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Jude Law’s Mustache Is the Real Star of The Order
The actor’s facial hair smears blood, soaks up beer, absorbs cigarette smoke, and tells viewers everything they need to know about his character.
Law has rocked ’staches before: a skinny little slash above his lip when he played Errol Flynn in The Aviator, a thicker curve as Dr. Watson in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes films, a mustache and beard as Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin in Joe Wright’s underrated Anna Karenina adaptation. His widow’s peak is perhaps the most pronounced it’s ever been; he’s got a scar on his chest suggesting surgery after a heart attack; the tighty-whities in which Husk walks around his lonely motel room are wrinkled and faded. That constant gnawing and sucking and puffing and chomping are all tension generators and all bring the focus back to Husk’s facial hair, the accessory that conveys how resigned the character is to his own recklessness.
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