Just in case you forgot, Jude Law is a very attractive man. These Mr. Porter photos are so old-school Jude! He looks so beautiful. So beautiful that I temporarily forgot that he’s expecting his fifth child by his third baby-mama, a 23-year-old singer-type named Catherine Harding. Catherine and Jude are no longer together. So, he basically got one of his hookups pregnant and he’s trying to make the best out of it. As for this Mr. Porter thing… Jude is promoting his new film, Black Sea. Jude plays “a laid-off submarine captain who goes in hunt of a sunken ship rumoured to be laden with Nazi gold.” Which might cause some people to wonder: is Jude poor? And the answer is yes. He’s paying child support to two women and he’s about to pay child support to a third. He IS poor. He will work in whatever he can get. You can read the full Mr. Porter article here. Some highlights:
His role in Black Sea: “It required a certain gravitas. It’s not something I could have done in my twenties or thirties. Having recently turned 40, I feel that I’m only just reaching the stage where I can do this sort of thing justice.”
He has looked forward to aging all his life: “I tend to think of it in terms of Shakespeare. You can’t play Prospero in your twenties. And you can’t play Lear. In your twenties, you play Romeo, you play Hamlet. And maybe you progress to Coriolanus, to Henry V. They’re like hoops you have to jump through. Keep going, and you’ll get to Prospero, you’ll get to Lear. But you can’t rush it.”
Acknowledging that women have it harder in Hollywood: “The plight of women over a certain age is a bit of a running gag in the movie industry. Not a very funny one, admittedly.”
The tabloid press: “I no longer let that stuff in. I honestly don’t know and don’t care what’s being written about me. If people want to buy into it, then they can. I just try to live a normal life now. It’s my right. Being free to go out – to a restaurant, to the theatre, or even just to a gardening centre – is my right. That’s what living is. So that’s what I do.”
I agree that Jude has grown into what he always wanted to be: a brilliant character actor. People always treated him like he should just be a solid leading man, but Jude wanted different things for his career, and I respect that. I’m glad he’s not clinging to his pretty-boy vibe from two decades ago. And he’s right, the parts for him only get better as he gets older. And it’s not the same for women. As for the tabloid press stuff… I think that’s a smart decision for Jude in particular, to simply not participate in it. Don’t get mad, just ignore it. And he’ll have to do a lot of ignoring if he keeps knocking up his hookups!
PS… I have a thing about great profiles and Jude has an amazing profile! He’s right up there were Angelina Jolie’s profile.
Photos courtesy of Tom Craig/Mr. Porter.
His son Rafferty is a carbon copy of him lookswise. It’s disconcerting when they are together because Rafferty looks like Jude from 20yrs ago and Jude doesn’t really look particularly old.
I respectfully disagree since he’s been my fave man since day one, I don’t see a strong resemblance. On another note, I noticed Harry Styles resembles my other fave, the late River Phoenix.
He always comes across as a nice bloke, doesn’t he? It’s just the louchery is his fatal flaw. He’s got random-drunken-snogbreath-itis. And he’ll probably still have it when he’s 80.
Random-drunken-snogbreath-itis combined with how-to-use-a-condom-dementia.
Lol, both of you. Truth.
And the truth is, he is really pretty.
He is! However, best observed and not touched.
Best observed from a distance, through a movie/television/computer screen while dressed head to toe in latex.
I think at least three degrees of separation.
And totally OT of Jude Law but still on the topic of absolutely stunning men, I sat in the third row Saturday for a performance of Trip to Bountiful with Blair Underwood (yes, I think Cicily Tyson & Vanessa Williams were up there too) and I am still mesmerized. That man is stunning and all kinds of pretty.
@Lilacflowers – You were in the same room as Dr. Greg Butters! Swoon!
@Punky, I think you’re confusing him with Jesse Martin. Blair was on LA Law and Sex in the City.
@LilacFlowers – my bad! But both oh so good! (Meds have not kicked in yet. Sorry.)
One look at that picture and I’m pregnant! Gawd! Not the way to start a Monday!
