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Celebrating Jude Law: From Golden Boy to ‘Star Wars’ Lead to Walk of Fame Honoree
Jude Law has worked with everyone from Steven Spielberg to Brady Corbet in films including "The Holiday," "Vox Lux," "Skeleton Crew" and "The Order."
There’s little throughline between his most recent big-screen roles — as a careworn anti-fascist FBI agent in Justin Kurzel’s “The Order,” as an intrepid German survivalist in Ron Howard’s “Eden,” as a boorish, abusive Henry VIII in Karim Aïnouz’s “Firebrand” — beyond his unwavering actorly commitment and onscreen intensity. Lately, he’s balanced mainstream franchise duty — the “Fantastic Beasts” series, “Captain Marvel,” and now heading up the Disney+ “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew ” spinoff — with more unpredictable tonal pivots. But it was as a wealthy London family man concealing a world of class insecurity and self-delusion in Sean Durkin’s 2020 psychodrama “The Nest” that Law gave his greatest, most intricately folded performance to date: an enactment of alpha masculinity humbled by cold reality that brought all the eras of the actor’s career together in one shattering,surprising whole.
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