‘Firebrand’s Jude Law On How Daniel Day-Lewis’ ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’ Perf Put Starch In His Movie Star Resolve: The Film That Lit My Fuse

Jude Law has come a long way in his career, from playing the gorgeous leading man in films from Talented Mr. Ripley, Gattaca and The Holiday, to playing Firebrand‘s King Henry VIII as a decaying corpse of a man hanging on just long enough to emotionally torture his final wife Katherine Parr (Alicia Vikander). She is a woman determined to keep her head about her, and outlast the king and his beloved guillotine. As you’ll learn in an exceptional segment of Fuse, this is the kind of role that Law admired most as he lists the films and performances that were great influences on a long and illustrious career. That desire to spread out allowed him to balance hero roles in the Sherlock Holmes films, to playing an oily assassin/news photographer who tries to take out Tom Hanks in Road to Perdition. Find out how Daniel Day-Lewis helped him see how one can bring much more than good looks to their screen work.