Jude Law is hot, even with his weirdly receding/then not/then receding hairline! And he’s British, which means, great accent. I keep trying to make you blonde fans happy, will this finally do it? He was blonde in at least a few films, right? Can I get partial credit??
The Tailor of Gloucester (1989)
Based on a Beatrix Potter story, Law plays a stableboy.
I THINK that’s Law?
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1991)
One of many TV series. Law is in one episode, “The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place,” playing “Joe Barnes.”
Young and grumpy!
Wilde (1997)
Law IS BLONDE and plays poet Lord Alfred Douglas, who has a relationship with Oscar Wilde (Stephen Fry).
Dapper gents!
ALL BLONDE ALL THE TIME!!
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
BLONDE AGAIN! This is the movie that made me fall in love with him because he’s so damn charming. Law plays a rich American, Dickie Greenleaf, who befriends Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) in the 1950s. Most of the movie takes place in Italy, and you’ll become enraptured with the country (even you aren’t already).
With his perfect girlfriend (Gwyneth Platrow).
Okay so it’s dark blonde, but that counts, right?
Who’s up for a nautical adventure?
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
World War II, Battle of Stalingrad, who cares because Law’s Russian soldier GETS IT ON with Rachel Weisz.
Ignore the dirt!
With Ralph Fiennes.
Road to Perdition (2002)
1930s mobsters, Law plays an assassin/crime scene photographer. As one does.
He actually pulls off that hat, which is impressive.
Cold Mountain (2003)
Jude Law is an implausibly hot North Carolina carpenter who, during the American Civil War, falls in love with Nicole Kidman. I don’t get this movie, but at least Law is cute!
Again, BLONDE!
All sweaty from workin’ n stuff.
The Aviator (2004)
Perfectly cast as the ultra-charming Errol Flynn in a small role in this Howard Hughes biopic.
He manages to rock that ‘stache!
Don’t worry, Jude, I’m in!
All the King’s Men (2006)
A fictionalized story about 1930s Louisiana governor Huey Long. Law plays a reporter covering the unfolding story.
Rolling up the shirtsleeves to get to work!
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
As Dr. Watson to Robert Downey Jr.‘s Sherlock in this Action Boy-Film Extravaganza.
Bye bye hairline!
Bringing up the testosterone level.
Anna Karenina (2012)
The questionably costumed version with Keira Knightley. Law plays Anna’s husband, Count Karenin.
Bye bye hair! (I know, it’s a piece).
Hugo (2011)
A boy lives alone in a Parisian train station during the 1930s. Law plays the boy’s father, who, as you might guess, doesn’t live very long.
I do like a good pair of wire-rimmed glasses.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
More Sherlock, more testosterone!
Such manly men!
We clean up, but we’re rough and tumble!
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Law plays “Young Writer,” and I admit I can’t remember what the role is about!
I do like the lapels on that jacket!
Genius (2016)
New York and Paris, 1929. Law plays author Thomas Wolfe to Colin Firth‘s editor Maxwell Perkins.
Literary men thinking literary thoughts?
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
Another boy testosterone movie. Law plays the “tyrannical ruthless” King Vortigern.
At least he pulls it off?
Sure, whatever.
Coming Up
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
HELLO HOT YOUNG DUMBLEDORE
OMG FAINTS
And, yet another Sherlock Holmes movie is coming in 2020!
How hot is young Dumbledore, 1-10?
Swoooooon. I don’t want to love him, but seriously, how do you not?
I think he actually shaved his hair for Anna Karenina, I remember seeing him on the Graham Norton show with a terrible hat on — I think he was in the middle of filming and he didn’t want to be seen with it in public.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2075079/Sherlock-Holmes-star-Jude-Law-keeps-style-secrets-firmly-hat-Graham-Norton.html
Also FYI in Grand Budapest his character of young writer is narrating the story in flashback. It’s like a story within a story. It starts out with Tom Wilkinson as the writer as an older man, remembering when he visited the Grand Budapest where he hears the story from Mr. Mustafa who is now old and played by F. Murray Abraham. One of my favorites.
It’s Joseph Fiennes in “Enemy at the Gates”, Ralph’s beautiful little brother.
Papal vestments kind of count as period, right?…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf7wyUw1R6c
Theoretically, but I just can’t get excited!
Yup, that’s Joseph Fiennes in “Enemy at the Gates.”
The King Arthur movie, such a disappointment… Vortigern is tyrannical enough without the need of adding magic, thank you! And the elephants? The mention of the vikings? The absence of Guinevere, Morgan or Morgause? The absence of any kind of explanation about Mage’s identity? She could be Guinevere, she could be Morgan, maybe Nimue… Who knows? We Really need a new King Arthur movie, but not this, NOT THIS!
The King Arthur Legend of the Sword was directed by Guy Ritchie (Madonna’s ex) and it’s got his fingerprints all over it, he’s known for that style. I thought of the Mage as a beneficial Morgan LeFay, and Maggie as Guinevere. We DO need a new King Arthur film that isn’t, as Kendra says, a boy testosterone movie.
Yeah I was super confused when looking up the movie on IMDB and not seeing any Guinevere….
I rather liked it, considering that I didn’t think I would. It was fun and different.
Excellent news about a new Sherlock movie, but we have to wait two years? (!) And Jude is blonde enough for me, so thank you. :-)
“Implausibly hot North Carolina carpenter” is both accurate and my favorite observation of this post!
Why did you describe his character in “Cold Mountain” as “implausibly hot”?
Because his character seemed to be a very nice guy, but still an average guy. Yes, average guys can be hot.
Yes. Yes they can. Never have gone for the bad boys. Who needs the drama? Jude was tragically adorable in Cold Mountain. Love his Watson, and looking forward to FBandHTFT in a couple of months.
I’m totally on board for him playing young Dumbledore. He has a terrific voice, too. Like melted vanilla.
King Arthur… that movie was one giant WTF??? for me. I still don’t know what was going on.
If he’s queer young Dumbledore (as Rowling said he should be), yes please.
Am still trying to absorb the idea of Dumbledore as young and hot.
Does anyone else think J.L. should have played Tom Ripley and Matt Damon his supposed doppelganger? The idea of Jude Law’s metamorphosing from Tom Ripley to Dickie Greenleaf makes far more sense to me.
The movie Cold Mountain was ruined for me by a teacher who didn’t cover the book well. Didn’t help that I was a history buff even then and he had no patience for me pointing out the inaccuracies.
I know it’s not a frock flick but I fell in love with him in the Holiday. one of a small handful of romcoms I can stomach!
On a scale of 1-10? About 16 <3
What a great round up! Now I have more movies on my “to watch” list. However, what about Jude Law in the ‘1940s does Futuristic Sci-Fi’ movie “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow”? He was the perfect pairing (irony intended) to the feisty girl reporter played by Gwyneth Paltrow. Love a man in a leather bomber jacket…<3