Jude Law Shares “Delusion, Madness, Panic” Meant He Almost Rejected ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’
deadline.comJude Law’s appearance as rich, beautiful playboy Dickie in the 1999 film The Talented Mr Ripley secured his international film stardom, but now the British actor has shared why he almost turned down the role.
Law told The Times of London that he was panicking about being typecast at that stage in his career. He said: “It was delusion and madness.
There was a panic in my head that I was going to be typecast as this good-looking guy. That’s where my 23-year-old brain was.
What I missed, idiotically, were the complexities of that role, but honestly? I just wanted to be taken seriously.” The Talented Mr Ripley film, also starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon and Philip Seymour Hoffman, was directed by Oscar winner Anthony Minghella and went on to make more than $120million at the box office.
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