Jude Law, I like this... man?

[reviews_and_ramblings]

Really, I like Jude Law since he has the courage to play a woman in a movie! Now, I still wonder why a director (woman) should choose a man to play the role of a female supermodel, but still, it's quite interesting to see it. And then Sally Potter was the director of Orlando, where a wonderful Tilda Swinton plays the role of both male and female.



The related news:

Heartthrob Jude Law is coming out as a brunette beauty. The "Alfie" star's first publicity shot form his new film "Rage" has emerged, in which he is shown as an alluring woman.

Law, 36, plays a "celebrity supermodel" named Minx in a story that centers on "the ugly use of beauty in the pursuit of profit."

Director Sally Potter explains, "Jude Law, whose beauty has sometimes been held against him as an actor, made the courageous decision to accept the role of Minx - a 'celebrity supermodel' and took on a kind of hyper-beauty for this persona... a 'female' beauty which gradually unravesl as the story unfolds."

"Strangely, the more he became a 'she,' coiffed and made-up - the more naked was his performance. There was great strength in his willingness to make himself vulnerable. It was an extraordinarily intense part of the shoot."

Comments

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

I think this makes all kinds of sense. So many young women who work as models starve themselves to the point where they more resemble a young teenage boy than women. Interesting idea, will have to watch for this one.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Oh well, in that pic Jude Law is more beautiful than a lot of supermodel I see on magazine ;-) I liked Orlando, so I probably I will see also this one. Elisa