Jude Law has brought back the 70s!
The normally clean-shaven 51-year-old English actor has adopted 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 to watch on Prime Video.
Jude’s performance as Terry Husk, a washed-up FBI agent who takes on the real-life white supremacist group The Order, received a seven-minute standing ovation at the Festival.
He said of his character: ‘There was a kind of lived-in quality to him that I enjoyed.
Jude laid down the law (with the help of a great deal of opportunism) in his new historical crime thriller The Order, which premiered in August at the Venice Film Festival.
Jude’s performance as Terry Husk, a washed-up FBI agent who takes on the real-life white supremacist group The Order, received a seven-minute standing ovation at the Festival.
Jude was photographed looking dapper in all black at the film’s premiere on August 31 in Venice, with not a single facial hair in sight.
‘There was a lot of talk about facial hair, but every agent I interviewed had a mustache, so it was obvious I had to grow one.’
Also starring 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 were to complete.
“I found out on the boat: one of Jude’s tasks was to follow me for a day!” he said.
“He was following 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).
Although this is a Prime Video film, Vertical has acquired partial rights to the film and will release it on December 6, 2024, in a limited theatrical release.
The Order cast. From left to right: Matias Garrido, Nicholas Hoult, Jurnee Smollett, director Justin Kurzel, Jude, Tye Sheridan and Philip Lewitski
At The Order’s press conference at the Venice Film Festival, Jude spoke about the film’s importance at a time when far-right ideologies are on the rise again.
“Unfortunately, the relevance speaks for itself,” he said. “It seemed like a piece that needed to be done now. It’s always interesting to find a piece from the past that has some relevant relationship to the present.”
Director Justin agreed with Law, adding that the film’s parallels to today’s world were what made it so interesting to make.
It is always extraordinary to find a text or an event from the past that has some kind of perspective that allows us to engage in a conversation with current politics. It is a rare gem. So we felt that there was a lot to say about current events.