Jude Law brought back the 70s!
The 51-year-old English actor, who is normally clean-shaven, has grown a bushy moustache for his new historical crime film The Order.
The thriller premiered at the Venice Film Festival in August and will be available on Prime Video.
Jude’s performance as Terry Husk, a former FBI agent who takes on the real-life white supremacist group The Order, received a seven-minute standing ovation at the festival.
Of his character he said: ‘There was something lived-in about him, something I liked.
Jude laid down the law (with the help of a big job) in his new historical crime thriller film The Order, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in August
Jude’s performance as Terry Husk, a disgraced FBI agent who takes on the real-life white supremacist group The Order, received a seven-minute standing ovation at the festival
Jude looks handsome in black at the film’s Venice premiere on August 31 – without a single facial hair in sight
“There was a lot of talk about facial hair, but all the officers I interviewed had moustaches, so it was a given that I had to grow one.”
Other leading roles are played by Alison Oliver, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett and Nicholas Hoult.
Nicholas plays The Order’s leader Bob Mathews, an American neo-Nazi who led the white supremacist group in 1983.
Nicholas revealed that the film’s director, Justin Kurzel, gave each actor a “manifesto” for their character, including tasks they had to complete.
“I just found out on the boat here that one of Jude’s jobs was to follow me around for a day!” he said.
“He followed me for a day when I landed in Calgary.”
The Order is based on the 1989 biography The Silent Brotherhood by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt.
It was written by Zach Baylin and distributed by Prime Video (via Amazon MGM Studios).
While it is a Prime Video film, Vertical has acquired partial rights to the film and will have a limited theatrical release on December 6, 2024.
The cast of The Order. From left to right: Matias Garrido, Nicholas Hoult, Jurnee Smollett, director Justin Kurzel, Jude, Tye Sheridan and Philip Lewitski
At The Order’s Venice Film Festival press conference, Jude spoke about the film’s importance at a time of resurgence of far-right ideologies.
“Unfortunately, the relevance speaks for itself,” he said. “It felt like a piece that needed to be done now. It’s always interesting to find a piece from the past that has a relevant relationship to the present.”
Director Justin agreed with Law, adding that the parallels to today’s world made the film so interesting to make.
It’s always special when you find a piece of text or an event from the past that has some kind of perspective that can have a conversation with the politics of today. That’s a rare gem. So we felt that there was a lot being said about today.
