He dropped out of school at age 17 to star in the British daytime soap Families.Law has no problem with nudity. “My friend EwanMcGregor and I are starkers in most of our films,” he says.He has kept the shirts worn by his characters in their death scenes from The Talented Mr. Ripley, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Gattaca.He has twice played roles previously acted by another Englishman, MichaelCaine, in Alfie and Sleuth.He drank 10 cans of Coke a day to gain weight for his role as a safecracker ex-con in the 2013 comedy-crime film Dom Hemingway.The tattoo of a fish on his left forearm covers an old tattoo of words from the Beatles song “Sexy Sadie,” which he’d gotten for his now-ex-wife, SadieFrost.At the age of 14, he started acting with the National Youth Music Theatre and was initially placed in the girls’ dormitory because they thought Jude was a girl’s name.Law supports Tottenham Hotspur Football Club in London.The band Brand New wrote a song named after him, titled “Jude Law and a Semester Abroad.”Law was considered for the role of Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, which went to OrlandoBloom.Prior to their success, Law and Ewan McGregor were roommates.