Jude Law is so…very….(sigh)
I can’t help ut, I still LOVE him. So so handsome.
On a shallow note I had a therapist who looked just like Jude Law–hairline and all–with a touch of Aaron Taylor Johnson. It was hard to focus sometimes! Lol And he was Dutch with the loveliest accent–and very kind and brilliant as well.
I love him too. I take back that comment I made about not being attracted to men with blue eyes and pretty. His eyes are mesmerizing. He was so gorgeous in The Talented Mr. Ripley.
He is an idiot with getting these random women pregnant, because he isn’t some 20 million dollar actor and already has a bunch of children from his first marriage and now two from his randoms. So, yes, the man is going to have to be less picky and take some roles solely for the money.
He is a character actor in a leading man’s body. He can do both brilliantly. I didn’t even recognize him in The Road to Perdition.
I find him so freaking attractive that it never ceases to blow my mind how truly awful he is to the women in his life.
He and Jolie are good friends, aren’t they?
He is still attractive but he needs to slow it down a notch when it comes to baby making.
Wasn’t Jude Law the best man at AJ’s long-ago wedding to Johnny Lee Miller? In Amsterdam, I think.
Whatever work he had done to his hairline was excellent. Looks totally natural.
He needs to wear condoms.
Bit of a non sequitur there – I though “what on his head” for a moment.
He does look nice in these photos, but if you see any candid pics of him, it’s obvious he isn’t ageing so well. These pics are very flattering, but not the real deal.
He looks really pretty in Muse of Fire talking about Shakespeare.
i agree. there’s some photoshop going on here to smooth things out.
He’s all kinds of gorgeous. Especially in classic menswear like these pics. But why not just get snipped, Jude?
That really is the answer for him, isn’t it? After all, does he want to be supporting an infant in his 80s?
God, how can he be so beautiful? Besides his inability to keep it in his pants (and wear protection, as it seems) I think he’s a really mature and good man.
Anyway thank you for these photos, I love them, I love him.. sorry, I’m fangirling too much..
That’s what we’re here for.
lmao, thanks. It’s nice being around fellow fangirls 😀
Gorgeous man. And another Johnny Appleseed, ala Hugh Grant.🍎
I just watched Dom Hemingway last week. I haven’t seen him in anything since Sherlock Holmes. It was a great reminder of how much I love his acting. And if you’ve seen the film, he has a nice bum. 🙂
Where did you see it?! I can’t find it anywhere 🙁
What a beauty. Always. You could see Kevin Spacey just having an eye buffet in Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil. I know I do when I watch it. Oh, Jude. You are an out and out BOUNDER. But I love you.
2 men whose hands I will never touch
K Fed and Jude Law. Those dudes have way too good swimmers and women in my family are uber fertile so….nawl.
That said, I’d hit it with Jude Law every day ending in Y and twice on sunday. It took a awhile but he finally grew into his body and isn’t reed skinny like he was in his 20s.
Well what d’ya know, there’s other men in Britain than Cumberbatch. Women think they’re hot too. My universe is expanding.
Here I thought I’d have nothing to read today.
IA that Jude Law always was, and still is, and forever will be, a character actor and not a leading man. Maybe it was the projects he picked, but when I think about his brilliant supporting role work in Talented Mr. Ripley or Gattaca — even when he was at his most gorgeous, he was best working in second position, crafting incredibly detailed portrayals of complex “smaller” characters, than trying to hold the whole picture together as the star. I actually think Dr. Watson is a great part for him, as RDJ has enough star power to be the major focus.
This is the best he’s looked in awhile, in my opinion.
I’ll pass – never found him very attractive or interesting at all.
Yeah he’s a bit of a dog, but *sigh*, he really is such a gorgeous man.
I don’t get why Kate Winslet got villified in the press for having three different children from three different men, yet everyone seems to be turning a blind eye to Jude’s wandering dong.
I’ve always been a fan since Gattaca. But getting hookups pregnant is a big turnoff.
When did he get hair?