?
Have you watched the original again recently? Yes, it's incredible. And like the design, the design for it, all those people who was watching it recently and they said, they paused it and zoomed in on a little area behind, I think, Ian Holm. Yes. And it was basically an old speaker turned inside out, upside down and sprayed white or something.
But anyway. In that early Alien. Are you a fan? I love Alien, yeah. Yeah, yeah, so good. Where are you right now? Are you at a hotel?
I'm in a hotel in Beverly Hills. Oh, fantastic. I'm in Los Angeles for a while, promoting and, you know.
Let's talk. Let's just house shit out now.
It just sort of occurred because my parents were teachers. This is in the 70s in southeast London. But they had a passion for theatre. So they were members of a local theatre company and they would put on plays. And I grew up in a house where I remember there were always... The kitchen was full of people rehearsing.
Or I'd come down and half our furniture would be gone because they'd be using it on a set in the play that they were putting on. So it was just a big... And I just remember loving... Watching adults rehearse and goof about, it looked like it was a dialogue. It was a language that made sense to me, and I felt very comfortable in it.
So really, honestly, it was like a kind of, what's the right word, segue as opposed to a kind of decision. I got involved the older I got and did plays, and I joined a company as a kid. Brothers and sisters? Yeah. I had a big sister who, she performed too, but she's a painter.
It'd be a good one. Yeah, it is a good name. But she's a painter, yeah? She's a painter, yeah, yeah. Oh, wow. So the decision, honestly, was just, I mean, there was a moment when I got offered a job
in a tv show i was about 17 and made had to make the decision of leaving school moving out and they just sort of knew that was going to happen and they made me promise if it didn't work out i'd go back to school and i was like of course and um but they were incredibly supportive so wait did you not finish high school like me No, didn't finish. Nice. Wow.
Jason and I stayed in character. The whole time. Oh, my God. He only talked. Oh, my God. I will be honest. It was kind of weird when he shaved the beard because he'd been my big brother with the beard. Yeah. Like, you know, we'd been hugging and fighting, and it's been full on. And then suddenly he appeared, and he was Jason Bateman. Yeah, Jason Bateman. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah. Um... Honestly, not until I was in my early 20s, and I'd done a movie or two, and really, yeah.
So my first film was a movie called Shopping, and it was about car thieves, and that was in the early 90s. And then I did a film, another English film, but a period film called Wild, about Oscar Wilde, and Stephen Fry played Oscar Wilde, and I played his boyfriend, Bosie Douglas, who was a nasty piece of work. And around then... I'd done a lot of theater in the film, yeah, I guess around then.
I sort of thought, oh, this is a job.
But you know how it is. There's still that funny feeling of, God, I just want to get another job. You still think the unpredictable nature of what we do, the waiting is still quite alarming. And you haven't got enough money in the bank. You're thinking, okay, God, this is unpredictable.
Well, it was the first film that brought me to Hollywood.
it was the first time and you know it was one of those rare occasions where you read a script and you're you just can't believe it's as good as it is um and that they want you to be in it that was a that was pretty extraordinary um you know i was thinking a lot about that recently and uh ethan was such an incredible uh teacher really to meet and work with ethan at that early
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