What a wonderful phenomenon!
Jude Law, who is presently making rounds of the press for his new film Firebrand (in which he portrays Henry VIII opposite Alicia Vikander, who plays his sixth wife Catherine Parr), modified his appearance for the film by growing a large bushy beard and a prosthetic belly. In addition, he wore a prosthetic belly.
However, when he is not acting out his character, Jude Law, who is now 51 years old, still seems more or less the same as he did when he first became famous in the United States with his performance in the film The Talented Mr. Ripley, which was released in 1999.
“I look back on that film now, and it’s kind of strange to think that it was 25 years ago,” Law said in a recent interview with PEOPLE. “Rafferty, my oldest son, is 27 years old, and I wasn’t that much older than he is,” I said. There is a possibility that I was the same age as you.
He is absolutely right; Law was also 27 years old at the time, and the striking physical similarity that exists between the two of them at the same age is very remarkable.
The most recent film in which Rafferty appeared was Masters of Air. In addition to being a model, Rafferty is also an actress, exactly like her father.
Law says of his son’s acting abilities, “He’s really good,” and he is right. “I loved him in that show.”
Raff has said that having famous parents has, for the most part, been a benefit for him as he establishes his career in the entertainment industry. He states this from his perspective.
Rafferty has said, “I think there have been advantages and disadvantages to it,” in reference to his very famous parents, Law, who is 51 years old, and Sadie Frost.
He went on to say that he is not just sitting around waiting for opportunities to be given to him: “I’ve always focused on pursuing the things that I love and proving to people that I’m hardworking.”
In the meanwhile, when he was 27 years old, Jude Law became an overnight phenomenon in the United States as a result of the overwhelming success of the film The Talented Mr. Ripley, in which he played opposite Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow.
It is his assertion that the job altered his life in a variety of ways.
“I think there was an attention suddenly, to choices I was making, who was I working with,” he says of the transition from being a theatrical actor who sometimes acted on British television series to being pushed into the realm of A-list movie stars.
“Suddenly people cared about what was going on in my private life too,” according to his statement. All of that happened at the same time, which was quite a lot to take in. The more I think about it, the more proud I am. The way I handled it, I believe, was quite well.