"It's an insanity at this point" - The Order's Jude Law talks American gun ownership - video Dailymotion

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The Brit star plays an FBI agent in Justin Kurzel's new action thriller. Report by Nelsonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I don't know if stuff like that helps. It feels like it helps.

00:02I mean, he's an interesting guy. I don't want to say he's not an interesting guy.

00:05He's really an insanity at this point.

00:07Lovely to see you, as always.

00:10You were right when you told me that this was a very different kind of film

00:13to the last project I saw you in.

00:15Yes.

00:15Gritty, intense, but great.

00:19Good.

00:20Like, great, great film.

00:21First of all, though, that Tash, your own, it's a strong Tash game in this.

00:25It's my own, yeah.

00:27Good job.

00:28People will be very envious of being able to grow one like that.

00:32I'm just curious, though, is there a nervousness when you make a film like this,

00:37which is based in reality?

00:39I think your character's fictionalized, right?

00:41Amalgamated, yeah.

00:42Yes, but the story itself is true.

00:44Yeah.

00:44And it's oh so relevant right now.

00:48Is there a nervousness to putting out a film like this?

00:50I quite honestly didn't ever feel nervous.

00:53The intention was always to make sure it was accurate and honest.

00:58And we knew that, the clever part to me was that Zach had folded this true crime drama.

01:09It was historical, yeah, it had all this relevance, but into a genre.

01:14So the hardest part really was the task of making sure that the genre element delivered.

01:20Because in a way, that's the sort of sugar that makes the medicine go down.

01:24You kind of watch this propulsive, energized thriller and walk away thinking,

01:28oh my God, that was a true story.

01:30And there are these weird echoes in today.

01:34But those echoes I'm talking about were sort of, they sort of took care of themselves.

01:38It wasn't like we had to draw those elements out and make some kind of reference.

01:44Obviously, we referenced at the end the relationship with the Turner diary,

01:46as a kind of breadcrumb path from then to now.

01:50But otherwise, it was more, tell this honestly and truly.

01:54Right.

01:54I did hear though that you and Nick didn't speak to each other on set to try and maintain.

02:01Is that something?

02:01That was kind of set up more by Justin.

02:06It wasn't like it was a decision made.

02:08It was, so Justin is a, he's a really great director.

02:12And he really understands the story.

02:14He's a really great director and he really understands the process

02:19or helps the process of preparation for an actor.

02:22And he writes up manifestos that are individual kind of guides to maybe

02:27suggestions that might help get into the character's state of mind

02:31or just a sense of feeling the skin.

02:33And when we both got to Calgary, Nick's side of the story

02:40or his character side of the story and mine are kind of separate for a lot of the film.

02:44And it's these two tales that eventually overlap.

02:48And I think it just served, it offered itself up that suddenly

02:52we weren't really going to spend any time together.

02:55And I guess Justin just lent into that.

02:57And then in fact, we didn't meet till we meet in the film.

03:01And I don't, I mean, I don't know if stuff like that helps.

03:03It feels like it helps.

03:05You know, you're suspending belief making a film.

03:09And so anything that adds a sort of detail to that helps in some way.

03:14Was the getting you to tail Nick for a day also in the manifesto?

03:19That was a suggestion of his as well.

03:22Did he do anything interesting that day?

03:24No, not really.

03:24I mean, he's an interesting guy.

03:26I don't want to say he's not an interesting guy.

03:27He was shopping, going to a cafe.

03:30Oh, it's a shame he wasn't buying you anything.

03:35Yeah.

03:35How into true crime are you though?

03:37Like, are you, does this kind of story or these kinds of stories?

03:40Not hugely.

03:41I know it's quite popular at the moment.

03:42Yeah, massively.

03:43That's what I think this will do.

03:44I don't tend to, I don't tend to, yeah.

03:47I don't tend to follow it.

03:48I think, yeah, if I'm honest, I mean, this subject in particular really intrigued me.

03:56And the potential in the script, as I said, the potential in the role

04:02really was the thing that pricked my curiosity.

04:05I don't know.

04:05I feel like stuff like this triggers me so much when I watch it.

04:08And I guess it should.

04:09You should have a reaction, right?

04:10Yeah.

04:11Does it stay with you as well after you've done it?

04:13Making a film like this?

04:14Yeah.

04:15Honestly, the process is like a purge.

04:17So by the time you're done with it, and we worked so hard and over such a short period of time,

04:22I think we were all quite happy to kind of feel the job was done and we could walk away.

04:27Right.

04:27And you leave your feelings in the work.

04:32Yeah.

04:34I don't know whether it's because I'm British though and grown up here,

04:38but I always noticed the amount of gun.

04:40Obviously, there's a lot of gun use in here,

04:42because it's just something that I feel so uncomfortable with because we don't have it here.

04:47Yeah.

04:47How, because you're British, how do you, how comfortable do you feel about like?

04:52I'm not a big fan of guns.

04:54And I've over the years gotten to work with guns a lot and gun experts.

04:59And you have to go through all this sort of procedure and training and

05:02different elements of law enforcement in America use weapons in different ways.

05:07And some people have very healthy relationships with weapons in America.

05:11Some people clearly have very unhealthy relationships with weapons.

05:14I mean, I don't particularly enjoy, I don't get anything out of

05:18firing them or running around with them.

05:19But you're right.

05:20I mean, it's extraordinary.

05:22But I mean, it's no surprise because the number of them that are in use per head.

05:28Yeah.

05:28Is really an insanity at this point.

05:32No, yeah, I just, I think it is because we've grown up here and you're just not.

05:35So I know, like when I'm watching a film, we're very lucky.

05:38Yeah.

05:38You know, it's not to be taken for granted.

05:40No.

05:40And I know, listen, you didn't get to, you say, work with Nick that much until the very end,

05:45but you did with Ty a lot.

05:46And what was it like working with him?

05:48Because he's great.

05:48I haven't, God, I haven't like spoken to him in years now, it feels.

05:53But when did you, when do you know him from?

05:55Ready Player One.

05:56Ready Player One.

05:56Yeah, yeah.

05:57And Mud.

05:58Yes.

05:58He's wonderful.

05:58Many, many.

05:59Yeah, he's so good.

06:00He was wonderful.

06:00I mean, honestly, everyone, I'm looking at this poster behind you.

06:04Every one of the actors, and there are several who aren't on the poster.

06:08Everyone who came to this really brought a sense of emotional commitment and belief.

06:14And, you know, we were lucky enough to be on a, I mentioned Justin

06:19before and our writer, Zach Balin.

06:22It was a very collaborative piece and everyone came with a perspective and a sense of,

06:29a sense of personal kind of investment in their roles.

06:34And they were very well cast, but they really elevated what was on the page

06:38and were allowed to elevate what was on the page because of the collaborative nature of Zach.

06:42Yeah, you, you do a great job of disappearing into your roles in all honesty.

06:46Like this one is, like I said, it's so different to what I last saw you in.

06:50Must be the moustache.

06:51It's clearly the moustache and especially that it was real as well.

06:54Like that's clearly what did it.

06:56But no, your fabulous acting.

06:59Lovely to see you again.

07:00And you.

"It's an insanity at this point" - The Order's Jude Law talks American gun ownership

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