How did the lithe British chameleon Jude Law come to star in nearly every film this year?
By Nathan Lee Nov. 11, 2004 | FACTS Jude Law was born at the tail end of 1972, one of the most sexed-up years in popular movie history: “Deliverance,” “Cabaret,” “Deep Throat,” “Last Tango in Paris.” As a young man, he starred in a popular British soap opera before finding fame on Broadway opposite Kathleen Turner in Jean Cocteau’s “Indiscretions.” He spent most of the first scene of the second act naked in a bathtub. Obviously, he was nominated for a Tony. Throughout the 1990s he gave notable performances in films of various quality: “Wilde,” “Gattaca,” “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” “Existenz,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley.” One of these, “Existenz,” is a masterpiece, but it was “Ripley” that nudged him onto the Hollywood A-list, and earned him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. (Sheer madness that Miramax didn’t secure him a win over Michael Caine in “The Cider House Rules.”) At the start of the new millennium, he played a gangster (“Love, Honor, and Obey”), a sn
