JUDE LAW WORKS WITH MALE EGO

Jude Law plays a character who fights over a women but he’s really protecting his ego.

Jude Law plays the charming scoundrel having an affair with a married woman in Sleuth. It’s the modern Harold Pinter rewrite of the 1972 film in which Michael Caine earned an Oscar nomination for the role Jude is now playing.

In the remake directed by Kenneth Branagh, Caine takes on the role once played by Laurence Olivier and the two actors engage in a physical competition over a woman the audience never meets.

“Was this idea that within man and within all the trappings, technology advancing, aesthetics, there’s this sort of primal urge to fight, to dominate. And sometimes even at the expense of the prize and with this you never meet the woman that the two men are fighting over. But by the end they’ve almost forgotten about her themselves, they’re just fighting for the sake of fighting. Fighting for the sake of winning. I think it’s a primal thing; certainly it seems to be proving to be.”

Law was a bit worried that the elder Caine would hurt him during some of the fighting scenes.

“I mean Michael is in incredible shape. I was worried for myself occasionally, no I wasn’t really. He’s in incredible shape. They’re the sort of thing you plan and you choreograph carefully. We were both very professional about it.”

Jude also produced the film along with Branagh who will next direct him for the London stage as Hamlet.