Jude Law sawed into a pig to prepare for his role as a callous organ collector in hard-hitting new movie Repo Men.
The Brit wanted to make sure his character looked like he knew what he was doing when he extracted hearts and livers from his victims in the shocking new film - and so called on one of London's top surgeons to guide him through his messy research.
He says, "I brought a side of a pig because pig flesh is very much like human flesh and he taught me how to cut through that with scalpels."
The science fiction movie Repo Men is directed by Miguel Sapochnik and sees Jude Law team up with Oscar winner Forest Whitaker.
The movie is set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before it is repossessed.
It's the first time we have seen Jude Law on the big screen since the success of Sherlock Holmes at Christmas.
The actor will next be working on the Steven Soderbergh project Contagion alongside Matt Damon, Kate Winslet and Marion Cotillard.
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