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Who is Jude Law?!
If you cant get a movie star: wait, Rock quipped.
If you want Tom Cruise and all you might get is Jude Law … wait.
He has looks, intelligence, and passion.
His talent is not in dispute.
Is he too pretty to play the Tom Hanks Everyman?
Does he lack the earthiness of a Russell Crowe?
Law himself admitted to worrying in an interview with theWashingtonPost.The cynic in me says …
I spent two years making these.
As the Rock monologue proved, that was exactly the general reaction.
1 movie of 2004 would end up beingShrek 2.
Hollywood had already stopped making new movie stars in the way we used to define them.
We just hadnt noticed it yet.
The six-movie overkill narrative assigned to Law was also a bit of a disingenuous stretch.
Laws role inThe Aviatoramounted to a brief cameo as Errol Flynn.
Meanwhile, he was merely an unseen narrator inA Series of Unfortunate Events.
Four movies in the span of three months is still a lot, of course.
As a referendum on his star power,Alfies critical and box-office failure could not have been more damaging.
Looking back now, its the one Law clearly sees as a regret.
I think [it] was a bad move, LawtoldGQ UKlast month.
As a cuckolded statesman inAnna Karenina, a snaggletoothed conspiracy-theorist podcaster (preposterous!)
The man turns a receding hairline into a character choice better than any actor in the business.
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And hes never released more than three movies in a year since.
