Jude Law has admitted his new film about a white supremacist group is “sadly” relevant.
Jude Law has admitted his new film about a white supremacist group is ‘sadly’ relevant
The 51-year-old actor is promoting his latest movie ‘The Order’ at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, with the project competing for the prestigious Golden Lion.
Jude said during a press conference in Venice about the film, which centres around a white supremacist mob: “Sadly, the relevance speaks for itself. It felt like a piece of work that needed to be made now.
“It’s always interesting finding a piece from the past that has some relevant relationship to the present day.”
Jude’s fellow cast member Nicholas Hoult, 34, added about the importance of the movie: “Hopefully the film, perhaps, if people see it, can shed more light on how these sorts of events occur and on the people that are instigating them, (and can) help prevent it happening anymore in the future.”
‘The Order’ is an adaptation of the 1989 non-fiction book ‘The Silent Brotherhood’ by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt, which tells the story of a string of increasingly violent bank robberies as well as counterfeiting operations and armoured car heists that terrify frightens communities throughout the Pacific Northwest in 1983.
A synopsis of the book says: “As baffled law enforcement agents scrambled for answers, a lone FBI agent, stationed in the sleepy, picturesque town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, comes to believe the crimes are not the work of traditional, financially motivated criminals, but of a group of dangerous domestic terrorists, inspired by a radical, charismatic leader, plotting a devastating war against the federal government of the United States.”
Jude also told Deadline the film was “political and delicate” as well as controversial, but said it was vital for art to got to “those dark places and approach dark subject matter with a very level head and a non-judgemental perspective”.
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