When it comes to playing Henry VIII,Jude Law reallystinks up the big screen literally.
“It was a very sensory set,” he explains.
Being from Brazil, he really wanted it to feel human and tangible.
Jude Law in ‘Firebrand’ as Henry VIII.Roadside Attractions / courtesy Everett
And then there was food everywhere."
In his final years, he suffered from extremely painful deep vein ulcers in his legs.
Henry had them in both legs, and he didn’t have any anesthetic.
How he survived for 10 years is kind of miraculous.
He’s a very physically and mentally strong man to endure what was eye-watering pain."
While Law tried to evoke that, others on the set had to endure his rancid smell.
“It was a physical shock,” Vikander says of the stench.
Smell is a very direct way into an emotional state."
“I got very used to it,” he admits.
Putting on the clothes was putting on the smell, which was putting on the king."
“There was no prosthetics,” he reveals.
“We did use certain accentuated weighted areas on the body.
The costumes themselves and the layers of costume helped to add volume in certain other areas.
“It was all my own hair.
We shaved hairlines and lowered hairlines and used our imagination and the posture was key.
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“They’re a big part of who Henry was at that point,” he says.
“It’s the overwhelming pain,” he concludes.
You have someone who, in a delusional state, is absolutely unraveling and scared.
I remember leaning on his fears quite a lot.”
Firebrandis now in theaters.
