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Jude Law Admits ‘I Heart Huckabees’ Had ‘Bizarre’ Production, Says Film Was ‘Trying to F**k with People’

At the time, making the existential black comedy with David O. Russell and a cast of legends seemed like a good idea to the actor.

Between 2001 and 2004, he’d already worked with masters like Mike Nichols, Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes, Anthony Minghella, and Martin Scorsese. I was able to make choices at a time that I’d never really made before, really looking at filmmakers that I loved and knowing that they had an interest in working with me and that I probably offered some kind of leverage. In the film, Law takes on the infamous historical figure Henry VIII, delving into his fight with the Church of England, as well as his cruelty towards six and final wife, Katherine Parr, played by Alicia Vikander.

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