During the filming of his most recent picture, Jude Law fully embraced his role.
Law talked in-depth about his choice to wear a perfume that has the disturbing smell of feces and blood during a recent interview with People at the screening of his next film, “Firebrand,” at the Tribeca Film Festival. He referred to this as the “stinky method.”
In the film, Law plays Henry VIII during the last few months of his reign over England, chronicling the arguments he had with his wife Katherine Parr (Alicia Vikander).
In an interview with People, he clarified that director Karim Aïnouz “creates what [he] call[s] a 360-degree environment to acting,” enabling the performers to be fully submerged in the “world” of the movie. He continued by saying.
I learned that Henry had this stench because of his rotten legs and I just thought it’d be an interesting addition for those around me who had to faun over him and do his every desire while also sort of holding back this retch,” he said.
Aside from Law’s smelly perfume, the set was kept authentic to the time period the movie is set in. The actor explained that they would leave the windows open, so the set would get “very cold, so we’d wrap up in our furs,” and there were “always animals present, which was true to the time.”
