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Jude Law Says He Wore “Sickening” Fragrance To Play “Rotting” King Henry VIII In ‘Firebrand’


Jude Law went to some pretty extreme lengths while getting into character as King Henry VIII.

While discussing his new movie Firebrand, the Academy Award nominee revealed that he wore a fragrance on set to make him smell “like he was actually rotting” to play the ailing royal. As director Karim Aïnouz wanted to create a “360-degree set” and “an ambience of truth” for his actors, Law said he made the sensory experience as accurate to the late 1540s time period as possible. In Firebrand, Law plays the king in the final days of his life as he suffers from ulcers and an infection, pushing him to a state of unstable paranoia.

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