The Jude Law worship page

November 26th, 2004 by lynn under Uncategorized

Before Jude Law was crowned People’s Sexiest Man, before he split from Sadie Frost, before the world at large knew about this smouldering hunk, I was there. Yes, it’s true.

I watched ‘Gattaca’ in 1998 (the year is a memory because in that year, we made puppets for English class and mine was named Ethan). While everybody was raving about how adorable and handsome and cute Ethan Hawke was (myself included), I waved a banner for Jude Law.

When my friends heard, they reacted as though I had declared a liking for wormwood instead of chocolate. “Jude Law? But he’s just a minor player in the film! Ethan Hawke is the cute one!” But I persevered. There was something in the intensity with which he portrayed Jerome. (And now I know why I like that name so much.) He was handsome in a fragile, porcelain way, unlike the beefcakes popular at that point in time. And he radiated sexiness, even confined to a wheelchair for his role. When he spoke, it was like dripping honey. (If I had been Uma Thurman’s character, I wouldn’t have hesitated to kiss him. Yum.) Okay, so in the end Ethan gets to go to space and Jude hauls himself into an incinerator. (Oops, spoiler.) I just felt for him, you know? I’ve always sympathised with the underdog.

And now, look where he is. Nobody believed me back then, but I was right after all. Jude Law is the bomb.