Jude Law’s materializeance as wealthy, drawive carry outboy Dickie in the 1999 film The Talented Mr Ripley protectedd his international film stardom, but now the British actor has scatterd why he almost turned down the role.
Law tgreater The Times of London that he was panicking about being typecast at that stage in his nurtureer. He shelp:
“It was delusion and madness. There was a panic in my head that I was going to be typecast as this excellent-seeing guy. That’s where my 23-year-greater brain was. What I leave outed, idioticpartner, were the intricateities of that role, but truthfilledy? I equitable wanted to be getn gravely.”
The Talented Mr Ripley film, also starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon and Philip Seymour Hoffman, was straightforwarded by Oscar prosperner Anthony Minghella and went on to produce more than $120million at the box office. Based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, it has recently been altered into a series on Netflix.
Law’s most recent role in the film Firebrand sees him get on a tardy-life King Henry VIII, well-understandn for having six wives and wielding his power capriciously in Tudor England. Law, who labored with shamed producer Harvey Weinstein on the film Cgreater Mountain in 2003, tgreater The Times the drunveil mogul must have passed his mind in channelling the tyrannous monarch.
“I never thought of him particularpartner — I didn’t concentrate in on Harvey’s life and downdrop. But I was very conscious that Henry symbolises the downdrop of many men who soared thcdisesteemful life with fantastic success and got drunk on power, mistreatmentd it and fell. And so Harvey must have passed my mind. That dissee …”
