British monarchy is ‘like a theatre’, says actor Jude Law at Cannes Film Festival

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Actor plays King Henry VIII in the film ‘Firebrand’, presented this Sunday (21) at the event. Jude Law poses on the red carpet before the screening of “Firebrand” at the 76th Festival de Cannes Patricia de Mello Moreira / AFP British actor Jude Law, who stood out at the Cannes Film Festival with an impactful portrayal of King Henry VIII in the film ” Firebrand”, declared this Monday (22) that he sees his country’s monarchy “as a theater”. “I see all this as a theater, although the theater leaves me a little more obsessed”, he declared in a press conference, after the gala screening, on Sunday (21st), of “Firebrand”, directed by the Brazilian Karim Ainouz and focused on the last King’s wife, Catherine Parr. Read also: ‘Firebrand’, by Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz, premieres to applause at the Cannes Film Festival “I don’t really follow all of this, I see it as an intriguing chapter of history,” he added. “I’m not particularly interested in gossip,” he added, alluding to tensions in the current British royal family. At the same time, “there is something really admirable about these images as of a medieval ceremony, how they connect with the present day”, he added, referring to the coronation of Charles III. “Firebrand” is the first film in English by Brazilian director of Algerian origin Karim Ainouz. The interpretation of the legendary English king was unanimously praised at the festival. Jude Law appears as an obese, paranoid and sexually voracious ogre, with a gangrene in his leg that plagues him. At the press conference, Law said that, to “re-create” this wound, he resorted to the services of a perfumer, who mixed “the smell of pus, blood, feces and sweat”. “At first I used it discreetly,” he explained, but Karim Ainouz was sold on the idea and used the mixture all the time. “When I got on set it was just awful,” joked Alicia Vikander, who plays Catherine Parr, the king’s only surviving wife. ‘Firebrand’, by Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz, debuts with applause at Cannes

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