Jude Law Says ‘Alfie’ Was “Bad Move” After Oscar Noms

[hewontgo]

Jude Law Says 'Alfie' Was "Bad Move" After Oscar Noms: "I Was Probably Paid Too Much" https://t.co/CdiNd53IUO
- Deadline (@DEADLINE) November 14, 2024
2x Oscar nominee, Jude Law, recently reflected on director Charles Shyer’s 2004 remake of Alfie as a bad move for his career following Academy Award-nominated performances in Cold Mountain (2003) and

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[allons_y42]

I'm grateful to my 2004 Jude Law thirst for getting me to watch this movie and then the far superior original with Michael Caine. it was super ahead of its time, Caine is revelatory in it and the soundtrack absolutely slaps

[svexsal]

That abortion scene. Michael Caine was impeccable.

[allons_y42]

absolutely devastating! I think I didn't breathe the first time I saw it

[xtinkerbellax]

Both him and Sienna were so hot in that movie though.

[akillarian]

Didn't he mention he regretted not leaning more into his look or heartthrob status when he was younger in terms of movie choices (paraphrasing here), now he said he regretted doing this movie.

[travk]

Aw. I really like that movie. I haven’t seen it in years though.

[filmstudent23]

It wasn’t the movies he chose that impacted negatively his career, it was his personal life.
Don’t get me wrong, he has some awful movies but it was the scandals that made people not want to see him in movies. You couldn’t disconnect Jude Law the celebrity from whatever character he was portraying at the time.

[xtinkerbellax]

Do you honestly people care about cheating to the extent that they'd not see a movie bc the actor cheated? People dont even care if someone is abusive.

[insomniachobs]

I don't think people gave too many fucks from a moral standpoint, he was just incredibly overexposed in a way that made people roll their eyes at him.

Which says a lot about the time, none of it good - you could have serious allegations against you and it wouldn't impact your commercial pull, but if people started to find you a bit irksome/bitch eating crackers... and depressingly I don't think we're even that moved on, 20 years later.

[allons_y42]

I agree! the overexposure was intense on all sides. Chris Rock made a joke about Jude Law being in every movie in 2004 at the oscars that sean p*nn took offense too, classic.

re: tabloids it was a combo of "this guy is hot" + "wow he's a mess." I think I could successfully recap his entire sexual history just from standing at grocery store checkouts in the 2000s and he kinda went out of his way to be an attractive target. Cheating on Sienna Miller with the nanny or whatever made it a total circus at the peak of pap culture