Jude Law has revealed he had to enlist the help of an ‘enormous’ bum double for his latest role.
The 51-year-old actor played King Henry VIII in Firebrand, about the royal’s life in later years while he was married to his sixth and final wife, Katherine Parr. But during a sex scene between Henry and Katherine, played by Alicia Vikander, Jude needed a bit of help.
Appearing on the WTF podcast with Marc Maron, Jude shared he needed a bum double as “there was just no way I was going to be able to put on that weight” in the amount of time he had to prepare to play the 28-stone Tudor monarch.
Describing the King’s bottom as “enormous rolling buttocks”, The Holiday and Talented My Ripley star shared: “We gained weight in another way. The clothes were so huge, they were voluminous. We put on weights and padding and all sorts of things to create the scale and presence of the man. In the time I had there was just no way I was going to be able to put on that weight.”
This is where former IT manager Dale Farrow, from Stamford in Lincolnshire, stepped in. With Jude unable to pile on the pounds in time to flash his own bum he needed a ‘bum double’. Revealing it was indeed his buttocks in place of Jude’s in the film, Dale joked: “You don’t see anything you wouldn’t see in Skegness!”
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Jude as a 28-stone Henry VIII with sixth and final wife Katherine Parr, played by Alicia Vikander (MBK Productions)Jude’s buttocks – or, as we now know, Dale’s – came under the spotlight, literally, when Firebrand premiered at the recent Cannes Film Festival. Though it has yet to be given a release date, THAT scene is certainly being talked about.
Film critics who have already had a sneak peek of the flick included it in their reviews. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw described the king’s derriere in the film to being like the “giant, shaved arse of a sheep”, before asking: “Did Law use a buttock double for this stomach-churning image?” While Kevin Maher wrote in The Times : “A gasp-inducing shot of Henry’s enormous rolling buttocks suggests that Law has partaken in some alarmingly detrimental weight gain (he hasn’t!) or else clever editing, and a substitute posterior, is at work.”
It comes after Jude recently said that when he was younger – often getting romantic leads in films – he tried to “play against” his handsome looks. But now his in his fifties, and in his own words, “saggy and balding”, he regrets not “leaning into playing handsome”.
IT worker Dale Farrow from the Midlands has been revealed as Jude's saucy bottom double (Facebook)
Jude is still his usual size after confessing there wasn't enough time for him to put on weight for the role (Raymond Hall/GC Images)Speaking about his latest role as an unattractive Henry VIII, he told a press conference at Cannes Film Festival: "I read several interesting accounts that you could smell Henry three rooms away. His leg was rotting so badly. He hid it with rose oil. I thought it would have a great impact if I smelt awful.”
To do this, he enlisted the help of a specialist perfumer – who makes awful scents. Jude said: “She somehow came up with this extraordinary variety of blood, faecal matter and sweat. Initially, I used it very subtly. But then it became a spray fest!” The film’s director Karim Aïnouz said: “When he walked on set, it was just horrible.”
Though Jude confessed to magazine that is was refreshing not to have to play someone attractive and said: "I didn’t feel like I really ever leaned into playing handsome, but there were roles that required an attractive energy. I was trying to play against my looks in my early 20s, and now that I’m saggy and balding, I wish I had played it up. It’s been satisfying [in his latest role] not having to turn that switch on."
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