Jude Law Smelled Like Rotting Flesh Every Day on Set for ‘Firebrand’

Brazilian filmmaker Karim Anouz (Mariners of the Mountains) admits that the Tudor England historical drama Firebrand isn’t exactly in his typical wheelhouse. He tells Collider’s Steve Weintraub that the story of King Henry VIII and his final wife, Katherine Parr, played by Jude Law and Alicia Vikander, was “a big challenge for [him] to imagine how to tell a story that was very far removed from [his] experience.” What he perceived at first as a weakness, however, became his strength as he set out to tell not a historical retelling but a character-driven psychological thriller.